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From: Florence Boué [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4th International Conference on "Soft Methods for Probability and Statistics"
Toulouse France September 8-10, 2008
Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a
long time. It was viewed either as a powerful tool for modelling random
phenomena, or as a rational approach to the notion of degree of belief. During
the last thirty years, in areas centered around decision theory, artificial
intelligence and information processing, numerous approaches extending or
orthogonal to the existing theory of probability and mathematical statistics
have come to the front. The common feature of those attempts is to allow for
softer or wider frameworks for representing uncertain information. Various
approaches have appeared, either on their own like fuzzy set theory,
possibility theory, rough sets, or having their origin in probability theory
itself, like imprecise probability, belief functions, fuzzy random variables.
Many of the latter come down to blending interval or fuzzy interval analysis
with probabilistic methods. The aim of this conference is to serve as a forum
for discussing such new trends that enlarge the statistical and uncertainty
modeling traditions, towards the handling of incomplete or subjective
information.
This conference takes place after several similar events in Warsaw in 2002,
Oviedo in 2004 , and Bristol in 2006.
Contributions that exploit the potential of non-classical uncertainty theories
or propose hybrid probabilistic, fuzzy set or interval analysis techniques are
welcome. Papers will be selected on the basis of appropriateness of their
scope, their technical quality and their potentiality to solve real problems.
Topics:
Fuzzy data analysis
Fuzzy extensions or counterparts of Bayes nets
Fuzzy random variables
Fuzzy regression methods
Fuzzy learning and data mining methods
Hybrid fuzzy/probabilistic uncertainty propagation
Imprecise and fuzzy probabilities
Possibility theory
Statistics with fuzzy data
Triangular norms and copulas
Probabilistic semantics of fuzzy sets
Applications to risk analysis
Advisory committee (Core SMPS Group)
María Ángeles Gil (University of Oviedo)
Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
O. Hryniewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Programme Committee (in construction)
Local Organization
Didier Dubois & Henri Prade
Florence Boué
Sebastien Destercke
Mathieu Serrurier
Full papers of 8 pages (A4) written in English should be submitted no later
than February 1, 2008. The camera-ready typescripts of the accepted papers must
be submitted by May 1, 2008 (tentative date), in accordance with the
instructions authors will receive in due time. The proceedings volume will be
published by Springer.
Florence Boué
Assistante de l'équipe RPDMP,
Laboratoire d'Institut de Recherche d'Informatique de Toulouse,
IRIT1
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse cedex 9
Tél: 05 61 55 63 16
Fax: 05 61 55 62 39
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