Data science and optimisation are closely related. On the one hand, many problems in data science can be solved using optimisers, on the other hand optimisation problems stated through classical models such as those from Mathematical Programming cannot be considered independent of historical data. Examples are ample. Machine learning often relies on optimisation techniques such as Linear or Integer Programming. Reasoning systems have been applied to constrained pattern and sequence mining tasks. A parallel development of metaheuristic approaches has taken place in the domains of Data Mining and Machine Learning. In the last decades, methods aimed at high level combinatorial optimisation have been shown to strongly profit from configuration and tuning tools building on historical data. Algorithm selection has since the seventies of the previous century been considered as a tool to identify the most appropriate algorithm for a given instance. Empirical Model Learning uses Machine Learning models to approximate the behavior of a system, and such empirical models can be embedded into an optimisation model for efficiently finding optimal system configurations.
This workshop is referred as W32 in the IJCAI 2019 program.
This workshop continues the DSO@FAIM2018 workshop at the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting 2018 in Stockholm that consisted of conferences IJCAI/ECAI, ICML, and AAMAS. The DSO workshop is closely related to the DSO working group of The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO). In addition to DSO@FAIM 2018, previous related activities include: Stream at EURO 2018 (Valencia); Stream at IFORS 2017 (Quebec); Workshop at CPAIOR 2017 (Padua); Workshop at CEC 2017 (San Sebastian); The foundational workshop (Leuven). More information about the previous editions of DSO is available at https://www.euro-online.org/websites/dso/.
The aim of the workshop is to organise an open discussion and exchange of ideas by researchers from Data Science and Operations Research domains in order to identify how techniques from these two fields can benefit each other. The program committee invites submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics:
Authors are invited to send in a contribution in the form of a position paper. The program committee will select the papers to be presented at the workshop according to their suitability to the aims. Finished work highlighting the opportunities will be welcomed, as will be sound descriptions and elaborations on good ideas. Contributors will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-proceedings.
We invite the following submissions (all in the IJCAI proceedings format, see: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit ):
The review process is single-blind. The program committee will select the papers to be presented at the workshop according to their suitability to the aims. Contributors will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-conference special issue.
Submissions through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcai2019dso
The workshop will last a full day (9AM to 5PM), and it willl include both contributed and invited talks by experts in the field.
The detailed schedule will be made available after the list of accepted papers is finalized.
The workshop co-chairs are:
Alp Akcay, Eindhoven University of Technology
Maciej Antczak, Poznan University of Technology
Roland Braune, University of Vienna
Patrick De Causmaecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mathijs De Weerdt, Delft University of Technology
Karl Doerner, University of Vienna
Pedro Duarte Silva, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Murat Firat, Eindhoven University of Technology
Adriana Gabor, Khalifa University
Arnaud Gotlieb, SIMULA Research Laboratory
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Wan-Jui Lee, Dutch Railways
Pieter Leyman, KU Leuven
Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Michele Lombardi, DISI, University of Bologna
Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School
Ender Özcan, University of Nottingham
Andrew J. Parkes, Computer Science Dept., University of Nottingham
Scott Sanner, University of Toronto
Pieter Smet, CODeS, KAHO Sint-Lieven
Kevin Tierney, Bielefeld University
Sicco Verwer, Delft University of Technology
Neil Yorke-Smith, Delft University of Technology
Yingqian Zhang, Eindhoven University of Technology