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[rede.APPIA] DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar – 5 November – Peter Flach – Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Explained

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DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar

 

Tuesday, 5 November, 14:30 (GMT)

 

Speaker

Peter Flach

School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK


Title

Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Explained

 

Zoom link

Abstract

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI for short) aims at giving insight in the behaviour of AI models in general
and machine learning models in particular. In this talk I will give an overview of this growing field,
using some recent results from my group as examples. These include explainability for time series (LIMEsegment);
actionable counterfactuals (FACE); explainability fact sheets; as well as the fat-forensics.org toolkit for evaluating
Fairness, Accountability and Transparency of AI systems. Finally, I will discuss the importance of properly
treating probabilities in feature attribution methods such as LIME and SHAP through log-linear models,
and extensions to multi-class settings.

 

More information at

https://dassweb.fep.up.pt/

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[rede.APPIA] FEUP | Permanent Position – Assistant Researcher | NLP and Language Models

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A permanent research position for FEUP / LIACC is open in the domain of intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, computational learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on the field of large language models.
Applications are open until 20 Nov 2024.
More information:

[rede.APPIA] The Last CfP Evostar 2025 – The Leading European Event on Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 25 April 2025

MC
Dear Colleague(s),

Below you will find the Last call for papers for EvoStar 2025.
Deadline: November 1, 2024

Feel free to distribute and thank you for your time. Apologies for the cross-posting.

Best regards,
João Correia
EvoStar Publicity Chair

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Call for papers for the EvoStar 2025 conference

http://www.evostar.org/2025/

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy

News:

** EvoAPPs Special Sessions
.30 years of Particle Swarm Optimization
.Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications
.Applications of Bioinspired Techniques on Social Networks
.Bioinspired Algorithms for Green Computing and Sustainable Complex Systems
.Computational Intelligence for Sustainability
.EvoLLMs: Integrating Evolutionary Computing with Large Language Models (LLMs)
.Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Forecasting
.Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing
.Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
.Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine
.Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms
.Soft Computing Applied to Games

More information at:
https://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

** 4th special joint track on Evolutionary Machine Learning
This joint track, evoapps + eurogp, on Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML) will provide a specialised forum for discussion and exchange of information for researchers interested in exploring approaches that combine nature and nurture with the long-term goal of evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.evostar.org/2025/eml/

Please distribute
(Apologies for cross-posting)
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EvoStar comprises four co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, established by the Information Societies Technology Programme of the European Commission, and they represent a continuity of research collaboration stretching back over 20 years.

EvoStar is organised by SPECIES, the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. This non-profit academic society is committed to promoting evolutionary algorithmic thinking, with the inspiration of parallel algorithms derived from natural processes. It provides a forum for information and exchange.

The four conferences include:

– EuroGP 28th European Conference on Genetic Programming
http://www.evostar.org/2025/eurogp/

– EvoApplications 28th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

– EvoCOP 25th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evocop/

– EvoMUSART 14th International Conference (and 18th European event) on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evomusart/

*** Important Dates, Venue and Publication ***

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy
All accepted papers will be printed in the proceedings published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Please check the website for more information:
http://www.evostar.org/2025/

And follow us at:
X – https://x.com/EvostarConf
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/evostarconference/

Follow SPECIES at:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/species-society/

[rede.APPIA] Thematic Issue on Urban Computing and Mobility Pattern Analysis – Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments [JAISE

MC
Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting a contribution to this thematic issue or share it with your contacts who might be interested:
Submission before November 1, 2024

Urbanization has modernized life, but it has also caused problems such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollution. Urban computing aims to solve these problems using data generated by the city or opportunistic data obtained through crowdsourcing (e.g., traffic flow, human mobility, geospatial data). It integrates urban sensing, data management, analysis and service provision to continuously improve urban life, urban operations and the environment. Urban computing is interdisciplinary, merging computer science with fields such as civil engineering (e.g., transportation engineering), and sociology.

Smart environments are expanding from artefacts to smart cities, encompassing various urban activities. To understand and optimize urban mobility and human behaviour, machine learning models have been proposed. Smart mobility, or smart transport, is a vital component of smart cities, which use information and communications technologies (ICT) to reduce road accidents, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, noise and congestion. It represents a revolution in intelligent transport systems (ITS), intending to reduce traffic-related greenhouse gas emissions and economic losses due to congestion. Urban Computing covers a wide range of topics, including smart city applications, urban sensing, and spatial analytics. This thematic issue invites contributions focused on innovative methodologies for analyzing and predicting mobility patterns using diverse data sources like GPS traces, mobile phone data, transit logs, and social media feeds.

Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Urban Computing
Mobility Pattern Analysis
Intelligent Transport Systems
Ubiquitous Transport Technologies and Ambient Intelligence
Volunteered Geographic Information
Behaviour Modelling
Smart Mobility in Smart Cities
Machine Learning in Mobility
Opportunistic Data Crowdsourcing
Emerging Mobility Services
On-Demand Shared Mobility Services
Emerging Mobility Technologies

Guest Editors
Ana Alves
Filipe Rodrigues
Merkebe Getachew Demissie

Ana Alves

PhD in Computer Science
CISUC -Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra
ana@dei.uc.pt
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~ana

[rede.APPIA] CFP: Journal Track with ECML PKDD 2025 at Porto, Portugal

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We invite submissions of high-quality manuscripts reporting relevant research studies on all topics related to machine learning, knowledge discovery, and data mining for the journal track of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD) 2025. The journal track is implemented in partnership with the Machine Learning Journal and the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal. The conference provides an international forum to discuss the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery. The complete CFP can be found at ecmlpkdd.org/2025/submissions-journal-track/.
———————- Time scale ———————- The journal track allows continuous submissions from October 2024 to February 2025. Papers will be processed and sent out for review after each of the following three cutoff dates:
October 11, 2024 December 13, 2024 February 14, 2025
The deadline on these dates is 23:59, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). The reviewing process is single-blind.
———————- Submission procedure ———————- To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the CMT site (link cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDJT2025/Submission/Index). They must submit the title and abstract, add the author names, choose the areas related to the paper, fill out an information sheet, and indicate which of the two journals the paper is intended for. The full paper in pdf format, following the Springer templates, must also be submitted to the CMT system. Please note that no paper can be submitted to both journals. It is highly recommended that submitted papers do not exceed 20 pages, including references. Unlimited appendices may accompany every paper. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal Track that receive the final acceptance decision by July 15, 2025, will be presented at ECML-PKDD 2025 in Porto.
———————- Contact ———————- For further information, please contact the email: ecml-pkdd-2025-journal-track-chairs@googlegroups.com
———————- Journal Track Chairs ———————- Ana Carolina Lorena, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil Concha Bielza, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Arlindo Oliveira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Carlos Ferreira
ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt
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[rede.APPIA] The 3rd CfP Evostar 2025 – The Leading European Event on Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 25 April 2025

MC
Dear Colleague(s),

Below you will find the 3rd call for papers for EvoStar 2025.
Deadline: November 1, 2024

Feel free to distribute and thank you for your time. Apologies for the cross-posting.

Best regards,
João Correia
EvoStar Publicity Chair

———————————————————————-
Call for papers for the EvoStar 2025 conference

http://www.evostar.org/2025/

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy

News:

** EvoAPPs Special Sessions
.30 years of Particle Swarm Optimization
.Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications
.Applications of Bioinspired techniques on Social Networks
.Bioinspired Algorithms for Green Computing and Sustainable Complex Systems
.Computational Intelligence for Sustainability
.EvoLLMs: Integrating Evolutionary Computing with Large Language Models (LLMs)
.Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Forecasting
.Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing
.Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
.Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine
.Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms
.Soft Computing Applied to Games

More information at:
https://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

** 4th special joint track on Evolutionary Machine Learning
This joint track, evoapps + eurogp, on Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML) will provide a specialised forum for discussion and exchange of information for researchers interested in exploring approaches that combine nature and nurture with the long-term goal of evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.evostar.org/2025/eml/

Please distribute
(Apologies for cross-posting)
————————————————

EvoStar comprises four co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, established by the Information Societies Technology Programme of the European Commission, and they represent a continuity of research collaboration stretching back over 20 years.

EvoStar is organised by SPECIES, the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. This non-profit academic society is committed to promoting evolutionary algorithmic thinking, with the inspiration of parallel algorithms derived from natural processes. It provides a forum for information and exchange.

The four conferences include:

– EuroGP 28th European Conference on Genetic Programming
http://www.evostar.org/2025/eurogp/

– EvoApplications 28th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evoapps/

– EvoCOP 25th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evocop/

– EvoMUSART 14th International Conference (and 18th European event) on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.
http://www.evostar.org/2025/evomusart/

*** Important Dates, Venue and Publication ***

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
Conference: 23 to 25 April 2025.
Venue: Trieste, Italy
All accepted papers will be printed in the proceedings published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Please check the website for more information:
http://www.evostar.org/2025/

And follow us at:
X – https://x.com/EvostarConf
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/evostarconference/

Follow SPECIES at:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/species-society/

[rede.APPIA] THIS ONE ! – DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar – 15 October – Gilbert Saporta – Sparse Correspondence Analysis for Contingency Tables

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DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar

 

Tuesday, 15 October, 14:30 (WEST)

 

Speaker

Gilbert Saporta

CNAM, Paris, France


Title

Sparse Correspondence Analysis for Contingency Tables

 

Zoom link

Abstract

We propose sparse variants of correspondence analysis (CA) for large contingency tables like documents-terms matrices used in text mining. By seeking to obtain many zero coefficients, sparse CA remedies to the difficulty of interpreting CA results when the size of the table is large. Since CA is a double weighted PCA (for rows and columns) or a weighted generalized SVD, we adapt known sparse versions of these methods with specific developments to obtain orthogonal solutions and to tune the sparseness parameters. We distinguish two cases depending on whether sparseness is asked for both rows and columns, or only for one set.

 

More information at