Dear colleagues, Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we regret to inform you that the Sixth International Conference on Belief Functions cannot be held this year as originally planned and is postponed to 2021. We will send further information in due time when more is known about the postponement.
Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, The Program Committee co-chairs Liu Zhunga Pichon Frédéric > Le 13 mars 2020 à 14:44, frederic.pichon <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > ============================================================ > 6th International Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2020) > > Dates: October 23rd-25th, 2020 > Location: Shanghai, China > > Submission deadline: April 15th, 2020 > Notification: May 31st, 2020 > Final version: June 30th, 2020 > > Further information: https://www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/events/belief2020/ > ============================================================ > > 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 modelling 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. > > The biennial BELIEF conferences (sponsored by the Belief Functions and > Applications Society https://www.bfasociety.org/) are dedicated to the > confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the > presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory. The first > edition of this conference series was held in Brest, France, in 2010, the > second edition in Compiègne, France, in 2012, the third edition in Oxford, > UK, in 2014, the fourth edition in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2016, and the > fifth edition in Compiègne, France, in 2018. The Sixth International > Conference on Belief Functions (BELIEF 2020) will be held in Shanghai, China, > on October 23-25, 2020. It will be co-located with the 2020 International > Conference on Cognitive analytics, Granular computing, and Three-way > decisions (CCGT). The co-location of the two events is intended to favour > cross-fertilization among researchers active in both communities. > > Submission and Proceedings > ======================= > > The proceedings of the BELIEF 2020 conference will be published by > Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence > (LNCS/LNAI) series and indexed by: ISI Web of Science; EI Engineering Index; > ACM Digital Library; dblp; Google Scholar; IO-Port; MathSciNet; Scopus; > Zentralblatt MATH. Previous BELIEF proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. > > Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their > proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of > their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their > papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf > of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a > Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form > should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files > have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers > cannot be made. > > IJAR Special issue > ============== > > Authors of selected papers from the BELIEF 2020 conference will be invited to > submit extended versions of their papers for possible inclusion in a special > issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. > > Invited speakers > ============= > > We are very happy to announce that Prof. Huynh Van-Nam (Japan Advanced > Institute of Science and Technology) has agreed to give an invited talk at > the conference. > More to be announced soon. > > ============================================================ > > BELIEF-CCGT Conference co-chairs > > Denoeux Thierry (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Miao > Duoqian (Tongji University, Shanghai, China), Yao Yiyu (University of Regina, > Canada). > > BELIEF 2020 Program Committee co-chairs > > Liu Zhunga ([email protected], Northwestern Polytechnical University, > Xian, China), Pichon Frédéric ([email protected], Université > d'Artois, France). > > BELIEF 2020 Steering committee > > Lefevre Eric (Université d'Artois, France), Liu Zhunga (Northwestern > Polytechnical University, Xian, China), Mercier David (Université d'Artois, > France), Pichon Frederic (Université d'Artois, France), Wei Zhihua (Tongji > University, Shanghai, China), Yue Xiaodong (Shanghai University, China) > > BELIEF 2020 Organisation chair > Yue Xiaodong, Shanghai University, China > > The organisers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested > participants of this conference. > _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
