4. SMPS 2008: Toulouse, France
Didier Dubois, María Asunción Lubiano, Henri Prade, María Angeles Gil, Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Olgierd Hryniewicz (Eds.): Soft Methods for Handling Variability and Imprecision, Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, SMPS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 8-10, 2008. Springer 2008 Advances in Soft Computing 48 ISBN 978-3-540-85026-7
Invited Papers
Jean-Marc Bernard: Imprecise Probabilistic Prediction for Categorical Data: From Bayesian Inference to the Imprecise Dirichlet-Multinomial Model. 3-9
Reinhard Viertl: Fuzzy Bayesian Inference. 10-15
Dominique Guyonnet, Gaël Bellenfant, Olivier Bouc: Soft Methods for Treating Uncertainties: Applications in the Field of Environmental Risks. 16-26
Jean-Paul Auray, Henri Prade: Robert Féron: A Pioneer in Soft Methods for Probability and Statistics. 27-32
Foundations

Marco E. G. V. Cattaneo: Fuzzy Probabilities Based on the Likelihood Function. 43-50
Giulianella Coletti, Romano Scozzafava, Barbara Vantaggi: Possibility Measures in Probabilistic Inference. 51-58
Andrew Schumann: Non-well-Founded Probabilities on Streams. 59-65
Carl G. Wagner: Probability Revision, the Uniformity Rule, and the Chan-Darwiche Metric. 74-79
Statistical Methods
Statistical Inference
Frank P. A. Coolen: On Nonparametric Predictive Inference for Bernoulli Quantities with Set-Valued Data. 85-91
Gilles Mauris: Inferring a Possibility Distribution from Very Few Measurements. 92-99
Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski: Statistics with Vague Data and the Robustness to Data Representation. 100-107
Statistical Tests
Ángela Blanco-Fernández, Ana Colubi, Norberto Corral, Gil González-Rodríguez: On a Linear Independence Test for Interval-Valued Random Sets. 111-117
Arturo Erdely, José M. González-Barrios: A Small-Sample Nonparametric Independence Test for the Archimedean Family of Bivariate Copulas. 118-125
Manuel Montenegro, María Rosa Casals, Ana Colubi, María Angeles Gil: Testing 'Two-Sided' Hypothesis about the Mean of an Interval-Valued Random Set. 133-139
Ana Belén Ramos, Gil González-Rodríguez, Ana Colubi, María Angeles Gil: Asymptotic Tests for the Variance of a Fuzzy Random Variable Using the DK-Metric. 140-146
María Asunción Lubiano, Ana Colubi, Gil González-Rodríguez: Empirical Results Concerning a Fuzzy-Based Measure of Symmetry of Real Random Variables. 147-154
Estimation
Etienne Côme, Latifa Oukhellou, Thierry Denoeux, Patrice Aknin: Mixture Model Estimation with Soft Labels. 165-174
Kevin Loquin, Olivier Strauss: Imprecise Functional Estimation: The Cumulative Distribution Case. 175-182
Jonathan Lawry, Inés González Rodríguez: Non-parametric Density Estimation Based on Label Semantics. 183-189
Ana Colubi, María Angeles Gil, Gil González-Rodríguez, María Teresa López: Empirical Comparisons of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Binomial Distributions Based on Fuzzy Representations. 190-197
Mathematical Aspects
Invited Session: Fuzzy Set-Valued Analysis
Luciano Stefanini: A Generalization of Hukuhara Difference. 203-210
Luis J. Rodríguez-Muñiz: A Note about Bobylev's Differential. 211-217
Rosana Rodríguez-López: On Boundary Value Problems for Fuzzy Differential Equations. 218-225
Andrés D. Báez-Sánchez, Marko Antonio Rojas-Medar: On Fuzzy Sets Convolution, Fuzzy Lipschitz Sets and Triangular Fuzzy Sets of Rank p. 226-231
Measure Theory
Enrique Miranda, Matthias C. M. Troffaes, Sébastien Destercke: Generalised p-Boxes on Totally Ordered Spaces. 235-242
Jinping Zhang: Set-Valued Stochastic Integrals with Respect to a Real Valued Martingale. 253-259
Differential Equations
Yukio Ogura: On Stochastic Differential Equations with Fuzzy Set Coefficients. 263-270
Convergence Results
Serena Doria: Convergences of Random Variables with Respect to Coherent Upper Probabilities Defined by Hausdorff Outer Measures. 281-288
Pedro Terán: On Convergence in Necessity and Its Laws of Large Numbers. 289-296
Combinatorics of Imprecise Probabilities
Bernard De Baets, Hans De Meyer, Karel De Loof: The Omnipresence of Cycle-Transitivity in the Comparison of Random Variables. 299-305
Tomás Kroupa: Geometry of Cores of Submodular Coherent Upper Probabilities and Possibility Measures. 306-312
Ralph L. Wojtowicz: On Transformations between Belief Spaces. 313-320
Variance in Generalized Probability Representations
Erik Quaeghebeur: Lower and Upper Covariance. 323-330
Ángela Blanco-Fernández, Norberto Corral, Gil González-Rodríguez, María Asunción Lubiano: Some Properties of the dK-Variance for Interval-Valued Random Sets. 331-337
Aggregation Functions
Isabel Aguiló, Javier Martín, Gaspar Mayor, Jaume Suñer: Triangular Conorms on the Space of Non-decreasing Lists of Non-negative Real Numbers. 341-348
Fabrizio Durante, Susanne Saminger-Platz, Peter Sarkoci: On Patchwork Techniques for 2-Increasing Aggregation Functions and Copulas. 349-356
Engineering
Computational Methods
Minh Ha-Duong: A Hierarchical Fusion of Expert Opinion in the TBM. 361-368
Uwe Reuter: Application of Non-convex Fuzzy Variables to Fuzzy Structural Analysis. 369-375
Martin Fuchs, Arnold Neumaier: Handling Uncertainty in Higher Dimensions with Potential Clouds towards Robust Design Optimization. 376-382
Steffen Freitag, Wolfgang Graf, Stephan Pannier, Jan-Uwe Sickert: Reliability of Structures under Consideration of Uncertain Time-Dependent Material Behaviour. 383-390
Data Analysis
Janusz Kacprzyk, Anna Wilbik: A New Insight into the Linguistic Summarization of Time Series Via a Degree of Support: Elimination of Infrequent Patterns. 393-400
Dabuxilatu Wang: An Autoregressive Model with Fuzzy Random Variables. 401-408
Christian Moewes, Clemens Otte, Rudolf Kruse: Tackling Multiple-Instance Problems in Safety-Related Domains by Quasilinear SVM. 409-416
Decision-Making
Nathan Huntley, Matthias C. M. Troffaes: An Efficient Normal Form Solution to Decision Trees with Lower Previsions. 419-426
Pedro Terán, José María Moreno-Jiménez: Group Decision Making with Soft AHP Based on the Random Set View of Fuzzy Sets. 427-434



