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<p> <font face="Arial">Many methods have been developed in machine
learning (ML) for information visualisation (infovis). For
example, PCA, MDS, t-SNE and improvements are standard tools to
reduce the dimensionality of high dimensional datasets for
visualisation purposes. However, multiple other means are
regularly used in the field of infovis when tackling datasets
with high dimensionality. Letting the user manipulate the
visualisation is one of these means, either through selection,
navigation or filtering. Introducing manipulation of the
visualisation also integrates the user as a core aspect of a
given system. In the context of machine learning, beyond the
informational and exploratory use of infovis, users' feedback
can for example be highly informational to drive the
dimensionality reduction process.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">This special session of the ESANN conference
is a followup of the special session on "Information
Visualisation and Machine Learning: Techniques, Validation and
Integration" at ESANN 2016. It aims to gather researchers that
integrate users in the core of ML methods for infovis. New
algorithms and frameworks are welcome, as well as experimental
use cases that bring new insight in the integration of
interaction and user integration in ML for infovis. This
special session aims to provide practitioners from both
communities a common forum of discussion where issues at the
crossroads of machine learning and information visualisation
could be discussed.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial"> supervised and semi-supervised machine
learning and infovis</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> unsupervised ML (clustering, dimension
reduction)</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> user feedback on metaparameters</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> new visual paradigms for machine
learning</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> interaction techniques for infovis
with/of machine learning</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> user and device adaptivity for visual
analytics</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> warm restart and dedicated optimization
techniques</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> scalability</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"> applications in industry, agriculture,
medicine, biology, etc.</font></li>
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SUBMISSION:</span></p>
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Each paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its
acceptance. Authors should send as soon as possible an e-mail
with the tentative title of their contribution to the special
session organisers.</span></p>
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