************************************************************************** NEWSLETTER ON DECISION AND REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY Issue 00003 Editors: Salem Benferhat, Henri Prade 13.06.2000 Back issues available at http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/dru/index.html ************************************************************************** This newsletter contains: 1 - Discussions of some papers of the special session of NMR2000 workshop on UNCERTAINTY FRAMEWORKS IN NMR. 2 - UAI-2000 Technical program 3 - IPMU-2000 Technical program 4. FUSION-2000 Technical program ************************************************************************** 1 - Discussions of papers ************************************************************************** The discussions of the papers of of the special session of NMR2000 workshop on UNCERTAINTY FRAMEWORKS IN NMR continue. We received comments/questions/reply of the following papers: - Probabilistic Default Reasoning with Conditional Constraints, by Thomas Lukasiewicz Replies from Thomas Lukasiewicz to Salem Benferhat's and Angelo Gilio's questions are posted at: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/dru/006/ - Precise Propagation of Upper and Lower Probability Bounds in System P. by Angelo Gilio Replies from Angelo to Thomas Lukasiewicz's questions and posted at: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/dru/004/ - Encoding classical fusion in ordered knowledge bases framework by S. Benferhat, D. Dubois, S. Kaci, and H. Prade Replies from Benferhat et al. to Sebastian Konieczny's questions are posted at: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/dru/009/ - On the Role of Partial Differentiation in Probabilistic Inference by Adnan Darwiche Comments/questions from Juerg Kohlas and their replies from Adnan Darwiche are posted at: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/dru/010/ - A Statistical Probability Theory for a Symbolic Management of Quantified Assertions. by Y. Khayata and D. Pacholczyk Comments/questions from Rui Da Silva Neves regarding Khayata and Pacholczyk's paper are posted at: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ra/dru/007/ If you want to react to these comments/questions or ask new questions concerning one of the 11 papers posted at ETAI-DRU site ( http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ufn/received/sframe.html), please send your contribution to benferhat@irit.fr or prade@irit.fr. NB. To subscribe or to correct an entry from the directory of researchers temporarily located at: http://cafe.newcastle.edu.au/salem/chercheur.html please send an email to benferhat@irit.fr or prade@irit.fr. ******************************************************************* 2. UAI-2000 Technical program ******************************************************************* UAI-2000 : The Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Stanford University, Stanford, CA http://www.cs.toronto.edu/uai2000/ June 30 - July 3, 2000 The UAI Technical Program (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/uai2000/technical.html) will take place from July 1 to July 3. (The The UAI-2000 Full-Day Course on Uncertainty and UAI-2000 Workshops will be held on June 30.) ******************************************************************* 3. IPMU-2000 Technical program ******************************************************************* The 8th Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems http://www.mat.upm.es/ipmu/ July 3 - 7, 2000 Organized by: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). The technical program of IPMU 2000 is available at: http://www.mat.upm.es:80/ipmu/program.html ******************************************************************* 4. FUSION-2000 ******************************************************************* 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion FUSION 2000 Monday 10th - Thursday 13th, July 2000 Paris - France The technical program of FUSION 2000 is available at: http://www.onera.fr/fusion2000/schedules/programc.html