DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Information Fusion (WAIF)

November 8 - 9, 2012
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University, hsu at cis.fordham.edu

Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL - University of Artois, France, konieczny at cril.fr

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University and DIMACS, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Alexis Tsoukias, University of Paris and LAMSADE(CNRS), tsoukias at lamsade.dauphine.fr

Workshop Program:

Thursday, November 8, 2012

 7:45 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 8:30 -  8:40  Welcome and logistics
               Fred Roberts, Rutgers University and DIMACS and 
               Alexis Tsoukis, University of Paris and LAMSADE(CNRS)

Session 1: Session chair: Fred Roberts

 8:40 -  9:20  Ranking sets of objects using the Shapley value and other regular semivalues
               Stefano Moretti and Alexis Tsoukias, LAMSADE-CNRS, Universite Paris Dauphine, France

 9:20 - 10:00  Combinatorial fusion on multiple scoring systems
               D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University, New York, USA

10:00 - 10:40  Propositional merging in the light of social choice theory properties
               Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL-CNRS, Universite d'Artois, France

10:40 - 10:50  Coffee Break
 
Session 2:  Session chair: Sebastien Konieczny
  
10:50 - 11:30  Incomplete knowledge and communication issues in voting
               Jerome Lang, LAMSADE-CNRS, Universite Paris Dauphine, France

11:30 - 12:10  Robust recommendations and their explanation in multi-criteria decision aiding with interacting criteria
               Christophe Labreuche, Thales Research & Technology, France

12:10 - 12:50  On Argument Aggregation
               Pierre Marquis, CRIL-CNRS, Universite d'Artois, France
   
12:50 -  2:00  Lunch

Session 3: Session chair: D. Frank Hsu
   
 2:00 -  2:40  Evolving, Training and Designing Neural Network Ensembles
               Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, Great Britain

 2:40 -  3:20  Judgment Aggregation Rules Based on Minimization
               Gabriella Pigozzi, Universite Paris-Dauphine, LAMSADE

 3:20 -  4:00  Long-Range Disease Risk Prediction -- Algorithmic Information Fusion in a Life and Death Environment
               Bruce Kristal, Harvard University, Boston, USA

 4:00 -  4:10  Coffee break

Session 4: Session chair: Alexis Tsoukis
  
 4:10 -  4:50  Fusing database rankings in similarity-based virtual screening
               Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, Great Britain 

 4:50 -  5:30  Information Fusion on Human Disease Network in Taiwan
               Kuanchi Chen, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

 5:30 -  6:10  Performing Information Fusion Analysis in Information Retrieval and Text Mining
               Yanjun Li, Fordham University, New York, USA

 6:10          Dinner at DIMACS

Friday, November 9, 2012

 7:45 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration 

Session 5: Session chair: D. Frank Hsu

 8:40 -  9:20  Scoring Rules for Fisheries Rules Violations
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS and Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

 9:20 - 10:00  Sensor Synergy
               Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA 

10:00 - 10:40  Visual Odometry and Localization on Low-cost WiFi Mapping Robot
               Piotr Mirowski, Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA

10:40 - 10:50  Coffee Break

Session 6:  Session chair: Sebastien Konieczny
  
10:50 - 11:30  On Comparative Knowledge Discovery in with Partial Order and Composite Indicator in Multi-Indicator Information Fusion Systems
               Ganapati Patil, Penn State University, USA

11:30 - 12:10  Portfolio Management with Combinatorial Fusion
               Christina Schweikert, St. John's University

12:10 -  2:00  Lunch

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