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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">International Conference on Optimization and
Learning </span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">OLA 2023, 3-5 May 2023, Malaga, Spain</span><br>
</span><a href="http://ola2023.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(204,102,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">http://ola2023.sciencesconf.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SCOPUS Springer Proceedings</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SPECIAL SESSION IN:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Advanced Methods for Anomalies Forecasting and
Detection</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">********************************************************************</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">** Submission deadline: 16<sup> </sup>December
2022 **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The International
Conference on Optimization and Learning – OLA 2023 – welcomes presentations
that cover any aspects of optimization, machine learning and deep learning
research.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Special Session
"<i>Advanced Methods for Anomalies Forecasting and Detection</i>" is
focused on the design and implementation of systems for the forecasting and
detection of anomalous data in various fields, exploiting the power of Big Data
and Artificial Intelligence, starting from images, textual data, log messages
and space-time sequences. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Topics of interest include
(not limited to): </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Big Data Analytics and
Predictive Maintenance in Industry </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Machine Learning and
Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Computer Vision and
Intelligent detection in video surveillance </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Fake news and Computer
Forensics for Deepfake </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Anomalies of Pedestrian
Flows, Evacuation Dynamics, and Crowd Prediction Systems </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Anomalies in physical, biological
systems, astrophysical and meteorological data </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Disaster risk
management and people safety </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Fraud Detection,
Financial Problems and Risk Management </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Fault Detection and
management of Industrial Control Systems </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Intrusion Detection and
Network Anomalies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)">All the papers have to be submitted
following the instructions indicated on the OLA 2023 website. The deadline for
contribution paper submission is *December 16, 2022*.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)">** IMPORTANT DATES:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)">paper submission: December 16, 2022</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)">notification of acceptance: February 17, 2022</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">** PAPER SUBMISSION:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">OLA 2023 accepts
submissions in two different formats:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">1) S1: Extended abstracts
of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2) S2: Original research
contributions of a maximum of 10 pages in Springer format </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed
Springer book will be published for accepted long papers (S2 type contributions
only). Special session papers are treated the same way as regular conference
papers.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For any information see
the OLA 2023 website or contact one of the organizers.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">** ORGANIZERS:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Claudia Cavallaro,
University of Catania, Italy (claudia.cavallaro <at> <a href="http://unict.it">unict.it</a>)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Vincenzo Cutello,
University of Catania, Italy (cutello <at> <a href="http://unict.it">unict.it</a>)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Francesco Zito,
University of Catania, Italy (francesco.zito <at> <a href="http://phd.unict.it">phd.unict.it</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p></div>