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LIDTA 2021, co-located with ECML/PKDD 2021
3rd International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications
17-17 September, Online

Website: http://lidta.dcc.fc.up.pt/ 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Wednesday, June 23, 2021

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KEY DATES

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, July 9, 2021
Camera-ready Deadline: Friday, July 23, 2021

ECML/PKDD 2021: 13-17 September, 2021
LIDTA 2021: TBC

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The problem of imbalanced domain learning has been thoroughly studied in the last two decades, with a specific focus on classification tasks. However, the research community has started to address this problem in other contexts such as regression, ordinal classification, multi-label and multi-class classification, association rules mining, multi-instance learning, data streams, time-series and spatio-temporal forecasting, text mining and multimodal data. Clearly, the research community recognises that imbalanced domains are a broad and important problem. Such a context poses important challenges for both supervised and unsupervised learning tasks, in an increasing number of real-world applications.

Tackling the issues raised by imbalanced domains is crucial to both academia and industry. To researchers, it is an opportunity to develop more adaptable and robust systems/approaches for very complex tasks. These tasks are, in many cases, those that industry is already facing today. These are very diverse and include the ability to prevent fraud, to anticipate catastrophes, and in general to enable a more preemptive action in an increasingly fast-paced world.

This workshop proposal focuses on providing a significant contribution to the problems of learning with imbalanced domains, aiming to increase the interest and the contributions to solving its challenges. The workshop invites inter-disciplinary contributions to tackle the problems that many real-world domains face nowadays. With the growing attention that this challenge has collected, it is crucial to promote its further development in order to tackle its theoretical and application challenges.

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The research topics of interest to LIDTA'2021 workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: 

*** Foundations of learning in imbalanced domains
Probabilistic and statistical models
New knowledge discovery theories and models
Probabilistic and statistical models
New knowledge discovery theories and models
Deep learning
Handling imbalanced big data
One-class learning
Learning with non i.i.d. data
Rare event detection in classification tasks
New approaches for data pre-processing (e.g. resampling strategies)
Post-processing approaches
Sampling approaches
Feature selection and feature transformation
Evaluation metrics and methodologies
Ensemble methods
Instance hardness

*** Knowledge discovery and machine learning in imbalanced domains
Classification, ordinal classification
Regression
Data streams and time series forecasting
Clustering
Adaptive learning and algorithm-level approaches
Multi-label, multi-instance, sequence and association rules mining
Active learning
Spatial and spatio-temporal learning
Text and image mining
Multi-modal learning
Predictive Maintenance
Automated machine learning
Energy-efficiency

*** Applications in imbalanced domains
Health applications (e.g. medical imaging)
Fraud detection (e.g. finance, credit and online banking)
Anomaly detection (e.g. industry, intrusion detection, privacy and security)
Environmental applications (e.g. meteorology, biology, oil spill detection)
Social media applications (e.g. popularity prediction, recommender systems)
Fake news detection and disinformation, deep fake classification
Other real world applications and case studies

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SUBMISSION 

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PROCEEDINGS 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

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ORGANIZERS 

Nuno Moniz | INESC TEC / University of Porto, Portugal
Paula Branco | University of Ottawa, Canada
Luís Torgo | Dalhousie University, Canada
Nathalie Japkowicz | American University, USA
Michał Woźniak | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Shuo Wang | University of Birmingham, UK