May 10, 2024 (Friday)
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Keynote Speech 3
R101
Novel Challenges in Social Media Mining – Embracing LLMs
(by Prof. Huan Liu)
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-12:00 Session 5A
R201D
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data I
Session 5B
R201E
Recommender Systems I
Session 5C
R201C
Spatial-Temporal Data I
Session 5D
R201B
Time Series I
12:00-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:50 Session 6A
R201D
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data II
Session 6B
R201E
Recommender Systems II
Session 6C
R201C
Spatial-Temporal Data II
Session 6D
R201B
Time Series II
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-16:50 Session 7A
R201D
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data III
Session 7B
R201E
Multimedia and Multimodal Data
Session 7C
R201C
Texts
16:50-17:20

Conference Closing Ceremony
R201B

Session Name Paper Information
5A
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data I
Session Chair:
Kuan-Ting Lai
(National Taipei University of Technology)
Weighted Chaos Game Representation For Molecular Sequence Classification
Taslim Murad (Georgia State University); Sarwan Ali (Georgia State University)*; Murray D Patterson (Georgia State University)
A Universal Non-Parametric Approach For Improved Molecular Sequence Analysis
Sarwan Ali (Georgia State University)*; Tamkanat E Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences ); Prakash Chourasia (Georgia State University); Murray D Patterson (Georgia State University)
Spatial Gene Expression Prediction Using Multi-Neighborhood Network with Reconstructing Attention
Panrui Tang (Central South University)*; Zhang Zuping (Central South University); Cui Chen (CuiChen); Yubin Sheng (Central South University)
Fast Edit Distance Prediction for all Pairs of Sequences in very Large NGS Datasets
A K M Tauhidul Islam (Informatica Inc)*; Sakti Pramanik (Michigan State Univeresity)
Distributed MCMC inference for Bayesian Non-Parametric Latent Block Model
Reda Khoufache (DAVID Lab, University of Versailles, Université Paris-Saclay)*; Anisse Belhadj ( Université Paris-Saclay); Hanene Azzag (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord); Mustapha Lebbah (DAVID Lab, University of Versailles, Université Paris-Saclay,)

Combating Quality Distortion in Federated Learning with Collaborative Data Selection
Long Duc Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)); Phi Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology); Truong Thao Nguyen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))*

5B
Recommender Systems ISession Chair:
Hong-Han Shuai
(National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Collaborative filtering in latent space: a Bayesian approach for cold-start music recommendation
Menglin Kong (Central South University); Li Fan (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University); Shengze Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xingquan Li (Minnan Normal University); Muzhou Hou (Central South University); Cong Cao (Central South University)*
ScaleViz: Scaling Visualization Recommendation Models on Large Data
Ghazi Shazan Ahmad (IIIT Bangalore); Shubham Agarwal (Adobe Research); Subrata Mitra (Adobe Research)*; Ryan A. Rossi (Adobe Research); Manav K Doshi (IIT Bombay); Vibhor Porwal (Adobe Research); Syam Manoj Kumar Paila (IIT KGP)
HMAR: Hierarchical Masked Attention for Multi-Behaviour Recommendation
Shereen Elsayed (University of Hildesheim)*; Ahmed Galal Ahmed Rashed (Volkswagen Financial Services); Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim)
Graph-based Dynamic Preference Modeling for Personalized Recommendation
Jiaqi Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); Yidan Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); BoWen Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); Zekun Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); Bohan Li (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)*

Multi-sourced Integrated Ranking with Exposure Fairness
Yifan Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)*; Weiwen Liu (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Wei Xia (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Jieming Zhu (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Zhenhua Dong (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Yang Wang (East China Normal University); Ruiming Tang (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Rui Zhang (ruizhang.info); Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Personalized EDM Subject Generation via Co-Factored User-Subject Embedding
Yu-Hsiu Chen (National Chiao Tung University); Zhi Rui Tam (National Chiao Tung University); Hong-Han Shuai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)*
5C
Spatial-Temporal Data I
Session Chair:
RAGE Uday Kiran
(The University of Aizu)
Mask Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Recurrent Neural Network for Traffic Forecasting
Xingbang Hu (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)); Shuo Zhang (HIT); Hejiao Huang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen))*
Spatial-Temporal Bipartite Graph Attention Network for Traffic Forecasting
Dimuthu Lakmal (University of Melbourne)*; Kushani Perera (University of Melbourne); Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne); Shanika Karunasekera (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
MPRG: A Method for Parallel Road Generation Based on Trajectories of Multiple Types of Vehicles
Bingru Han (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Juanjuan Zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xitong Gao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences); Kejiang Ye (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Fan Zhang (Shenzhen Insititute of Beidou Applied Technology Co., Ltd)
Enhanced HMM Map Matching Model Based on Multiple Type Trajectories
Yuchen Song (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Juanjuan zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xitong Gao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences); Fan Zhang (Shenzhen Insititute of Beidou Applied Technology Co., Ltd); Kejiang Ye (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Attention Mechanism based Multi-Task Learning Framework for Transportation Time Prediction
Miaomiao Yang (East China Normal University); Tao Wu (East China Normal University); Jiali Mao (East China Normal University)*; Kaixuan Zhu (East China Normal University); Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)

A Multimodal and Multitask Approach for Adaptive Geospatial Region Embeddings
Rajjat Dadwal (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn)*; Ran Yu (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn); Elena Demidova (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn and Lamarr Institute)

5D
Time Series ISession Chair:
Ya-Wen Teng
(Academia Sinica)
Evolving Super Graph Neural Networks for Large-scale Time-Series Forecasting
Hongjie Chen (Virginia Tech); Ryan A. Rossi (Adobe Research); Kanak Mahadik (Adobe Research); Sungchul Kim (Adobe); Hoda Eldardiry (Virginia Tech)*
Kernel Representation Learning with Dynamic Regime Discovery for Time Series Forecasting
Kunpeng Xu (University of Sherbrooke)*; Lifei Chen (Fujian Normal University); Jean-Marc Patenaude (Laplace Insights); Shengrui Wang (University of Sherbrooke)
Hyperparameter Tuning MLP’s for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
Kiran Madhusudhanan (University of Hildesheim)*; Shayan Jawed (University of Hildesheim); Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim)
Efficient and Accurate Similarity-Aware Graph Neural Network for Semi-Supervised Time Series Classification
Wenjie Xi (George Mason University)*; Arnav Jain (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology); Li Zhang (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley); Jessica Lin (George Mason University)

FR3LS: a Forecasting model with Robust and Reduced Redundancy Latent Series
Abdallah Aaraba (Université de Sherbrooke)*; Shengrui Wang (University of Sherbrooke); Jean-Marc Patenaude (Laplace Insights)

Multi-Time Window Ensemble and Maximization of Expected Return for Stock Movement Prediction
Kanghyeon Seo (Sogang University)*; Seungjae Lee (Sogang University); Woo Jin Cho (Semyung University); Yoojeong Song (Semyung University); Jihoon Yang (Sogang University)
6A
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data IISession Chair:
Yi-Ling Chen
(National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)
Adversarial-Robust Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging via Domain Assimilation
Xiaohui Chen (Missouri University of Science and Technology); Tie Luo (Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology)*
Dfp-Unet: A Biomedical Image Segmentation Method Based on Deformable Convolution and Feature Pyramid
Zengzhi Yang (Xiamen University); Yubin Wei (Xiamen University); Xiao Yu (Xiamen University); Jinting Guan (Xiamen University)*
APFL: Active-Passive Forgery Localization for Medical Image
Nan Wang (Nankai University)*; Shi Jiaqi (Nankai Univerisity); Liping Yi (Nankai University); Wang Gang (Nankai Univerisity); Ming Su (Nankai Univerisity); Liu Xiaoguang (Nankai Univerisity)
Robust Influence-based Training Methods for Noisy Brain MRI
Minh-Hao Van (University of Arkansas)*; Alycia N Carey (University of Arkansas); Xintao Wu (University of Arkansas)
MvRNA: A New Multi-view Deep Neural Network for Predicting Parkinson’s Disease
Lin Chen (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University); Yuxin Zhou (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University); Xiaobo Zhang (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University)*; Zhehao Zhang (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University); Hailong Zheng (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence Southwest Jiaotong University)

Material Microstructure Design Using VAE-Regression with a Multimodal Prior
Avadhut Sardeshmukh (Tata Consultancy Services)*; Sreedhar Reddy (Tata Consultancy Services); B P Gautham (Tata Consultancy Services); Pushpak Bhattacharya (IIT Bombay)

6B
Recommender Systems IISession Chair:
Won-Yong Shin
(Yonsei University)
On Diverse and Precise Recommendations for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Ludwig M. Zellner (LMU Munich)*; Simon Rauch (LMU Munich); Janina Sontheim (LMU Munich); Thomas Seidl (LMU Munich)
Dual-Graph Convolutional Network and Dual-View Fusion for Group Recommendation
Chenyang Zhou (Shanghai University); Guobing Zou (Shanghai University)*; Shengxiang Hu (Shanghai University); Hehe Lv (Shanghai University); Liangrui Wu (Shanghai University); Bofeng Zhang (Shanghai Polytechnic University)
Residual Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Networks for Next POI Recommendation
Yonghao Huang (Chongqing University of Technology)*; Pengxiang Lan (Northestern University); Xiaokang Li (Chongqing University of Technology); Yihao Zhang (Chongqing University of Technology); Kaibei Li (Chongqing University of Technology)
Towards Multi-Subsession Conversational Recommendation
Yu Ji (Tongji University)*; Qi Shen (Tongji University); Shixuan Zhu (Tongji University); Hang Yu (Tongji University); Yiming Zhang (Tongji University); Chuan Cui (Tongji University); Zhihua Wei (Tongji University)

False Negative Sample Aware Negative Sampling for Recommendation
Liguo Chen (College of Computer Science, Chongqing University); Zhigang Gong (Chongqing University); Hong Xie (University of Science and Technology of China)*; Mingqiang Zhou (College of Computer Science, Chongqing University)

UIPC-MF: User-Item Prototype Connection Matrix Factorization for Explainable Collaborative Filtering
Lei Pan (National Tsing Hua University)*; Von-Wun Soo (Chang Gung University)
6C
Spatial-Temporal Data IISession Chair:
Ya-Wen Teng
(Academia Sinica)
Multi-Modal Recurrent Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Forecasting
Nicholas H Majeske (Indiana University)*; Ariful Azad (Intelligent System Engineering, Indiana University,Bloomington,IN)
STLGRU: Spatio-Temporal Lightweight Graph GRU for Traffic Flow Prediction
Kishor Kumar Bhaumik (Sungkyunkwan University)*; Fahim Faisal Niloy (University of California, Riverside); Saif Mahmud (Cornell University); Simon S Woo (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU))
FMSYS: Fine-grained Passenger Flow Monitoring in a Large-scale Metro System Based on AFC Smart Card Data
Li Sun (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Juanjuan Zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Fan Zhang (Shenzhen Insititute of Beidou Applied Technology Co., Ltd); Rui Zhang (Shenzhen Insititute of Beidou Applied Technology Co., Ltd); Kejiang Ye (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
GSPM: An Early Detection Approach to Sudden Abnormal Large Outflow in a Metro System
Li Sun (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Juanjuan Zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Fan Zhang (Shenzhen Insititute of Beidou Applied Technology Co., Ltd); Kejiang Ye (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Recovering Population Dynamics from a Single Point Cloud Snapshot
Yuki Wakai (Kyoto University)*; Koh Takeuchi (Kyoto Univerisity); Hisashi Kashima (Kyoto University)

Localization through Deep Learning in New and Low Sampling Rate Environments
Thanh Dat Le (University of North Texas)*; Yan Huang (University of North Texas)
6D
Time Series IISession Chair:
Heitor Murilo Gomes
(Victoria University of Wellington)
Saliency-aware Time Series Anomaly Detection for Space Applications
Sangyup Lee (Sungkyunkwan University); Simon S Woo (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU))*
Unlearnable Examples For Time Series
Yujing Jiang (University of Melbourne)*; Xingjun Ma (Fudan University); Sarah Erfani (University of Melbourne); James Bailey (THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)
Learning Disentangled Task-Related Representation for Time Series
Liping Hou (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Lemeng Pan (Huawei)*; Yicheng Guo (Huawei); Cheng Li (Huawei Technologies); Lihao Zhang (Huawei)

Local Subsequence-based Distribution for Time Series Clustering
Lei Gong (Nanjing University)*; Hang Zhang (Nanjing University); Zongyou Liu (Nanjing University); Kai Ming Ting (Nanjing University); Yang Cao (Deakin University); YE ZHU (Deakin University)

DiffFind: Discovering Differential Equations from Time Series
Lalithsai Posam (Evergreen Valley High School); Shubhranshu Shekhar (Brandeis University)*; Meng-Chieh Lee (Carnegie Mellon University); Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
7A
Medical, Bioinformatics, and Other Data IIISession Chair:
Jen-Wei Huang
(National Cheng Kung University)
ACHIM: Adaptive Clinical Latent Hierarchy Construction and Information Fusion Model for Healthcare Knowledge Representation
Gaohong Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Jian Ye (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS); Borong Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
BioReX: Biomarker Information Extraction Inspired by Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Weiting Gao (NJIT)*; Xiangyu Gao (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Wenjin Chen (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey); David Foran (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey); Yi Chen (NJIT)
A Novel Population Graph Neural Network Based on Functional Connectivity for Mental Disorders Detection
Yuheng Gu (Ningbo University); Shoubo Peng (Ningbo University); Yaqin Li (Ningbo university); Yihong Dong (Ningbo University)*
Co-ReaSON: EEG-based Onset Detection of Focal Epileptic Seizures with Multimodal Feature Representations
Uttam Kumar (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn)*; Ran Yu (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn); Michael Wenzel (Dept. of Epileptology, Bonn University Medical Center); Elena Demidova (DSIS Research Group, University of Bonn and Lamarr Institute)

Dynamic GNNs for Precise Seizure Detection and Classification from EEG Data
Arash Hajisafi (University of Southern California)*; Haowen Lin (University of Southern California); Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota); Cyrus Shahabi (Computer Science Department. University of Southern California)

7B
Multimedia and Multimodal DataSession Chair:
Kuan-Ting Lai
(National Taipei University of Technology)
Using Multimodal Data to Improve Precision of Inpatient Event Timelines
Gabriel Frattallone-Llado (Universidad de Puerto Rico); Juyong Kim (Carnegie Mellon University); Cheng Cheng (Carnegie Mellon University); Diego Salazar (National Library of Medicine); Smitha Edakalavan (University of Pittsburgh); Jeremy C Weiss (National Library of Medicine)*
Geometrically-Aware Dual Transformer Encoding Visual and Textual Features for Image Captioning
Yu-Ling Chang (National Cheng Kung University); Hao-Shang Ma (National Taichung University of Science and Technology)*; Shiou-Chi Li (National Cheng Kung University); Jen-Wei Huang (National Cheng Kung University)
Transformer based Multitask Learning for Image Captioning and Object Detection
Debolena Basak (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)*; Srijith PK (IIT, Hyderabad, India); Maunendra Sankar Desarkar (IIT Hyderabad)
StyleAutoEncoder for manipulating image attributes using pre-trained StyleGAN
Andrzej Bedychaj (Jagiellonian University)*; Jacek Tabor (Jagiellonian University); Marek Smieja (Jagiellonian University)
MLT-Trans: Multi-level token Transformer for Hierarchical Image Classification
Tanya Boone Sifuentes (Deakin University)*; Asef Nazari (Deakin University); Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek (Deakin University); Imran Razzak (UNSW)

A Novel SegNet model for Crack Image Semantic Segmentation in Bridge Inspection
Rong Pang (Southwest Jiaotong University)*; Hao Tan (Chongqing Universtiy); Yan Yang (Southwest Jiaotong University); Xun Xu (I2R, A*STAR); Nanqing Liu (Southwest Jiaotong University); Peng Zhang (China Merchants Chongqing Road Engineering Inspection Center Co., Ltd.)

7C
Texts
Session Chair:
Cheng-Te Li
(National Cheng Kung University)
How Large Corpora Sizes Influence the Distribution of Low Frequency Text n-grams
Joaquim Silva (NOVA LINCS, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)*; Jose Cunha (NOVA LINCS, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Path-Aware Cross-Attention Network for Question Answering
Ziye Luo (Harbin institution of technology); Ying Xiong (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen); Buzhou Tang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen)*
LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generation
Kyeongman Park (Seoul National University)*; Nakyeong Yang (Seoul National University); Kyomin Jung (Seoul National University)
KiProL: A Knowledge-Injected Prompt Learning Framework for Language Generation
Yaru Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)*; Bo Cheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yakun Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
An Automated Approach for Generating Conceptual Riddles
Niharika Sri Parasa (IIITB)*; Chaitali Diwan (IIIT Bangalore); Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT Bangalore); Prasad Ram (Gooru)