APPS 2011 - 8th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop

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Deadline: April 18, 2011 | Date: July 14, 2011

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2011-04-14 07:05:51 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

July 14th, 2011

Barcelona, Spain (Campus Roger de Lluria of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).

(during UAI 2011 July 14-17)

http://www.abnms.org/uai2011-apps-workshop

Special theme: Knowledge Engineering

The 8th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop is looking for real

world applications of graphical models and Bayesian networks. With

contributions at the border of the academic and non-academic

community, our desire is to foster discussion and interchange.

Accordingly, we seek submissions from practitioners and tool

developers as well as researchers.

Bayesian networks are now a powerful, well-established technology for

reasoning under uncertainty, supported by a wide range of mature

academic and commercial software tools. They are now being applied in

many domains, including environmental and ecological modeling,

bioinformatics, medical decision support, many types of engineering,

robotics, military, financial and economic modeling, education,

forensics, emergency response, surveillance, and so on. We welcome

submissions describing such real world applications, whether as

stand-alone BNs or where the BNs are embedded in a larger software

system.

The workshop theme is "Knowledge Engineering", which we use as a

general term that includes expert elicitation, learning from data,

taking existing models from the literature, and any hybrids of these.

We particularly encourage the submission of papers that address this

theme; authors are encouraged to describe the knowledge engineering

process used to build their application, along with the pitfalls

encountered and lessons learned.

We also welcome submissions that address the practical issues involved

in developing such real-world applications, such a knowledge

engineering methodologies, elicitation techniques, validation

processes and integration methods, as well as software tools to these

support these activities.

Submissions

Submissions should be in UAI format, limited to 8 pages, using the

online submisison process. All papers will be peer reviewed by at

least two independent referees. Papers must be submitted

electronically in PDF format via the EasyChair online submission page:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmaw11

We encourage submissions of applications papers that have been

submitted to the main UAI conference. If accepted for UAI, the paper

would be published in UAI proceedings, but we will invite a poster

presentation at the Workshop also. (This double submission arrangement

has been approved by the UAI Committee.)

Workshop format

The format of the workshop will be combination of oral and poster

presentation, with demonstrations encouraged for both, grouped to

facilitate discussion.

Publication of Proceedings

As in past years, proceedings will be published online (as a CEUR

Workshop Proceedings Volume) and selected papers will be invited to

submit to a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate

Reasoning.

Important Dates

* 13 April, 2011: abstract submission

* 18 April, 2011: full paper submission

* 9 May 2011: Author notification

* 20 June 2011: Camera ready copy due

* 14 July 2011: Workshop (part of UAI-2011, July 14-17)

Workshop Chair: Ann Nicholson (Monash University and Bayesian

Intelligence, Australia)

Program Committee

John Mark Agosta (Intel Corporation, USA) (Emeritus Chair)

Russell Almond (Florida State University, USA)

John Bromley (University of Oxford, UK)

Dennis M. Buede (Innovative Decisions, Inc., USA)

Luis M. De Campos (Univerity of Granada, Spain)

Marek Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA & Bialystok University

of Technology, Poland)

Julia Flores (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)

James H. Jones (Ferris State University, USA)

Lionel Jouffe (Bayesia, France)

Oscar Kipersztok (The Boeing Company, USA)

Kevin Korb (Monash University, Bayesian Intelligence, Australia)

Helge Langseth (NUST, Norway)

Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA)

Anders Madsen (Hugin Expert, Denmark)

Suzanne M. Mahoney (Innovative Decisions, Inc., USA)

Jose Molina (University of Valencia, Spain)

Thomas Nielson (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Agnieszka Onisko (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)

Olivier Pourret (Electricite de France, France)

Silja Renooj (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Carl Smith (University of Queensland, Aus)

Jim Smith (University of Warwick, UK)

L. Enrique Sucar (INAOE, Mexico)

Charles Twardy (George Mason University, USA)

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A/Prof. Ann Nicholson

Clayton School of IT, Faculty of Information Technology,

Monash University, Clayton Campus, 3800, Victoria Australia

ann.nicholsonmonash.edu

ph: +61 3 9905 5211 fax: +61 3 9905 5146