Connectionists: Clusters, Games, and Axioms -- The Lorentz Center, Leiden (NL) -- 22-26 June 2015

[Marcello Pelillo]

A workshop "Clusters, Games and Axioms" will take place from 22 June 2015
through 26 June 2015 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Please find below the program.

The workshop has no registration fee and is open to PhD students, PostDocs
and researchers interested in the topic.

Detailed information about the workshop, including registration form, can
be found at

http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2015/702/info.php3?wsid=702&venue=Oort

Registration is necessary as the number of participants is limited to 45.
The deadline for registration is 31 May, 2015.

The organizers,

Krzysztof Apt
Jêrome Lang
Elena Marchiori
Marcello Pelillo


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Program of the  Lorentz workshop ``Clusters, Games and Axioms''

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Monday 22 June 2015
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09:00 - 10:00 Arrival, office assignment, coffee and tea

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome by the Lorentz Center staff

10:15 - 10:30 Welcome by the workshop organisers

10:30 - 11:30 Marina Meila. Clustering - classic methods and modern views.

11.30 - 12.30 Martin Hoefer. Computational Game Theory and Clustering.

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions

14.00 - 15.00 Ulle Endriss. The Axiomatic Method in Social Choice Theory:
Preference Aggregation,  Judgment Aggregation, Graph Aggregation.

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and tea break

15:30 - 17.00 Poster presentations by participants

17:00 - Wine and Cheese welcoming party with poster session

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Tuesday 23 June 2015
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 10:00 – 11:00 Shai Ben-David. Axiomatic vs statistical approaches to
theoretical foundations of clustering.

 11:00 – 12:00 Samuel Rota Bulò. A Game-Theoretic Framework for
Similarity-Based Data Clustering.

 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions

 14:00 - 15:00 Edith Elkind. Justified Representation.

 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee and tea break

 15:30 – 17:30 Discussion groups: down to details

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Wednesday 24 June 2015
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10:00 – 11:00 Joachim Buhmann. Information theory of algorithms.

11:00 – 12:00 Twan van Laarhoven. Local quality functions for graph
clustering.

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions

14:00 - 15:00 Michele Sebag. The human in the loop and the co-evolution of
processes: tackling under-specified goals.

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee and tea break

15:30 – 17:30 Discussion groups: down to details

18:30 Workshop dinner

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Thursday 25 June 2015
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10:00 – 11:00 Vincent Conitzer Crowdsourcing Societal Tradeoffs.

11:00 – 12:00 Mona Rahn. Coordination Games on Graphs.

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions

14:00 - 15:00 Discussion groups: preparing presentations

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and tea break

15:30 – 17:30 Discussion groups: preparing presentations

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Friday 26 June 2015
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10:00 - 11:00 Group presentations

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and tea break

11:30 – 12.30 Group presentations

12:30 - 12:45 Closing and farewell

12.45 - 14:15 Lunch


-- 
Marcello Pelillo, FIEEE, FIAPR
Professor of Computer Science
Ca' Foscari University Venice

Director, European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT)
Ca' Minich
S. Marco 2940, 30124 Venezia, Italy
Tel: (39) 041 2347588 - Fax: (39) 041 2347589
http://www.ecltech.org

Head, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Lab
DAIS - Campus Scientifico
Via Torino 155, 30172 Venezia Mestre, Italy
Tel: (39) 041 2348440 - Fax: (39) 041 2348419
http://www.dais.unive.it

E-mail: marcello.pelillo at gmail.com
URL: http://www.dsi.unive.it/~pelillo
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