CCIA 2022
We invite you to participate in the 24th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2022) that will take place on 19-21st October 2022 in Sitges. The main goal of this international conference is to foster discussion around the last advances in Artificial Intelligence.
We encourage you to contribute with finished works as well as preliminary works with promising original and innovative ideas.
Important dates
Schedule
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Registration |
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Opening |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Short papers: oral presentation |
| 16.30 – 16.35 | Karina Gilbert Oliveras: DonesIAcat |
| 16.35 – 17.20 | Coffee & lightning session |
| 17.20 – 17.35 | Maryam Tahmooresi, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig: Analyzing the reliability of different machine radiomics features considering various segmentation approaches in lung cancer CT images |
| 17.35 – 17.50 | Loay Hassan, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Adel Saleh and Domenec Puig: Breast Tumor Classification in Digital Tomosynthesis based on Deep Learning Radiomics |
| 17.50 – 18.05 | Georgios Athanasiou, Jesus Cerquides, Annelies Raes, Nima Azari Dolatabad, Daniel Angel Velez, Ann Van Soom and Josep-Lluis Arcos: Detecting the Area of Bovine Cumulus Oocyte Complexes using Deep Learning and Semantic Segmentation |
| 18.05 – 18.20 | Mohamed A.Hassanien, Vivek Kumar Singh, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig: Transformer-Based Radiomics for Predicting Breast Tumor Malignancy Score in Ultrasonography |
| 18.20 – 19.20 | ACIA Assembly |
| 20.00 – 23.00 | Social event: Monologue “Màquines Sexuals” by Jordina Biosca + welcome cocktail |
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Fosca Giannotti: Explainable Machine Learning for Trustworthy AI (Keynote) |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Anna Arias-Duart, Ferran Parés, Víctor Giménez-Ábalos and Dario Garcia-Gasulla: Focus and Bias: Will it Blend? |
| 10.45 – 11.00 | Adrià Colome and Carme Torras: Mutual Information Weighing for Probabilistic Movement Primitives |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Eric Roselló, Maite López, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Manel Rodriguez-Soto and Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar: An ethical conversational agent to respectfully conduct in-game surveys |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Marc Domènech i Vila, Dmitry Gnatyshak, Adrián Tormos and Sergio Alvarez-Napagao: Testing Reinforcement Learning Explainability Methods in a Multi-agent Cooperative Environment |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Joaquin Dario Silveira, Maria Salamo and Ludovico Boratto: Enabling Reproducibility in Group Recommender Systems |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Paula Gomez and Jordi Vitria: Contextual TV show recommendation |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Short Break |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Ignacio Huitzil, Marco Schorlemmer, Nardine Osman, Pere Garcia, Josep Coll and Xavier Coll: Towards Automated Compliance Checking of Building Regulations: smartNorms4BIM |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Mahmoud Alimoradi, Mahdieh Zabihimayvan, Arman Daliri, Ryan Sledzik and Reza Sadeghi: Deep Neural Classification of Darknet Traffic |
| 12.45 – 13.00 | Jordi Pascual Fontanilles, Lenka Lhotska, Antonio Moreno and Aida Valls: Adapting a Fuzzy Random Forest for ordinal multi-class classification |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Najlaa Al-Ziyadi, Mohammed Jabreel, Antonio Moreno and Aida Valls: Fuzzy-LORE: A method for extracting local and counterfactual explanations using fuzzy decision trees |
| 13.15 – 15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00 – 15.45 | TFG/TFM/Difusió/BeSocial/PhD Award Session |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Short papers: oral presentation |
| 16.30 – 17.15 | Coffee & lightning session |
| 17.45 – 19.00 | Social event: Visit at Palau Maricel |
| 20.00 – 23.00 | Gala dinner |
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9.15 – 9.30 | Carlos Ansótegui and Jordi Levy: Yet Another (Fake) Proof of P=NP |
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Pietro Fronte, Núria Agell, Marc Torrens and Daniel Brugarolas: Importance-Performance Analysis in Project Portfolio Management using an IOWA operator |
| 9.45 – 10.00 | Shuolin Li, Jordi Coll, Djamal Habet, Chu-Min Li and Felip Manyà: A Tableau Calculus for MaxSAT based on Resolution |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Teresa Alsinet, Josep Argelich, Ramon Bejar and Santi Martínez: Approximate and Optimal Solutions for the Bipartite Polarization Problem |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Best Paper and Best Short Paper Awards + AIRA Presentation |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Arnau Boix-Granell, Sergi Foix and Carme Torras: Garment manipulation dataset for robot learning by demonstration through a virtual reality framework. |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Carles Onielfa, Carles Casacuberta and Sergio Escalera: Influence in Social Networks through Visual Analysis of Image Memes |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Juan Manuel Lopez Correa, Caroline König and Alfredo Vellido: Long Short-Term Memory to predict 3D Amino acids Positions in GPCR Molecular Dynamics |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Ashutosh Karna and Karina Gibert: Bootstrap-CURE clustering: An Investigation of Impact of Shrinking on Clustering Performance |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Argimiro Arratia, Carlos Ortiz and Marcel Romaní: On flows of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations that are solutions of Lotka-Volterra dynamical systems |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Short Break |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Mohammed Ali, Mohammed Jabreel, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Aida Valls and Marc Baget: EDBNet: Efficient Dual-Decoder Boosted Network for Eye Retinal Exudates Segmentation |
| 12.45 – 13.00 | Mariona Carós Roca, Ariadna Just, Santi Seguí and Jordi Vitrià: Object Segmentation of Cluttered Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Fabio Murgese, Gerard Alcaina, Mehmet Oguz Mulayim, Jesus Cerquides and Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez: Automatic Outdoor Image Geolocation with Focal Modulation Networks |
| 13.15 – 13.30 | Closing |
| 13.30 – 15.30 | Lunch |
Short Presentations
| Wednesday 19 |
|---|
| Gaurav Kumar Yadav, Benigno Moreno Vidales, Sara Duenos, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Hatem A Rashwan, Domenec Puig and G. C. Nandi: Predicting Personalized Quality of Life of an Intellectually Disabled Person Utilizing Machine Learning |
| Vicent Costa and Pilar Dellunde: Towards an implementation of merging operators in many-valued logics |
| Esteve Almirall and Ulises Cortés: Deep Air – A Smart City AI Synthetic data Digital Twin solving the scalability data problem |
| Elena Álvarez-García, Daniel García-Costa and Francisco Grimaldo: Streamlining text pre-processing and metrics extraction |
| Eddardaa Ben Loussaief and Domenec Puig Valls: Towards Out of Distribution Generalization for Prostate MRI Segmentation to Unseen Data |
| Ammar Okran, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Hatem Rashwan and Domenec Puig: A Curated Dataset for Crack Image Analysis: Experimental Verification and Future Perspectives |
| Jonathan A. Orama, Antonio Moreno and Joan Borràs: Multi objective genetic algorithm for optimal route selection from a set of recommended touristic activities |
| Josep Pascual-Pañach, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè and Miquel Àngel Cugueró-Escofet: Optimizing Online Time-series Data Imputation through Case-Based Reasoning |
| Isabel Maria Aguiló, Sebastià Massanet and Juan Vicente Riera: On conjunctive and disjunctive rational bivariate aggregation functions of low degrees |
| Teresa Alsinet, Josep Argelich and Ramón Béjar: Combining support and attack interactions for argumentation based discussion analysis |
| Cecilio Angulo and Cristóbal Raya: Using Synthetic Data in Secure Data Spaces for Federated Learning |
| Argimiro Arratia and Martí Renedo-Mirambell: The Assessment of Clustering on Weighted Networks with R package clustAnalytics |
| Thursday 20 |
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| Maider Abad Vázquez, Jordi Casas-Roma and Ferran Prados: Reducing the learning domain by using image processing to diagnose COVID-19 from X-ray images |
| Jose-Luis Lisani, Ana Belén Petro, Catalina Sbert, Ignacio A. Catalán, Amaya Álvarez and Miquel Palmer: On the importance of color pre-processing for object detection in submarine images |
| Juan Manuel García Sánchez, Xavier Vilasís Cardona and Alexandre Lerma Martín: Binary delivery time classification and vehicle’s reallocation based on car variants. SEAT: a case study |
| Arnault Gombert and Jesus Cerquides: Drake or hen?: Machine learning for gender identification on Twitter |
| Vicente Casales-Garcia, Zoe Falomir, Lledó Museros, Ismael Sanz, María D. Llido and Luis Gonzalez-Abril: Sentimental Analysis of Food porn Image for User Engagement in the Food Business and Gastronomic Tourism |
| Marta Camps, Maddi Etxegarai, Francesc Bonada, William Lacheny, Sylvain Pauleau and Xavier Domingo Albin: Feature Engineering and Machine Learning Predictive Quality models for Friction Stir Welding defect prediction in aerospace applications |
| Pol Torres, Albert Abio, Raquel Busqué, Albert Brígido, Sylvia Andrea, Manel Da Silva and Francesc Bonada: Efficiency and reliability enhancement of High Pressure Die Casting process through a Digital Twin |
| Jordi Sabater-Mir, Ignasi Camps and Cristian Cozar: An agent-based simulation framework for firefighters training. |
| Basmaa Ahmed, Osama A. Omer and Mohamed Abdel-Nasser: Referenceless Image Quality Assessment Utilizing Deep Transfer-Learned Features |
| Marta Otero, Luisa Fernanda Velasquez, Boris Basile, Jordi Ricard Onrubia, Alex Josep Pujol and Josep Pijuan: Data driven predictive models based on Artificial Intelligence to anticipate the presence of Plasmopara viticola and Uncinula necator in southern European winegrowing regions. |
| Martí Renedo-Mirambell and Argimiro Arratia: Towards and Efficient Algorithm for Computing the Reduced Mutual Information |
Topics
- AI Applications
- AI Problem Solving
- Agents and Multi-agent Systems / Hybrid systems
- Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Systems
- Artificial Vision and Image Processing / Perception
- Cognitive Modelling and Cognitive Systems
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from Databases
- Ethical, Legal, Social, Economic and Cultural aspects of AI (ELSEC-AI)
- Explainable and Interpretable AI
- Fusion / Aggregation of Information
- Human-Machine Communication
- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
- Logic, Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic
- Machine Learning and Case-based Reasoning
- Natural Language Processing
- Planning, Optimization, Satisfiability and Constraints
- Real Time AI
- Recommender Systems, Text Mining, and Semantic Web
- Robotics
- Virtual Agents
Papers Submission
We invite you to submit papers reflecting both finished works as well as works in progress, containing original and promising ideas.
We welcome the following types of submissions:
- Short papers (2-4 pages)
- Long papers (8-10 pages)
Long submitted papers will be peer-reviewed based on technical quality, relation to the topics of the conference, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Short papers will be evaluated for their significance considering them as ongoing work description. Note that all submissions must be original.
Short accepted papers will be presented in lightning and poster sessions.
Paper submissions must meet the following guidelines:
- Papers must be written in English language to be published in the proceedings.
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format following the IOSPress guidelines. Detailed instructions, templates and style sheets for manuscript preparation are available to download here:
https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/
- Papers should not include page numbers.
- All papers must have an Abstract and a list of keywords.
Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair platform at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccia2022Proceedings
Accepted long and short papers are published at the conference proceedings book titled Artificial Intelligence Research and Development in the collection “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” of IOS Press.
Informations about special issues of indexed journal for submitting extended versions of the best conference papers are reported below
Special Issues
Two special issues have been prepared by CCIA 2022 in JCR indexed international publications, open to everybody, but particularly to CCIA attendants.
Explainable and Interpretable AI
MDPI Electronics
Deadline April 20, 2023
Guest Editors: Atia Cortés, Francisco Grimaldo.
The Culture of Trustworthy AI. Public debate, Education and Practical Learning
Topical collection in Ethics and Information Technology, Springer
Deadline December 15, 2022
Guest Editors: Teresa Scantamburlo, Atia Cortés, Andrea Aler Tubella, Cristian Barrué, Francesca Foffano.
We also are pleased to highlight the following Special Issue that, although not directly linked to the CCIA conference, accept papers on Logic for Artificial Intelligence and that could be of interest for the CCIA participants.
Logics for the new AI Spring
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Deadline March 1st, 2023
Guest Editors: Tommaso Flaminio, Hykel Hosni.
Students Grants
After receiving the notification of acceptance, ACIA member students who will attend the conference can apply for grants funded by Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial.
Further information to be found at
Organization
- General Chair: Francisco Grimaldo (UV)
- Local Organization Chairs: Tommaso Flaminio (IIIA-CSIC)
- Scientific Programme Chair: Atia Cortés (BSC)
Acommodation
The CCIA2022 venue will be at the hotel Medium Sitges Park, in Sitges. Participants that choose this venue will be able to make a reservation, for a limited number of rooms in the period 17/23 October 2022, with a special discount of 15%. In order to use the special discount, please use the code “CCIA2022″ at the moment of booking your room.
An alternative suggestion is the hotel Medium Renaixença
Below, the links to their webpages:
- Hotel Medium sitges park ***
- Hotel Medium renaixença *
