Call for Papers

 

Graph Models for Learning and Recognition (GMLR) Track

The 38th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023)

               March 27 – April 2, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia

                              http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/GMLR2023

 

Important Dates

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Submission of regular papers:                                  October 1, 2022 October 15, 2022

Notification of acceptance/rejection:                    November 19, 2022

Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:           December 6, 2022

SAC Conference:                                                          March 27 – April 2, 2023

 

 

Motivations and topics

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The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2023) has been a primary gathering

forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers,

and application developers from around the world. SAC 2023 is sponsored by the

ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will be held in

Tallinn, Estonia. The technical track on Graph Models for Learning and

Recognition (GMLR) is the second edition and is organized within SAC 2023.

Graphs have gained a lot of attention in the pattern recognition community

thanks to their ability to encode both topological and semantic information.

Despite their invaluable descriptive power, their arbitrarily complex

structured nature poses serious challenges when they are involved in learning

systems. Some (but not all) of challenging concerns are: a non-unique

representation of data, heterogeneous attributes (symbolic, numeric, etc.),

and so on.

In recent years, due to their widespread applications, graph-based learning

algorithms have gained much research interest. Encouraged by the success of

CNNs, a wide variety of methods have redefined the notion of convolution and

related operations on graphs. These new approaches have in general enabled

effective training and achieved in many cases better performances than

competitors, though at the detriment of computational costs.

Typical examples of applications dealing  with graph-based representation are:

scene graph generation, point clouds classification, and action recognition in

computer vision; text classification, inter-relations of documents or words to

infer document labels in natural language processing; forecasting traffic

speed, volume or the density of roads in traffic networks, whereas in

chemistry researchers apply graph-based algorithms to study the graph

structure of molecules/compounds.

 

This track intends to focus on all aspects of graph-based representations and

models for learning and recognition tasks. GMLR spans, but is not limited to,

the following topics:

 

● Graph Neural Networks: theory and applications

● Deep learning on graphs

● Graph or knowledge representational learning

● Graphs in pattern recognition

● Graph databases and linked data in AI

● Benchmarks for GNN

● Dynamic, spatial and temporal graphs

● Graph methods in computer vision

● Human behavior and scene understanding

● Social networks analysis

● Data fusion methods in GNN

● Efficient and parallel computation for graph learning algorithms

● Reasoning over knowledge-graphs

● Interactivity, explainability and trust in graph-based learning

● Probabilistic graphical models

● Biomedical data analytics on graphs

 

Authors of selected top papers of this track will be asked to publish an

extended version in a Special Issue of a high-impact Journal (the journal

will be announced later).

 

 

Track Chairs

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Donatello Conte (University of Tours)

Alessandro D'Amelio (University of Milan)

Giuliano Grossi (University of Milan)

Raffaella Lanzarotti (University of Milan)

Jianyi Lin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

 

 

Scientific Program Committee

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Annalisa Barla (University of Genoa)

Davide Boscaini (Bruno Kessler Foundation)

Vittorio Cuculo (University of Milan)

Samuel Feng (Sorbonne University)

Gabriele Gianini (University of Milan)

Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa)

Carlos Oliver (ETH Zürich)

Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales)

Ryan A. Rossi (Adobe Research)

Jean-Yves Ramel (University of Tours)

(others to be confirmed)

 

 

 

Submission Guidelines

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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research

and applications for this track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must

not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the

third person. This is to facilitate double-blind review. Please, visit the

website for more information about submission.

 

SAC No-Show Policy

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Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster

in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST

present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included

in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will

result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.