Program

8:50 - 9:00
Opening

9:00 - 11:05
Session 1
chair:
Giuseppe Nicosia
9:00 - 9:50
Jörg Bornschein
9:50 - 10:15
Feature Based Multivariate Data Imputation
Alessio Petrozziello & Ivan Jordanov
10:15 - 10:40
REFINE: Representation Learning from Diffusion Events
Zekarias Kefato, Nasrullah Sheikh & Alberto Montresor
10:40 - 11:05
A New Approach to Measuring Distances in Dense Graphs
Fatimah Almulhim, Peter Thwaites & Charles Taylor

11:05 - 11:35
Coffee Break

11:35 - 13:15
Session 2
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida
11:35 - 12:00
Variable Selection and Outlier Detection in Regularized Survival Models: Application to Melanoma Gene Expression Data
Eunice Carrasquinha, André Veríssimo, Marta B. Lopes & Susana Vinga
12:00 - 12:25
Generating Term Weighting Schemes through Genetic Programming
Ahmad Mazyad, Fabien Teytaud & Cyril Fonlup
12:25 - 12:50
Big Data Privacy by Design Computation Platform
Rui Claro, José Portêlo, Miguel Pardal & Raquel Pinho
12:50 - 13:15
A GRASP/VND Heuristic for the Max Cut-Clique Problem
Mathias Bourel, Franco Robledo, Pablo Romero, Luis Stabile & Eduardo Canale

13:15 - 14:30
Lunch

14:30 - 16:35
Session 3
chair:
Giuseppe Nicosia
14:30 - 14:55
Reinforcement Learning Methods for Operations Research Applications: The Order Release Problem
Manuel Schneckenreither & Stefan Häussler
14:55 - 15:20
Augmented Design-Space Exploration by Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Methods
Danny D'Agostino, Andrea Serani, Emilio Fortunato Campana & Matteo Diez
15:20 - 15:45
Data Science in the Business Environment: Skills Analytics for Curriculum Development
Jing Lu
15:45 - 16:10
Lookahead Policy and Genetic Algorithm for Solving Nurse Rostering Problems
Peng Shi & Dario Landa-Silva
16:10 - 16:35
Classification and Survival Prediction in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma by Gene Expression Profiling
Pierangela Bruno, Francesco Calimeri & Aldo Marzullo

16:35 - 17:05
Coffee Break

17:05 - 17:55
Session 4
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida
17:05 - 17:30
Supervised Learning Approach For Surface-Mount Device Production
Khadija Jabbar, Philippe Besse, Jean-Michel Loubes, Christophe Merle, Nathalie Barbosa Roa & Rémi Dettai
17:30 - 17:55
A Modelica-Based Simulation Method for Black-Box Optimal Control Problems with Level-Set Dynamic Programming
Ping Qiao, Yizhong Wu & Qi Zhang

17:55 - 19:00

19:30
Welcome Cocktail

9:00 - 11:05
Session 5
chair:
Giuseppe Nicosia
9:00 - 9:50
Peter Flach
9:50 - 10:15
Ant Colony Optimization for Markov Blanket-based Feature Selection. Application for Precision Medicine
Christine Sinoquet & Clément Niel
10:15 - 10:40
Improving Traditional Dual Ascent Algorithm for the Uncapacitated Multiple Allocation Hub Location Problem: a RAMP Approach
Telmo Matos, Fábio Maia & Dorabela Gamboa
10:40 - 11:05
Nonnegative Coupled Matrix Tensor Factorization for Smart City Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining
Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam, Richi Nayak & Chau Yuen

11:05 - 11:35
Coffee Break

11:35 - 13:15
Session 6
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida
11:35 - 12:00
A Machine Learning Approach for Line Outage Identification in Power Systems
Jia He, Maggie Cheng, Yixin Fang & Mariesa Crow
12:00 - 12:25
Bayesian Clustering of Multivariate Immunological Data
Alberto Castellini & Giuditta Franco
12:25 - 12:50
Data-Driven Interactive Multiobjective Optimization using a Cluster-Based Surrogate in a Discrete Decision Space
Jussi Hakanen, Jose Malmberg, Vesa Ojalehto & Kyle Eyvindson
12:50 - 13:15
Simple Learning with a Teacher via Biased Regularized Least Squares
Sergio Decherchi & Andrea Cavalli

13:15 - 14:30
Lunch

14:30 - 16:35
Session 7
chair:
Giuseppe Nicosia
14:30 - 15:20
Panos Pardalos
15:20 - 15:45
A Clonal Selection Algorithm for Multiobjective Energy Reduction Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem
Emmanouela Rapanaki, Iraklis-Dimitrios Psychas, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis & Athanasios Migdalas
15:45 - 16:10
Processing Online SAT Instances with Waiting Time Constraints and Completion Weights
Robinson Duque, Alejandro Arbelaez & Juan Francisco Diaz
Research Work for Oral Presentation only:
16:10 - 16:35
Deep Learning Approach for Performance Prediction of Service-Oriented Architecture
Mohamed Oumri, Christopher Wild & Pierre Garnero

16:35 - 17:05
Coffee Break

17:05 - 18:55
Session 8
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida

Research Works for Oral Presentation only

17:05 - 17:30
A Nonparametric Approach for Product Assortment with Uncertain Outcome and Customer Regret
Soheil Sibdari
17:30 - 17:55
Methods of Machine Learning for Censored Demand Prediction
Darya Teterina & Evgeniy M. Ozhegov
17:55 - 18:20
Development of Quality Estimator for Heavy Diesel
Nergiz Haytural & Ertugrul Ural
18:20 - 18:55
Learning and Inversion: Connection between Problems and Convergence Rates
Federico Benvenuto & Sabrina Guastavino

9:00 - 11:05
Session 9
chair:
Panos Pardalos
9:00 - 9:50
Andrey Raygorodsky
9:50 - 10:15
Information-Theoretic Feature Selection Using High-Order Interactions
Mateusz Pawluk, Paweł Teisseyre & Jan Mielniczuk
10:15 - 10:40
Assessing Accuracy of Ensemble Learning for Facial Expression Recognition with CNNs
Alessandro Renda, Marco Barsacchi, Alessio Bechini & Francesco Marcelloni
10:40 - 11:05
Optimization of Neural Network Training with ELM Based on the Iterative Hybridization of Differential Evolution with Local Search and Restarts
David Sotelo, Daniela Velásquez, Carlos Cobos, Martha Eliana Mendoza Becerra & Luis Gomez

11:05 - 11:35
Coffee Break

11:35 - 13:15
Session 10
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida
11:35 - 12:00
A New Distributed and Decentralized Stochastic Optimization Algorithm with Applications in Big Data Analytics
Reza Shahbazian, Lucio Grandinetti & Francesca Guerriero
12:00 - 12:25
Image-Based Fashion Product Recommendation with Deep Learning
Hessel Tuinhof, Clemens Pirker & Markus Haltmeier
12:25 - 12:50
An Unsupervised Learning Classifier with Competitive Error Performance
Daniel Nissani
12:50 - 13:15
Evolutionary Construction of Convolutional Neural Networks
Marijn van Knippenberg, Vlado Menkovski & Sergio Consoli

13:15 - 14:30
Lunch

14:30 - 16:35
Session 11
chair:
Giovanni Giuffrida
14:30 - 14:55
Sparse Feature Extraction Model with ISA
Radhika Nath & M Manjunathaiah
14:55 - 15:20
Covering Arrays to Support the Process of Feature Selection in the Random Forest Classifier
Sebastian Vivas, Carlos Cobos and Martha Eliana Mendoza Becerra
15:20 - 15:45
Strong Duality of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein Mass Transshipment Problem in Metric Spaces
José Rigoberto Gabriel Argüelles, Martha-Lorena Avendaño-Garrido, Luis Antonio Montero Ladrón de Guevara & Juan González Hernández
15:45 - 16:10
Average Performance Analysis of the Projected Gradient Method for Online PCA
Stephane Chretien, Christophe Guyeux & Olivier Ho
16:10 - 16:35
Application of Dimensionality Reduction Schemes to Multiobjective Optimization with Multiextremal Criteria
Victor Gergel, Vladimir Grishagin & Ruslan Israfilov

16:35 - 17:05
Coffee Break

17:05 - 18:55
Session 12
chair:
Panos Pardalos
17:05 - 17:30
N-gram Representation for Web Service Description Classification
Christian Sánchez-Sánchez & Leonid Sheremetov
17:30 - 17:55
Improving Clinical Subjects Clustering by Learning and Optimizing Feature Weights
Sergio Consoli, Monique Hendriks, Pieter Vos, Jacek Kustra, Dimitrios Mavroeidis & Ralf Hoffmann
Research Works for Oral Presentation only:
17:55 - 18:20
A Deep Neural Network Classification Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis
El Mehdi Benyoussef, Abdeltif Elbyed & Hind El Hadiri
18:20 - 18:55
Decision of Neural Networks Hyperparameters with a Population-based Algorithm
Yağız Nalçakan & Tolga Ensari

9:00 - 10:30
Session 13
chair:
Panos Pardalos
9:00 - 9:50
George Karypis
9:50 - 10:15
Calibrating the Classifier: Siamese Neural Network Architecture for End-to-End Arousal Recognition from ECG
Andrea Patane' & Marta Kwiatkowska
10:15 - 10:40
Crawling in Rogue’s Dungeons with (Partitioned) A3C
Andrea Asperti, Daniele Cortesi, Francesco Sovrano

10:40 - 11:10
Coffee Break

11:10 - 13:15
Session 14
chair:
Giuseppe Nicosia
11:10 - 11:35
Speeding Up Budgeted Stochastic Gradient Descent SVM Training with Precomputed Golden Section Search
Tobias Glasmachers & Sahar Qaadan
11:35 - 12:00
A Framework to Automatically Extract Funding Information from Text
Subhradeep Kayal, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Marius Doornenbal, Sophia Katrenko & Michelle Gregory
12:00 - 12:25
Designing Ships using Constrained Multi-Objective Efficient Global Optimization
Roy de Winter, Bas van Stein, Matthys Dijkman & Thomas Bäck
12:25 - 12:50
User Preferences in Bayesian Multi-objective Optimization: the Expected Weighted Hypervolume Improvement Criterion
Paul Feliot, Julien Bect & Emmanuel Vazquez
12:50 - 13:15
Learning Consistent Tree-augmented Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Margarida Sousa & Alexandra M. Carvalho

13:20 - 14:30
Lunch



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