Tue July 14

Opening

Parallel Sessions

IASC Invited Session: High-dimensional Data and Statistical Learning

Chair: Francesco Palumbo (IASC)

SpeakersMika Sato-Ilic, Gabriele Soffritti, Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel

Solicited Session: Advances in Spectral Clustering

Chair: Giorgia Zaccaria

SpeakersAlessandra Ragni, Cinzia Di Nuzzo, John R.J. Thompson

Solicited Session: New Advances in Statistical Learning

Chair: Marialuisa Restaino

SpeakersDavide Fabbrico, Marcella Niglio, Domenico Vistocco

Contributed Session: Model-based Clustering I

SpeakersFrancesca Ieva, Daniele Spinelli, Samyajoy Pal, Pengqi Liu

Contributed Session: Compositional Data Analysis

SpeakersJason Pillay, Stefania Fensore, André Menezes, Giulia Patanè

Poster Session and Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

GFKL Invited Session: Data-driven Models for Bioinformatics and System Biology

Chair: Hans Kestler (GFKL)

SpeakersTushar Patel, Marietta Hamberger, Giovanni Corradini, David Köhler, Dayasri Ravi

Invited Session: Robust Multivariate Methodologies

Chair: Claudio Agostinelli

SpeakersYuexiao Dong, Anand Vidyashankar, Ilaria Prosdocimi, Abhik Ghosh, Luis Angel García-Escudero

SKAD Invited Session: Network-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Financial Systems

Chair: Maciej Denkowski

SpeakersJoanna Landmesser-Rusek, Anna Denkowska, Krystian Szczęsny, Przemysław Rola, Sebastian Baran

Solicited Session: Compositional Data

Chair: Anna Fiori

SpeakersSara Sommariva, Roberto Ascari, Connie Stewart, Glòria Mateu-Figueras, Kai-Sheng Song

Solicited Session: Classification in Social Sciences

Chair: Andrea Marletta

SpeakersChristina Parpoula, Alfonso Piscitelli, Angela Maria D’Uggento, Franca Crippa, Theodore Chadjipadelis

CS Invited Session: Tackling Complexity with Mixture Modeling Approaches

Chair: Cristina Tortora

SpeakersSanjeena Dang, Luca Scrucca, Alexa Sochaniwsky, Bettina Grün

Keynote Talk — Laura Sangalli

Chair: Berthold Lausen

Statistical Learning: From Complex Data to Physics-Informed Discovery

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

BDSS Invited Session: Cluster Validation

Chair: Julia Handl / Christian Hennig

SpeakersRicardo Campello, Davide Chicco, Zdeněk Šulc, Adán José-García

SEIO-AMyC Invited Session: Variable Selection and Influence in Classification Problems

Chair: Aurea Grané

SpeakersEva Boj, Ignacio Cascos, Fabio Scielzo-Ortiz, Miguel Ramos-Cabañas

Invited Session: Advances in Second Generation Functional Data Analysis for High Dimensional Structures

Chair: Rosalba Ignaccolo

SpeakersCi-Ren Jiang, Roberto Rocci, Carlo Zaccardi, Nicoletta D’Angelo

Solicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Computation and Inference

Chair: Tommaso Rigon

SpeakersJordan Bryan, Francesca Crucinio, Chiara Magnani, Francesco Pozza

SSS Invited Session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling I

Chair: Anuška Ferligoj

SpeakersFabio Ashtar Telarico, Giancarlo Ragozini, Silvia D’Angelo, Tabea Rebafka

SDS Invited Session: From Data to Insights: The Explainability–Predictability Trade-Off

Chair: Paola Cerchiello (SDS-SIS Group) Discussant: Arianna Agosto

SpeakersErwan Scornet, Daniel Traian Pele, Marzio De Corato

Keynote Talk — Mohamed Nadif

Chair: Maurizio Vichi

Boosting Clustering Performance: Approaches and Key Insights

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

SEIO-AMyC Invited Session: New Tools and Methods for Complex Datasets

Chair: Eva Boj

SpeakersMarcos Álvarez, Jordi Saperas, Amparo Baíllo, Alberto Suarez

Solicited Session: Clustering of Complex Data Structures

Chair: Marta Nai Ruscone

SpeakersMarco Riani, Cristina Tortora, Jesse Ghashti, Shuchismita Sarkar

Invited Session: Advances in Learning from Complex Contaminated Data

Chair: Andrea Cappozzo

SpeakersArthur White, Houyem Demni, Fabio Centofanti, Christian Hennig

CLAD Invited Session: Clustering and Classification in Practice

Chair: Carlos Ferreira

SpeakersArminda Manuela Gonçalves, Adelaide Freitas, Margarida Cardoso, João Cordeiro

Solicited Session: Classification in Economics

Chair: Mariangela Zenga

SpeakersErika Grammatica, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Marialuisa Restaino, Georgia Panagiotidou

Solicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Inference I – Modeling Latent Structures in Complex Data

Chair: Riccardo Corradin

SpeakersGertraud Malsiner-Walli, Andrea Sottosanti, Massimo Ventrucci, Leonardo Genesin

Transfer to Libeskind Tower by metro M5 (50 min)

Welcome Reception

IFCS Council Dinner

Wed July 15

Parallel Sessions

Invited Session: Advances in Functional and Multivariate Data Modeling

Chair: Luigi Augugliaro

SpeakersSalvatore Latora, Frédéric Ferraty, Valeria Vitelli, Gerda Claeskens

Invited Session: Object Oriented Spatial Statistics

Chair: Piercesare Secchi

SpeakersLuigi Ippoliti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Karthik Bharath, Teresa Bortolotti

IMS Invited Session: New Aspects of Data Science and Discovery

Chair: Regina Liu

SpeakersHolger Rootzen, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, George Michailidis, Min-Ge Xie

SFdS and EGC Invited Session: Conceptual and Algorithmic Advances in Clustering

Chair: Christophe Biernacki

SpeakersReda Khoufache, Tom Devynck, Violaine Courrier, Vincent Vandewalle

Solicited Session: Statistical Methods for Heterogeneous Data in Political and Biomedical Sciences

Chair: Roberto Ascari

SpeakersGabriele Pittarello, Anja Rieker, Agnese M. Di Brisco, Jaromir Sant

Keynote Talk — Thomas Brendan Murphy

Chair: Rebecca Nugent

Partial membership models for model-based soft clustering

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

Invited Session: Clustering Longitudinal Categorical Data

Chair: Raffaella Piccarreta

SpeakersOmiros Papaspiliopoulos, Beatrice Franzolini, Giovanni Romanò, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter

Invited Session: Models and Computational Aspects for High-Dimensional and Complex Data

Chair: Anuradha Roy

SpeakersCristina Popescu, Rosanna Verde, Justine Shults, M. Rosário Oliveira

Solicited Session: Advances in Hidden Markov Models

Chair: Antonio Punzo

SpeakersLuca Brusa, Luca Merlo, Mackenzie Neal

VOC Invited Session: Recent Developments in Tree-based Methods

Chair: Mark de Rooij

SpeakersMarjolein Fokkema, Susanne Dandl, Diego Iglesias, Elise Dusseldorp

Invited Session: Advances in Clustering

Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar

SpeakersMouhamadou Lamine Ndao, Andrea Cerioli, Patricia Puchhammer, Michael Fop

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

Invited Session: Advances in Robust Statistics: New Methods for New Challenges

Chair: Fabio Centofanti

SpeakersCan Hakan Dağıdır, Giovanni Saraceno, Stefan Van Aelst, Francesca Torti

Invited Session: Advances in Model-Based Clustering

Chair: Luca Scrucca

SpeakersTanzy Love, Andrea Cappozzo, Laura Anderlucci, Derek Young

ISBIS Invited Session: Advances in Clustering and Classification for Business and Industrial Data

Chair: Adalbert Wilhelm

SpeakersGiulia Contu, Carmela Iorio, Marco Ortu, Bruno Damasio

Solicited Session: Methodological and Computational Developments in Latent Variable Models

Chair: Luca Brusa

SpeakersLuca Maestrini, Silvia Pandolfi, Daniele Tancini, Giovanna Menardi

SFC Invited session: Hierarchical and Overlapping Clustering Systems: New Theoretical Developments and Applications

Chair: Jean Diatta

SpeakersPatrice Bertrand, Nadia Tahiri, Julien Ah-Pine, Pascal Préa

Awards Ceremony

Keynote Talk — Award Winner

Chair: Angela Montanari

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

Contributed Session: Applications in Economics and Social Science

SpeakersMałgorzata Ćwiek, Katarzyna Kuziak, Ewa Genge, Marcin Pełka, Jasminka Dobša

Contributed Session: Advances in Unsupervised Learning

SpeakersMariaelena Bottazzi Schenone, Chiara Masci, Stefan Mathes, Trung Dung Tran, Brad Carlin

Contributed Session: Classification and Pattern Recognition

SpeakersGuangliang Chen, Benedetta Celeste, François Bavaud, Theresa Scharl, Mohammadreza Bakhtyari

Contributed Session: Model-based Clustering II

SpeakersEdoardo Redivo, Elisa Muratore, Rosa Fabbricatore, Hung Tong, Ekaterina Ksiunova

Contributed Session: Multivariate Data Modeling

SpeakersLucia Filippozzi, Stefano Peluso, Humphrey Brydon, Dorota Rozmus, Litty Mathew

Guided Tour

IFCS Council Meeting

Conference Dinner

Thu July 16

Parallel Sessions

Invited Session: Advances in Finite Mixture Models

Chair: Roberto Rocci

SpeakersRoberto Di Mari, Paul McNicholas, Francesca Martella, Marta Nai Ruscone

Invited Session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling II

Chair: Riccardo Rastelli

SpeakersAnuška Ferligoj, Francesco Bartolucci, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Vladimir Batagelj

IASE Invited Session: Data Science Teaching and Learning

Chair: Daniel Frischemeier

SpeakersRolf Biehler, Sarah Schönbrodt, Aisling Leavy, Joachim Engel

Solicited Session: Symbolic Data Analysis: Connecting Concepts and Complex Data

Chair: Sónia Dias

SpeakersAnuradha Roy, Oldemar Rodriguez, Rui Nunes, Telmo Silva Filho

Contributed Session: Clustering and Classification

SpeakersBoris Mirkin, Angelos Markos, Valentina Veronesi, Maura Coniglione, Adalbert Wilhelm

Contributed Session: Advanced Statistical Methods for Complex Data Analysis

SpeakersMark De Rooij, Matteo Ventura, Ilenia Di Battista, Buddhika S. K. Gamage

Presidential Invited Talk — Sugnet Lubbe

Chair: Krzysztof Jajuga

Principal Component Analysis Biplots in Symbolic Data Analysis

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

JCS Invited Session: Statistical Modeling and Dimensionality Reduction

Chair: Yoshiro Yamamoto

SpeakersYuichi Mori, Naoto Yamashita, Hiroyasu Abe, Hiroe Seto

MDAG Invited Session: Multivariate Visualization in Action

Chair: Raeesa Ganey

SpeakersRosaria Lombardo, Roelof Coetzer, Nompilo Mabaso, Johan Ferreira

Invited Session: Advances in Symbolic Data Analysis

Chair: Paula Brito

SpeakersEufrasio Lima Neto, Dylan Benavides, Lynne Billard, Sónia Dias

Solicited Session: Latent Variable and Clustering Models for High-Dimensional and Complex Data

Chair: Michael Fop

SpeakersCaitlin Kral, Felice Lamberti, Alessandro Casa, Koffi Amezouwui

GSDA Invited Session: Classification, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering for Mixed-Type Data

Chair: Angelos Markos

SpeakersEfthymios Costa, Carlo Cavicchia, Patrick Groenen, Alfonso Iodice D’Enza

VOC Invited Session: Interpretable Machine Learning: Inference, Interactions and Causality

Chair: Marjolein Fokkema

SpeakersMark van de Wiel, Roman Hornung, Ioan Gabriel Bucur, Giorgio Spadaccini

Lunch

Presidential Address — Krzysztof Jajuga

Chair: Marc de Rooij

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence – historical links and future challenges

Parallel Sessions

Invited Session: Graphical Models and Statistical Learning for Network Data

Chair: Gianluca Sottile

SpeakersAlberto Roverato, Maarten Marsman, Antonino Abbruzzo, Roberto Rondinelli

Invited Session: SAFE Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Marco Riani

SpeakersGennaro Auricchio, Gloria Polinesi, Alessandro Piergallini, Sofia Vei

Solicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Inference II – Structured Probabilistic Model

Chair: Riccardo Corradin

SpeakersFederico Castelletti, Louise Alamichel, Yordan Raykov

y-SIS Solicited Session: Model-Based Clustering

Chair: Jaromir Sant

SpeakersGiacomo Francisci, Dalila Failli, Marco Dalla Pria, Giovanni Poli

Solicited Session: Statistical Learning of Preferences: Rankings, Partial Orders, Ratings, and Clustering

Chair: Antonio D’Ambrosio

SpeakersGeoff Nicholls, Luiza Piancastelli, Maurizio Romano, Rosaria Simone

CLADAG Invited Session: Advances in Latent Structure Modeling

Chair: Marco Ortu

SpeakersJohan Lyrvall, Maria Francesca Marino, Giorgia Zaccaria, Andrea Carta

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

Contributed Session: Functional and Longitudinal Data Modeling

SpeakersYoshikazu Terada, Alessia Pini, Véronique Cariou, Marc Vidal, Andrzej Sokołowski

Contributed Session: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis

SpeakersVito Santarcangelo, Doha Bakir, Adam B Kashlak, Marco Francesco De Sanctis, Julia Handl

Contributed Session: Visualization and Dimension Reduction

SpeakersAngelo Romano, Raeesa Ganey, Ruan Buys, Stéphanie Bougeard, Dominik Krężołek

Contributed Session: Robust and Fuzzy Statistical Methods

SpeakersLida Hooshyar, Giovanni Bocchi, Michael Thrun, Tamara Gaia Vasiljev, Antonio Pacifico

Contributed Session: Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Health Data

SpeakersGiulia Vannucci, Simona Cafieri, Claudio Conversano, Lorenza Cotugno, Ali Mertcan Köse

Contributed Session: Statistical Learning and Data Mining

SpeakersHedayat Fathi, Rafik Abdesselam, Mariola Chrzanowska, Roberto Molinari, Cristian Buoncompagni

Closing