stefania montani eotnxkbjmfnunipmnit call papers workshop bayesian networks dependability bnd2006 colocated first international conference availability reliability security ares ares 2006 april 20th april 22nd 2006 vienna university technology httpwwwifstuwienacatares2006 workshop cochairs stefania montani university piemonte orientale hichem boudali university virginia workshop topics bayesian networks bn proposed field artificial intelligence probabilistic framework reasoning uncertain knowledge robustness flexibility formalism demonstrated wide spectrum real world problems successfully tested area dependability included range bn application domains since recent years works started investigate capabilities methodology modeling analyzing complex safety critical systems particular respect traditional dependability analysis formalisms bn show increased modeling power allow deal multivalued variables local dependencies among components noisy interaction among component behavior natural way three issues easily accounted fault trees instance addition general inference mechanism combining prediction well diagnosis naturally performed even evidence gathered analysis several extensions bn formalism also appear great interest among dynamic bn temporal bn general dealing dynamic system behavior objectbased representations dealing parametric representations goals workshop collect present approaches dependability applications bn show case studies practical experiences provide forum discussion trends research issues opportunities cooperation among different groups topics interest include limited bn modeling analyzing safety critical systems bn bn extensions modeling analyzing systems showing complex dependencies comparisons among application bn classical methodologies comparisons among different bn approaches dependability problems case studies using bn dependability analysis use bn structure elicitation expert judgment submission guidelines contributors submit pdf papers 5 pages ieee computer society proceedings manuscript style two columns singlespaced including figures references using 10 fonts author guidelines available web httpcomputerorgcspressinstructhtm pdf paper attached email message following subject bnd2006 submission sent mcstxmkxitzmhxrunipmnit proceedings ares workshops published ieee computer society press important dates december 14th 2005 deadline paper submission january 20th 2006 notification acceptance february 1st 2006 camera ready copy due workshop committe joanne bechta dugan university virginia marc bouissou electricite de france helge langseth sintef norway luigi portinale university piemonte orientale john l quigley university strathclyde glasgow luis e sucar istituto tecnologico de estudios superiores de monterrey philippe weber universitã henri poincarã nancy contact persons stefania montani cochair dipartimento di informatica university piemonte orientale via bellini 25g i15100 alessandria italy tel 39 0131 360158 fax 39 0131 360198 email mcstxmkxitzmhxrunipmnit hichem boudali cochair charles l brown department elec comp eng university virginia thornton hall 351 mccormick road po box 400743 charlottesville va 229044743 email vsmeqidwvirginiaedu _______________________________________________ uai mailing list faqengrorstedu httpssecureengroregonstateedumailmanlistinfouai wed 06 aug 2008 131648 0200 uai cfp workshop bayesian networks dependability