[Forum SIS] Call for papers - MBC2 2020 "Models and Learning for Clustering and Classification"

[Salvatore Ingrassia]

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MBC2  – 5th International Workshop on 
"Models and Learning for Clustering and Classification"
Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università di Catania
Catania (Italy), September 2020


The workshop aims at providing a focus on the state-of-the-art research in the field of statistical models and learning techniques in different areas of clustering and classification. 
The workshop will take place through online webinars on September 2020 with the support of the Italian Statistical Society and the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Malgorzata Bogdan (Poland), Andrea Cerioli (Italy), Alfonso Gordaliza (Spain), Salvatore Ingrassia (Italy), Julien Jacques (France), Angela Montanari (Italy), Roberto Rocci (Italy), Jeroen K. Vermunt (The Netherlands), Maurizio Vichi (Italy), Weixin Yao (USA).


The workshop will run on September 2020 according to the following schedule: 
Wednesday 2, h. 15.30-18 
Friday 4, h. 15.30-18 
Friday 11, h. 15.30-18 
Friday 18, h. 15.30-18 
Friday 25, h. 15-30-18 
(Central European Summer Time)

The scientific program of the workshop is based on:

5 main lectures (40'+15' discussion)
15 oral presentations organized in 5 talk sessions (20' for each talk + 10' discussion for each talk).
Discussion will be introduced by a discussant. Comments and questions from attendees will be handled by the discussant.


CONFIRMED KEYNOTE LECTURERS
- Gianluca BONTEMPI (Machine Learning Group - Département d'Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 
- Jiahua CHEN (Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) 
- Juan Antonio CUESTA ALBERTOS (Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) 
- Elisabeth GASSIAT (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, France) 
- Thomas Brendan MURPHY (University College Dublin, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Dublin, Ireland)


June 12, 2020: Submission of a 4 page short paper  via email to: mbc2 at unict.it <mailto:mbc2 at unict.it>. 

July 10, 2020: Notification of the acceptance.

July 25, 2020: Payment of registration fee (standard registration: EUR 50). Late registration (after July 25, 2030): EUR 80

August 26, 2020: Submission of the slides and references (to be uploaded in the dropbox folder).

For more information, visit: http://mbc2.unict.it/ <http://mbc2.unict.it/>

Best regards,

Salvatore Ingrassia




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Salvatore Ingrassia, Ph.D. 
Professor of Statistics
Department of Economics and Business 
Data Science Research Group
University of Catania (Italy)

Corso Italia, 55 - 95129 Catania, Italy 
Tel. +39 095 7537732
Fax +39 095 7537610
e-mail: s.ingrassia at unict.it 
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