Connectionists: IJCNN'12 session on Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization

[Barbara Hammer]

* Special Session on Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization *
organized by Barbara Hammer, Oliver Obst, Yasufumi Takama

at IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 10-15 June 
2012, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~bhammer/IJCNN12/

By offering automated information extraction tools from data, machine 
learning has revolutionized the way in which humans can cope with 
electronic data volumes. The ever increasing complexity of the settings 
continues to pose challenges to the field: often, it is no longer 
possible to specify a priori a formal learning task; complex parameter 
choices can severely influence the outcome; and an appropriate encoding 
of data is not clear at all. More and more often, the human constitutes 
an important step in the loop to interactively decide about an 
appropriate learning model, model parameters, and data representation. 
Because of this fact, intuitive models and model parameters, and human 
understandable interfaces to the model and data are needed. In this 
frame, interesting new technologies have been developed such as high 
quality data visualization tools, sparse interpretable data 
representation and models, informed priors, active learning, and similar.

This special session aims to foster research in neural learning 
paradigms which offer an intuitive interface to data or models and thus 
have the potential as parts of an interactive pipeline. Topics of 
interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Data visualization and dimensionality reduction
  * Exploratory data analysis
  * Visualization of machine learning models
  * Compressed representation and sparse models
  * Prototype based techniques
  * Relevance learning
  * Interpretability of model parameters
  * Informed priors
  * Active learning
  * Semi-supervised learning
  * Multicriteria evaluation measures
  * Evaluation measures for unsupervised models
  * User Studies
  * Applications

For more information see the IJCNN web site http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

-- 
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hammer
CITEC centre of excellence
Bielefeld University
D-33594 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 521 / 106 12115
Fax:   +49 521 / 106 12181

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