This three-volume set CCIS 3019-3021 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2026, held in Rome, Italy, during June 15-19, 2026.The 111 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 254 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: Aggregation theory; Imprecise probabilities; Knowledge representation a...

This three-volume set CCIS 3019-3021 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2026, held in Rome, Italy, during June 15-19, 2026.The 111 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 254 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: Aggregation theory; Imprecise probabilities; Knowledge representation a...

This three-volume set CCIS 3019-3021 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2026, held in Rome, Italy, during June 15-19, 2026.The 111 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 254 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: Aggregation theory; Imprecise probabilities; Knowledge representation a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2018, which was held in Milan, Italy, in October 2018.The 23 full, 6 short papers and 2 tutorials presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The conference is dedicated to the management of large amounts of complex, uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent information. New approaches have been developed on imprecise probab...

This proceedings volume is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2016) held in Rome (Italy).The book is dedicated to Data science which aims at developing automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. It shows how Data science employs various programming techniques and methods of data wrangling, data visualization, machine learning, probability...

CAUSAL INFERENCE IN STATISTICSA PrimerCausality is central to the understanding and use of data. Without an understanding of cause–effect relationships, we cannot use data to answer questions as basic as "Does this treatment harm or help patients?" But though hundreds of introductory texts are available on statistical methods of data analysis, until now, no beginner-level book has been written about the exploding arsenal of methods that can...

Contingency tables arise in diverse fields, including life sciences, education, social and political sciences, notably market research and opinion surveys. Their analysis plays an essential role in gaining insight into structures of the quantities under consideration and in supporting decision making.Combining both theory and applications, this book presents models and methods for the analysis of two- and multidimensional-contingency tables. The author uses a threefold approach, pr...

This short book provides a unified view of the history and theory of random sets and fuzzy random variables, with special emphasis on its use for representing higher-order non-statistical uncertainty about statistical experiments. The authors lay bare the existence of two streams of works using the same mathematical ground, but differing form their use of sets, according to whether they represent objects of interest naturally taking the form of sets, or imprecise knowledge about such objec...

This two volume set (CCIS 610 and 611) constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2016, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2016.The 127 revised full papers presented together with four invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fuzzy measures and integrals; uncertainty quantification...

Uncertain computation is a system of computation and reasoning in which the objects of computation are not values of variables but restrictions on values of variables.This compendium includes uncertain computation examples based on interval arithmetic, probabilistic arithmetic, fuzzy arithmetic, Z-number arithmetic, and arithmetic with geometric primitives.The principal problem with the existing decision theories is that they do not have capabilities to deal with such environment. Up to no...

This book honours the outstanding contributions of Vladimir Vapnik, a rare example of a scientist for whom the following statements hold true simultaneously: his work led to the inception of a new field of research, the theory of statistical learning and empirical inference; he has lived to see the field blossom; and he is still as active as ever. He started analyzing learning algorithms in the 1960s and he invented the first version of the generalized portrait algorithm. He later develope...