Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age

Paula Brito is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto, and a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Research Group (LIAAD) of INESC TEC, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University Paris Dauphine, and a Habilitation in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto. Her research focuses on the analysis of multidimensional complex data, known as symbolic data, for which she develops statistical approaches and multivariate analysis methodologies. Jose G. Dias is an Associate Professor with habilitation at the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte), Portugal. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Groningen. At the Iscte, he is currently Deputy Director of the Department of Quantitative Methods and the coordinator of the research group in Data Analytics. He was President of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (CLAD). He has been an active researcher in the field of clustering. Berthold Lausen is a Full Professor of Data Science at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, former president of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) from 2018 to 2019, former president of the Data Science Society (GfKl) from 2013 to 2019 and founding vice president of the European Association for Data Science (EuADS) from 2015 to 2018. His research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence, biostatistics, classification, clinical research, data science and machine learning. Angela Montanari is a Full Professor of Statistics and past Head of the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna, Italy, the president of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) from 2020 to 2021, and former president of the Classification Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG) from 2007 to 2009. Her research interests are in the field of supervised and unsupervised classification, dimension reduction, data science and machine learning. Rebecca Nugent is the Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science and Head of the Statistics & Data Science Department, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She won the ASA Waller Award for Innovation in Statistics Education and serves as co-editor of the book series Springer Texts in Statistics. She focuses on clustering and classification methodology with emphasis on large high-dimensional record linkage applications.

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Piasecki: Similarity Forest for Time Series Classification.- K. Hayashi, E. Hoshino, M. Suzuki, E. Nakanishi, K. Sakai, and M. Obatake: Detection of the Biliary Atresia Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Statistical Learning Weights via Optimal Similarity and Resampling Methods.- Ch. Hennig: Some Issues in Robust Clustering.- J. Kalina and P. Janá£ek: Robustness Aspects of Optimized Centroids.- L. Labiod and M. Nadif: Data Clustering and Representation Learning Based on Networked Data.- Lazhar Labiod and Mohamed Nadif: Towards a Bi-stochastic Matrix Approximation of k-means and Some Variants.- A. LaLonde, T. Love, D. R. Young, and T. Wu: Clustering Adolescent Female Physical Activity Levels with an Infinite Mixture Model on Random Effects.- Á. López-Oriona, J. A. Vilar, and P. D'Urso: Unsupervised Classification of Categorical Time Series Through Innovative Distances.- D. Masís, E. Segura, J. Trejos, and A. Xavier: Fuzzy Clustering by Hyperbolic Smoothing.- R. Meng, H. 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