Programme overview
The symposium will take place from 3 to 6 July. It consists of four full days, so we advise to travel on the 2nd and the 7th. If you are looking for a day by day programme, or would like to know the contributions per session, then you have come to the right place. Allow us to first explain the general idea though, as it is slightly different from what you may be used to.
General idea
The main building blocks of the programme are eight sessions, each of which is split into a plenary session and a discussion session. Following the ISIPTA tradition, every paper (
) and poster abstract (
) is first presented in a plenary session.
But, in order to stimulate and intensify personal interaction, these plenary talks are brief and will not be followed by questions from the audience.
Questions should be reserved for the ensuing discussion session, where the authors of the presented contributions will be available to discuss their contributions at greater length, with the help of their poster or a flipchart.
Each day starts with such a (plenary and discussion) session, and then continues with an Update@ISIPTA talk by a former SIPTA president. After lunch, we continue with another (plenary and discussion) session, followed by a keynote talk. Coffee will be served before the morning session, and during (and at) each of the discussion sessions. On the last day, there is no keynote talk; we then end with a closing & award ceremony. There is also an opening ceremony on Wednesday, a SIPTA General Meeting on Friday, and various social activities.
Detailed programme per day
| Wednesday 3 July | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | – | 9:00 | Registration & coffee | Hallways |
| 9:00 | – | 9:30 | Opening ceremony | Library |
| 9:30 | – | 11:00 | Plenary session 1 | Meeting room |
| 11:00 | – | 12:00 | Discussion session 1 & coffee | Hallways |
| 12:00 | – | 12:30 | Update@ISIPTA by Teddy Seidenfeld | Meeting room |
| 12:30 | – | 14:00 | Lunch (included) | Hallways |
| 14:00 | – | 15:30 | Plenary session 2 | Meeting room |
| 15:30 | – | 16:30 | Discussion session 2 & coffee | Hallways |
| 16:30 | – | 17:30 | Keynote by Aharon Ben-Tal | Meeting room |
| 17:30 | – | 18:00 | 30 minutes to change location | |
| 18:00 | – | 19:30 | Opening reception | Town hall |
| Thursday 4 July | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | – | 9:00 | Registration & coffee | Hallways |
| 9:00 | – | 10:30 | Plenary session 3 | Meeting room |
| 10:30 | – | 11:30 | Discussion session 3 & coffee | Hallways |
| 11:30 | – | 12:00 | Update@ISIPTA by Gert de Cooman | Meeting room |
| 12:00 | – | 14:00 | Lunch (not included) | |
| 14:00 | – | 15:30 | Plenary session 4 | Meeting room |
| 15:30 | – | 16:30 | Discussion session 4 & coffee | Hallways |
| 16:30 | – | 17:30 | Keynote by Vladimir Vovk | Meeting room |
| 17:30 | – | 18:00 | 30 minutes to change location | |
| 18:00 | – | 19:00 | Boat trip along the canals of Ghent | Gent Watertoerist |
| Friday 5 July | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | – | 9:00 | Registration & coffee | Hallways |
| 9:00 | – | 10:30 | Plenary session 5 | Meeting room |
| 10:30 | – | 11:30 | Discussion session 5 & coffee | Hallways |
| 11:30 | – | 12:00 | Update@ISIPTA by Fabio Cozman | Meeting room |
| 12:00 | – | 14:00 | Lunch (not included) | |
| 14:00 | – | 15:30 | Plenary session 6 | Meeting room |
| 15:30 | – | 16:30 | Discussion session 6 & coffee | Hallways |
| 16:30 | – | 17:30 | Keynote by Thomas Dietterich | Meeting room |
| 17:30 | – | 18:30 | SIPTA General Meeting | Meeting room |
| 18:30 | – | 19:00 | 30 minutes to change location | |
| 19:00 | – | 24:00 | Conference dinner | Vleeshuis |
| Saturday 6 July | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | – | 9:00 | Coffee | Hallways |
| 9:00 | – | 10:30 | Plenary session 7 | Meeting room |
| 10:30 | – | 11:30 | Discussion session 7 & coffee | Hallways |
| 11:30 | – | 12:00 | Update@ISIPTA by Matthias Troffaes | Meeting room |
| 12:00 | – | 14:00 | Lunch (not included) | |
| 14:00 | – | 15:30 | Plenary session 8 | Meeting room |
| 15:30 | – | 16:30 | Discussion session 8 & coffee | Hallways |
| 16:30 | – | 17:30 | Closing & award ceremony | Library |
Contributions per session
Session 1
Plenary: 9:30 – 11:00 @ Meeting room Chair: Jasper De BockDiscussion: 11:00 – 12:00 @ Hallways
- Paul Fink
SIPTA-Community Based on Paper Contributions – Descriptive Statistics and Network Analysis - Fabio Cozman
Graphoid Properties of Variants of Epistemic Independence Based on Regular Conditioning - Arthur Van Camp & Enrique Miranda
Irrelevant Natural Extension for Choice Functions - Ruobin Gong
Simultaneous Inference under the Vacuous Orientation Assumption - Natan T'Joens, Jasper De Bock & Gert de Cooman
In Search of a Global Belief Model for Discrete-Time Uncertain Processes - Thomas Fetz
Improving the Convergence of Iterative Importance Sampling for Computing Upper and Lower Expectations
- Thomas Augustin
On Generalized Empirical Bayes Updating - Leah Henderson
Modeling Higher Order Evidence using Imprecise Probability - Hector Diego Estrada-Lugo, Marco de Angelis & Edoardo Patelli
Fault Trees into Credal Networks Adopting Imprecise Noisy-MAX Gate - Nawapon Nakharutai, Matthias Troffaes & Camila Caiado
Improving and Benchmarking of Algorithms for Decision Making with Lower Previsions - Erik Quaeghebeur
Robust Wind Farm Layout Optimization using Pseudo-Gradients
Session 2
Plenary: 14:00 – 15:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Paolo VicigDiscussion: 15:30 – 16:30 @ Hallways
- Alessandro Antonucci, Alessandro Facchini & Lilith Mattei
Credal Sentential Decision Diagrams - Janneke Bolt & Linda C. van der Gaag
On Minimum Elementary-Triplet Bases for Independence Relations - Jasper De Bock & Gert de Cooman
Interpreting, Axiomatising and Representing Coherent Choice Functions in Terms of Desirability - Georg Schollmeyer
A Short Note on the Equivalence of the Ontic and the Epistemic View on Data Imprecision for the Case of Stochastic Dominance for Interval-Valued Data - Brian Hill
Confidence in Belief, Weight of Evidence and Uncertainty Reporting - Michael Oberguggenberger & Lukas Wurzer
Random Set Solutions to Stochastic Wave Equations - Enrique Miranda, Ignacio Montes & Sébastien Destercke
A Unifying Frame for Neighbourhood and Distortion Models
- Tathagata Basu, Jochen Einbeck, Matthias Troffaes & Alistair Forbes
Robust Uncertainty Quantification for Measurement Problems with Limited Information - Gert de Cooman & Jasper De Bock
Choice Models: From Linear Option Spaces to Sets of Horse Lotteries
Session 3
Plenary: 9:00 – 10:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Thomas AugustinDiscussion: 10:30 – 11:30 @ Hallways
- Teddy Seidenfeld
A Retrospective on Isaac Levi: June 30, 1930 – December 25, 2018 - Alessio Benavoli, Alessandro Facchini & Marco Zaffalon
Bernstein’s Socks, Polynomial-Time Provable Coherence and Entanglement - Michael Smithson
Incompletely Known Sample Spaces: Models and Human Intuitions - Thijs van Ommen
Robust Causal Domain Adaptation in a Simple Diagnostic Setting - Marc Fischer
On the Usefulness of Imprecise Bayesianism in Chemical Kinetics
- Frédéric Pichon
On the Decomposition of Belief Functions into Simple Support Functions - Ullrika Sahlin
Is Imprecise Probability Let into the Regulatory Lounge? - Marco de Angelis, Hector Diego Estrada-Lugo, Edoardo Patelli & Scott Ferson
On the Dimensionality of Credal Networks with Interval Probabilities - Arianna Casanova, Enrique Miranda & Marco Zaffalon
Social Pooling of Beliefs and Values with Desirability - Noémie Le Carrer & Scott Ferson
A Possibilistic Interpretation of Ensemble Predictions: Experiments on the Imperfect Lorenz 96 Model - Glenn Shafer
Let's Replace P-Values with Betting Outcomes
Session 4
Plenary: 14:00 – 15:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Alessandro AntonucciDiscussion: 15:30 – 16:30 @ Hallways
- Ryan Martin
On Valid Uncertainty Quantification About a Model - Alvaro Henrique Chaim Correia, Cassio P. de Campos & Linda C. van der Gaag
An Experimental Study of Prior Dependence in Bayesian Network Structure Learning - Jason Konek
IP Scoring Rules: Foundations and Applications - Arne Decadt, Gert de Cooman & Jasper De Bock
Monte Carlo Estimation for Imprecise Probabilities: Basic Properties - Harry Crane
Imprecise Probabilities as a Semantics for Intuitive Probabilistic Reasoning - Luisa Ebner, Patrick Michael Schwaferts & Thomas Augustin
Robust Bayes Factor for Independent Two-Sample Comparisons under Imprecise Prior Information - Matthias Troffaes, Thomas Krak & Henna Bains
Two-State Imprecise Markov Chains for Statistical Modelling of Two-State Non-Markovian Processes
- Jonathan Sadeghi, Edoardo Patelli & Marco de Angelis
Interval Neural Networks for Imprecise Training Data - Alfonso Suárez-Llorens, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Marta Sánchez-Sánchez & Miguel Ángel Sordo
A New Class of Multivariate Prior Distributions with Application to Reliability Engineering
Session 5
Plenary: 9:00 – 10:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Frank CoolenDiscussion: 10:30 – 11:30 @ Hallways
- Liyao Ma & Thierry Denoeux
Making Set-Valued Predictions in Evidential Classification: A Comparison of Different Approaches - Seamus Bradley
Aggregating Belief Models - Joyce Cahoon & Ryan Martin
Possibility Measures for Valid Statistical Inference Based on Censored Data - Alexander Erreygers & Jasper De Bock
First Steps Towards an Imprecise Poisson Process - Marshall Abrams
Natural Selection with Objective Imprecise Probability - Rob de Wit, Cassio P. de Campos, Diarmaid Conaty & Jesus Martinez del Rincon
Robustness in Sum-Product Networks with Continuous and Categorical Data
- Arthur Van Camp & Teddy Seidenfeld
Exposing Some Points of Interest about Non-Exposed Points of Desirability - Patrick Michael Schwaferts & Thomas Augustin
Bayesian Decisions using Regions of Practical Equivalence (ROPE) and Imprecise Loss Functions - Pierre-Louis Guillot & Sébastien Destercke
Preference Elicitation with Uncertainty: Extending Regret Based Methods through Belief Functions - Henna Bains, Ander Madariaga, Behzad Kazemtabrizi & Matthias Troffaes
Using Interval Dominance and Gamma-Maximin for Decision Making in Offshore Power Transmission - Serafin Moral
A Hierarchical Approach to Learning with Imprecise Probabilities
Session 6
Plenary: 14:00 – 15:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Arthur Van CampDiscussion: 15:30 – 16:30 @ Hallways
- Lev Utkin, Maxim Kovalev, Anna Meldo & Frank Coolen
Imprecise Extensions of Random Forests and Random Survival Forests - Thierry Denoeux & Prakash P. Shenoy
An Axiomatic Utility Theory for Dempster-Shafer Belief Functions - Thomas Krak, Natan T'Joens & Jasper De Bock
Hitting Times and Probabilities for Imprecise Markov Chains - Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Bart Verheij & Rineke Verbrugge
Embedding Probabilities, Utilities and Decisions in a Generalization of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks - Ryan Martin & Nicholas Syring
Validity-Preservation Properties of Rules for Combining Inferential Models - Matthias Troffaes & Tathagata Basu
A Cantelli-Type Inequality for Constructing Non-Parametric P-Boxes Based on Exchangeability - Patrick Michael Schwaferts & Thomas Augustin
Imprecise Hypothesis-Based Bayesian Decision Making with Simple Hypotheses
- Thomas Krak & Jasper De Bock
Computing Expected Hitting Times for Imprecise Markov Chains - Vladimir Vovk
Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Conformal Change Detection: Elementary Results and an Open Question - Ander Gray, Andrew Davis & Edoardo Patelli
Towards an Interval Particle Transport Monte Carlo Method
Session 7
Plenary: 9:00 – 10:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Michael SmithsonDiscussion: 10:30 – 11:30 @ Hallways
- Cornelia Fuetterer, Georg Schollmeyer & Thomas Augustin
Constructing Simulation Data with Dependency Structure for Unreliable Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Using Copulas - Serena Doria
Coherent Upper Conditional Previsions Defined by Hausdorff Outer Measures for Unbounded Random Variables - Mats Danielson, Love Ekenberg & Aron Larsson
Decideit 3.0: Software for Second-Order Based Decision Evaluations - Max Nendel
Markov Chains under Nonlinear Expectation - Leonardo Cella & Ryan Martin
Incorporating Expert Opinion in an Inferential Model while Maintaining Validity - Julissa Giuliana Villanueva Llerena & Denis Deratani Mauá
Robust Analysis of MAP Inference in Selective Sum-Product Networks
- Paolo Baldi
An Informational View of Belief Functions - Vu-Linh Nguyen & Eyke Hüllermeier
Reliable Multi-Label Classification: Prediction with Partial Abstention - Miguel Mendes
The Ergodic Conundrum - Matthias Faes & David Moens
Interdependent Intervals: Multivariate and Spatial Uncertainty Analysis under Scarce Data - Peter Grünwald, Rianne de Heide & Wouter M. Koolen
Safe Testing: S-Values and Optional Continuation
Session 8
Plenary: 14:00 – 15:30 @ Meeting room Chair: Cassio P. de CamposDiscussion: 15:30 – 16:30 @ Hallways
- Silja Renooij, Linda C. van der Gaag & Philippe Leray
On Intercausal Interactions in Probabilistic Relational Models - Michael Smithson
Imprecise Compositional Data Analysis: Alternative Statistical Methods - Chiara Corsato, Renato Pelessoni & Paolo Vicig
Extending Nearly-Linear Models - Damjan Skulj
Extensions of Sets of Markov Operators Under Epistemic Irrelevance - Yonatan Carlos Carranza Alarcon & Sébastien Destercke
Imprecise Gaussian Discriminant Classification - Arthur Paul Pedersen & Gregory Wheeler
Dilation and Asymmetric Relevance - Fabio Cozman
The Joy of Probabilistic Answer Set Programming
- Daniel Krpelik, Louis Aslett & Frank Coolen
Towards Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertainty Models Specified by Sets of Probability Distributions - Malte Nalenz & Thomas Augustin
Characterizing Uncertainty in Decision Trees through Imprecise Splitting Rules