philippe weber tfzplvcrnawmoesstinuhpnancyfr call papers special session bayesian networks evidential networks markov decision process application dependability maintenance decision 16th mediterranean conference control automation june 2527 2008 congress centre ajaccio corsica france httpwwwmed08org please note final submission deadline january 15th technical cosponsor ieee control systems society session cochairs weber philippe centre de recherche en automatique de nancy cran nancyuniversité cnrs umr7039 wuillemin pierrehenri laboratoire dinformatique de paris 6 lip6 université pierre marie curie cnrs umr 7606 session topics bayesian networks bn proposed field artificial intelligence probabilistic framework reasoning uncertain knowledge robustness flexibility formalism demonstrated wide spectrum real world problems successfully tested recently extensions dempstershafer ds theory evidential networks promising alternative represent repercussion uncertainty knowledge dependability analysis models used feed decision making classical optimization methods markov decision process mdp used determined maintenance policy help design reliable systems complexity industrial systems difficult manage classical methods recent modelsmethods investigated solve complexity decision making problem goals session collect present approaches dependability applications bn ds modeling approaches collect present approaches decision making optimization methods mdp application reliable system design maintenance policy management show case studies practical experiences provide forum discussion trends research issues opportunities cooperation among different groups submission guidelines contributors submit pdf papers 6 pages ieee computer society proceedings manuscript style two columns singlespaced author guidelines available web httpcomputerorgcspressinstructhtm full paper submitted via med website httpwwwmed08orgsubmissionhtml also aim publishing extended version best papers session international journal special section important dates january 5 2008 proposition contribution special session bayesian networks evidential networks markov decision process sending names authors title paper tfzplvcrnawmocranuhpnancyfr joijgzezzkewcntljoijlip6fr january 15 2008 contributed papers due full paper submitted via med website indication paper proposed special session bayesian networks evidential networks markov decision process march 10 2008 notification acceptancerejection march 31 2008 final camera ready poster papers due contact persons philippe weber cran nancyuniversité cnrs email tfzplvcrnawmocranuhpnancyfr wuillemin pierrehenri lip6 université pierre marie curie email joijgzezzkewcntljoijlip6fr fri 08 aug 2008 105418 0100 uai special session bayesian networks evidential networks markov decision process