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CALL FOR PAPERS
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WORKSHOP ON BAYESIAN NETWORKS IN DEPENDABILITY (BND2006)
co-located with the First International Conference on Availability,
Reliability and Security (AReS) ARES 2006
April, 20th - April, 22nd 2006
Vienna University of Technology (http://www.ares-conf.org/)
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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Stefania Montani, University of Piemonte Orientale
Hichem Boudali, University of Twente
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WORKSHOP TOPICS:
Bayesian Networks (BN) have been proposed in the field of Artificial
Intelligence as a probabilistic framework for reasoning under uncertain
knowledge. The robustness and flexibility of this formalism are
demonstrated by the wide spectrum of real world problems in which they
have been successfully tested.
The area of dependability has to be included in the range of BN
application domains, since, in recent years, some works have started to
investigate the capabilities of this methodology in modeling and
analyzing complex and safety critical systems. In particular, with
respect to traditional dependability analysis formalisms, BN show an
increased modeling power: they allow to deal with multi-valued
variables, local dependencies among components, and noisy interaction
among component behavior in a natural way three issues that can not be
easily accounted for by Fault Trees, for instance. In addition, a
general inference mechanism (combining prediction as well as diagnosis)
can be naturally performed on them, even if evidence is gathered during
analysis.
Several extensions of the BN formalism also appear to be of great
interest: among them Dynamic BN and temporal BN in general for dealing
with dynamic system behavior, and object-based representations for
dealing with parametric representations.
The goals of this workshop will be to:
- collect present approaches to dependability applications of BN;
- show case studies and practical experiences;
- provide a forum for discussion of trends, research issues and
opportunities of co-operation among different groups.
Topics of interest will include (but are not limited to):
- BN for modeling and analyzing safety critical systems
- BN and BN extensions for modeling and analyzing systems showing
complex dependencies
- comparisons among the application of BN and other more classical
methodologies
- comparisons among different BN approaches to dependability problems
- case studies in using BN for dependability analysis
- use of BN to structure elicitation of expert judgment
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Contributors should submit PDF papers of at most 5 pages (IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Manuscript style: two columns, single-spaced),
including figures and references, using 10 fonts. Author Guidelines are
available on the web at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
The abstract and full paper have to be submitted via the ARES website
(http://www.ares-conf.org/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php
http://www.ares-conf.org/myreview/SubmitPaper.php)
Proceedings of the ARES workshops will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.
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IMPORTANT DATES:
December 14th 2005: deadline for paper submission
January 20th 2006: notification of acceptance
February 1st 2006: camera ready copy due
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WORKSHOP COMMITTE:
Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia
Marc Bouissou, Electricite de France
Helge Langseth, Sintef, Norway
Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale
John L. Quigley, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Luis E. Sucar, Istituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Philippe Weber, UniversitÃ'© Henri PoincarÃ'©, Nancy
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CONTACT PERSONS:
Stefania Montani (co-chair)
Dipartimento di Informatica
University of Piemonte Orientale
Via Bellini 25/g
I-15100 Alessandria, Italy
Tel: +39 0131 360158
Fax: +39 0131 360198
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Hichem Boudali (co-chair)
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
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