MASCOT-SAMO 2013 Meeting

• PhD Posters
• SAMO Session I
• SAMO Session II
• Organization
• Program

7th International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output

The 2013 SAMO Conference has been organized jointly with the MASCOT-NUM network on the occasion of its annual meeting. Announcement flyer - Conference program

The best student presentation award has been conferred to Gaëlle Chastaing (Equipe MOISE, INRIA/CNRS/LJK/Université de Grenoble) for her talk on Generalized Sobol sensitivity indices for dependent variables. She has won a prize of 1000€ to be used to go to a meeting. LOL

Practical information

Dates: July 1-4, 2013. Location: Valrose Campus, Nice, France.

Conference room: Valrose Theatre - Map of the Campus - Other practical information

Sources: nicerendezvous.com - routard.com - wikipedia.org - actualites.orchestre-cannes.com

Scope

Modelling activities are steadily increasing in all scientific disciplines, ranging from financial to environmental assessments. Sensitivity Analysis is crucial both in the modeling phase and in the interpretation of model results. It contributes to model development, model calibration, model validation, reliability and robustness analysis, decision-making under uncertainty, quality-assurance, and model reduction.

SAMO conferences are devoted to advances in research on sensitivity analysis methods and their interdisciplinary applications, they are held every third year. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the developments and improvements of methods and strategies and users of sensitivity analysis in all disciplines of science, including physics, operations research, chemistry, biology, nanotechnology, engineering, environmental science, nuclear and industrial safety, economics and finance, etc.

The first day (July 1) will be organized jointly with the MASCOT-NUM network and will be devoted to presentations by PhD students working on the topics covered by the SAMO conference and MASCOT-NUM (uncertainty in simulation, sensitivity analysis, design and modeling of computer experiments, model validation, optimization under uncertainty, applications, etc.). A submission call will be launched to PhD students. All PhD students who want to submit an abstract to the SAMO conference are invited to answer to this call. Seven or eight PhD students will be selected for oral presentations, other student submissions being considered for poster communications. A prize of 1000€ will be confered by the MASCOT-NUM's scientific committee to the best student communication (to be used by the student to go to a meeting).

Special issues

• D. Ginsbourger, B. Iooss and L. Pronzato (Guest editors). Special issue of Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation for the MASCOT-SAMO 2013 Conference, 85(7), 2015. Special issue
• S. Tarantola and N. Saint Geours (Guest editors). Special issue of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 134:239-344, 2014, devoted to the Seventh International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO 2013). link

Journal of statistical Computation and Simulation

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (JSCS). The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation publishes significant and original work in areas of statistics related to, or dependent upon, computers. D. Ginsbourger, B. Iooss, and L. Pronzato will be guest editors of this special issue. High-quality papers
in all areas of sensitivity analysis with original mathematical and statistical contributions and/or
substantial methodological advances will be considered in priority.

Full-length papers should be submitted before December 16. 2013 (2nd deadline) through the JSCS submission website (link) following the guidelines and instructions mentioned at link. The authors will be requested to append [Special Issue: SAMO-MASCOT] to the title of their submitted article. The usual reviewing procedure of JSCS will be used.

Questions and requests are to be directed to the guest editors: ginsbourger@stat.unibe.ch; bertrand.iooss@edf.fr; pronzato@i3s.unice.fr

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

We invite you to contribute to the special issue of Reliability
Engineering and System Safety devoted to SAMO 2013, which has recently
been negotiated with the Editor in Chief, Prof. Guedes Soares.
The SAMO community is particularly grateful to RESS which publishes
relevant papers in our field and has hosted several special issues
dedicated to SAMO in the past.

We would be pleased if you could inform us about your intention to
submit a manuscript by November, 8th 2013.
If you are interested, please also send us a title and a short abstract.

The manuscript should be based on the work presented at the SAMO
conference and the deadline for the submission has been set to January
31st 2014.

The Guest Editors: Nathalie Saint-Geours (nathalie.saint-geours@teledetection.fr) and Stefano Tarantola (stefano.tarantola@jrc.ec.europa.eu)
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Keynote speakers

Jacques Blum (Nice University/Lab. J.A. Dieudonné) - Lecture for the MASCOT-NUM's day: Back and Forth Nudging for data assimilation in geophysics - abstract
Dick Den Hertog (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) - Robust optimization using computer experiments - abstract
Holger Dette (Bochum University, Germany) - Design for linear models with correlated observations - abstract
Fabrice Gamboa (Institut Mathématique de Toulouse, France) -
Fast and Sobol Pick Freeze methods in the Costa Brava sauce - abstract
Silvio Funtowicz (Bergen University, Norway) - Models of science and policy - abstract

Program, proceedings and handouts

Conference program - Proceedings: MASCOT PhD session - SAMO Oral sessions - SAMO Poster sessions

Day 1: July 1st

Day 2: July, 2nd

Day 3: July, 3rd

Day 4: July, 4th

Poster sessions

PhD Posters

SAMO Session II

E. Castano (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro), V.M. Aguirre (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), A. Villeda (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro), A response surface approach for sensitivity analysis in differential equations Poster
B. Ciuffo (JRC Ispra), Q. Ge & M. Menendez (ETH Zurich), Quasi-OTEE versus kriging-based approaches for the sensitivity analysis of computationally expensive traffic simulation models: an exploratory study Poster
S.H. Hoang & R. Baraille (Shom Toulouse), Schur vectors for estimating parameters in filtering algorithm for data assimilation Poster
K. Kandananond (Rajabhat Univ.), Robust assessment of different machine learning methods for time series forecasting using a factorial design of experiment
N. Marie (Univ. Paris 10), Rough paths theory applied to computation of sensitivities Poster
G.P. Petropoulos, H. Griffiths (Univ. of Aberystwyth) & S. Tarantola (JRC Ispra), Towards operational products development from earth observation: exploration of SimSphere land surface process model sensitivity using a GSA approach Poster
C.M. Rocco (Univ. Central Venezuela) & E. Hernandez (Univ. Catlolica Portuguesa), Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in multiple criteria decision problems using rule learner techniques
N. Saint Geours (Irstea), S . Tarantola (JRC Ispra) & L. Lilburne (Landcare Research), Computing variance-based sensitivity indices for spatial inputs with “map labelling”: study of sampling size bias
H. Sulieman (American University of Sharjah), Profile-based sensitivity in D-optimal designs for precise parameter estimation
Q-L. Wu, B. Bayol, F. Kang (Ecole Centrale de Paris), J. Lecoeur (3Syngenta Seeds,) & P-H. Cournede (Ecole Centrale de Paris), Sensitivity analysis for plant models with correlated parameters : application to the characterization of sun over genotypes
M. Zambrano-Bigliarini, A. Zajace & S. Tarantola (JRC Ispra), Global sensitivity analysis for the calibration of a fully-distributed hydrological model Poster

Committees

Program

Registration fees

Registration was open from February 18 to May 31, 2013.
Early registration fees : 80€ (deadline by March, 31th, 2013)
Late registration fees : 140€ (deadline by May, 31th, 2013)

Contact

Organizers

For questions about the registration and/or on site housing, please contact
Corinne Jullien.

Past Editions

Past SAMO conferences:

• SAMO 2010 Sixth International Conference − Milano
• SAMO 2007 Fifth International Conference − Budapest
• SAMO 2004 Fourth International Conference − Santa Fe
• SAMO 2001 Third International Conference − Madrid
• SAMO 1998 Second International Conference − Venice
• SAMO 1995 First International Conference − Belgirate (I)

Sponsors

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