The 21st International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2026, took place in Rome (Italy) on 15-19 June 2026, and it was organised by our friends Barbara Vantaggi and Davide Petturiti (University of la Sapienza). Seven members of our research group attended: Marina Iturrate-Bobes, Nicolás Carrizosa, David Nieto-Barba, Darío Tagarro, Ignacio Montes, Raúl Pérez-Fernández and Enrique Miranda.
The conference program consisted of 14 parallel sessions and four plenary talks. Among the plenary speakers, we had the opportunity to listen to Marco Zaffalon, a frequent collaborator of Enrique Miranda, and Ángeles Gil, our colleague at the University of Oviedo, who summarised her long career devoted to the analysis of fuzzy data.
The members of IMAGINE organized two special sessions: one on “Aggregation Theory in Non-Traditional Contexts”, comprising three presentations, and another on “Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Imprecise Probabilities”, comprising nine presentations.
At the conference, we presented seven contributions. On Monday, June 15, during the special session on aggregation theory, Marina Iturrate-Bobes and Raúl Pérez-Fernández presented the papers “Two-sample goodness-of-fit tests to a location-scale family using OWA-based skewness coefficients” and “Asymptotic confidence intervals for a skewness parameter using OWA functions”.
On Tuesday, June 16, during the special session on imprecise probabilities, Darío Tagarro, Nicolás Carrizosa, Enrique Miranda and Ignacio Montes presented four papers: “An order-theoretic study of the credal sets generated by comparative probabilities”, “Decision making with generalized distortion models”, “Weighted Total Variation distances for contextual robustification”, and “On the commutativity of the aggregation of capacities and the natural extension to gambles”.
Finally, on Wednesday, June 17, David Nieto-Barba presented his paper “On the specific commutativity with Bayesian conditioning of systematic aggregation rules for probability measures”.
On Thursday, June 18, we enjoyed a guided tour through the city center of Rome, visiting iconic places such as the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon. Afterwards, we attended a wonderful gala dinner. During the dinner, the traditional awards were given, and Nicolás Carrizosa received the IJAR Best Student Paper Award.
Overall, during these days we enjoyed both the scientific and social aspects of the conference, and we will keep many fond memories of it. Last but not least, we would like to congratulate the organising committee for all the work they put into making this conference such a success. See you in Warsaw at the IPMU 2028 conference!
