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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on the Theory on Belief Functions

Brest, France, April 1-2, 2010

http://www.ensieta.fr/belief2010

Honorary chairs and invited speakers :
Arthur P. Dempster and Glenn Shafer

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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.

This workshop is dedicated to the confrontation of ideas, the reporting of recent achievements and the presentation of the wide range of applications of this theory.

AUDIENCE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
This workshop will give opportunities to exchange information and ideas on various aspects of the theory of belief functions. The intended audience for this workshop includes researchers and practitioners develop and use the theory of belief functions. Original contributions are therefore solicited on theoretical aspects (including decision making, combination rules, continuous belief functions, independence and graphical models, statistical estimation, etc), as well as on applications in various areas including, but not limited to data fusion, pattern recognition, clustering, tracking, data mining, signal and image processing, medical diagnosis, business decision, etc.

PUBLICATION
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Elsevier).

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions are due by 4 January 2010 and should be no more than 6 pages in length. Paper submission instructions are available at www.ensieta.fr/belief2010. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Thanks to the EGC association, the inscriptions of students for the first submissions of student paper, if accepted, will be free.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: January 4, 2010
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2010
Final paper submission: March 1, 2010

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Alain Appriou, ONERA
Thierry Denœux, HEUDIASYC, UTC
Emmanuel Duflos, LAGIS, E-C Lille
Arnaud Martin, E3I2, ENSIETA
Michèle Rombaut, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Arnaud Martin, ENSIETA
Grégoire Mercier, Telecom Bretagne
Christophe Osswald, ENSIETA
Basel Solaiman, Telecom Bretagne

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Thierry Denœux
Appriou, Alain, France
Bloch, Isabelle, France
Bossé, Eloi, Canada
Colot, Olivier, France
Cuzzolin, Fabio, UK
Daniel, Milan, Czech Republic
Delmotte, François, France
Dezert, Jean, France
Dubois, Didier, France
Duflos, Emmanuel, France
Ferson, Scott, USA
Haenni, Rolf, Switzerland
Hussani, Yousuff, USA
Le Hégarat-Mascle, Sylvie, France
Lefèvre, Eric, France
Liu, Liping, USA
Liu, Weiru, UK
Martin, Arnaud, France
Masson, Mylène, France
Mellouli, Khaled, Tunisie
Milisavljevic, Nada, Belgium
Monney, Paul-Andre, USA
Moral, Serafin, Spain
Osswald, Christophe, France
Pieczynski, Wojciech, France
Ristic, Branko, Australia
Rombaut, Michèle, France
Schubert, Johan, Sweden
Shafer, Glenn, USA
Shenoy, Prakash, USA
Srivastava, Rajendra P., USA
Yager, Ronald, USA

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