Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: Workshop and Special Sessions: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings

872 Pages·2019·90.86 MB·English

by  Igor V. Tetko, Věra Kůrková, Pavel Karpov, Fabian Theis

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Igor V.Tetko Věra Kůrková
Helmholtz Zentrum München- Deutsches Institute of Computer Science
Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit Czech Academy ofSciences
undUmwelt (GmbH) Prague 8,Czech Republic
Neuherberg, Germany
FabianTheis
PavelKarpov Helmholtz Zentrum München- Deutsches
Helmholtz Zentrum München- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit
Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit undUmwelt (GmbH)
undUmwelt (GmbH) Neuherberg, Germany
Neuherberg, Germany
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Preface
Thefastdevelopmentofmachinelearningmethodsisinfluencingallaspectsofourlife
and reaching new horizons of what we have previously considered being Artificial
Intelligence (AI). Examples include autonomous car driving, virtual assistants,
automated customer support, clinical decision support, healthcare data analytics,
financial forecast, and smart devices in the home, to name a few, which contribute to
the dramatic improvement in the quality of our lives. These developments, however,
also bring risks for significant hazards, which were not imaginable previously,
e.g., falsification of voice, videos, or even manipulation of people’s opinions during
elections. Many such developments become possible due to the appearance of large
volumesofdata(“BigData”).Theseproceedingsincludethetheoryandapplicationsof
algorithmsbehindthesedevelopments,manyofwhichwereinspiredbythefunctioning
of the brain.
TheInternationalConferenceonArtificialNeuralNetworks(ICANN)istheannual
flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). The 28th
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2019) was
co-organized with the final conference of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative
Training Network European Industrial Doctorate “Big Data in Chemistry” (http://
bigchem.eu)projectcoordinatedbyHelmholtzZentrumMünchen(GmbH)topromote
the use of machine learning in Chemistry. The conference featured the main tracks
“Brain-InspiredComputing”and“MachineLearningResearch.”Withintheconference
the First International Workshop on Reservoir Computing as well as five special
sessions were organized, namely:
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Informed and Explainable Methods for Machine Learning
Deep Learning in Image Reconstruction
Machine Learning with Graphs: Algorithms and Applications
BIGCHEM: Big Data and AI in chemistry
A Challenge for Automatic Dog Age Estimation (DogAge) also took place as part
oftheconference.Theconferencecoveredallmainresearchfieldsdealingwithneural
networks. ICANN 2019 was held during September 17–19, 2019, at Klinikum rechts
der Isar der Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Following a long-standing tradition, the proceedings of the conference were
published as Springer volumes belonging to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. The conference had a historical record of 494 article submissions. The papers
wentthroughatwo-steppeer-reviewprocessbyatleasttwoandinmajorityofcasesby
threeorfourindependentreferees.Intotal,503ProgramCommittee(PC)membersand
reviewers participated in this process. The majority of PC members had Doctoral
degrees (88%) and 52% of them were also Professors. These reviewers were assigned
46 articles. The others were PhD students in the last years of their studies, who
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reviewed one to two articles each. In total, for the 323 accepted articles, 975 and 985
reportsweresubmittedforthefirstandthesecondrevisionsessions.Thus,onaverage,
eachacceptedarticlereceived6.1reports.Alistofreviewers/PCMembers,whoagreed
to publish their names, are included in these proceedings.
Based on the reviewers’ comments, 202 articles were accepted and more than 100
articles were rejected after the first review. The remaining articles received an
undecided status. The authors of the accepted articles as well as of those with
undecidedstatuswererequestedtoaddressthereviewers’commentswithintwoweeks.
Onthebasisofsecondreviewers’feedback,another121articleswereacceptedandthe
authors were requested to include reviewers’ remarks into the final upload. Based on
theseevaluations,diversityoftopics,aswellasrecommendationsofreviewers,special
sessionorganizers,andPCChairs,120articleswereselectedfororalpresentations.Out
of the total number of 323 accepted articles (65% of initially submitted), 46
manuscripts were shortarticles with alengthoffive pages each,while theotherswere
full articles with an average length of 13 pages.
Theacceptedpapersofthe28thICANNconferencewerepublishedasfivevolumes:
Volume I Theoretical Neural Computation
Volume II Deep Learning
Volume III Image Processing
Volume IV Text and Time series analysis
Volume V Workshop and Special Sessions
The authors of accepted articles came from 50 different countries. While the
majority of the articles were from academic researchers, the conference also attracted
contributions from manifold industries including automobile (Volkswagen, BMW,
Honda, Toyota), multinational conglomerates (Hitachi, Mitsubishi), electronics
(Philips), electrical systems (Thales), mobile (Samsung, Huawei, Nokia, Orange),
software (Microsoft), multinational (Amazon) and global travel technology (Expedia),
information (IBM), large (AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim) and medium (Idorsia
Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) pharma companies, fragrance and flavor (Firmenich),
architectural (Shimizu), weather forecast (Beijing Giant Weather Co.), robotics
(UBTECH Robotics Corp., SoftBank Robotics Group Corp.), contract research
organization(LeadDiscoveryCenterGmbH),privatecreditbureau(Schufa),aswellas
multiple startups. This wide involvement of companies reflects the increasing use of
artificial neural networks by the industry. Five keynote speakers were invited to give
lectures on the timely aspects of intelligent robot design (gentle robots), nonlinear
dynamical analysis of brain activity, deep learning in biology and biomedicine,
explainable AI, artificial curiosity, and meta-learning machines.
These proceedings provide a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
dynamicallydevelopingfieldofArtificialNeuralNetworks.Theyareofmajorinterest
both for theoreticians as well as for applied scientists who are looking for new
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innovative approaches to solve their practical problems. We sincerely thank the
Program and Steering Committee and the reviewers for their invaluable work.
September 2019 Igor V. Tetko
Fabian Theis
Pavel Karpov
Věra Kůrková
Organization
General Chairs
Igor V. Tetko Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Fabian Theis Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Honorary Chair
Věra Kůrková Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
(ENNS President)
Publication Chair
Pavel Karpov Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Local Organizing Committee Chairs
Monica Campillos Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Alessandra Lintas University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Communication Chair
Paolo Masulli Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Steering Committee
Erkki Oja Aalto University, Finland
Wlodzislaw Duch Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Alessandro Villa University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Cesare Alippi Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Università della
Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Jérémie Cabessa Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, France
Maxim Fedorov Skoltech, Russia
Barbara Hammer Bielefeld University, Germany
Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Petia Koprinkova-Hristova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Antonis Papaleonidas Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Jaakko Peltonen University of Tampere, Finland
Antonio Javier Pons Rivero Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Yifat Prut The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies, Spain
Francisco Zamora-Martínez Veridas Digital Authentication Solutions SL, Spain
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Program Committee
Nesreen Ahmed Intel Labs, USA
Narges Ahmidi Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Tetiana Aksenova Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies
alternatives, France
Elie Aljalbout Technical University Munich, Germany
Piotr Antonik CentraleSupélec, France
Juan Manuel Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Moreno-Arostegui
Michael Aupetit Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Cristian Axenie Huawei German Research Center Munich, Germany
Davide Bacciu University of Pisa, Italy
Noa Barbiro Booking.com, Israel
Igor Baskin Moscow State University, Russia
Christian Bauckhage Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Costas Bekas IBM Research, Switzerland
Barry Bentley The Open University, UK
Daniel Berrar Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Soma Bhattacharya Expedia, USA
Monica Bianchini Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
François Blayo NeoInstinct, Switzerland
Sander Bohte Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
András P. Borosy QualySense AG, Switzerland
Giosuè Lo Bosco Università di Palermo, Italy
Farah Bouakrif University of Jijel, Algeria
Larbi Boubchir University Paris 8, France
Maria Paula Brito University of Porto, Portugal
Evgeny Burnaev Skoltech, Russia
Mikhail Burtsev Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Jérémie Cabessa Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II), France
Francisco de Assis Tenório Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
de Carvalho
Wolfgang Graf zu Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Germany
Castell-Ruedenhausen
Stephan Chalup University of Newcastle, Australia
Hongming Chen AstraZeneca, Sweden
Artem Cherkasov University of British Columbia, Canada
Sylvain Chevallier Université de Versailles, France
Vladimir Chupakhin Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, USA
Djork-Arné Clevert Bayer, Germany
Paulo Cortez University of Minho, Portugal
Gennady Cymbalyuk Georgia State University, USA
Maximilien Danisch Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
Tirtharaj Dash Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India
Tyler Derr Michigan State University, USA