Program

Wednesday, March 31, 2010: Tutorials

Thursday, April 1, 2010

8:30 Registration

9:00-9:15 Introduction

9:15-10:45 Conflict, discounting session - chair: A. Appriou

• On some properties of distances in evidence theory - Anne-Laure Jousselme, Patrick Maupin. pdf
• Extending the contextual discounting of a belief function thanks to its canonical disjunctive decomposition - David Mercier. pdf
• Automatic discounting rate computation using a dissent criterion - John Klein, Olivier Colot. pdf
• Reliability estimation based on conflict for evidential database enrichment - Mouna Chebbah, Boutheina Ben Yaghlane, Arnaud Martin. pdf
• Using the conflict: An application to sonar image registration - Cédric Rominger, Arnaud Martin. pdf

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Combination rules session - chair: J. Dezert

• Sequential adaptive combination of unreliable sources of evidence - Zhun-ga Liu, Quan Pan, Yong-mei Cheng, Jean Dezert. pdf
• Equivalence of Correction and Fusion Schemes Under Meta-Independence of Sources - Frédéric Pichon. pdf
• Idempotent merging of Belief Functions: Extending the Minimum Rule of Possibility Theory - Sebastien Destercke, Didier Dubois. pdf
• On the interest of having different combination rules in the evidence theory framework - Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle, Cyrille André, Roger Reynaud. pdf
• Generic implementation of fusion rules based on Referee function - Frédéric Dambreville. pdf

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:45 Invited speaker: Statistical inference from a Dempster-Shafer perspective: What has changed over 50 years? - A. Dempster, Slides
chair: T. Denoeux

14:45-15:45 Statistics and data analysis session - chair: J. Schubert

• Maximum likelihood estimation from evidential data - Thierry Denoeux. pdf
• Evidential clustering with constraints and adaptive metric - Violaine Antoine, Benjamin Quost, Marie-Hélène Masson, Thierry Denoeux. pdf
• Signal Detection in Quantized Random Fields Using Dempster-Shafer Theory - Duncan Ermini Leaf, Chuanhai Liu. pdf

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00 Poster session

• A combination of ontology fusion and DSmT as the way to improve the performance of evidential inference in C2 systems - Ksawery Krenc, Adam Kawalec. pdf
• Defining new approximations of belief functions via a hidden conjunctive combination - Thomas Burger. pdf
• Approximation in DSm theory for fusing ESM reports - Pascal Djiknavorian, Dominic Grenier, Pierre Valin. pdf
• Multi-labeled image classification by TBM active learning - Hervé Goeau, Michele Rombaut, Denis Pellerin, Olivier Buisson. pdf
• Belief Function Based Algorithm for Material Detection and Tracking in Construction - Emmanuel Duflos, Saiedeh Razavi, Philippe Vanheeghe, Carl Haas. pdf
• A Verified MATLAB Toolbox for the Dempster-Shafer Theory - Ekaterina Auer, Wolfram Luther, Gabor Rebner, Philipp Limbourg. pdf
• Transferable Belief Model for incorporating failure dependencies in reliability analysis under data uncertainties - Felipe Aguirre, Mohamed Sallak, Walter Schön. pdf
• Non Bayesian Conditioning and Deconditioning - Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache. pdf
• Detection of Abnormal Sensor Behaviour using TBM - Bruno Marhic, Laurent Delahoche, Clément Soleau, Anne-Marie Jolly, David Menga. pdf
• Base Rates for Belief Functions - Audun Jøsang, Stephen O'Hara, Kristi O'Grady. pdf
• Geometric conditioning of belief functions - Fabio Cuzzolin. pdf
• A two-step fusion process for multi-criteria decision applied to natural hazards in mountains - Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert. pdf
• Audit Risk Formula with Mixed Evidence - Rajendra Srivastava, Theodore Mock. pdf
• Several Notes on Belief Combination - Milan Daniel. pdf

18:00 Bus for Oceanopolis


Friday, April 2, 2010

8:30-9:00 Information on the "Belief functions and applications society"

9:00-10:30 General topics - chair: R. Srivastava

• Constructing and Reasoning about Alternative Frames of Discernment - Johan Schubert. pdf
• Auditors' Evidence Evaluation and Aggregation Using Beliefs and Probabilities - Hironori Fukukawa, Theodore Mock. pdf
• Dempster-Shafer reasoning in large partially ordered sets: Applications in Machine Learning - Thierry Denoeux, Marie-Hélène Masson. pdf
• About using beliefs induced by probabilities - Pierre-Emmanuel Doré, Arnaud Martin. pdf
• Continuous belief functions: singletons plausibility function in conjunctive and disjunctive combination operations of consonant bbds - Jean-Marc Vannobel. pdf

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:45 Poster session

• Characterization and propagation of uncertainties in complex socio-technical system risk analyses - Geoffrey Fallet, Carole Duval, Philippe Weber, Christophe Simon. pdf
• Combination in Multi-View Forests using Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory - Mohamed Abdel Hady, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günther Palm. pdf
• Representation of parameter uncertainty with evidence theory in Probabilistic Risk Assessment - Tu Duong Le Duy, Dominique Vasseur, Laurence Dieulle, Christophe Berenguer, Mathieu Couplet. pdf
• Evidence Theory and Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: The Evidential Reasoning Approach - Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu, Xinlian Xie, Anil Kumar Maddulapalli. pdf
• Structure of the Set of Belief Functions Generated by a Random Closed Interval - Tomas Kroupa, Robert Hable. pdf
• An Online Auction Trust Model for Based on the Contextual Information - Ladislav Beranek, Pavel Tlusty, Radim Remes. pdf
• Application of the belief function theory to validate multi-agent based simulations - Alexandre Veremme, Eric Lefevre, Gildas Morvan, Daniel Jolly. pdf
• Pitfalls for recursive iteration in set based fusion - Gavin Powell, Matthew Roberts, David Marshall. pdf
• The barycenters of the k-additive dominating belief functions & the pignistic k-additive belief functions - Thomas Burger, Fabio Cuzzolin. pdf
• Multi-criteria decision making based on DSmT/AHP - Jean Dezert, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Florentin Smarandache. pdf
• Uncertainty in Ontologies: Dempster-Shafer Theory for Data Fusion Applications - Amandine Bellenger, Sylvain Gatepaille. pdf
• A Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Evidence Updating Strategy for Non-Identical Frames of Discernment - Thanuka Wickramarathne, Kamal Premaratne, Manohar Murthi, Matthias Scheutz. pdf
• A new scheme of merger information based on accuracy for image classification - Sébastien Desbouchages, Noël Richard, Anne-Sophie Capelle-Laizé. pdf

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Invited speaker: A betting interpretation for probabilities and Dempster-Shafer degrees of belief - G. Shafer Slides
Chair: D. Dubois

15:00-16:00 Independence session - chair: B. Ben Yaghlane

• Factorization and Decomposable Models in Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence - Radimn Jirousek. pdf
• Independence concepts in evidence theory: some results about epistemic irrelevance and imprecise belief functions - Sebastien Destercke. pdf
• A Thorough Comparison of Two Conditional Independence Concepts for Belief Functions - Jirina Vejnarova. pdf

End of the workshop