Program

09:00 - 10:40 Session 1

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome

09:10 - 09:40 Best paper award: Extending Support Vector Regression to Constraint Optimization: Application to the Reduction of Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations. Tu Ngo, Vera Georgescu, Carmen Gervet, Anne Laurent, Therese Libourel and Gregoire Mercier

09:40 - 10:40 Invited talk: Using AI, ML, and Algorithmic Techniques to Aid Homeless Youth. Hau Chan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40 Session 2

11:00 - 11:20 SALER: a Data Science solution to detect and prevent corruption in public administration. Fernando MartĂ­nez-Plumed, Juan Carlos Casamayor, Cesar Ferri, Ander Gomez and Eduardo Vendrell

11:20 - 11:40 MaaSim: A Liveability Simulation for Improving the Quality of Life in Cities. Dominika Woszczyk and Gerasimos Spanakis

11:40 - 12:00 Designing Data-Driven Solutions to Societal Problems: Challenges and Approaches. Janardan Misra, Divya Rawat and Sanjay Podder

12.00 - 12.40 Discussion

1) Creating a permanent structure for research on Data Science for Social Good in Europe

2) Future directions for Data Science for Social Good and new emerging domains