Program

First day: Thursday, October 3rd
09:30-10:30 Dr. Bruce M. Boghosian, President of the American University of Armenia (AUA) in Yerevan: Welcome and Introduction of AUA

Dr. Aram Hajian, CSE Dean, Associate Professor, Director of Engineering Research Center: Address and Substantive Positioning

Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiele/Wolfram Luther: A Brief Review of CODASSCA History and Perspectives of Duisburg-AUA Collaboration 

10:30-11:00 Keynote Presentation by Arnak Dalalyan: Parallelized Midpoint Randomization for Langevin Monte Carlo
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
DATA SCIENCE AND INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACHES FOR SMART SYSTEMS 
11:30-11:50 Haroutunian, M.: Outer Bound for Rate-Reliability-Equivocation Region of Compound Wiretap Channel with Informed Terminals
11:55-12:25 Chen, Y.: Application of Identification Codes to the Two-Party Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL)
12:30 – 14:00  LUNCH BREAK
COMPUTER SYSTEM ORGANIZATION
14:00 – 14:30  Ling, T., Mansour, I., Qian, C., and Schiele, G.: An Automated Approach to Collecting and Labeling Time Series Data for Event Detection Using Elastic Node Hardware     
14:35-15:05 Buron, L., Einhaus, L., Erbslöh, A., and Schiele, G.:Towards Training DNNs with  Quantized Parameters      
15:10-15:40 COFFEE BREAK
POSTER SESSION
15:45-16:00 Gohar Khachatryan: A Novel Thermal Image Coloring Neural Network for Enhanced Nighttime Scene Perception
16:05-16:20 Shushanik Gortsunyan: Enhancing Thermal Images Through Sharpening and Edge Detection with Novel Neural Networks for Improved Computer Vision Tasks
16:25-16:50 Valdivia, R., Baloian, N., Chahverdian, M., Adamyan, A., and Harutyunyan, A.: An Explainable Clustering Algorithm using Dempster-Shafer Theory 
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

 

Second day: Friday, October 4th
HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING–RELIABLE MACHINE LEARNING
09:00-09:30 Galdames, P., Gutiérrez-Soto, C., and Palomino, M.: Ensembling Machine Learning Models for Malware Detection 
09:35-10:05 Inoue, T. and Sasaki, K.:Design of Feedback for a System to Support Distance Project-Based Learning
10:10-10:30 Aharonyan, N. G., and Ohanyan, V. K.: Orientation-Dependent Chord Length Distribution Functions of Bounded Convex Domains
10:35 – 11:00  COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 11:30  Baloian, N. and Luther, W.: Assessing Glaucoma Online Tools 
11:35-11:55 Vardazaryan, A. and Grigoryan, A.: Color Image Enhancement with Quaternion Fourier Transform-Based Alpha-Rooting
12:00-12:20 Bayramyan A. and Grigoryan, A.: Novel Gradient-Based Retinex Method for Image Enhancement 
12:20-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:30 Luther, W. and Harutyunyan A.: Fairness in the Use of Medical Online Tools
14:35-14:55 Mikayelyan A. and Harutyunyan, A.: Exploring Design Aspects of an AI-supported Farming Platform 
INTERPRETABILITY IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS
15:00-15:20 Baloyan, A., Aramyan, A., Baloian, N.,   Poghosyan, A., Harutyunyan, A., and  Peñafiel, S.: An Empirical Analysis of Feature Engineering for Dempster-Shafer Classifier as a Rule Validator
15:20-15:40 COFFEE BREAK 
15:40-16:00 Sargsyan, A.: Interpretability of Machine Learning Models in the Insurance Sector
16:05-16:25 Baloian, N., Davtyan, E., Petrosyan, K., Poghosyan, A., Harutyunyan, A., and Peñafiel, S.: Embedded Interpretable Regression using Dempster-Shafer Theory
16:30-16:50 Tarkhanyan, A. and Harutyunyan, A.: Improving the DSGD Classifier with an Initialization Technique for Mass Assignment Functions
16:55-17:30 Invited talk: Valentin Barriere: Achieving Explainability in Deep Learning