Tue July 14
Opening
Parallel Sessions
IASC Organized Session: High-dimensional Data and Statistical Learning
Chair: Paulo Canas Rodrigues, Rosaria Lombardo, Francesco Palumbo (IASC)
Speakers
Mika Sato-Ilic, Johanè Nienkemper-Swanepoel, Gabriele SoffrittiAdvances in Spectral Clustering
Chair: Giorgia Zaccaria
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Alessandra Ragni, Cinzia Di Nuzzo, John ThompsonNew Advances in Statistical Learning
Chair: Marialuisa Restaino
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Davide Fabbrico, Marcella Niglio, Domenico VistoccoModel-based Clustering I
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Francesca Ieva, Daniele Spinelli, Samyajoy Pal, Pengqi LiuCompositional Data Analysis
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Jason Pillay, Stefania Fensore, André Menezes, Giulia PatanèPoster Session and Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
GFKL Invited Session: Data-driven Models for Bioinformatics and System Biology
Chair: Hans Kestler and Adalbert Wilhelm (GFKL)
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Steve Hoffmann, Oliver Kohlbacher, Iris Pigeot, Sarah Friedrich-WelzRobust Multivariate Methodologies
Chair: Claudio Agostinelli
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Luis Angel Garcia Escudero, Giacomo Francisci, Anand Vidyashankar, Yuexiao DongSKAD Invited Session: Network-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Financial Systems
Chair: Maciej Denkowski
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Joanna Landmesser-Rusek, Anna Denkowska, Krystian Szczęsny, Przemysław RolaCompositional Data
Chair: Anna Fiori and Leo Pasquazzi
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Sara Sommariva, Roberto Ascari, Connie Stewart, Glòria MateuClassification in Social Sciences
Chair: Andrea Marletta
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Christina Parpoula, Alfonso Piscitelli, Angela Maria D’Uggento, Franca Crippa, Theodore ChadjipadelisCS Invited Session: Tackling Complexity with Mixture Modeling Approaches
Chair: Cristina Tortora
Speakers
Sanjeena Dang, Luca Scrucca, Alexa Sochaniwsky, Bettina GruenKeynote Talk — Laura Sangalli
Lunch
Parallel Sessions
BDSS Invited Session: Cluster Validation
Chair: Julia Handl / Christian Hennig
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Adán José-Garcia, Ricardo Campello, Connor Simpson, Zdeněk Šulc, Davide ChiccoSEIO-AMyC Invited Session: Variable Selection and Influence in Classification Problems
Chair: Eva Boj
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Miguel Ramos, Eva Boj, Ignacio Cascos, Fabio Scielzo-OrtizAdvances in Second Generation Functional Data Analysis for High Dimensional Structures
Chair: Elvira Romano
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Ci-Ren Jiang, Roberto Rocci, Carlo Zaccardi, Nicoletta D’AngeloAdvances in Bayesian Computation and Inference
Chair: Tommaso Rigon
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Jordan Bryan, Francesca Crucinio, Chiara Magnani, Francesco PozzaSSS Invited Session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling I
Chair: Anuška Ferligoj, Vladimir Batagelj
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Fabio Ashtar Telarico, Giancarlo Ragozini, Silvia D’Angelo, Tabea RebafkaSDS Invited Session: From Data to Insights: The Explainability–Predictability Trade-Off
Chair: Paola Cerchiello (SDS-SIS Group) Discussant: Arianna Agosto
Speakers
Erwan Scornet, Daniel Traian Pele, Marzio De Corato, Danilo BruschiKeynote Talk — Muhammed Nadif
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
SEIO-AMyC Invited Session: New Tools and Methods for Complex Datasets
Chair: Aurea Grané
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Marcos Álvarez, Jordi Saperas, Alberto Suárez, Amparo BaílloClustering of Complex Data Structures
Chair: Marta Nai Ruscone
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Salvatore Ingrassia, Cristina Tortora, Jesse Ghashti, Shuchismita SarkarAdvances in Learning from Complex Contaminated Data
Chair: Andrea Cappozzo
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Arthur White, Houyem Demni, Fabio Centofanti, Christian HennigCLAD Organized Session: Clustering and Classification in Practice
Chair: Carlos Ferreira
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Arminda Manuela Gonçalves, Adelaide Freitas, Margarida Cardoso, João CordeiroClassification in Economics
Chair: Mariangela Zenga
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Erika Grammatica, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Georgia Panagiotidou, Marialuisa RestainoAdvances in Bayesian Inference I – Modeling Latent Structures in Complex Data
Chair: Riccardo Corradin and Francesco Denti
Speakers
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli, Andrea Sottosanti, Massimo Ventrucci, Leonardo GenesinTransfer to Libeskind Tower by metro M5 (50 min)
Welcome Reception
IFCS Council Dinner
Wed July 15
Parallel Sessions
Advances in Functional and Multivariate Data Modeling
Chair: Luigi Augugliaro
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Salvatore Latora, Frédéric Ferraty, Valeria Vitelli, Gerda ClaeskensObject Oriented Spatial Statistics
Chair: Piercesare Secchi
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Luigi Ippoliti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Karthik Bharath, Teresa BortolottiIMS Organized Session: New Aspects of Data Science and Discovery
Chair: Regina Liu
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Holger Rootzen, Minge Xie, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, George MichailidisSFdS and EGC Organized Session: Conceptual and Algorithmic Advances in Clustering
Chair: Christophe Biernacki
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Reda Khoufache, Tom Devynck, Violaine Courrier, Vincent VandewalleStatistical Methods for Heterogeneous Data in Political and Biomedical Sciences
Chair: Roberto Ascari
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Gabriele Pittarello, Anja Rieker, Agnese M. Di Brisco, Jaromir SantKeynote Talk — Brendan Murphy
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
Clustering Longitudinal Categorical Data
Chair: Raffaella Piccarreta
Speakers
Beatrice Franzolini, Giovanni Romano’, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Sylvia Frühwirth-SchnatterModels and Computational Aspects for High-Dimensional and Complex Data
Chair: Anuradha Roy
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Cristina Anton, Rosanna Verde, Justine Shults, M. Rosário OliveiraAdvances in Hidden Markov Models
Chair: Antonio Punzo
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Luca Brusa, Luca Merlo, Luca Scaffidi Domianello, Mackenzie NealVOC Invited Session: Recent Developments in Tree-based Methods
Chair: Mark de Rooij
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Marjolein Fokkema, Susanne Dandl, Diego Iglesias, Elise DusseldorpAdvances in Clustering
Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar
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Mouhamadou Lamine Ndao, Andrea Cerioli, Michael Fop, Patricia PuchhammerLunch
Parallel Sessions
Advances in Robust Statistics: New Methods for New Challenges
Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar
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Francesca Torti, Can Hakan Dağıdır, Giovanni Saraceno, Stefan Van AelstAdvances in Model-Based Clustering
Chair: Luca Scrucca
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Tanzy Love, Andrea Cappozzo, Laura Anderlucci, Derek YoungISBIS Invited Session: Advances in Clustering and Classification for Business and Industrial Data
Chair: Adalbert Wilhelm
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Giulia Contu, Carmela Iorio, Bruno Damásio, Marco OrtuMethodological and Computational Developments in Latent Variable Models
Chair: Luca Brusa
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Luca Maestrini, Silvia Pandolfi, Daniele TanciniSFC: Hierarchical and Overlapping Clustering Systems: New Theoretical Developments and Applications
Chair: Jean Diatta
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Patrice Bertrand, Nadia Tahiri, Julien Ah-Pine, Pascal PréaAwards
Keynote Talk — Award Winner
Coffee Break
Contributed Sessions
Applications in Economics and Social Science
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Małgorzata Ćwiek, Katarzyna Kuziak, Ewa Genge, Marcin Pełka, Jasminka DobšaAdvances in Unsupervised Learning
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Mariaelena Bottazzi Schenone, Chiara Masci, Stefan Mathes, Trung Dung Tran, Brad CarlinClassification and Pattern Recognition
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Guangliang Chen, Benedetta Celeste, François Bavaud, Theresa Scharl, Mohammadreza BakhtyariModel-based Clustering II
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Edoardo Redivo, Elisa Muratore, Rosa Fabbricatore, Hung Tong, Ekaterina KsiunovaMultivariate Data Modeling
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Lucia Filippozzi, Stefano Peluso, Humphrey Brydon, Dorota Rozmus, Litty MathewGuided Tour
IFCS Council Meeting
Conference Dinner
Thu July 16
Parallel Sessions
Advances in Finite Mixture Models
Chair: Roberto Rocci
Speakers
Roberto Di Mari, Paul McNicholas, Francesca Martella, Marta Nai RusconeNetwork Clustering and Blockmodeling II
Chair: Riccardo Rastelli
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Anuška Ferligoj, Francesco Bartolucci, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Vladimir BatageljIASE Organized Session: Data Science Teaching and Learning
Chair: Daniel Frischemeier
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Rolf Biehler, Sarah Schönbrodt, Aisling Leavy, Joachim EngelSymbolic Data Analysis: Connecting Concepts and Complex Data
Chair: Sónia Dias
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Anuradha Roy, Taylor Jiménez, Rui Nunes, Telmo de Menezes e Silva FilhoClustering and Classification
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Boris Mirkin, Angelos Markos, Valentina Veronesi, Maura Coniglione, Adalbert WilhelmSpatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis I
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Mark De Rooij, Matteo Ventura, Ilenia Di Battista, Sara Geremia, Buddhika S. K. GamagePresidential Invited Talk — Sugnet Lubbe
Coffee Break
Invited Sessions
JCS Invited Session: Statistical Modeling and Dimensionality Reduction
Chair: Yoshiro Yamamoto
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Yuichi Mori, Naoto Yamashita, Hiroyasu Abe, Hiroe SetoMDAG Invited Session: Multivariate Visualization in Action
Chair: Raeesa Ganey
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Rosaria Lombardo, Roelof Coetzer, Nompilo Mabaso, Johan FerreiraAdvances in Symbolic Data Analysis
Chair: Paula Brito (CLAD)
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Eufrásio Lima Neto, Oldemar Rodriguez, Lynne Billard, Sonia DiasLatent Variable and Clustering Models for High-Dimensional and Complex Data
Chair: Michael Fop
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Caitlin Kral, Felice Lamberti, Alessandro Casa, Koffi AmezouwuiGSDA Invited Session: Classification, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering for Mixed-Type Data
Chair: Angelos Marcos
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Efthymios Costa, Carlo Cavicchia, Patrick Groenen, Alfonso Iodice D’EnzaVOC Invited Session: Interpretable Machine Learning: Inference, Interactions and Causality
Chair: Marjolein Fokkema
Speakers
Giorgio Spaddacini, Mark van de Wiel, Roman Hornung, Gabriel BucurLunch
Presidential Address — Krzysztof Jajuga
Parallel Sessions
Graphical Models and Statistical Learning for Network Data
Chair: Gianluca Sottile
Speakers
Alberto Roverato, Maarten Marsman, Antonino Abbruzzo, Roberto RondinelliSAFE Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Paolo Giudici
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Gennaro Auricchio, Gloria Polinesi, Alessandro Piergallini, Sofia VeiAdvances in Bayesian Inference II – Structured Probabilistic Model
Chair: Riccardo Corradin and Francesco Denti
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Beniamino Hadj-Amar, Federico Castelletti, Louise Alamichel, Yordan Raykovy-SIS Organized Session: Model-Based Clustering
Chair: Martina Amongero, Giulia Capitoli, Alice Giampino, Matteo Gianella, Rocco Mazza on behalf of y-SIS
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Giacomo Francisci, Dalila Failli, Marco Dalla Pria, Giovanni PoliStatistical Learning of Preferences: Rankings, Partial Orders, Ratings, and Clustering
Chair: Antonio D’Ambrosio
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Geoff Nicholls, Luiza Piancastelli, Maurizio Romano, Rosaria SimoneCLADAG Invited Session: Advances in Latent Structure Modeling
Chair: Marco Ortu
