WUPES 2025

WUPES 2025 Programme

Date Time
4
Wednesday
June, 2025
 18:00 - 21:00
Welcome party
5
Thursday
June, 2025
 09:00 - 09:10
Opening
09:10 - 10:55
Conditional independence and algebraic statistics Tobias Boege : On the Intersection and Composition properties of conditional independence
Mark Adams : Inference for max-linear Bayesian network with Noise
Francesco Nowell : Polyhedral aspects of maxoids
10:55 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:25
Theory for learning Bayesian networks James Cussens : Conditional Independence Constraints in Score-Based Learning of Bayesian Networks
Gernot Kleiter : Canonical Bayesian Networks, Essential Graphs and Chain Graphs
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
14:00 - 15:45
Bayesian networks Jun Wu : Block-Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Interventional Data in Directed Graphical Models
Angel T. Sáez-Ruiz : An experimental comparison of Bayesian network classifiers for duplicability detection
Iván Pérez : Structural Learning of BN2A models
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 17:25
Fuzzy-theory-based methods Andrea Capotorti : Information Fusion in Sentiment Fuzzy Rule-Based systems: How to Improve Readability and Robustness through SMART Operators
Jirka Vomlel : Fuzzy Bayesian Networks with Likert Scales
17:30 - 19:00
Leisure activities before dinner of personal choice: a walk in the castle park, jogging, disc golf, pétanque (disc golf and pétanque equipment is available at the hotel reception free of charge), etc.
19:00 - 21:00
Conference dinner
6
Friday
June, 2025
 09:00 - 10:45
Causal inference Leon Sierau : Common Cause Condition for Universal Approximation
Antonio Alves : Precomputing EMCC to Speed Up Causal Inference
Kieran Drury : Surjective Independence of Causal Influences for Local Bayesian Network Structures
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:25
Belief functions Radim Jiroušek : How Sir Harold Jeffreys would create a belief function based on data
Milan Daniel : Discounting or Optimizing? Different Approaches to Pseudo-Belief Function Correction
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
14:00 - 18:00
Social programme:
  • Trip by train to UNESCO heritage town of Telč or
  • Mountain biking in the hills around Třešť , e.g. https://www.kudyznudy.cz/aktivity/cyklostezka-trest-salavice. Bikes are available at the hotel for option (2) and the rental fee is included in the conference fee. However, it is necessary to reserve a bike in advance. If you would like to take this option, please let us know by 23:59 GMT on Wednesday 28 May so that we can reserve a bike for you.
19:00 - 21:00
Barbecue party outdoors (in case of bad weather, it will be held inside the hotel)
7
Saturday
June, 2025
 09:00 - 10:45
Decision models for practice Masahiro Inuiguchi : Decision Analysis with a Set of Interval Priority Weight Vectors
Thomas Heede : Joint Additive Gaussian Processes for Microbial Species Distribution Modeling
Martin Plajner : A Genetic Algorithm-Based Heuristic for Large Tram Network Scheduling
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:25
Applications of AI in social sciences Vladislav Bína : Transparency and Accuracy? Models for Bonus Allocation in the Age of Regulation
Martin Šmíd : Inauthentic Behavior on Social Networks: The Case of Telegram
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch