July 14th, 2011
Barcelona, Spain (Campus Roger de Lluria of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). www.abnms.org/uai11-apps-workshop Special theme: Knowledge Engineering The 8th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop is looking for real world applications of graphical models and Bayesian networks. With contributions at the border of the academic and non-academic community, our desire is to foster discussion and interchange. Accordingly, we seek submissions 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 modelling, bioinformatics, medical decision support, many types of engineering, robotics, military, financial and economic modelling, 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. The workshop theme is "Knowledge Engineering", which we use as a general term that includes expert elicitation, learning from data, taking existing models from the literature, and any hybrids of these. We particularly encourage the submission of papers that address this theme; authors are encouraged to describe the knowledge engineering process used to build their application, along with the pitfalls encountered and lessons learned. We also welcome submissions that address the practical issues involved in developing such real-world applications, such a knowledge engineering methodologies, elicitation techniques, validation processes and integration methods, as well as software tools to these support these activities.
Submissions
Submissions should be in UAI format, limited to 8 pages, using the
online submisison process. Submitted papers are not required to be
"blind" for peer review (as this isn't really feasible for systems
that have been developed and deployed). 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:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmaw11.
We encourage submissions of applications papers that have been
submitted to the main UAI conference. If accepted for UAI, the paper
would be published in UAI proceedings, but we will invite a poster
presentation at the Workshop also. (This double submission
arrangement has been approved by the UAI Committee.)
Workshop format
The format of the workshop will be combination of oral and poster
presentation, with demonstrations encouraged for both, grouped 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 the International Journal of Approximate
Reasoning. Important Dates
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13 April, 2011: abstract submission
18 April, 2011: full paper submission. 23:59 GMT (midnight on Monday night, Greenwich Mean Time).
9 May 2011: Author notification
20 June 2011: Camera ready copy due
14 July 2011: Workshop (part of UAI-2011, July 14-17)
Workshop Chair: Ann Nicholson (Monash and Bayesian Intelligence, Australia)
Program Committee
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John Mark Agosta (Intel Corporation, USA) (Emeritus Chair)
Russell Almond (Florida State University, USA)
John Bromley (University of Oxford, UK)
Dennis M. Buede (Innovative Decisions, Inc., USA)
Luis M. De Campos (Univerity of Granada, Spain)
Marek Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA & Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)
Julia Flores (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)
James H. Jones (Ferris State University, USA)
Lionel Jouffe (Bayesia, France)
Oscar Kipersztok (The Boeing Company, USA)
Kevin Korb (Monash, Bayesian Intelligence, Australia)
Helge Langseth (NUST, Norway)
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, USA)
Anders Madsen (Hugin Expert, Denmark)
Suzanne M. Mahoney (Innovative Decisions, Inc., USA)
Jose Molina (University of Valencia, Spain)
Thomas Nielson (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Agnieszka Onisko (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)
Olivier Pourret (Electricite de France, France)
Silja Renooj (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Carl Smith (University of Queensland, Aus)
Jim Smith (University of Warwick, UK)
L. Enrique Sucar (INAOE, Mexico)
Charles Twardy (George Mason University, USA)