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