Info-Gap Theory and Imprecision - Workshop at Durham: 13-14 July 2007

Programme Friday 13 July

10.00: Coffee
10.30: Jonathan Lawry (Bristol) - Imprecise Linguistic Rules for High-Level Qualitative and Quantitative Modelling
11.00: Malcolm Farrow (Newcastle) & Michael Goldstein (Durham) - Experimental design with imprecise utility hierarchies
11.30: Yakov Ben-Haim (Haifa) - Why we design to spec: info-gap explanation for satisficing design requirements
12.00: Lunch
14.00: Pauline Coolen-Schrijner & Frank Coolen (Durham) - Imprecision in nonparametric predictive inference
14.30: Graeme Manson (Sheffield) - Evidence-based damage classification for an aircraft structure
15.00: Tea
15.30: Matthias Troffaes (Durham) - On a unification of regular and natural extension
16.00: Jim Hall (Newcastle) - Analysing the robustness of engineering decisions to hydraulic model and hydrological uncertainties

Informal Research Discussions, from 10.00 in CM211