DeepLearn 2023 Winter: early registration September 26
September 7th, 2022
Daniela Lopez de Luise Deadline Extended: Sept. 10: 2nd IEEE ICDM International Workshop on AI for Nudging and Personalization (WAIN-2022)
September 7th, 2022
Daniela Lopez de Luise Call for Papers: 2nd IEEE ICDM International Workshop on AI for Nudging (WAIN-2022)
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Nudging has been widely used by decision makers and organizations (both government and private) to influence the behavior of target populations, and the concept of nudging is now being widely used in the digital world. Examples of digital nudging include emails from hospitals or public health officials encouraging individuals to get vaccinated, text messages from colleges to stressed-out students to advertise the availability of counseling services during exam weeks, marketing messages through various digital media, and user interfaces designed to guide people’s behavior in digital choice environments.
The central idea behind nudging is to make small changes to the environments in which citizens make decisions to encourage better behaviors. Even though nudges have traditionally involved simple changes that are easy and inexpensive to implement, more complex and sustained behavior change requires more complex interventions, presenting new challenges for nudging in the virtual world. Though the concept of nudging has been popularized recently, nudges have been in use in various aspects of society for a long time, including in healthcare, public health policy, law, economics, politics, insurance, finance, and advertising. With increasing availability of big data from many scientific disciplines, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science (DS) technologies have vast potential to transform data-driven nudging and decision making. This workshop seeks to build a new community around AI for nudging and provide a platform for exploring the state of the art in AI/ML/DS based systems and applications of digital nudging.
Adaptation of products and services to individual preferences, called Personalization, has been at the core of modern businesses to improve customer satisfaction. Modern business and digital systems coupled with artificial intelligence technologies are poised to enable personalization on a grand scale. Personalization is a key element behind many modern businesses such as Netflix, Facebook, and Amazon to increase their revenue and customer base. Modern businesses are tailoring content for individual users based on the social, economic, and cultural profiles mined from the data, as it is shown to increase revenue and attract new customers. Modern applications ranging from precision marketing to precision healthcare have shown a clear demand for personalized content.
We invite contributions from researchers of any discipline who are developing AI/ML/DS technologies that impact human behavior based on nudging theory or personalization or behavioral science-based solutions. For example, in the context of public health communications, how can AI/ML be used to address the construction of a message incorporating nudges; how do you digitally nudge people towards better healthcare outcomes, better financial decisions, or improve productivity; or how can nudging be personalized? What are the key data, technology, privacy and ethical, adaptation, and scaling challenges in nudging and personalization? In addition to algorithmic and systems papers, case studies that shed light on the effectiveness of nudges and personalization at maximizing a specific outcome, how AI/ML based systems can nudge people to make better decisions, or how industry is developing and/or using nudging and personalization technology to influence behavior of consumers are of great interest to this workshop.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical foundations of nudging and personalization
- Data driven and evidence based approaches in nudging and personalization
- Core AI/ML topics including multi-agents, federated learning, active learning, semi-supervised learning, multi-armed bandits, contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, deep learning, transfer learning
- Multi-modal data and model fusion
- Representation learning, and embeddings
- Learning from categorical and relational data
- Feature engineering
- Statistical models, A/B testing
- Privacy and Ethical issues in nudging and personalization
- Personalized nudging
- Challenges for AI in real-time nudging
- AI-driven interactions encoding behavior change solutions
- Nudging and personalization in conversational AI systems
- Evaluation strategies to measure impact and effectiveness of nudging and personalization
- Applications: Healthcare, Precision Medicine, Energy, Environment, Transportation, Workforce, Education, Advertising, Government, Politics, Policy, Software Engineering
Important Dates:
Sept. 10, 2022: Paper submission
Sep. 23, 2022: Acceptance notification
Oct. 01, 2022: Camera-ready deadline and copyright form
Nov. 28, 2022: Workshop
Paper Submissions:
This is an open call-for-papers. We invite both full papers (max 8 pages) describing mature work and short papers (max 4-5 pages) describing work-in-progress or case studies. Only original and high-quality papers formatted using the IEEE 2-column format (Latex Template), including the bibliography and any possible appendices will be considered for reviewing.
Proceedings:
All submitted papers will be evaluated by 2-3 program committee members, and accepted papers will be included in an ICDM Workshop Proceedings volume, to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Best Research/Application/Student Paper Awards:
Best research, application, and student paper awards are sponsored by Lirio. The awards committee will select papers for these awards based on relevance, program committee reviews, and presentation quality.
Contact:
- Visit the official workshop website for additional details at: https://lirio-brell.github.io/wain22/
- If you have questions, please contact us by e-mail to: lirio.brell@gmail.com
CFP Workshop on learning with few or without annotated Face, Body and Gesture data @ FG 2023
September 7th, 2022
Daniela Lopez de Luise The deadline for submission is in one week: September 12th, 2022
Please find more information here: https://sites.google.com/view/lfa-fg2023/, as well as the CFP below.
Mohamed, Stefano, Jonathan, Germain and Maxime
First CfP 2nd Edition of Graph Models for Learning and Recognition (GMLR) Track at 37th ACM-SAC 2022 in Brno, Czech Republic
September 7th, 2022
Daniela Lopez de Luise
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
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.
IPCAI 2023 call for area chairs (closing soon!)
September 7th, 2022
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