Program for stream Analytics

MA-31: Recommender systems
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Dries Benoit

• Estimation of Online Advertising Effectiveness using a Coarsened Exact Matching Framework
  Vamanie Perumal, Palaniappan Ramu
• Algorithmic pricing and collusion on a price comparison website
  Charlie Lindgren, Kenneth Carling, Ross May, Niklas Rudholm
• A location and assortment problem for e-commerce distribution with returns and transshipments
  Joris van Oers, Quang-Vinh Dang, Zumbul Atan, Ivo Adan
• Towards effective and efficient personalized ranking in news article recommender systems: balancing clicks and diversity
  Lukas De Kerpel, Dries Benoit

MB-31: Crime Analytics
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Carla Vairetti

• Dealing with noisy labels in text analytics: an application in crime analytics for prioritizing reports
  Carla Vairetti, Sebastian Maldonado, Richard Weber
• Using crime report app data to predict burglary via machine learning
  Sebastian Maldonado, Joaquín Roa, Carla Vairetti, Richard Weber
• A Systematic Review and Experimental Evaluation of Social Network Analytics for Anti-Money Laundering
  Bruno Deprez, Toon Vanderschueren, Wouter Verbeke, Bart Baesens, Tim Verdonck
• Optimization in Social Networks to Identify Related Crimes
  Richard Weber, Carla Vairetti, Fredy Troncoso, Sebastian Maldonado, Alex Barrales-Araneda, Valentina Reyes, Pablo Pincheira

MC-31: Causal Machine Learning
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Wouter Verbeke

• A predict-then-optimize approach for uplift modeling with continuous individual treatment effects
  Simon De Vos, Wouter Verbeke
• Exploring Learning to Rank for Optimal Treatment Allocation
  Toon Vanderschueren, Wouter Verbeke, Felipe Moraes, Hugo Proença
• Optimizing Treatment Allocation in the Presence of Interference: a Causal Machine Learning Approach to the Influence Maximization Problem
  Daan Caljon, Jente Van Belle, Wouter Verbeke
• Estimating continuous treatment effects from observational data: An empirical evaluation of methods, scenarios, and challenges
  Christopher Bockel-Rickermann, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke

MD-31: Network Analytics
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): María Óskarsdóttir, Nidia Guadalupe Lopez Flores, Anna Sigríður Islind

• New drivers of bankruptcy based on Complex Networks
  Jinxian Zhao
• Breaking Barriers: Unveiling Gender Disparities in Corporate Career Paths Using Deep Learning
  Cristian Bravo, Yuhao Zhou, Wenhao Chen, María Óskarsdóttir, Collins Ntim, Matt Davison
• Feature set aggregation using community detection in networks
  Christoph Lohrmann, María Óskarsdóttir

TA-31: Analytics and the link with stochastic dynamics I
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Nina Kajiji

• Forecasting regional GDP using cointegration with business cycle indicators
  Nariyasu Yamasawa
• Modelling wind behaviour: using statistical distributions to represent wind speed and direction
  Helena Alvelos, Francisco Marques, Ana Raquel Xambre, Agostinho Agra, Filipe Alvelos

TB-31: Analytics and the link with stochastic dynamics II
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Jinal Parikh

• Probability models based on a mixture of densities
  Lubos Marek
• GIMI: Generative iterative multiple imputation for improving health trajectory estimation in the ICU
  Anahita Khojandi, Matt Baucum, Senne Van Steelandt, Rama Vasudevan, Robert Davis, Nadeem Shafi
• Analysis of characteristics of human score and improvement of feedback of evaluation results of automated essay scoring system
  Megumi Yamamoto
• Analysis of the implementation of digitisation in human resource management depending on the size of the organisation or economic sector
  Terezie Krestová

TC-31: Analytics and the link with stochastic dynamics III
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Gordon Dash

• A distributionally robust optimisation approach to fair credit scoring
  Pablo Casas, Huan Yu, Christophe Mues
• Advancing NLP classification with disentangled embeddings: a post-processing approach to separate style from content
  Nico Hambauer, Michelle Fribance, Patrick Zschech, Mathias Kraus
• Using integer programming, Markov logic networks and inference to help find missing shareholders in social networks for a New Zealand Māori indigenous incorporation
  Andrew J Mason, Karl Zhu, Anthony Downward
• Energy-aware robotic multi-sided assembly line balancing problem
  Abdolreza Roshani

TD-31: Analytics for Combinatorial Problems from Health Care to the Food Industry
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Patrick De Causmaecker

• How should volunteers be dispatched to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests?
  Caroline Jagtenberg
• Unlocking the Value of Extensive Data: Estimating spatial cardiac arrest risk to guide resource allocation decisions
  Derya Demirtas, Robin Buter, Remy Stieglis, Hans van Schuppen
• Data-driven optimization of wildfire resource deployment
  Mostafa Rezaei, Yasser Zeinali, ILBIN LEE
• Manufacturing Process Optimisation and Predictive Analytics: Leveraging Data to Minimise Giveaway in Cheese Production
  Giwa Reagan Iziomo, Ozren Despic, Jiabin Luo, Viktor Pekar, Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo, Tim Fisher

WA-31: Analytics for Decision Making
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Sebastian Maldonado

• Profit-driven churn prevention through predict-and-optimize
  Nuria Gómez-Vargas, Sebastian Maldonado, Carla Vairetti
• Harnessing spatial granularity in boosted tree models for house price prediction
  Margot Geerts, Seppe vanden Broucke, Jochen De Weerdt
• Container dwell time prediction considering feature engineering and feature selection
  Mahdi Jahangard, Ying Xie
• Enhancing Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures in Chile: Multi-Label Transformer Models for Predicting State Agencies Participation
  Alonso Leal, Carla Vairetti, Sebastian Maldonado

WB-31: Learning Analytics and other Text Analytics tasks
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Joaquín Roa, Matthias Bogaert

• Enhancing Business Education through Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: A Framework for Personalized Learning
  Nicolas Nunez
• Guiding labeling efforts in question difficulty estimation using active learning
  Arthur Thuy, Dries Benoit
• Cross-Lingual Debiasing of Large Language Models
  Manon Reusens, Philipp Borchert, Margot Mieskes, Jochen De Weerdt, Bart Baesens
• Predictive Politics: Understanding Drivers of Engagement in Belgian Politics
  Dylan Van Mulders, Matthias Bogaert, Dirk Van den Poel

WC-31: Innovations in Digital Assets - IDA
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Stefan Lessmann, Daniel Traian Pele

• The Chronicles of Ethereum: An Event Study on EIPs
  Stefan Gaman, Min-Bin Lin, Ruting Wang, Daniel Traian Pele
• Financial Risk Meter for The Romanian Stock Market
  Alexandra Conda
• BitMood: Analyzing Bitcoin Trends through Facebook Emotions with AI
  Daniel Traian Pele, Miruna Mazurencu Marinescu Pele, Stefan Gaman, Alexandra Conda, Raul Cristian Bag, Bogdan Paul Saftiuc
• Predicting Realized Volatility: Insights from EU Energy Listed Firms During Crises
  Cosmin Octavian Cepoi, Daniel Traian Pele

WD-31: AI for Energy Finance
Stream: Analytics
Room: 046 (building: 208)
Chair(s): Stefan Lessmann, Daniel Traian Pele

• Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasting of Electricity Prices With Trading Applications
  Alla Petukhina
• Energy Price Modelling: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Generations of Forecasting Methods
  Stefan Lessmann, Alexandru-Victor Andrei, Georg Velev, Daniel Traian Pele
• The impact of energy prices on European stock markets
  Robert-Adrian GRECU, Daniel Traian Pele, Alexandru-Adrian Cramer
• Energy Time Series Forecasting with Neural Architecture Search
  Georg Velev, Stefan Lessmann