Topics
Contributions belonging to the various fields of uncertainty processing are invited. Typical examples are:
- probabilistic modelling (conditional independence models, graphical models, Bayesian networks, models based on coherence principles),
- logical and algebraic modelling (including fuzzy approaches),
- possibilistic approaches,
- models based on belief functions,
- representative applications.
The working character of the meeting is stressed by the fact that we also welcome papers casting new problems and inspiring discussion as well as contributions presenting promising but as yet not finished results.
Dates and deadlines
- 10th May 2012 submission of extended abstracts (up to two pages) upload
- 31th May 2012 notification of acceptance
- 30th June 2012 camera-ready copy of accepted papers (upload)
Publications
To foster discussions, preliminary versions of all presented (and submitted in time) papers will be published in the Proceedings, which will be available at the beginning of the meeting. So the participants will have a possibility to consult the written version of the contribution before and during the lecture. Proceedings will also be useful for informal discussions during the breaks and other opportunities.
After the workshop, a special issue of a international journal devoted to the publication of selected papers will be edited. For this, all the selected papers will have to pass a regular reviewing process.
Venue
The conference will be held in the beautiful spa town Mariánské Lázně.
History of the town
Although the town itself is only about two hundred years old, the locality has been inhabited much longer and the first written record dates back to 1273. The springs first appear in a document dating from 1341 where they are called "the Auschowitzer springs" belonging to the Teplá Abbey. It was only through the efforts of Dr. Josef Nehr, the abbey's physician, who from 1779 until his death in 1820 worked hard to demonstrate the curative properties of the springs, that the waters began to be used for medicinal purposes. The place obtained its current name of Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) in 1808; became a watering-place in 1818, and received its charter as a town in 1868.
The town soon became one of the top European spas, popular with notable figures and rulers who often returned there. Among them were such names as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Frédéric Chopin, Thomas Edison, Richard Wagner or Prince Friedrich of Saxony, British King Edward VII, the Russian Czar Nicholas II, and Emperor Franz Joseph I and many others. At those times, about 20,000 visitors came every year.
Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) remained a popular destination between World War I and World War II. In last twenty years (after the dark period of Communism and town's degradation), the town has been fully restored into its original look, and now become popular through the whole Europe again.
Sponsors
- Insitute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Faculty of Management, University of Economics, Prague
- Mariánské Lázně, the conference is organized under the auspices of the Mayor.
Mariánské lázně
See more pictures from the area.