Program at a glance
Oct1
Monday at a glance: Industrial Day
Auditorium, Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo
Registration desk open all day,
from 9:00 to 19:30.
Registration & Welcome Coffee
IEEE DSAA 2018 Conference opening
Institutional greetings
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intesa Sanpaolo)
Mario Costantini (General Manager of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center)
Oct2
Tuesday at a glance
Unione Industriale
Registration desk open all day,
from 8:30 to 18:30.
Oct3
Wednesday at a glance
Unione Industriale
Registration desk open all day,
from 8:30 to 18:30.
Oct4
Thursday at a glance
Unione Industriale
Registration desk open all day,
from 8:30 to 18:30.
Technical Sessions
Oct2
Causal Inference and Experimentation
10:30 - 12:30, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
Chair: Luca Maria Aiello (Nokia-Bell Labs, UK)
- 10:30A Case Study on Reducing Auto Insurance Attrition with Econometrics, Machine Learning, and A/B testing
Miguel Paredes
- 10:54Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects in the Presence of Irregular Assignment Mechanisms
Falco Joannes Bargagli Stoffi and Giorgio Gnecco
- 11:18Estimating Causal Effects On Social Networks Using Bayesian Generalized Propensity Scores
Laura Forastiere, Fabrizia Mealli, Albert Wu and Edoardo Airoldi
- 11:42Optimizing New User Experience in Online Services
Ken Soong and Xin Fu
- 12:06Developing and Deploying a Taxi Price Comparison Mobile App in the Wild: Insights and Challenges
Vsevolod Salnikov, Anastasios Noulas, Desislava Hristova, Cecilia Mascolo and Renaud Lambiotte
Oct2
Deep Learning
14:00 - 16:00, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
Chair: Alan Perotti (ISI Foundation, Italy)
- 14:00Classifying Sensitive Content in Online Advertisements with Deep Learning
Ashutosh Sanzgiri, Daniel Austin, Kannan Sankaran, Ryan Woodard, Amit Lissack and Sam Seljan
- 14:24Towards Bankruptcy Prediction: Deep Sentiment Mining to Detect Financial Distress from Business Management Reports
Zahra Ahmadi, Peter Martens, Christopher Koch, Thomas Gottron and Stefan Kramer
- 14:48Practical Deep Learning Architecture Optimization
Martin Wistuba
- 15:12Forecasting Retweet Count During Elections Using Graph Convolution Neural Networks
Raghavendran Vijayan and George Mohler
- 15:36Unsupervised Model Adaptation and Multi-task Learning based Personalization for Physiological Stress Detection
Aaqib Saeed, Tanir Ozcelebi, Johan Lukkien, Jan B.F. van Erp and Stojan Trajanovski
Oct2
Manufacturing, health and medicine
16:30 - 18:30, room “Piemonte”
Chair: Katharina Morik (Dortmund Technical University, Germany)
- 16:30A data science approach to modelling a manufacturing facility's electrical energy profile from plant production data
Konrad Mulrennan, John Donovan, David Tormey and Russell Macpherson
- 16:54Selection of a Nominal Device Using Functional Data Analysis
Nevin Martin, Thomas Buchheit and Shahed Reza
- 17:18Data Science for Simulation Data - A Case Study on Failure Prediction
Holger Trittenbach, Martin Gauch, Klemens Böhm and Katrin Schulz
- 17:42Cohort Representation and Exploration
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia and Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
- 18:06Random forest framework customized to handle highly correlated variables: an extensive experimental study applied to feature selection in genetic data
Christine Sinoquet and Mekhnacha Kamel
Oct2
Interpretability and Explanability
16:30 - 18:30, room “Torino”
Chair: Myra Spiliopoulou (Magdeburg University, Germany)
- 16:30Learning Data Mining
Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale and Salvatore Rinzivillo
- 16:54Scalable, Accurate and Intelligible Predictive Models for Electronic Health Records
Amela Fejza, Pierre Geneves, Nabil Layaida and Jean Luc Bosson
- 17:18Wetting and Drying of Soil: From Data to Understandable Models for Prediction
Aniruddha Basak, Ole Mengshoel, Kevin Schmidt and Chinmay Kulkarni
- 17:42Citizen contributions and minor heritage: feedback on modeling and visualising an information mash-up
Jean-Yves Blaise, Iwona Dudek and Gamze Saygi
- 18:06Explaining Explanations: An Approach to Evaluating Interpretability of Machine Learning
Leilani Gilpin, David Bau, Ben Yuan and Lalana Kagal
Oct3
Graphs and Networks
10:30 - 12:30, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
Chair: Sofus Macskassy (HackerRank, USA)
- 10:30Big Data-driven Platform for Cross-Media Monitoring
Liana Napalkova, Pablo Aragón and Juan Carlos Castro Robles
- 10:54Learning to Make Predictions on Graphs with Autoencoders
Phi Tran
- 11:18Recommendation of Points-of-Interest using Graph Embeddings
Giannis Christoforidis, Pavlos Kefalas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos and Yannis Manolopoulos
- 11:42DNA: General Deterministic Network Adaptive Framework for Multi-Round Multi-Party Influence Maximization
Tzu-Hsin Yang, Hao-Shang Ma and Jen-Wei Huang
- 12:06Large-Scale Railway Networks Train Movements: a Dynamic, Interpretable, and Robust Hybrid Data Analytics System
Alessandro Lulli, Luca Oneto, Renzo Canepa, Simone Petralli and Davide Anguita
Oct3
Supervised Learning
10:30 - 12:30, room “Piemonte”
Chair: Prem Melville (Millennium Management, USA)
- 10:30SMOTEBoost for Regression: Improving the Prediction of Extreme Values
Nuno Moniz, Rita P. Ribeiro, Vitor Cerqueira and Nitesh V.
- 10:54Fully Heterogeneous Collective Regression
David Liedtka and Luke Mcdowell
- 11:18Gradient Reversal Against Discrimination: A Fair Neural Network Learning Approach
Edward Raff and Jared Sylvester
- 11:42Kernel Regression on Manifold Valued Data
Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Bernstein and Evgeny Burnaev
- 12:06Hoeffding Trees with nmin adaptation
Eva García-Martín, Niklas Lavesson, Håkan Grahn, Emiliano Casalicchio and Veselka Boeva
Oct3
Unsupervised Learning
14:00 - 16:00, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
Chair: Riccardo Guidotti (University of Pisa, Italy)
- 14:00Towards Efficient Closed Infrequent Itemset Mining using Bi-directional Traversing
Yifeng Lu and Thomas Seidl Chawla
- 14:24Generalized Bayesian Factor Analysis for Integrative Clustering with Applications to Multi-Omics Data
Eun Jeong Min, Changgee Chang and Qi Long
- 14:48Pattern based Automatic Parallelization of Representative-based Clustering Algorithms
Saiyedul Islam, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Shruti Gupta, Shikhar Brajesh, Rohan Badlani, Nitin Labhishetty, Abhinav Baid, Poonam Goyal and Navneet Goyal
- 15:12Forest of Normalized Trees: Fast and Accurate Density Estimation of Streaming Data
Patrick Rehn, Zahra Ahmadi and Stefan Kramer
- 15:36Unification of Deconvolution Algorithms for Cherenkov Astronomy
Mirko Bunse, Nico Piatkowski, Tim Ruhe, Wolfgang Rhode and Katharina Morik
Oct4
Streaming and Time Series Data
10:30 - 12:30, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
- 10:30Parallel Continuous Outlier Mining in Streaming Data
Theodoros Toliopoulos, Anastasios Gounaris, Kostas Tsichlas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos and Sandra Sampaio
- 10:54Adaptive Threshold for Outlier Detection on Data Streams
James Clark, Zhen Liu and Nathalie Japkowicz
- 11:18Multivariate Time Series Early Classification using Multi-Domain Deep Neural Network
Huai-Shuo Huang, Chien-Liang Liu and Vincent Tseng
- 11:42Entity-Level Stream Classification: Exploiting Entity Similarity to Label the Next Observation Referring to an Entity
Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Christian Beyer, Uli Niemann, Ruediger Pryss, Winfried Schlee, Eirini Ntoutsi and Myra Spiliopoulou
- 12:06Neuro-Ensemble for Time Series Data Classification
Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi and Rafal Angryk
Oct4
Image and Text Analysis
14:00 - 16:00, room “Giovanni Agnelli”
Chair: André Panisson (ISI Foundation, Italy)
- 14:00Predicting worker disagreement for more effective crowd labeling
Stefan Räbiger, Gizem Gezici, Yücel Saygın and Myra Spiliopoulou
- 14:24Captioning with Language-Based Attention
Anshu Rajendra, Ritwik Rajendra, Ole J. Mengshoel, Ming Zeng and Momina Haider
- 14:48Automatic Semantic Labelling of Images by Their Content using Non-Parametric Bayesian Machine Learning and Image Search using Synthetically Generated Image Collages
Michael Niemeyer and Ognjen Arandjelovic
- 15:12Detecting and Counting Panicles in Sorghum Images
Peder Olsen, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Javier Ribera, Yuhao Chen, Addie Thompson, Ronny Luss, Mitch Tuinstra and Naoki Abe
- 15:36DeepClean: Data Cleaning via Question Asking
Xinyang Zhang, Yujie Ji, Chanh Nguyen and Ting Wang
Oct4
Transportation and Urban Science
14:00 - 16:00, room “Torino”
Chair: Salvatore Rinzivillo (CNR, Italy)
- 14:00The economic value of neighborhoods: Predicting real estate prices from the urban environment
Marco De Nadai and Bruno Lepri
- 14:24Starting Movement Detection of Cyclists using Smart Devices
Maarten Bieshaar, Malte Depping, Jan Schneegans and Bernhard Sick
- 14:48Multi-task Learning for Maritime Traffic Surveillance from AIS Data Streams
Van Duong Nguyen and Ronan Fablet
- 15:12Using Data Analytics to Optimize Public Transportation on a College Campus
Kurt Zimmer, Hasan Kurban, Mark Jenne, Mehmet Dalkilic, Logan Keating and Perry Maull
- 15:36Mining Sensor Data for Predictive Maintenance in the Automotive Industry
Flavio Giobergia, Elena Baralis, Maria Camuglia, Tania Cerquitelli, Marco Mellia, Alessandra Neri, Davide Tricarico and Alessia Tuninetti