14:00 Opening
Prof John Mottershead
Numbers of the future
Abstract
BREAK (30 minutes)
16:00 Tairan Wang* & Sifeng Bi - University of Southampton
GenAI-based stochastic model updating: Normalising flows vs diffusion models
16:30 Vladik Kreinovich - University of Texas at El Paso [online]
Towards a feasible combination of probabilistic, interval, and fuzzy uncertainty
9:30 Adolphus Lye - National University of Singapore [online]
Confidence-boxes for fault-tree analysis under uncertainty
10:00 Dawid Ochnio - University of Strathclyde
Interaction effects in subinterval sensitivity analysis
BREAK (30 minutes)
11:00 Premjit Saha* & Peter Hristov - GATE Institute, Sofia University [online]
The dangers and limitations of certification by simulation: a reliable computational modelling perspective
11:30 Hannah Little & Ksenija Dvurecenska - University of Liverpool
Would you trust a simulation? Communicating (un)certainty and establishing confidence in virtual testing
Lunch at The Victoria Gallery & Museum
14:00 Alex Wimbush - University of Birmingham
Numbers without a past - no sampling methods, no confidence
14:30 Marco de Angelis - University of Strathclyde
Population variance with intervals
15:00 Matthew McCann - University of Strathclyde
Last-layer neural network imprecision using zonotopes
BREAK (30 minutes)
Why more data often leads to larger uncertainty in model-based research
Abstract.
Some fun evening activities
17:00 Philharmonic Pub
10:00 Xiaoxue Shen - University of Sheffield
Digital twins as self-models for intelligent structures
10:30 Conal Brown - University of Liverpool, TÜV Rheinland
Numbers of the past
BREAK (30 minutes)
11:30 Nicholas Gray - University of Liverpool
Numbers for health avatars
12:00 Antonios Meimaris - PaperLab.ai [online]
The hidden garbage-in problem: how misparsed equations, tables, and scientific notation corrupt literature-based scientific synthesis
LUNCH
Retractions, post-publication peer review, and fraud: Scientific publishing wild west
Abstract.
AJ
*Presenting author