MOD 2016 - The Second International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data

• March 15 2016: Tutorial Speakers!

  • “Model Selection and Error Estimation Without the Agonizing Pain”,  Luca Oneto and Davide Anguita,  DIBRIS – Polytechnic School – University of Genova, Italy

  • “Information Geometry: Applications in Machine Learning and Stochastic Optimization”, Luigi Malagò, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

• February 28, 2016: Submission deadline extended to March 31, 2016 !
• February 24, 2016, new MOD 2016 Plenary Speakers:
  • George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA
  • Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
• February 11, 2016, MOD 2016 Industrial Session:
  • Amr Awadallah, Founder and CTO at Cloudera, San Francisco, USA
  • Giovanni Giuffrida, CEO and co-founder at Neodata Group, Italy
  • Andy Petrella, Data Scientist and co-founder at Data Fellas, Liège, Belgium 
  • Daniele Quercia, Head of Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK
  • Fabrizio Silvestri, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo London, UK
  • More speakers will be announced soon!
• January 6, 2016, MOD 2016 Plenary Speaker: Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK
• December 1, 2015, MOD 2016 Plenary Speaker: Stephen H. Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK.
• November 24, 2015, MOD 2016 Journal Special Issue on Computational Optimization and Applications Journal - Springer:
  • the top 8-10 accepted articles will have the opportunity to publish a revised and expanded version of their conference paper in the Computational Optimization and Applications Journal - Springer.
• November 3, 2015, MOD 2016 Call for Papers Deadline March 31, 2016.
• September 23, 2015, Post-Proceedings by Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Springer.
• January 23, 2015, MOD 2015 Keynote Speakers:
  • Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
  • Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA

The International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2016) will be held in SIAF - Volterra - Tuscany, Italy, from August 26 to 29, 2016.

The workshop will consist four days of main conference sessions. We invite submissions of papers, abstracts and demos on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Big Data including real-world applications for the workshop proceedings.

MOD 2016 is organized as a non-profit event.