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Advanced School on Data Science for Big Data
Porto, 2-5 July 2018

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APPIA, the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence is proud to announce EAIA 2018, a Summer School dedicated to Data Sciences for Big Data.

Data Science and Big Data are not only hot topics but also essential to current society. Economy, health, agriculture, energy, media, education, industry, mobility, leisure and all other human activities rely more and more on the advanced processing of
large quantities of data.

During 4 days, from 2-5 July 2018, we will discuss the current trends, advanced topics, and future directions in data science and big data.

For more information visit: http://eaia2018.dcc.fc.up.pt/

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Topics:

- Introduction to Data Science for Big Data;
- Data Science for the Social Good;
- Bias in the Web;
- Meta Learning;
- Big Data - Distributed Learning;
- Data Streams Models;
- Learning from Data Streams;
- Geographic Data Mining;
- Influence in Social Networks;
- Multi-dimensional Bayesian network classifiers;
- Recommender Systems;
- Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning;
- ML: Looking Ahead.

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Venue:

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto

Rua do Campo Alegre 1021/1055
4169-007 Porto, Portugal


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Lecturers:

- Albert Bifet;
- Andre Carvalho;
- Dino Pedreschi;
- Fosca Giannotti;
- Gianmarco De Francisci Morales;
- Jose Carlos Principe;
- Olivier Pietquin;
- Pedro Larranaga;
- Rayid Ghani;
- Ricard Galvada;
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates;
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Registration:

Registrations include attendance of all sessions, coffee breaks and lunches.
We have a limit on the number of registrations (70 attendees), please register early!
All participants will receive a letter of confirmation within three working days via e-mail after we receive the payment.

Early Fees:

- Students 250 eur
- Appia* 350 eur
- Industry 500 eur

* APPIA members and researchers

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Organization:

- INESC TEC - LIAAD
- Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence

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