Organised Events

Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Landscape (DELTA 2024)
Workshop at ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024), August 26, 2024 - Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, integrating automated systems into various aspects of daily tasks is a primary objective for both industry and academia. …

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Graphs Counterfactual Explainability: A Comprehensive Landscape (AAAI 2024)
Tutorial at the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) on 20-21, Feb. 2024

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven highly effective in graph-related tasks, including Traffic Modeling, Learning Physical Simulations, Protein Modeling, and Large-scale Recommender Systems. …

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Digging into the Landscape of Graphs Counterfactual Explainability (AAAI 2024)
Laboratory at the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) on 20-21, Feb. 2024

In this lab, we provide a hands-on experience to help users develop and evaluate novel Graph Counterfactual Explanation (GCE) methods using a simple and modular framework, GRETEL. …

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Graphs’ Counterfactual Explainability Landscape: current state and frontiers
Invited talk XAI.it 2023 - 4th Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence | co-located with AIxIA 2023 on 8, Nov. 2023

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven highly effective in graph-related tasks, including Traffic Modeling, Learning Physical Simulations, Protein Modeling, and Large-scale Recommender Systems. …

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Fourth International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2023)
Workshop at the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) on April 2, 2023

Creating efficient and effective search and recommendation algorithms has been the main objective of industry practitioners …

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Developing and Evaluating Graph Counterfactual Explanation with GRETEL
Demo at WSDM 2023: The 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining on Mar. 2, 2023

This demo discusses the challenges of interpreting Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in social networks and introduces Graph Counterfactual Explanation (GCE) methods as a solution …

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Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2022)
Workshop at the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020) on April 10, 2022

Creating search and recommendation algorithms that are efficient and effective has been the main objective for the …

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Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2021)
Workshop at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020) on April 1, 2021

Both search and recommendation algorithms provide a user with a ranking that aims to match their needs and interests. …

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Challenges and Solutions to the Student Dropout Prediction Problem in Online Courses
Tutorial at ACM Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM), Galway, October 19th-20th, 2020

Challenges and Solutions to the Student Dropout Prediction Problem in Online Courses a tutorial by Dr. B. Prenkaj, Prof. G. Stilo, and Dr. L. Madeddu, …

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International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2020)
Workshop at the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020) on April 14, 2020

Search and recommendation are getting closer and closer as research areas. Though they require fundamentally …

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SoMePeAS: Third Workshop on Social Media for Personalization And Search
Workshop at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval - ECIR 2019 on April 14, 2019

Social media platforms have become powerful tools to collect the preferences of the users and get to know them more. Indeed, in order to build profiles about what they like or …

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SIR: Workshop on Social Interaction-based Recommendation
Workshop at the 27th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018) on Oct. 22, 2018

The data collected in social media platforms has become an important source of information, usually exploited by a social recommender system to generate suggestions …

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SoAPS: Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search
Workshop at the 40st European Conference on Information Retrieval - ECIR 2018 on March 26, 2018

Modern society is overwhelmed and characterized by exhausting social interactions at all levels. …

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SERecSys: Second Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems
Workshop at ICDM 2017 : The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining on Nov. 18, 2017

Recommender systems are widely used in different applications to support users in exploring possibly interesting items. To go beyond the use of preferences expressed in form of ratings, …

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SoMePeAS: Workshop on Social Media for Personalization And Search
Workshop at the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval - ECIR 2017 on April 9, 2017

Social media platforms have become powerful tools to collect the preferences of the users and get to know them more. Indeed, in order to build profiles about what they like or dislike, a system does …

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SERecSys: Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems
Workshop at ICDM 2016: The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining on Dec. 12, 2016

Recommender systems are widely used in different applications to support users in exploring possibly interesting items. To go beyond the use of preferences expressed in form of ratings, …

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