NLMUA 2011 - International Conference on Nonlinear Mathematics, Uncertainty and Applications, (NLMUA 2011)

Honorary Chairs
Michio Sugeno (Japan)
Jia-An Yan (China)
Hung T. Nguyen (USA)
General Chairs
Shoumei Li (China)
Yoshiaki Okazaki (Japan)
Jun Kawabe (Japan)
Toshiaki Murofushi (Japan)
Caozong Cheng (China)
Program Chairs
Li Guan (China)
Katsushige Fujimoto (Japan)
Publication Chairs
Xia Wang (China)
Aoi Honda (Japan)
International Program Committee (to be extended)
Zengjing Chen (China)
Thierry Denoeux (France)
Didier Dubois (France)
Sompong Dhompongsa (Thailand)
Zhoutian Fan (China)
Weiyin Fei (China)
Maria Gil (Spain)
Gert de Gooman (Belgium)
Michel Grabisch (France)
Liangjian Hu (China)
Hiroshi Inoue (Japan)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)
Yun Kyong Kim (Korea)
Michal Kisielewicz (Poland)
Coeraad Labuschagne(South Africa)
Jonathan Lawry (UK)
Jun Li (China)
Zhenquan Li(Fiji)
Baoding Liu (China)
Jie Lu (Austrialia)
Motoya Machida (USA)
Radko Mesiar (Slovakia)
Mariusz Michta (Poland)
Enrique Miranda (Spain)
Yasuo Narukawa (Japan)
Endre Pap (Serbia and Montenegro)
Dan Ralescu (USA)
Da Ruan (Belgium)
Pedro Teran (Spain)
Matthias Troffaes (UK)
Makoto Tsukada (Japan)
Dabuxilatu Wang (China)
Berlin Wu (Taiwan)
Jianming Xia (China)
Bing Xu (China)
Kenjiro Yanagi (Japan)
Masami Yasuda (Japan)
Guangquan Zhang (Austrialia)
Guoli Zhang (China)
Jinping Zhang(China)
Qiang Zhang (China)
Hongxing Li (China)
Rudolf Kruse (Germany)
Peijin Guo (Japan)

Local Organizers
Zhongzhan Zhang, Liugen Xue, Weihu Cheng, Xuejing Li, Tianfa Xie, Hongxia Wang, Junfei Zhang, Xu Zhang

Scope
Over the last fifty years there have been many attempts in extending the theory of classical probability and statistical models to the generalized one which can cope with problems of inference and decision making when the model-related information is scarce, vague, ambiguous, or incomplete. Such attempts include the study of nonadditive measures and their integrals, imprecise probabilities and random sets, and their applications in information sciences, economics, finance, insurance, engineering, social sciences. Possibility measures, belief functions, Choquet capacities, and fuzzy measures are all nonadditive measures, and their related integrals are nonlinear. Imprecise probability allows us to measure chance and uncertainty with a family of classical probability measures. Their lower and upper expectations or previsions are nonlinear again. Theory of random sets and related subjects extend the horizon of classical probability and statistics to set-valued and fuzzy set-valued cases. Researchers in probability theory and statistics are welcome since the mentioned generalizations are the heart of current interests in new mathematical perspectives for quantifying appropriately risk measures in financial econometrics as well as formulating realistic models for prediction.
The conference also invites researchers involving in nonlinear functional analysis, mathematical foundations of integrated uncertainty, fuzzy theory, soft computing, and their applications.
The main purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners for an opportunity to present and discuss open research problems and novel applications, and to foster the collaboration in future research and applied projects in the area of nonlinear mathematics and uncertainty management.
Publication
All accepted papers will be published in a volume of the series “Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing” (Springer-Verlag), and all accepted papers will be indexed by EI and ISTP. Selected papers from NLMUA2011 (possibly in their extended versions) will be published in special issues of the International Journal of Intelligent Technology and Applied Statistics, and other international journals.

Topics (but not limited to)
Nonadditive measures and nonlinear integrals (including Choquet, Sugeno and other type integrals, possibility theory, Dempster-Shafer theory and so on)
Random sets, fuzzy random sets and related statistics
Set-valued and fuzzy stochastic processes, differential inclusions, multi-valued SDE
Imprecise probability theory and related statistical models
Fuzzy mathematics
Nonlinear functional analysis
Information theory
Mathematical finance and risk managements
Decision making under various types of uncertainty
Information fusion and knowledge integration in uncertain environments
Soft computing and intelligent data analysis
Applications in economics, finance, insurance, biology, engineering and others.

Important Dates
Special session proposal: Feb. 15, 2011
Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011
Acceptance notification: April 25, 2011
Early registration end: May 8, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: May 15, 2011

Contact Address
College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology
100 Pingleyuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing , 100124, China
E-mail：nlmua2011-AT-gmail.com
URL: http://www.caas.org.cn/NLMUA2011/

Sponsors
Beijing University of Technology, China; Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan