Tue July 14

Opening

Parallel Sessions

IASC Organized Session: High-dimensional Data and Statistical Learning

Chair: Paulo Canas Rodrigues, Rosaria Lombardo, Francesco Palumbo (IASC)

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

Advances in Spectral Clustering

Chair: Giorgia Zaccaria

SpeakersAlessandra Ragni, Cinzia Di Nuzzo, John Thompson

New Advances in Statistical Learning

Chair: Marialuisa Restaino

SpeakersDavide Fabbrico, Marcella Niglio, Domenico Vistocco

Model-based Clustering I

SpeakersFrancesca Ieva, Daniele Spinelli, Samyajoy Pal, Pengqi Liu

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 and Adalbert Wilhelm (GFKL)

SpeakersSteve Hoffmann, Oliver Kohlbacher, Iris Pigeot, Sarah Friedrich-Welz

Robust Multivariate Methodologies

Chair: Claudio Agostinelli

SpeakersLuis Angel Garcia Escudero, Giacomo Francisci, Anand Vidyashankar, Yuexiao Dong

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

Chair: Maciej Denkowski

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

Compositional Data

Chair: Anna Fiori and Leo Pasquazzi

SpeakersSara Sommariva, Roberto Ascari, Connie Stewart, Glòria Mateu

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 Gruen

Keynote Talk — Laura Sangalli

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

BDSS Invited Session: Cluster Validation

Chair: Julia Handl / Christian Hennig

SpeakersAdán José-Garcia, Ricardo Campello, Connor Simpson, Zdeněk Šulc, Davide Chicco

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

Chair: Eva Boj

SpeakersMiguel Ramos, Eva Boj, Ignacio Cascos, Fabio Scielzo-Ortiz

Advances in Second Generation Functional Data Analysis for High Dimensional Structures

Chair: Elvira Romano

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

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, Vladimir Batagelj

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, Danilo Bruschi

Keynote Talk — Muhammed Nadif

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

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

Chair: Aurea Grané

SpeakersMarcos Álvarez, Jordi Saperas, Alberto Suárez, Amparo Baíllo

Clustering of Complex Data Structures

Chair: Marta Nai Ruscone

SpeakersSalvatore Ingrassia, Cristina Tortora, Jesse Ghashti, Shuchismita Sarkar

Advances in Learning from Complex Contaminated Data

Chair: Andrea Cappozzo

SpeakersArthur White, Houyem Demni, Fabio Centofanti, Christian Hennig

CLAD Organized Session: Clustering and Classification in Practice

Chair: Carlos Ferreira

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

Classification in Economics

Chair: Mariangela Zenga

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

Advances in Bayesian Inference I – Modeling Latent Structures in Complex Data

Chair: Riccardo Corradin and Francesco Denti

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

Advances in Functional and Multivariate Data Modeling

Chair: Luigi Augugliaro

SpeakersSalvatore Latora, Frédéric Ferraty, Valeria Vitelli, Gerda Claeskens

Object Oriented Spatial Statistics

Chair: Piercesare Secchi

SpeakersLuigi Ippoliti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Karthik Bharath, Teresa Bortolotti

IMS Organized Session: New Aspects of Data Science and Discovery

Chair: Regina Liu

SpeakersHolger Rootzen, Minge Xie, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, George Michailidis

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

Chair: Christophe Biernacki

SpeakersReda Khoufache, Tom Devynck, Violaine Courrier, Vincent Vandewalle

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 — Brendan Murphy

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

Clustering Longitudinal Categorical Data

Chair: Raffaella Piccarreta

SpeakersBeatrice Franzolini, Giovanni Romano’, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter

Models and Computational Aspects for High-Dimensional and Complex Data

Chair: Anuradha Roy

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

Advances in Hidden Markov Models

Chair: Antonio Punzo

SpeakersLuca Brusa, Luca Merlo, Luca Scaffidi Domianello, Mackenzie Neal

VOC Invited Session: Recent Developments in Tree-based Methods

Chair: Mark de Rooij

SpeakersMarjolein Fokkema, Susanne Dandl, Diego Iglesias, Elise Dusseldorp

Advances in Clustering

Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar

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

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

Advances in Robust Statistics: New Methods for New Challenges

Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar

SpeakersFrancesca Torti, Can Hakan Dağıdır, Giovanni Saraceno, Stefan Van Aelst

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, Bruno Damásio, Marco Ortu

Methodological and Computational Developments in Latent Variable Models

Chair: Luca Brusa

SpeakersLuca Maestrini, Silvia Pandolfi, Daniele Tancini

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

Chair: Jean Diatta

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

Awards

Keynote Talk — Award Winner

Coffee Break

Contributed Sessions

Applications in Economics and Social Science

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

Advances in Unsupervised Learning

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

Classification and Pattern Recognition

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

Model-based Clustering II

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

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

Advances in Finite Mixture Models

Chair: Roberto Rocci

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

Network Clustering and Blockmodeling II

Chair: Riccardo Rastelli

SpeakersAnuška Ferligoj, Francesco Bartolucci, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Vladimir Batagelj

IASE Organized Session: Data Science Teaching and Learning

Chair: Daniel Frischemeier

SpeakersRolf Biehler, Sarah Schönbrodt, Aisling Leavy, Joachim Engel

Symbolic Data Analysis: Connecting Concepts and Complex Data

Chair: Sónia Dias

SpeakersAnuradha Roy, Taylor Jiménez, Rui Nunes, Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho

Clustering and Classification

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

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis I

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

Presidential Invited Talk — Sugnet Lubbe

Coffee Break

Invited 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

Advances in Symbolic Data Analysis

Chair: Paula Brito (CLAD)

SpeakersEufrásio Lima Neto, Oldemar Rodriguez, Lynne Billard, Sonia Dias

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 Marcos

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

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

Chair: Marjolein Fokkema

SpeakersGiorgio Spaddacini, Mark van de Wiel, Roman Hornung, Gabriel Bucur

Lunch

Presidential Address — Krzysztof Jajuga

Parallel Sessions

Graphical Models and Statistical Learning for Network Data

Chair: Gianluca Sottile

SpeakersAlberto Roverato, Maarten Marsman, Antonino Abbruzzo, Roberto Rondinelli

SAFE Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Paolo Giudici

SpeakersGennaro Auricchio, Gloria Polinesi, Alessandro Piergallini, Sofia Vei

Advances in Bayesian Inference II – Structured Probabilistic Model

Chair: Riccardo Corradin and Francesco Denti

SpeakersBeniamino Hadj-Amar, Federico Castelletti, Louise Alamichel, Yordan Raykov

y-SIS Organized Session: Model-Based Clustering

Chair: Martina Amongero, Giulia Capitoli, Alice Giampino, Matteo Gianella, Rocco Mazza on behalf of y-SIS

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

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

Contributed Sessions

Functional and Longitudinal Data Modeling

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

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis II

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

Visualization and Dimension Reduction

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

Robust and Fuzzy Statistical Methods

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

Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Health Data

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

Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Closing