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<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Dear
colleagues,</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:TeXGyreHeros">we
are organizing a special session at the upcoming WCCI 2020
conference. </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:TeXGyreHeros">The
details are in the following.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:TeXGyreHeros">------------------------------</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%">
<font color="#222222"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:14pt"><b><font face="TeXGyreHeros">Learning
Representations for Structured Data</font></b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.2in;line-height:100%">
<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:14pt">20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:14pt">20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:14pt">
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:14pt">20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:14pt">)<br>
</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#2a2a2a"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Glasgow
(UK)</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#2a2a2a"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">,
19 - 24th July, 2020 - <a href="https://wcci2020.org/">https://wcci2020.org/</a></font></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><u><b>DESCRIPTION:</b></u></font></font></font></p>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">The
special</font><font color="#000000"> session focuses on learning
representation for structured data such as sequences, trees, graphs,
and relational data. Topics that are of interest to this session
include, but are not limited to:</font></font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Deep
learning and representation learning for graphs</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Learning
with network data</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Graph
generation (probabilistic models, variational autoencoders,
adversarial training, …)</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Graph
reduction and pooling in Graph Neural Networks </font></font></font></font>
</p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Adaptive
processing of structured data (neural, probabilistic, kernel)</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Recurrent,
recursive and contextual models</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Tensor
methods for structured data</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Reservoir
computing and randomized neural networks for structures</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Relational
deep learning</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Learning
implicit representations</font></font></font></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><font color="#000000">Applications
of adapti</font><font color="#000000">ve</font><font color="#000000">
structured data processing: e.g. Natural Language Processing,
machine vision (e.g. point clouds as graphs), materials science,
chemoinformatics, computational biology, social networks.</font></font></font></font></p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0.1in">
<font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><u><b>Important
Dates</b></u></font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><a name="h.p_ES7EUEqYb1sy"></a>
<strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Paper
Submissions</span></font></font></font></span></strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">:
January 15, 2020</font></font></font></span></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><a name="h.p_6206oFk5c1im"></a>
<strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Paper
Acceptance Notifications</span></font></font></font></span></strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">:
March 30, 2020</font></font></font></span></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><a name="h.p_2Uh9Km9jPgO9"></a>
<strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Conference:</span></font></font></font></span></strong><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">
July 19-24, 2020</font></font></font></span></p></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><a name="h.p_G_8s9uq1b6i5"></a><a name="h.p_DW1f9bl8PpFa"></a><a name="h.p_EPTSFBI-P-Rw"></a><a name="h.p_hfx_lWu6cTzU"></a><a name="h.p_gS6slMZ9cZ43"></a><a name="h.p_yq1thSBHXjKl"></a>
<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><u><b>Paper
Submission<br>
</b></u></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Papers
submitted to this Special Session are reviewed according to the same
rules as the submissions to the regular sessions of WCCI 20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">20</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">.
Authors who submit papers to this session are invited to mention it
in the form during the submission. Submissions to regular and special
sessions follow identical format, instructions, deadlines and
procedures of the other papers.<br>
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</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><u><b>Organizers<br>
</b></u></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Davide
Bacciu, University of Pisa<br>
</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Nicolò
Navarin, University of Padova<br>
Filippo Maria Bianchi, Norwegian
Research Cent</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">re<br>
</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Thomas
Gärtner, TU Wien<br>
Alessandro Sperduti, University of
Padova</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:7pt"><br><br>
</font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><u><b>Contacts
and information<br>
</b></u></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">Web
page: </font></font></font></span><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/lr4sd20/home">https://sites.google.com/view/lr4sd20/home</a><br>
</font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">emails:
</font></font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">bacciu</font></font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">@</font></font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><a href="http://di.unipi.it">di.unipi.it</a>
- nnavarin</font></font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt">@</font></font></font><font color="#212121"><font face="TeXGyreHeros"><font style="font-size:9pt"><a href="http://math.unipd.it">math.unipd.it</a></font></font></font></p></div>