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Valais/Wallis AIWorkshop 2nd edition

Small data: challenges and opportunities

Where: Idiap Research Institute

When: November 10th 2017

keynote speaker: Prof. Antoine Guisan

Valais/Wallis AI Workshop 2nd edition

Small data: challenges and opportunities

Data-driven approaches are increasingly used in support of scientific, technological and economical activities.
Yet, in many situations the amount of data is drastically limited due to time and cost constraints, feasibility, and intrinsic rarity. This includes notably:

* Ecological and medical studies, where observations of rare species/pathologies are scarce

* Catastrophe modelling (related to waste storage, climate evolution, financial crises, etc.) where samples are small or even void due, e.g., to extreme conditions or large time-scales

* Resource-intensive experiments performed on natural and artificial systems, e.g. in protein synthesis, in robot calibration, or in hi-fidelity simulation-based design

In this second Valais/Wallis Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workshop, we will focus on several facets of such challenging topics, which will be tackled through presentations from several leading Swiss-based researchers having to cope with small data with motivating applications in environment and geosciences, medicine, energy engineering, robotics and beyond. In this context, general and domain-specific topics in visualization and extraction of relevant features from small and big data will also be discussed.

How to find us: Idiap on google map

Address

Centre du Parc
Rue Marconi 19
PO Box 592
CH - 1920 Martigny
Switzerland

Tel. +41 27 721 77 11
Fax +41 27 721 77 12

Geographical coordinates:
Lat: 46.109362° / 46°06'33.7"
Lon: 7.084465° / 7°05'04.1"

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