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We are pleased to announce the second edition of the QAUCA Workshop! The program of the first workshop included 5 research papers and 1 keynote talk. This second edition is planned to be a full-day event.
Interactive analytics, often called Interactive Data Analysis (IDA) in the literature, is an interactive, iterative process in which a user issues an analysis action over potentially big datasets, receives a result set, and decides if and which action to issue next, with the ultimate goal of answering an informational need not necessarily well defined initially. IDA has attracted a lot of attention recently, as it is a difficult and tedious process, especially for inexperienced users, where targets may not be well defined and little is known about the structure and content of the sources. In particular, users are expected to undergo on their own what is often considered as a complex lifecycle: identify and collect sources, clean and transform them, etc. up to the interactive exploration by means of querying, on the fly building of Machine Learning models, etc.
The QAUCA workshop originally ambitions to gather researchers and practitioners around topics pertaining to the user-centered aspects of IDA, with a particular focus on the qualitative aspect of the interactive analytic process and the support of inexperienced users. In this edition of QAUCA we particularly welcome contributions about topics related to relations between users and AI systems such as: explainability in ML or recommender systems, fairness approaches or multi-stakeholders systems that account for different users perspectives.
Contributions may describe original research, practical experiences, evaluation results, or novel approaches and applications. Papers submitted should be at most twelve (12) pages long (including all references and figures). In addition, we welcome technical summaries of previous research relevant to the workshop as short paper submissions of up to eight (8) pages long (including all references and figures). Papers of this kind outline work of the authors that has already been published in other venues, and highlight the relevant future directions. Finally, we accept position, outrageous idea and vision papers of up to eight (8) pages long (including all references and figures). Submissions should have their type mentioned within, as a title footnote (i.e., technical, summary or position paper).
Program
Program
- TBD
Research topics
Research topics
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Quality aspects of interactive analysis: measuring exploration outcome, end-user experience of data analysis, assessing subjective interestingness, benchmarking interactive analytics.
- Improving user experience: automatic data exploration, intelligent assistant for data analysis.
- Explainability of IDA: interpretable models, causality, counterfactual analysis.
- Fairness: machine learning, recommender systems.
- Recommendation: multi stakeholders systems, cognitive filter bubble.
- User-centered methods and techniques for improving analytics through visualization, reformulation, approximate query-answering, personalization, result presentation and data storytelling.
- Models and language for user-centered analytics.
- Integration of analytics with machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and search engines.
- Real life applications of user-centered analytics and case studies.
- Facilitating analytics for the non data scientists: data journalists, decision makers, data enthusiasts and others.
Important dates
Important dates
- Paper submission: April 30, 2020
- Acceptance notification: May 22, 2020
- Camera ready: June 5, 2020
- Workshop: August 25, 2020
Submission instructions
Submission instructions
The page limit is 12 pages for full papers and 8 pages for vision papers (in LNCS format).
Latex submissions are highly encouraged. Nonetheless, papers prepared in other word processing software are also welcome. Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qauca20).
Proceedings
Proceedings
Workshop papers papers will be published in the Springer CCIS series. The best workshop papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Computer Science and Information Systems. A post-workshop report with the roadmap of the involved research challenges is foreseen to be published in SIGMOD Record.
Program committee
Program committee
- Julien Aligon, University of Toulouse, France
- Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA Poitiers, France
- Lorena Etcheverry, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Enrico Gallinucci, University of Bologna, Italy
- Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna, Italy
- Nicolas Labroche, University of Tours, France
- Magdalini Eirinaki, San Jose State University, USA
- Zoubida Kedad, University of Versailles, France
- Haridimos Kondylakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
- Patrick Marcel, University of Tours, France
- Adriana Marotta, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
- Elsa Negre, Paris Dauphine University, France
- Jyrki Nummenmaa, Tampere University, Finland
- Veronika Peralta, University of Tours, France
- Carlos Eduardo Pires, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
- Dimitris Sacharidis, TU Wien, Austria
- Kostas Stefanidis, Tampere University, Finland
- Katerina Tzompanaki, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Alejandro A. Vaisman, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
- Zheying Zhang, Tampere University, Finland
Workshop chairs
Workshop chairs
- Nicolas Labroche, University of Tours, France
- Patrick Marcel, University of Tours, France
- Veronika Peralta, University of Tours, France
- Kostas Stefanidis, Tampere University, Finland
Contact Information
Contact Information
For more information, please contact one of the workshop chairs: firstname.lastname [at] univ-tours.fr or konstantinos.stefanidis@tuni.fi
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