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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The purpose of AIMLAI-XKDD (Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence & eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining), is to encourage principled research that will lead to the advancement of explainable, transparent, ethical and fair data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. AIMLAI-XKDD is an event organized into two moments: a tutorial to introduce audience to the topic, and a workshop to discuss recent advances in the research field.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The tutorial will provide a broad overview of the state of the art and the major applications for explainable and transparent approaches. Likewise it will highlight the main open challenges.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
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