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The School

The BELIEF school is a biennial event organized by the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) that offers a unique opportunity for students and researchers to learn about fundamental and advanced aspects of the theory of belief functions (also referred to as Dempster-Shafer theory, or evidence theory), a formalism for reasoning with uncertainty.

The school will be organized around a set of lectures by prominent researchers. Lectures will gradually tackle basic to more advanced theoretical concepts. They will also highlight the links with other uncertainty theories such as random sets and possibility theory, and present applications of belief functions in various domains including machine learning, information fusion, statistical inference and materials science.

Important dates

(to be announced): Registration opens
(to be announced): Deadline for BFAS grant application

Fees (to be announced)

Students € (early-bird - until ) / € (after )
Regular € (early-bird - until ) / € (after )
Online €

Financial support

The Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) is offering several grants that cover the school registration fees (which include the tuition fees, lunches, coffee breaks and the social event). An additional amount may also be granted to cover part of the travel or accommodation, depending on individual circumstances. Candidates must be PhD students or early career researchers (i.e., PhD obtained less than 3 years ago). Candidates can apply by sending the following information:

CV
Student proof (for PhD students)
Recommendation letter from supervisor (for PhD students) / from senior researcher (for early career researchers)

to: bfta2025@bfasociety.org, with copy to the secretary of BFAS at secretary@bfasociety.org and aljdrdc@gmail.com.

Application deadline is (to be announced).

BFTA 2025 Flyer

Program

To be announced

Venue

The school will take place in the Carmen de la Victoria Residence, University of Granada

Carmen de la Victoria is a guest residence located on the Albayzín hill, a place where there are Carmenes since the Arab period. Its shape was established at the end of the 19th century, when the primitive Carmen de la Victoria, known as Carmen Olivarillo, and Carmen Percal, on both sides of the Arab wall of the Cuesta del Chapiz, were unified.

Carmenes are typical estates of the historic quarters of Granada, heirs of the orchards of delight that had the Arabs Granada in the contours of the city. Today they are home gardens that maintain an old tradition of pleasurable retirement for their owners.

Carmen de la Victoria guest residence picture

Address

Cta. del Chapiz, 9, Albaicín, 18010 Granada, Spain

How to travel to Granada

Granada has an airport located 20 Km from the city, but there are very few international flights (currently only Paris and not every day). Probably, if you travel to Granada you would need to go through Madrid or Barcelona.

Another interesting possibility is to travel to Málaga airport. Málaga has direct connections with the main cities in Europe and the fares are usually cheap. There is a bus from the airport to Granada running every 1 or 2 hours. It is also possible to travel from Málaga to Granada by train.

If you travel to Madrid, there are direct buses from Madrid airport to Granada, but the distance is high (5 hours approximately). Madrid is also connected to Granada with a high speed train that takes 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Accommodation

We offer the following possibilities for staying in Granada during the school:

Carmen de la Victoria: Several rooms (single and double) are available to stay in the school site. They will be assigned in order of request.
Corrala de Santiago: There will also be some rooms available in another guest university residence: the Corrala de Santiago in another historical building from the University of Granada, located in the Realejo neighborhood. It is located 10 minutes by bus and 20 minutes walking distance from the conference place.
Make a reservation on your own. The place is located in the Albaycin neighborhood and there is a wide offer of touristic apartments and hotels in the souroundings.

Details about reservations and prices will be given later on.

Registration

To be announced

Organizing committee

Serafin Moral, University of Granada, Spain
Ines Couso, University of Oviedo, Spain
Enrique Miranda, University of Oviedo, Spain
Thierry Denœux, University of Technology of Compiègne, France
Anne-Laure Jousselme, CS Group Research Lab, France
Fréderic Pichon, Artois University, France
David Mercier, Artois University, France