SDA 2021: Symbolic Data Analysis Workshop 2021 Caserta Caserta, Italy, June 11-12, 2020

Conference website	http://www.matfis.unicampania.it/home-SDA2020
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2020
Abstract registration deadline	April 15, 2020
Submission deadline	April 15, 2020
Notification to authors	May 15, 2020
Official website	http://www.matfis.unicampania.it/home-SDA2020

Symbolic Data Analysis

(from Diday, E. 2018: “New Advances on the Symbolic Data Analysis Framework: Basic Theory, Explanatory Criteria, Improving Machine Learning, New Directions of Research”, SDA 2018 Workshop)

“In Data Science the aim is to extract new knowledge from Standard, Big, and complex data. Often these data are unstructured with variables defined on different kinds of units. They can also be multi-sources (as mixtures of numerical and textual data, with images and networks). In order to study the most relevant units, to reduce the size, the complexity and to increase the efficiency of the models associated with such data, a key solution is to use aggregate classes of row statistical units, which are considered as new statistical units. … The aim of SDA is first to build a symbolic data table from classes and then to extend all the methodology of Data science to such data. ”

Aims and scopes

The 8th Workshop on Symbolic Data Analysis, SDA 2020, will take place in Caserta, Italy, from June 11th to June 12th, 2020, locally organized by the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”.The SDA 2020 Workshop continues to follow the spirit of the previous editions held in Vienna, Namur, Madrid, Taipei, Orleans, Ljubljana, and Viana do Castelo, respectively, and aims at being a place where the symbolic community can share research results and experiences, encouraging cooperation between participants.

This edition aims at doing a step forward in sharing experience with other scientific communities facing the problem of the statistical treatment of complex or unconventional data. In this perspective, the symbolic community is happy to meet the “Object-oriented data Analysis” (OODA) community, a relatively new field of statistical research where the unconventionality of the data, represented, for example, by functional data, curves, landmark‐based shapes or complex objects, and its treatment is related to the impossibility of considering such object into a Euclidean space (with all the effects on its statistical methodological problems).

The workshop will include oral presentations showing recent developments, from a theoretical or methodological point of view, practical applications, and new software tools.

Main Topics

The main topics of the oral presentations should cover at least one of those in the following list

• Aggregation tools to obtain symbolic data from standard or OO data.
• Exploratory data analysis tools for symbolic and OO data
• Inference methods for symbolic and OO data
• Spatial, temporal and Spatio-temporal methods extended to symbolic and OO data
• Applications of symbolic and OO data analysis
• Open problems involving Data Science and the use of SDA or OODA tools
• SDA and OODA: points in common and differences for knowledge extraction
• New software tools for SDA and OODA

Committees

Program Committee

 

Name	Surname	Institution	Country
Antonio	Irpino (Chair)	University of Campania L.Vanvitelli	ITALY
Javier	Arroyo	University Complutense	SPAIN
Vladimir	Batagelij	University of Ljubljana	SLOVENIA
Lynne	Billard	University of Georgia	USA
Paula	Brito	Universidade do Porto	PORTUGAL
Chun-Houh	Chen	Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica	TAIWAN
Francisco	De Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	BRAZIL
Edwin	Diday	Université de Paris IX-Dauphine	FRANCE
Richard	Emilion	University of Orléans	FRANCE
D. S.	Guru	University of Mysore	INDIA
Carlo	Lauro	Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II	ITALY
J. Steve	Marron	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	USA
Masahiro	Mizuta	Hokkaido University	JAPAN
Monique	Noirhomme-Fraiture	Université de Namur	BELGIUM
Oldemar	Rodriguez	University of Costa Rica	COSTA RICA
Anuradha	Roy	The University of Texas at San Antonio	USA
Scott	Sisson	University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
Rosanna	Verde	University of Campania L.Vanvitelli	ITALY
Huiwen	Wang	Beihang University	CHINA

 

Local organizing committee

• Antonio Irpino
• Antonio Balzanella
• Elvira Romano
• Fabrizio Maturo
• Mauro Iacono

Submission Guidelines

Authors are welcome to submit contributions on the topic of Symbolic Data Analysis and OODA, in the form of an Extended Abstract (in English, not exceeding two pages, including references).

The abstracts received will be reviewed by the scientific committee.

• Extended abstract submission DEADLINE is 15th March 2020  15th April 2020
• Notification to the authors will be sent by e-mail by  15th April 2020  5th May 2020.

Accepted abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts if the registration fee for the presenting author is paid before 30^th April 2020.

The workshop's official language is English.

Each selected abstract will be accepted for an oral presentation with a duration of around 20 min (including 5 minutes of discussion).

All submitted Extended Abstracts must meet the following requirements:

• Max. 2 pages, including references
• Written in English
• Use the following template in LaTex: TemplateSDA2020.tex - TemplateSDA2020.pdf

Submitted both in Latex and pdf format. The name of the files should include the first and last name of the first author and the title of the abstract, as in FirstName_LastName_Title.tex and FirstName_LastName_Title.pdf

Figures, if included, should be sent together with the tex and pdf files. The names of the figure files (in pdf, jpg, or png) should be the ones referenced in the Latex file. These names should include the first and last name of the first author, as in FirstName_LastName_Figure1.pdf

 

Registration and fees

• The fee includes coffee-breaks, 2 lunches and 2 dinners and conference material 
  • Regular registration up to 15th May 2020                                            150 €
  • Late registration  16th May 2020 – workshop                                         190 €
  • Accompanying person                                                                          50 € (It includes two dinners only)
•  How to pay: click here (There is the possibility of reserving hotel rooms too)
• Deadlines: early registration 15th May 2020

Venue 

The conference will be held in Caserta at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli"

Click here to find the Workshop place

Where to stay

We suggest to reserve a hotel close to the conference here:

Where to stay (an example of searching on Booking.com)

Click here for reserving a room at a special price (According to the remaining available rooms).

How to reach Caserta

The workshop place is 5 min. walking far from the Caserta Train Station

• By air: the closest Airport is the Naples International Airport, Italy (NAP)
• By bus: from Capodichino Bus shuttle time-tables 
• By train: trains from Naples (Piazza Garibaldi) to Caserta (please consider that Piazza Garibaldi Station is not close to Capodichino Airport, but a shuttle service is available from the airport) are very frequent and take about 40 minutes. An example, clicking here.

What to see

 

Contacts

All questions about submissions should be emailed to <antonio.irpino> at <unicampania>dot<it> .