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CALL FOR PAPERS Special session on the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions at the 5th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2010) September 28 - October 1, 2010 Oviedo and Mieres (Asturias), Spain *** NEW DEADLINE: March 15, 2010 http://www.cost-ic0702.org/smps2010 If you intend to submit a paper to this special session, please send an email to Thierry Denoeux (tdeno...@hds.utc.fr) with the tentative title of your paper. The scope of the SMPS is to bring together experts working on and with Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics - papers concerning each of the following topics are highly welcome: Analysis of Censored Data, Robust Methods, Analysis of Fuzzy Data, Clustering and Classification, Random Sets, Graphical Models, Fuzzy Random Variables, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Regression Methods, Heuristic Optimization, Triangular Norms and Copulas, Soft Computing and Statistics, Imprecise Probabilities, Statistical Software for Imprecise Data, Dempster-Shafer Theory, Applications in Biology, Economics etc. Plenaries: Peter Filzmoser - Soft Methods in Robust Statistics Manfred Gilli - An Introduction to Heuristic Optimization Methods Mario Guarracino - Supervised classification of biological data Enrique Héctor Ruspini - Ideas and Issues in Conceptual Fuzzy Clustering The platform for paper submission and registration will be open from February 1, 2010. Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and fulfilling the instructions for authors (see Call For Papers menu in the web page) should be submitted no later than March 1, 2010 (tentative), camera-ready versions of the accepted papers no later than May 16, 2010 (tentative). For accepted contributions to be included in the sessions and proceedings of the conference, the payment of the conference fees should be made before the camera-ready deadline (May 16, 2010, tentative). The conference proceedings will be published as an edited volume of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (Springer-Verlag) - up to now both the whole book and the individual papers are recognized by the ISI web of science. Deadlines: Registration and submission of papers: March 15, 2010 Reviews Due: April 25, 2010 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010 Early Registration: May 7, 2010 Submission of camera-ready versions of the papers: May 16, 2010 (tentative) Conference fees: Early registration (no later than May 7, 2010): 250 Euro Late registration (after May 7, 2010): 350 Euro Student registration: 170 Euro The Conference fees include a copy of the SMPS'2010 Springer-Verlag book, attendance to the seminars, coffee breaks, conference dinner and lunches. ------------- Prof. Thierry DENOEUX Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijar Universite de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 6599 Heudiasyc Centre de Recherches de Royallieu B.P. 20529 F-60205 Compiegne Cedex France fax: 33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 email: i...@hds.utc.fr http://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
