Connectionists: WSOM+2019, Barcelona, Spain: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[Alfredo Vellido]

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*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *********
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**WSOM+ 2019**
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**13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning 
Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization**
**Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019*
https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu
wsom2019 at easychair.org

Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference! This 
is a welcoming and inclusive city, home to thriving Machine Learning and 
Computational Intelligence communities.
Hosted by the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence 
(IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC 
BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of 
editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in 
Helsinki. The conference is meant to be an international reference for 
research in unsupervised learning,
self-organizing systems, Learning Vector Quantization and data 
visualization.

For full details on dates, registration, venue, committees, and the city 
at large, please visit https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu

Meet us in the Barcelona summer!

**** REGISTRATION ****
Take advantage of the *MAY 12th EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES*. The 
WSOM+2019 Registration System is available @
https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/registration/

**** INVITED SPEAKERS ****

Paulo J.G. Lisboa, Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at 
Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.
"Unsupervised ML in Sports Analytics"

Tobias Schreck, Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge 
Visualization at the Faculty for Computer Science and Biomedical 
Engineering of TU Graz, Austria
"Visual Analytics Techniques for Data Exploration: Visual Cluster 
Analysis, Interactive Data Modeling, and User Guidance"

Aïda Valls, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat 
Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
"Ontology-based Clustering for Managing Semantic Data and its Use in 
Tourism Applications"

Alessandro Sperduti, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, 
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
"convolutional Neural Networks for Graphs"

**** SOCIAL EVENTS ****
A welcome cocktail by the beach to get in the mood, after the first day 
of the conference (June 26th). It will happen at the Barcelona 
Biomedical Research Park (PRBB, http://www.prbb.org)
Gala Dinner at Palau Requesens, a Gothic palace built on top of the 
ancient Roman walls of Barcino. Right at the heart of the old city and, 
you might say, at the heart of Catalan culture.
Guided tour of Barcelona city center.

**** VENUE ****
The city of Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain, and the 
capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,7 million inhabitants and 3 
million in the metropolitan area.
Its cultural richness, vibrant life, and splendid location has made it 
one of the most visited cities in the world, with over 4 million 
visitors per year (http://www.barcelonaturisme.com/wv3/en/).
The 13th edition of WSOM+ will take place at UPC BarcelonaTech Vèrtex 
Building of Campus Nord, the location of the UPC Department of Computer 
Science (https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/upc-venue).
This campus is in the south part of the city, at walking distance from 
Barcelona Football Club stadium and perfectly communicated with the city 
center and main tourist amenities through public
transport: underground, tram and buses.

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WSOM+ 2019
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*Organizing Committee*
Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
José David Martín (Universitat de València)
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**Steering Committee:*
Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland)
Marie Cottrell (France)
Pablo Estevez (Chile)
Timo Honkela (Finland)
Jean Charles Lamirel (France)
Thomas Martinetz (Germany)
Erzsebet Merenyi (USA)
Madalina Olteanu (France)
Michel Verleysen (Belgium)
Thomas Villmann (Germany)
Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan)
Hujun Yin (UK)

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