BELIEF 2014 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/BELIEF2014 Oxford, UK, September 26-28 2014 TOPIC: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF BELIEF FUNCTIONS The theory of belief functions, also referred to as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. In 2012 alone, more than 300 papers on belief functions and their applications have been published worldwide. The ambition of the series of International Conferences on Belief Functions - BELIEF - is to bring together the large and expanding community of mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers, economists and practitioners which work on the theoretical foundations of belief calculus or its application to all fields of applied science. This 3rd edition, in particular, aims at more closely involving in the community the many specialists of other fields which use belief functions in their daily work, improving the overall visibility of the field by pushing towards a more coalesced and tightly connected community, and reaching out towards the sibling fields of uncertainty theory, Bayesian reasoning, imprecise probability and fuzzy theory. The conference will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and present new results on both the theory and applications of belief functions and related areas such as random sets, imprecise probability and possibility theory. Original contributions are solicited on theoretical aspects, including: - decision making - combination rules - conditioning - continuous belief functions - independence and graphical models - statistical inference - geometry and distance metrics - mathematical foundations - computational frameworks as well as on applications in various areas including, but not limited to: - data and information fusion - pattern recognition - machine learning and clustering - tracking and data association - data mining - signal and image processing - computer vision - medical diagnosis - business decision - risk analysis - engineering and environment - climatic change Papers will be presented orally during the conference in a single track session, or in poster sessions. VENUE The Belief 2014 Conference will take place in the beautiful St. Hugh's college, University of Oxford. All Oxford colleges can boast of their distinguished history and St Hugh's is no exception. Founded in 1886, the College is now one of the largest in Oxford, with a total of around 600 undergraduate and graduate students and around 50 Fellows working in a wide range of subjects. St Hugh's was established to offer an Oxford education to women and the first students at St Hugh's had to fight hard for their education. Things are different now, but the College still has a strong sense of its radical tradition, and of the importance of opening Oxford up to all who would do well here. The College boasts a lecture theater able to host up to 200 delegates, and a number of boardrooms for poster sessions. ORGANISATION Program Chair: Dr Fabio Cuzzolin, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/ Honorary Chairs: Arthur P. Dempster (USA), Glenn Shafer (USA) Program Committee (in progress): Alain Appriou (France) Boutheina Ben Yaghlane (Tunisia) Yaxin Bi (UK) Isabelle Bloch (France) Eloi Bossé (Canada) Véronique Cherfaoui (France) Olivier Colot (France) Fabio Cuzzolin (UK) Milan Daniel (Czech Republic) François Delmotte (France) Jean Dezert (France) Sébastien Destercke (France) Didier Dubois (France) Emmanuel Duflos (France) Zied Elouedi (Tunisia)Anne-Laure Jousselme (Canada) Eric Lefèvre (France) Shoumei Li (China) Chuanhai Liu (USA) Liping Liu (USA) Weiru Liu (UK) Arnaud Martin (France) Marie-Hélène Masson (France) Serafin Moral (Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (USA) Christophe Osswald (France) Benjamin Quost (France) Michèle Rombaut (France) Johan Schubert (Sweden)Thierry Denouex (France) Prakash Shenoy (USA) David Mercier (France) Rajendra P. Srivastava (USA) Scott Ferson (USA) Van Nam Huyn (Japan) IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission deadline: April 30th, 2014. Notification of acceptance : June 10, 2014 Final version due : June 15, 2014 Author registration : June 15, 2014 Early registration : July 15, 2014 Conference : September 26-29, 2014 SUBMISSION Authors are invited to prepare full papers not exceeding 8 pages, including results, figures and references. Style files for Word and Latex can be downloaded from the conference's web page. Note that the use of LaTeX together with the corresponding Springer LateX-macro packages is strongly encouraged. PDF files must be submitted using the following Easychair website : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=belief2014 PUBLICATION Discussions are in place with Springer's LNAI and Soft Computing series. for the publication of the proceedings. Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2014 conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
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