UAI 9th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop

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Deadline: May 05, 2012 | Date: August 18, 2012

Venue/Country: Catalina Island, U.S.A

Updated: 2012-04-14 13:16:29 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Call for Papers

Saturday, August 18, 2012, Catalina Island

www.abnms.org/uai2012-apps-workshop

Special theme: Temporal Modeling

The 9th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop solicits submissions

of real-world applications of graphical models and Bayesian networks,

in particular those dealing with temporal modeling. Our desire is to

foster discussion and interchange about novel contributions that can

speak to both the academic and the larger research community.

Accordingly, we seek submissions also 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. We encourage authors to address the practical issues involved

in developing real-world applications, such as knowledge engineering

methodologies, elicitation techniques, defining and meeting client

needs, validation processes and integration methods, as well as

software tools, including visualization and user interaction

techniques to these support these activities.

We particularly encourage the submission of papers that address the

workshop theme of temporal modeling. Recently communities building

dynamic Bayes networks (DBNs) and partially observable MDPs (POMDPs)

are coming to realize that they are applying their methods to

identical applications. Similarly POMDPs and other probabilistic

methods are now established in the field of Automated

Planning. Stochastic process models such as continuous time Bayes

networks (CTBNs) should also be considered as part of this trend.

Adaptive and on-line learning models also fit into this focus.

Submissions

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

online submission 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=bmaw12

We encourage co-submission of applications papers that have been

submitted to the main UAI 2012 conference, as our submission deadline comes

before the UAI acceptance deadline. If accepted for UAI, the paper

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

presentation at the Workshop also.

Workshop format

The format the workshop will be combination of oral and poster

presentations, with demonstrations encouraged for both, grouped in

sessions 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 a journal.

Important Dates

* 1 May 2012: Abstract submission

* 5 May 2012: Full paper submission

* 11 June 2012: Author notification

* 31 July 2012: Camera ready copy due

* 18 August 2012: Workshop (following the UAI2012 main conference, Aug 15-17)

Workshop Chairs

John Mark Agosta (Toyota ITC, USA)

Ann Nicholson (Monash University & Bayesian Intelligence, Australia)

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

The contact email address for the chairs is: bmaw2012abnms.org

Program Committee

Concha Bielza, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

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

Javier Diez, UNED, Spain

Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

José A. Gámez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Asela Gunawardana, Microsoft Research, USA

Branislav Kveton, Technicolor Research, Palo Alto, USA

Helge Langseth, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Pedro Larrañaga, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Philippe Leray, Polytech'Nantes, France

Michael Mahoney, Stanford University, Dept of Mathematics, USA

Suzanne Mahoney, Innovative Decisions, USA

Chris Meek, Microsoft Research, USA

Ole Mengshoel, CMU Silicon Valley Campus, USA

Serafín Moral, University of Granada, Spain

Jens D. Nielsen, University of Sheffield, UK

Thomas D. Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Jose M. Peña, Linköping University, Sweden

Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo, Canada

Antonio Salmerón, University of Almería, Spain

Fabio Stella, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

L. Enrique Sucar, INAOE, Mexico

Georgios Theocharous, Yahoo Research, USA