Oviedo (Asturias) - Spain September 2-4, 2004
About SMPS
During the last thirty years a considerable number of papers have been published with the aim to extend the existing theory of probability and mathematical statistics. The common feature of those attempts is to "soften" the classical theory. Some "softening" approaches utilise concepts and techniques developed in such theories as the fuzzy set theory or the theory of possibility, and other approaches, like the Dempster-Shafer theory, have their origins in the classical theory of probability.
The soft methods in probability and mathematical statistics have obviously many common features. The First Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, held in Warsaw in 2002 and organized by the Systems Research Institute from the Polish Academy of Sciences, gave many researchers on related topics the opportunity to exchange ideas and applicable techniques.
On the occasion of the SMPS’2002, a biennial structure was agreed, the Department of Statistics and Operation Research at the University of Oviedo in Spain being the organizer for the Second Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics. The Conference will be held in Oviedo (Northwestern Spain), on September 2-4, 2004.
The scope of SMPS’2004 is to bring together experts representing all existing approaches used in soft probability and statistics. In particular, we would welcome papers combining probability and statistics with fuzzy logic, applications of the Dempster-Shafer theory, generalized theories of uncertainty, generalized random elements, generalized probabilities and so on. Both theoretical and applied papers will be welcome.
