The Discovery Science 2016 conference will start on October 19th (Wednesday), in the morning and it will end with on October 21st (Friday) in the afternoon.

Short program

 

Tuesday, 18. October
18:00 – 20:00	Registration Desk
19:00 – 21:00	Welcome Reception at Nicolaus Sheraton Hotel (Roof)

 

Wednesday, 19. October
8:00 – 18:00	Registration Desk
8:50 – 9:00	Conference opening: Donato Malerba, Ronald Ortner, Hans Ulrich Simon, Toon Calders, Michelangelo Ceci
9:00 – 10:30	Tutorial (ALT) Gábor Lugosi
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40	SESSION 1: Pattern mining and rules – 1h40
12:40 – 14:00	Lunch (Hotel Nicolaus Sheraton)
14:00 – 15:00	Invited Talk (ALT/DS) John Shawe-Taylor – Margin Based Structured Output Learning
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45	SESSION 2: Structured output prediction – 1h15’
17:00 – 18:00	Business Meeting
18:00 – 19:00	Steering Committee Meeting
19:00 – 21:00	Poster Session with Cocktail Party

 

Thursday, 20. October
8:00 – 18:00	Registration Desk
9:00 – 10:00	Invited Talk (ALT) Avrim Blum
10:00 – 10:30	E. M. Gold Award Talk
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	SESSION 3: Applications – 1h30
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch (Hotel Nicolaus Sheraton)
14:00 – 15:30	Tutorial (DS) Gianluca Bontempi – Perspectives of feature selection in bioinformatics: from relevance to causal inference
15:30 – 16:10	SESSION 4: Ensemble Learning – 0h40
16:20 –	Departure to Trani (Cathedral, Castle and walk)
20:00 – 22:00	Conference Dinner (Trani)

 

Friday, 21. October
8:30 – 12:30	Registration Desk
9:00 – 10:00	Invited Talk (DS) Kristian Kersting – Collective attention on the web
10:00 – 10:30	Carl H. Smith Award Talk
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	SESSION 5: Classification – 1h40
12:40 – 14:00	Lunch (Hotel Nicolaus Sheraton)
14:00 – 15:15	SESSION 6: Networks – 1h15’
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00	SESSION 7: Kernels and deep learning – 1h15’
17:00	Closing

Full program

The detailed program will be available soon.