We are pleased to present the Proceedings of the UAI 2015 Workshop on Advances in Causal Inference, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on July 16, 2015. The workshop was part of the 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Arti cial Intelligence (UAI 2015), and is the fourth in a series of UAI workshops on causality. Previous editions include the Causal Structure Learning workshop (Catalina Island, UAI 2012), the Approaches to Causal Structure Learning workshop (Seattle, UAI 2013), and the workshop on Causal Inference: Learning and Prediction (Quebec City, UAI 2014).

Abstract

The aim of the workshop series is to bring together researchers from di erent backgrounds, interested in tackling the challenges of causal inference from experimental and observational. The current edition sought to look into the challenges posed by causal inference on less standard (more realistic) data and generative models. in particular focusing on novel applications of causal methodologies, such as point processes, relational structures, and social networks. We especially encouraged contributions describing practical applications of causal methods. In total we received 14 submissions, each of which was peer-reviewed by two or more program committee members. We accepted 6 for oral presentations, and another 7 as poster. In addition we were fortunate with two very interesting invited talks by Elizabeth Ogburn and Vanessa Didelez. See also the added material on the workshop website: www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgtrbd/uai2015_causal/papers.html We want to thank the authors and presenters for their contribution, and the members of the program committee for their reviewing service. We also want to thank the organizing committee of the main UAI 2015 conference, in particular Jin Tian, Irina Rish, and Joris Mooij, for their assistance. We also want to thank Joris Mooij for his support in his role as chair of the previous Causal Inference: Learning and Prediction workshop. Finally, many thanks to the CEUR-WS team for hosting these proceedings.

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Ricardo Silva (chair)

Ilya Shpitser Robin Evans

Jonas Peters Tom Claassen University College London Johns Hopkins University University of Oxford Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Radboud University Nijmegen Program Committee

Nicholas Cornia Frederick Eberhardt Imme Ebert-Upho Jan Ernest Aram Galstyan Kathleen Marie Gates Philipp Geiger Antti Hyttinen Dominik Janzig Markus Kalisch Jan Lemeire Chris Meek Preetam Nandy Sergey Plis Thomas Richardson James Robins Eleni Sgouritsa Ioannis Tsamardinos Greg Ver Steeg Jiji Zhang Kun Zhang University of Amsterdam Caltech Colorado State University ETH Zurich University of Southern California University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems ETH Zurich Vrije Universiteit Brussel Microsoft Research ETH Zurich The Mind Research Network University of Washington Harvard University Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems University of Crete University of Southern California Lingnan University Carnegie Mellon University

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