22nd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
October 21-23, 2015
Lyon, France
Welcome to ISMIS 2015
On behalf of the conference committee for ISMIS 2015, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Lyon, France for the 22nd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems.
ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest research results in building intelligent systems. Held twice every three years, the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community.
This is the second time ISMIS is hosted in Lyon, France. The first time was ISMIS 2002. Lyon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with two rivers flowing through it, is a city of light, and most importantly a city with an original way of life. The richness of its history, its culinary heritage, the splendor of its cultural life, and its position at the heart of one of the most attractive regions in France, make it one of the major European tourist destinations.
The success of the conference depended on the help of many people, and our thanks go to all of them: the chairs and members of the ISMIS 2015 committee for their hard work and precious time to make this a success, the invited speakers and the organizers.
Welcome and enjoy ISMIS 2015, Lyon and France.
Symposium Chairs
- Mohand-Saïd Hacid
- Zbigniew W. Ras
Program Co-Chairs
- Floriana Esposito
- Olivier Pivert
Organization Chair
- Emmanuel Coquery
Proceedings Chair
- Stefano Ferilli
Conference Venue
The conference will take place at the Campus Universitaire de la Doua, Université Lyon 1, Nautibus, Lyon , France.
Local map
The exact location of the conference is shown in the following map:
Accessing the DOUA Campus
By tramway: The Campus is served by “Tramways T1 and T4” , which connects with subway lines A and B at stop Charpennes Charles Hernu and Line B at stop Lyon Part Dieu. You can take alook at the Lyon transportation map.
From Part Dieu Station: take the “Tramways T1 or T4” and get off the Tramway at stop “Université Lyon 1”.
From Charpennes Charles Hernu Station: take the “Tramways T1 or T4” and get off the Tramway at stop “Université Lyon 1”.
Please note that a Tramway ticket (1.70 €) is valid one (1) hour from the first use. You can combine bus, subway and tramway with the same ticket (within a limit of one (1) hour).
Coming to Lyon
By TGV (high speed train): The Campus is 20 minutes from Part-Dieu TGV station and 30 minutes from Perrache station. TGV trains run between Lyon and Paris every hour or every half an hour. Lyon - Paris : 1h55, Lyon - Marseille : 1h35, Lyon - Genève : 1h50, Lyon - Bruxelles : 3h50. Online ticket booking is possible on the SNCF website.
By road: Right at the city centre's north-east entrance, next to the motorway network and northern orbital road, Porte de Saint Clair exit, direction Cité internationale. By way of example, Lyon is 1h30 from Geneva, 3h from Turin, 4h from Paris, 4h30 from Milan, 5h from Barcelona...The GPS reference is: 45°47.0829', 4°51.1488'. GPS address is "50, quai Charles de Gaulle, 69006 Lyon".
By air: Lyon-Saint Exupéry is the French airport with the largest number of routes outside Paris, with 27 French towns and cities connected by daily scheduled flights, 43 scheduled international routes, 19 charter routes and 7 cargo routes (winter programme). Part Dieu TGV Station is 30 minutes from the airport Lyon-Saint Exupéry multimodal station. From Lyon Saint-Exupery Airport, take the tramway RhôneExpress (http://www.rhonexpress.fr/) for Part-Dieu TGV station which runs every 20 min.
General Informations
Lunches and Coffee Break
Coffee breaks will be available at the back of room C4 or C5.
Lunches will be served at the DOMUS building (between the tram stop and the Nautibus building).
Internet Access
Complimentary wireless internet access is available for the duration of the conference at the conference venue.
No Smoking Policy
Delegates should be aware that smoking is banned from all public buildings in France, including in the Nautibus building
Money
France's unit of currency is the Euro. Coins have values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents, €1 and €2. Notes have a value of €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200 and €500. Foreign currency can easily be exchanged at banks and bureau-de-change booths. Major credit cards are accepted throughout France, with travellers cheques accepted in hotels, banks and some stores. Tax is included in prices (5.5% or 19.6% according products).
For the latest exchange rate please visit: https://www.banque-france.fr/en/economics-statistics/rates/exchange-rates.html
Electricity
Electricity is supplied throughout the country at 230 volts, 50 hertz. For equipment from countries that use 110 volts, an adapter/converter will be necessary unless your equipment is able to run on both 110 and 230/240 volts.
Tipping
Tipping is not obligatory in France, even in restaurants or bars - but it’s not frowned upon either. Tipping is left entirely to your discretion, and may be appropriate if you receive excellent service.
Banking
Banks are generally open Monday to Friday between 9am-5pm, and Saturday morning: Banque Populaire, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Caisse d’Epargne, CIC Lyonnaise de Banque, Crédit Mutuel, HSBC, LCL-Le Crédit Lyonnais, Société Générale, ...
Sending a Postcard
From the moment you send your mail, La Poste makes sure it’s in safe hands every step of the way. Stamps are sold in post offices where the postrate to your destination will be indicated. You can post your letter in one of the street letterboxes (yellow). You may also post it in a post office.
Gala Dinner
The gala dinner will be held in Beaujolais, in the Château d'Envaux, a lord dwelling place from the 16th century. The place is also a wine domain since and now produce a Juliénas wine with character.
A Brief History Of Lyon
Lyon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a city with two rivers flowing through it, a city of light, and most importantly a city with an original way of life; the richness of its heritage, the splendor of its cultural life, and its position at the heart of one of the most attractive regions in France, make it one of the major European tourist destinations.
The history of Lyon, known at the time as Lugdunum (meaning “the hill of light” or “the hill of crows”) began under the Romans, in the first century B.C. when the city was proclaimed capital of the three Gauls. This official status brought political, economic, military and religious development to the city. This period of pre-eminence lasted 3 centuries but did not survive the downfall of the Roman Empire. A long period of upheaval possessed the city until the church gave it new impetus by declaring Lyon the seat of the Primate of Gaul in the 11th century.
From that time, prosperity continued to grow, reaching its peak in the Renaissance. By the end of the 15th century, Lyon was an important center of trade with its fairs and a well-developed banking system which attracted commercial interests from all over Europe. Soon, the social, intellectual and artistic elite settled here. Development continued through the 17th and 18th centuries with the Lyon silk industry supplying the world’s wealthy with clothing and interior decoration. The city continued to gain in size and equipped itself with hospitals, public squares and impressive edifices.
The French Revolution in 1789 brought a brutal halt to expansion but development was re-vitalized under the Napoleonic empire. Lyon became an industrial city and pursued its urban development with a distinct preference for the Haussman style prevalent at the time. Though the revolt of the Canuts silk workers tarnished the era, Lyon enjoyed an undeniable power which it carried into the 20th century.
Urban development continued to expand and change the face of the city. During World War II, Lyon was the center of the French Resistance. The post-war period marked the beginning of the race for modernity with a new challenge, the construction of Europe. Lyon acquired a European dimension through the development of the transportation system, hotel and other tourist facilities, cultural establishments and the creation of the Part-Dieu business quarter in 1960.
The 1980’s saw a new drive to improve the city’s infrastructure. The momentum continues today. Important town planning projects have been completed in strategic locations, while maintaining a policy of preservation of local historical cultural assets. In barely a dozen years, Lyon has become a major metropolis where the successes of the past live in harmony with the goals of the future. These different phases of Lyon’s history are engraved in the urban landscape.
Gallo-Roman Lyon: the rise and fall of the Gallic capital. Though the first traces of human presence date back to the iron age, the founding of Lyon was given by Roman legate on October 9th, in the year 43 B.C. In keeping with imperial design, the city quickly assumed the position of political, economic, military and religious capital of the three Gauls.
At the meeting point of the Saône and Rhone rivers, Lugdunum, as Lyon was then known, developed first on Fourvière Hill, where a forum, theater, temple of Cybele, Odeum and public baths were erected. Its territory extended to Croix-Rousse Hill (amphitheater) and down to the Presqu’ile, home to residential buildings, shops and workshops. The city was located at the intersection of great Roman roads and its water supply arrived via four aqueducts, ruins of which can still be seen in the region. As the birthplace of Christianity in Gaul, Lyon witnessed its first martyrs in the year 177 with the torture of Saint Blandine. The persecutions of 177 marked the start of Lugdunum’s decline. The Capital of the Gauls was a city of the arts. The ceramicists, bronze makers, and glass makers of Lyon were renowned throughout the empire. 20 years later the city was ravaged by fire, in punishment for its ill-chosen alliance in a power struggle between two Roman generals. At the end of the 3rd century, the decline of the Roman Empire exposed Lugdunum to the violent invasions of the Barbarians who chased out the inhabitants of the upper city.
Medieval Lyon, or the ecclesiastic city. Not until the 9th century, with the rise of the church, did the city flourish once again. The name Lugdunum underwent changes with the passing of the centuries and came to be known as Lyon. In the year 1079, with its new-found status as seat of the Primate of Gaul, power and authority returned to the city. It endowed itself with bridges and religious edifices including the Carolingian Saint Martin d’Ainay Abbey and the gothic Saint Jean Cathedral.
Commerce sprang up again and with it came increasing prosperity for the ecclesiastic city. Trade contributed to the development of craft industries and diversified professional activities, including the food and textiles sectors. A revolt of the “Bourgeois” (merchants, bankers, craftsmen) earned them the right to self-administration but, above all, gave the town its official motto, “Onward, onward, Lyon the Best”.
Lyon’s Renaissance splendors. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the growth and prestige of Lyon were unrivaled. Trade was booming with two and later four annual free fairs. The arrival of large foreign banking houses made Lyon one of Europe’s great trading and banking centers. The Renaissance era saw Lyon’s influence spread across Europe.
The predominant features of the city’s commerce began to emerge: silk and silk products, and the textile sector in general. Banking took on an important role thanks to the high level of trade. It was here that the first letter of credit was established. Broad-ranging commerce led to the multiplication of industrial activities. In addition to textiles came the development of metallurgy. The city’s publishing activities placed it among the leaders of Europe. For the royal authorities in Paris, Lyon played the role of relay-city on the political and financial level, but also for military purposes, particularly during the wars with Italy. Its splendor shone far beyond French borders. Artistic and intellectual talents from all over Europe flocked to Lyon. The Lyon printing industry was the most important in France. Rabelais, before writing Gargantua and Pantagruel, was doctor at the Hôtel Dieu and the poetess Louise Labé, also known as “la belle Cordière”, held her salon and was the epitome of the spirit of the times. This era also gave the city the most beautiful ensemble of Renaissance buildings in France: Vieux-Lyon and its architectural treasures (Hôtels Bullioud, d’Estaing, Paterin, Gadagne, Philibert Delorme Gallery, Tour Rose, Loge du Change, etc.) and unusual covered passageways called “traboules”. In the 16th century, Francis I began encouraging the silk weaving industry in order to put a stop to uncontrollable imports. Hundreds of looms were churning between Saint Jean and Saint Georges and Lyon soon became the production capital for this precious fabric.
The 17th and 18th centuries in Lyon: a city of classicism. The face of Lyon had changed since the time of the Renaissance. The basis of its fortune and the composition of its activities were no longer the same. The heritage of the past was not lost, but the great trading and banking capital had become a manufacturing city, a city of silk makers and merchants and the popular mass of weavers. Lyon had become the second largest city in the kingdom after Paris. The center of influence of Lyon shifted to the peninsula and the city built some of its most prestigious monuments in this period: the new City Hall built by Simon Maupin, the convent-palace on Place des Terreaux, now the Museum of Fine Arts , the Hôpital de la Charité, later destroyed.
The silk industry brought to Lyon the highest concentration of workers in the entire country and, in the 18th century, the city was renowned throughout Europe. The century of the Enlightenment was an era of scientific breakthroughs and saw the establishment of the first veterinary school in Europe, the ascension of the first Montgolfier hot air balloon and the discoveries of the physicist Ampere. The urban landscape evolved: ports and bridges were constructed, new convents were built occupying large tracts of land, later to be recovered for development. Town planning became an important concern for organizing local development. The major works undertaken at the time coincided with the arrival in Lyon of the brilliant architect Germain Soufflot, who greatly influenced the urban modernization of the city and who supported the young Michel-Antoine Perrache in his efforts to extend the city southwards by consolidating the islands in the confluence. Morand drained the swamps of the left bank of the Rhone and completed the construction of Place Bellecour. The French Revolution was a traumatic time for the city: In 1793, the Convention, judging the city too royalist, struck it from the map with this infamous line, “Lyon n’est plus” (Lyon is no more) and ordered the destruction of the buildings of Place Bellecour.
A 19th century industrial city. Lyon owes its worker tradition to the multitude of laborers, apprentices, weavers and dyers. In 1831 and 1834, the Canuts, as the silk workers were known, revolted against the refusal of manufacturers to agree to a minimum rate for custom work. These uprisings, born of harsh working conditions, should not make us forget the humor and liveliness of the Lyon people, as represented by the local puppet character, Guignol.
The decree of 24 March 1852 annexed to Lyon the three suburbs of La Guillotière, Vaise and Croix-Rousse, and was inspired by political concerns for maintaining public order. Lyon in the 1870s was no longer a mono-industry town. The integration of the suburbs brought in new industries: mechanical construction and chemicals.
Napoleon’s reign proved to be very favorable to Lyon. Industrial prosperity, lead by the silk merchants, was on the upswing but technical progress, in particular Jacquard’s mechanical loom allowing one man to do the work of six, had serious social repercussions. The silk industry made the Lyon area an economic powerhouse: mulberry plantations and silkworm farms and mills abounded in the Rhone valley. Lyon’s silk industry became an essential element of the French economy.
New construction work continued to change the cityscape: the opera house, the court house, the stock exchange, the laying of two large boulevards (now named Rue de la République and Rue Edouard Herriot) lined by elegant Haussmanian façades, and the construction of the Tête d’Or Park. Urban development continued under the Third Republic: the universities, the Prefecture and the Fourvière Basilica were built at this time as was the Lumière family home, now the Lumiere Institute where, in 1895, one of the world’s most important entertainment activities was invented: motion pictures. With its discrete prosperity, held by family-run businesses, Lyon moved calmly into the 20th century.
Contemporary Lyon: heading to the future. Urban development throughout the 20th century was influenced by the political figures managing the city. For nearly half a century, the destiny of the city was entrusted to Edouard Herriot. The role of the municipality was particularly noticeable in the area of primary and vocational education and hospital facilities.
From the early 1900s, new buildings were juxtaposed with the splendid heritage of the past as Lyon pursued its drive for modernity. The civil architect, Tony Garnier, designed housing, a stadium, a hospital, and a slaughterhouse. Industry (Berliet, Rhône Poulenc, Mérieux, etc.) continued to rise, shutting down only during World War II. Because it was in the free zone until 1942, Lyon emerged as the capital of the French Resistance forces, led by men such as Jean Moulin. Reconstruction brought the building of residential towers in new neighborhoods on the outskirts of Lyon.
The post-war years gave the city a European dimension with the development of transportation (Satolas Airport - now Saint-Exupéry -, freeways, the subway), municipal infrastructures (Convention Center, hospitals, a theater in the 8th district, the Municipal library, the Auditorium) and the creation in 1960 of the Part-Dieu business district.
In 1968, the 54 towns surrounding Lyon gathered forces in the form of Greater Lyon, making it the second most important metropolitan area in France. New momentum was given in 1980 with the first TGV train station in France and the construction of a vast exhibition hall (Eurexpo). The multi-modal hub at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport further reinforced Lyon’s opening to the world. Major urban development projects have been undertaken on strategic sites in the city (Cité Internationale, the Champ du Pont in Bron, Gerland). Cultural monuments such as the Opera House and the Museum of Fine Arts were completely renovated. The Museum of Contemporary Art acquired a greater dimension in its new home in the Cité Internationale. The urban setting has also been greatly improved with a public lighting program enhancing city monuments and the renovation of public spaces and promenades. The sum of all these assets made Lyon a natural choice for the G7 summit of the world’s 7 most industrialized nations in June 1996.
Copyright: http://www.lyon.fr
Lyon Points Of Interest
Lyon Tourism
Post address:
Office du Tourisme & des Congrès du Grand Lyon
Place Bellecour - BP 2254
69214 Lyon cedex 02
(Subway line A/D “Bellecour”)
Opening hours: The Tourism Office is open 7/7, from 9 am to 6 pm.
Telephone: +33 (0)4 72 77 69 69
http://www.en.lyon-france.com/
http://www.lyon.fr/vdl/sections/en/ (City of Lyon official web site)
Culture in Lyon
The City of Lyon has a multitude of facilities to guarantee an intense cultural life: some thirty museums house permanent collections and frequent temporary exhibitions, contributing to the cultural and artistic renown of the city; a network of 15 libraries continues to develop, thanks to the recent opening of a specialized media library of the theater arts.
The Dance Theater, attracting troupes and audiences from around the world, is a unique institution in France for the depth and range of dancing performances it offers, be they of French or foreign origin, classical or contemporary. The city is home to both an Opera Orchestra at the Opera House and a National Orchestra at the Auditorium, whose reputation goes far beyond national borders. The Subsistances complex is a center for artistic creation encouraging cross-disciplinary experimentation, with a focus on new configurations in the performing arts: dance, theater, modern circus.
Theaters
Théâtre des Célestins: http://www.celestins-lyon.org
Les Subsistances: http://www.les-subs.com/
Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse: http://www.croix-rousse.com
Théâtre du Point du jour: http://www.lepointdujour.fr/
New Generation Theatre: http://www.tng-lyon.fr/
Théâtre National Populaire: http://www.tnp-villeurbanne.com
Cinemas
UGC Ciné Cité Lyon Quai Charles de Gaulle 69006 Lyon
Institut-Lumière 25 rue du Premier-Film 69008 Lyon
Cinéma Comoedia 13 avenue Berthelot 69007 Lyon
UGC Lyon Part-Dieu 2-4 Centre commercial La Part-Dieu 69003 Lyon
Pathé Vaise 43 rue des docks 69009 Lyon
UGC Astoria 31 cours Vitton 69006 Lyon
Le Cinéma-Opéra 6 rue Joseph-Serlin 69001 Lyon
Le Cinéma 18 rue Saint-Polycarpe 69001 Lyon
Pathé Cordeliers 20 rue Thomassin 69002 Lyon
Pathé Bellecour 79 rue de la République 69002 Lyon
CNP Terreaux 40 rue du Président-Edouard-Herriot 69001 Lyon
La Fourmi 68 rue Pierre-Corneille 69003 Lyon
Ciné-Duchère avenue Andreï-Sakharov 69009 Lyon
Museums
Museums in Lyon
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon: http://www.mba-lyon.fr
Musée d’Art Contemporain: http://www.moca-lyon.org
Institut Lumière: http://www.institut-lumiere.org
Musée de l’Imprimerie: http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr
Musée Gadagne: http://www.museegadagne.com
Musée gallo-romain de Lyon-Fourvière:
http://www.musee-gallo-romain.com/fourviere
Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs: http://www.musee-des-tissus.com
Museum d’Histoire Naturelle: http://www.museum-lyon.org
Institut d’Art Contemporain: http://www.i-art-c.org
Musée Africain de Lyon: http://www.musee-africain-lyon.org
Musée d’Art Sacré de Fourvière: http://www.fourviere.org/
Musée des Automates EMA: http://www.automates-ema.com
Musée des Hospices Civils de Lyon:
http://www.chu-lyon.fr/internet/chu/musee/presentation_musee.htm
Musée des sapeurs-pompiers du Grand Lyon: http://www.musee-pompiers.asso.fr
Musée international de la miniature: http://www.mimlyon.com
Musée Testut Latarjet d’Anatomie: http://museetl.univ-lyon1.fr
Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation: http://www.chrd.lyon.fr/
Maison des Canuts: http://www.maisondescanuts.com/
Musée urbain Tony Garnier: http://www.museeurbaintonygarnier.com/
Museums around Lyon
Musée de la poupée: http://www.lacroix-laval.com/
Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal / Vienne:
http://www.musee-gallo-romain.com/st_romain/accueil
Monastère royal de Brou
Historial du Saint Curée d’Ars: http://www.musee-ars.org
Musée Claude Bernard: http://www.fond-merieux.org/musee/
Musée du Chapeau: http://www.museeduchapeau.com
Musée du Vieux Saint-Etienne: http://www.vieux-saint-etienne.com
Musée Théâtre Guignol des Vallons du Lyonnais: http://www.museetheatreguignol.fr
Art galleries
Galerie du Vieux Lyon: http://www.galerie-vieuxlyon.com
Galerie José Martinez
Galerie Laurencin: http://www.laurencin.net
Galerie Olivier Houg: http://www.olivierhoug.com
La Galerie des Ombres: http://www.epernet.fr/galeriedesombres
Le Soleil sur la Place: http://www.lesoleilsurlaplace.com
Galerie L’Ebauchoir: http://www.ebauchoir.com
Archaia: http://www.archaia.fr
Artaé: http://www.artae.fr
Chantal et Patrick Pons: http://www.tableaux-pons.com
DELOHA galerie: http://site.voila.fr/deloha-galerie
Galerie de l’Olympe: http://www.galerie-olympe.com
Galerie Fan Fan des Mûres
Galerie Grégory Chesne: http://www.gregorychesne.com
Galerie Henri Chartier: http://www.henrichartier.com
Galerie Juste à côté: http://www.justeacote.fr
Galerie Le Réverbère: http://www.galerielereverbere.com
Galerie OOBLIK: http://www.ooblik.com
Galerie Saint Firmin: http://www.galerie-saintfirmin.com
Younès & Magali: http://younesetmagali.com
Miscellaneous
Jardin botanique de Lyon: http://www.jardin-botanique-lyon.com/
Parc de la Tête d’or:
http://www.lyon.fr/vdl/sections/en/environnement/parcs_jardins/tete_or_1
Planétarium: http://www.planetariumvv.com
Adventure Park by Fourvière Aventures Park: http://www.fourviere-aventures.com/
Aquarium Grand Lyon: http://www.aquariumlyon.fr/
La piscine du Rhône, 8 Quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon, +33 (0)4 78 72 04 50
Piscine Jean Mermoz, 12 Place André Latarget 69008 Lyon, +33 (0)4 78 74 33 09
Centre Nautique Etienne Gagnaire - Piscine de Cusset, 59 avenue Marcel Cerdan 69100 Villeurbanne, +33 (0)4 72 37 72 02
Fore more adresses, please visit:
http://www.lyon.fr/vdl/sections/en/sports_loisirs/swimming_pools
A Shopping Guide is available at the Office du Tourisme, Place Bellecour.
Main shopping places:
- Shopping in the Presqu’île Croix Rousse: Breeding ground of designers
- Part Dieu Shopping
- Center Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon)
- Carré de Soie (Vaulx en Velin)
Lyon is a renowned cultural city. The main sights include:
The Roman theatres on the Fourvière hill, together with a very nice Roman museum inside the hill.
The Old Lyon with its late Gothic and Renaissance buildings, the St-John cathedral, and its narrow pedestrian streets.
The Fourvière basilica on top of the hill, with its Disney-movie-like exterior, its rich interior decorations and its dominating view on the city.
The "traboules”, a kind of public indoor passageway between streets in the Old Lyon and Croix-Rousse districts.
The twelfth-century austere Romanesque St-Martin-d’Ainay basilica (north of Perrache trainstation).
The Rhône left bank, a very nice walk ranging from the southernmost part of the city to the northern Parc de la Tête-d’Or and beyond.
The Place des Terreaux (Hôtel de Ville metro station), on which are situated the city hall and the Palais St-Pierre which houses a large museum and a very refreshing public garden.
The Opera building, near the Place des Terreaux.
Thanks to Yann Ollivier (ENS Lyon) for this information
Restaurants
During the conference we hope to keep you well fed: the famous French food.
Gourmet Lyon. In the kingdom of good taste, Lyon’s cuisine reigns above all others. This centuries-old tradition is an intrinsic part of the Lyon way of life. If there is one title that can’t be taken away from Lyon, it is definitely that of gastronomic capital of the world.
Since the 16th century, Lyon’s cuisine has delighted many a customer in its “bouchon” bistros and in its first restaurants. These palate-pleasers will never disappoint and the traditional tastes remain intact.
Lyon’s cuisine owes its virtuosity first of all to the quality of local produce. The farms of the Bresse and Charolais regions, the wild game of the Dombes, the fish from the Savoy lakes, the fruits and vegetables of the Rhone valley and the Forez region are all within easy reach and supply the essential ingredients for Lyon’s famed cuisine. The local culinary specialties are plentiful and varied: pork products and “Cervelle de Canuts” soft cheese with herbs, “bugnes” beignets, fried pork fat, Lyonnais salad, “tablier de sapeur” tripes, “gras double” tripes, “petit salé” ham with lentils, “quenelles” dumplings (a mixture of butter, semolina and fish), black pudding, “andouillette” chitterling sausage, “paillasson” fried hashed potatoes, and more, if you’re still hungry!
Today, many local 3-star restaurants (awarded by the Michelin Guide) carry the banner of Lyon cuisine throughout France and the world. You’ll have a meal to remember, be it with the great chefs or in the humble “bouchons”, these small traditional restaurants with picturesque interiors, serving local pork dish specialties, copiously washed down with bottles of Beaujolais or Côtes du Rhône wine.
Over 1000 restaurants contribute to the inviting and festive atmosphere of the city, along with the great chefs who are its ambassadors, but also thanks to such initiatives as the Food Trade Exhibition and the School of Culinary Arts and Hotel Management.
Michelin-star-chefs
Paul Bocuse
Main restaurant:
L’Auberge du Pont de Collonges
40 Rue de la Plage - 69660 Collonges au Mont d’Or
Tel.: +33 (0)4 72 42 90 90:
http://www.bocuse.fr/
Brasseries:
“Le Nord” 18 Rue Neuve - 69002 Lyon (Subway line A “Hôtel de Ville”)
“Le Sud” 11 Place Antonin - 69002 Lyon (Subway line A/D “Bellecour”)
“L’Est” 14 Place Jules Ferry - 69006 Lyon (Subway line B “Brotteaux”)
“L’Ouest” 1 Quai du Commerce - 69009 Lyon (Subway line D “Gare de Vaise”)
“Argenson“ 44 allée Pierre de Coubertin - 69007 Lyon (Subway line B ”Stade de Gerland")Pierre Orsi
3 Place Kléber - 69006 Lyon Tel: +33 (0)4 78 89 57 68 http://www.pierreorsi.com/ (Subway line A ”Masséna”)
- Philippe Gauvreau
200, Avenue Casino 69890 La Tour de Salvagny Tel: +33 (0)4 78 87 29 91 http://www.pavillon-rotonde.com/
Streets/Areas with Typical Restaurants ”Bouchons Lyonnais”
“La Meunière” 11 rue Neuve - 69001 LYON (Subway line A “Cordeliers”)
Rue Mercière (Subway line A “Cordeliers”)
Quartier Saint-Jean (Subway line D “Vieux Lyon”)
Rue de Marronniers (Subway line A/D “Bellecour”)
Some other addresses...
“Restaurant de Fourvière” 9, Place Fourvière - 69005 Lyon ; French foods + beautiful view (Subway line D “Vieux Lyon” + Funicular “Fourvière”)
“Carnegie Hall” 253, Rue Marcel Mérieux - 69007 Lyon ; Meat speciality (Subway line B “Stade de Gerland”)
“Jols” 283 av. Jean Jaurès - 69007 Lyon ; Fish speciality (Subway line B “Stade de Gerland”)
Pubs
Le Palais de la Bière 1 Rue Terme - 69001 Lyon
The Ayers Rock 2 Rue Désirée - 69001 Lyon
Ninkasi Opéra 27 Rue de l’Arbre Sec - 69001 Lyon
St James Pub 19 Rue Saint-Jean - 69005 Lyon
The Fleming’s 2 Rue de la Loge - 69005 Lyon
The Smoking Dog 16 Rue Lainerie - 69005 Lyon
The Johnny Walsh 56 Rue Saint Georges - 69005 Lyon
The Melting Pub 9 Rue du Doyenné - 69005 Lyon
The Antidote Pub 108 Rue Saint Georges - 69005 Lyon
The James Joyce Pub 68 Rue Saint-Jean - 69005 Lyon
Wallace 2 Rue Octavio Mey - 69005 Lyon
Boat excursions
Navig’inter Lyons cruise: http://www.lyoncityboat.com/homepage The Hermès is a luxury navigating restaurant boat which, every day, offers cruise lunches and dinners.
Move In Lyon
TCL
The TCL network includes various types of transport: bus, tram, trolley, subway... TCL has a range of tickets depending on your needs: One day "Ticket liberté", 2-hour "Ticket liberté", Evening "Ticket liberté", Single tickets or a booklet of 10 tickets.
Some tips for a smooth journey: In order to keep your ticket valid, remember to get your ticket stamped each time you change line, except if you are changing from one metro line to another. Before getting on a bus, train or tram, think about adopting the right attitude towards those around you. For example, all TCL stations as well as all transport modes are non-smoking. Don't forget to let the bus driver know that you want to get off at the next stop by pressing on the red "Stop request " button. On trains and trams, stops are automatic.
Each ticket (except "Ticket liberté") is valid for travel during the hour after it is first stamped, over the whole TCL network. Changes are allowed. Return travel is not permitted with the same ticket.
Where are tickets available? From bus drivers (please have the right change), at the automatic ticket machines in metro and tram stations ; in TCL service points ; in TCL offices.
Please note: all "tickets Liberté" must be stamped each time you change, except from one metro line to another. You must write your name and surname on it (these tickets are personal).
VELO'V
Velo'v provides solid, comfortable bikes, available for anyone to use, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can find them at strategic locations all over Lyon and Villeurbanne, thanks to a dense network of stations located at intervals of 300 m on average.
http://www.velov.grandlyon.com
TAXI
- Taxi Radio de Lyon: +33 (0)4 72 10 86 86
- Taxis villeurbannais: +33 (0)4 78 24 44 44
- Taxi lyonnais: +33 (0)4 78 26 81 81
- Allo Taxi: +33 (0)4 78 28 23 23
Program at glance
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| Friday October 23 | ||
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Full program
Wednesday October 21
Opening Ceremony
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
Opening Keynote by Marie-Christine Rousset: Datalog revisited for reasoning and answering queries on Linked Open Data
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM, room C4
Chair: Olivier Pivert
Abstract: In this presentation, we will describe a unifying framework for RDF ontologies and databases that we call deductive RDF triplestores. It consists in equipping RDF triplestores with Datalog inference rules. This rule language allows to capture in a uniform manner OWL constraints that are useful in practice, such as property transtivity or symmetry, but also domain-specific rules with practical relevance for users in many domains of interest. We will illustrate the expressivity of this framework for modeling Linked Data applications and its genericity for developing inference algorithms. In particular, we will show how it allows to model the problem of data linkage in Linked Data as a reasoning problem on possibly decentralized data. We will also explain how it makes possible to efficiently extract expressive modules from Semantic Web ontologies and databases with formal guarantees, whilst effectively controlling their succinctness. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach and its usefulness in practice for data linkage, disambiguation and module extraction.
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 1A: Data Mining Methods
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, room C4
Chair: Olivier Pivert
Data Mining with Histograms -- a Case Study
Jan Rauch and Milan Simunek
Abstract ()
Discovering Variability Patterns for Change Detection in Complex Phenotype Data
Corrado Loglisci, Bachir Balech and Donato Malerba
Abstract ()
Computation of Approximate Reducts with Dynamically Adjusted Approximation Thresholds
Andrzej Janusz and Dominik Ślęzak
Abstract ()
Session 1B: Databases, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, room C5
Chair: Emmanuel Coquery
A New Formalism for Evidential Databases
Fatma Ezzahra Bousnina, Mohamed Anis Bach Tobji, Mouna Chebbah, Ludovic Liétard and Boutheina Ben Yaghlane
Abstract ()
Ubiquitous City Information Platform powered by Fuzzy based DSSs to meet multi criteria customer satisfaction: a feasible implementation
Alberto Faro and Daniela Giordano
Abstract ()
A framework supporting the analysis of process logs stored in either relational or NoSQL DBMSs
Bettina Fazzinga, Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Elio Masciari, Luigi Pontieri and Chiara Pulice
Abstract ()
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 01:45 PM
Session 2A: Machine Learning
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, room C4
Chair: Einoshin Suzuki
A Scalable Boosting Learner Using Adaptive Sampling
Jianhua Chen, Seth Burleigh, Neeharika Chennupati and Bharath Gudapati
Abstract ()
WPI: Markov Logic Network-based Statistical Predicate Invention
Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Fatiguso and Floriana Esposito
Abstract ()
Learning Bayesian Random Cutset Forests
Nicola Di Mauro, Antonio Vergari and Teresa M.A. Basile
Abstract ()
Classifier fusion within the belief function framework using dependent combination rules
Asma Trabelsi, Zied Elouedi and Eric Lefèvre
Abstract ()
Session 2B: Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, room C5
Chair: Mohand-Saïd Hacid
The cube of opposition and the complete appraisal of situations by means of Sugeno integrals
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade and Agnes Rico
Abstract ()
Model checking based query and retrieval in OpenStreetMap
Tommaso Di Noia, Marina Mongiello and Eugenio di Sciascio
Abstract ()
Granular Rules and Rule Frames for Compact Knowledge Representation
Antoni Ligęza
Abstract ()
FIONA : A Framework for Indirect Ontology Alignment
Marouen Kachroudi, Aymen Chelbi, Hazem Souid and Sadok Ben Yahia
Abstract ()
Coffee Break
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Session 3A: Emotion Recognition, Music Information retrieval
04:15 PM - 06:15 PM, room C4
Chair: Ludovic Liétard
Emotion Detection Using Feature Extraction Tools
Jacek Grekow
Abstract ()
Improving Speech-based Human Robot Interaction with Emotion Recognition
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli and Giuseppe Palestra
Abstract ()
Tracing Shifts in Emotions in Streaming Social Network Data
Troels Andreasen, Henning Christiansen and Christian Theil Have
Abstract ()
Machine Intelligence: The Neuroscience of Chordal Semantics \& its Association with Emotion Constructs and Social Demographics.
Rory Lewis, Chad Mello and Michael Bihn
Abstract ()
Session 3B: Network Analysis, Multi-Agent Systems
04:15 PM - 06:15 PM, room C5
Chair: Peter A. Eklund
Communities identification using nodes features
Sara Ahajjam, Hassan Badir, Rachida Fissoune and Mohamed El Haddad
Abstract ()
Abstract and Local Rule Learning in Attributed Networks
Henry Soldano, Guillaume Santini and Dominique Bouthinon
Abstract ()
An Intelligent Agent Architecture for Smart Environments
Stefano Ferilli, Berardina Nadja De Carolis and Domenico Redavid
Abstract ()
Trust Metrics Exploration in Optimizing Stock Investment Strategies
Zheyuan Su and Mirsad Hadzikadic
Abstract ()
Thursday October 22
Morning Keynote by Didier Dubois: The Basic Principles of Information Fusion and their Instantiations in Various Uncertainty Representation Frameworks
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM, room C4
Chair: Zbigniew W. Ras
Abstract:
Information fusion is a specific aggregation process which aims to extract truthful knowledge out of information coming from various sources. This topic is relevant in many areas: expert opinion fusion in risk analysis, image fusion in computer vision, sensor fusion in robotics, database merging, and so forth. Historically the problem is very old. It lies at the origin of probability theory whose pioneers in the XVIIth century were concerned by merging unreliable testimonies at courts of law. Then, this problem fell into oblivion with the development of statistics in the late XVIIIth century. It was revived in the late XXth century in connection with the widespread use of computers, and the necessity of dealing with large amounts of data coming from different sources, as well as the renewed interest toward processing human-originated information, and the construction of autonomous artifacts that sense their environment and reason with uncertain and inconsistent inputs.
Information fusion is inescapably related to the issue of uncertainty modeling. Indeed, the fact that pieces of information often come from several sources results in conflicts to be solved, as inconsistency threatens in such an environment. The presence of incomplete, unreliable and inconsistent information leads to uncertainty, and the necessity of coping with it, so as make the best of what is available, while discarding the wrong. This is the role of information fusion.
There are many approaches and formats to model information, and several uncertainty theories. The information fusion problem has been discussed in each of these settings almost independently of the other ones. Sometimes, dedicated principles have been stated in order to characterize the specific features of the fusion process in the language of each particular formal setting. Several fusion strategies exist according to the various settings. These strategies share some commonalities but may differ from each other in some aspects due to their specific representation formats (for instance, symbolic vs. numerical).
This work takes an inclusive view of the current available properties from different theories and investigates the common laws that must be followed by these fusion strategies. We argue that some properties are mandatory and some are facultative only. The latter can be useful in certain circumstances, or to speed up computation time. It is interesting to notice that although each requested property looks intuitively reasonable on its own, they can be inconsistent when put together. This happens in the problem of merging preferences from several individuals modelled by complete preorderings (Arrow impossibility theorem). However the core mandatory properties of information fusion we propose are often globally consistent. We present general features of what can be called an information item. Such features can be extracted from information items in each representation framework. The aim of the work is to lay bare the specific nature of the information fusion problem. This general analysis yields a better understanding of what fusion is about and how an optimal fusion strategy (operator) can be designed. In particular, information fusion differs from preference aggregation, whose aim is to find a good compromise between several parties. Noticeably, while the result of information fusion should be consistent with what reliable sources bring about, a good compromise in a multiagent choice problem may turn out to be some proposal no party proposed in the first stand. So while they share some properties and methods, we claim that information fusion and preference aggregation do not obey exactly the same principles.
We also wish to show the deep unity of information fusion methods, beyond the particulars of each representation setting. To this aim, we look at special characteristics of each theory and what becomes of fusion principles, what are the fusion rules in agreement with these principles. We check whether known fusion rules in each theory comply with general postulates of information fusion. We explain how these basic properties can be written in different representation settings ranging from numerical to logic-based representations. These comparisons demonstrate that the proposed core properties truly reflect the nature of fusion in different settings. We instantiate our principles on various representation settings such as
The crudest representation of an information item, namely a set of possible values. When such a set basically excludes impossible values, we show that our setting characterizes the method of maximal consistent subsets [5].
The case of merging propositional belief bases, for which a set of postulates, due to Konieczny and Pino-Perez, exists [4]. It comes down to merging sets of most plausible values.
the fusion of plausibility rankings of possible values, going from ordinal representations to numerical ones in terms of fuzzy sets representing possibility distributions [3].
Combination rules for belief functions [6], especially Dempster rule of combination.
Postulates for merging imprecise probabilities proposed by Peter Walley [7], in the light of our general approach.
Preliminary and partial views of this work were presented in two conferences [1,2]. A long paper is in preparation.
References
[1] D. Dubois, W. Liu, J. Ma, and H. Prade. A principled discussion of information combination rules in different representation settings. In International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), Dalian, China. Proceedings, 446–451. IEEE, 2011.
[2] D. Dubois, W. Liu, J. Ma, and H. Prade. Toward a general framework for information fusion. In V. Torra, Y. Narukawa, G. Navarro-Arribas, and D. Megias, editors, Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence - 10th International Conference, MDAI 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Proceedings, vol. 8234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 37–48. Springer, 2013.
[3] D. Dubois, H. Prade, and R. R. Yager. Merging fuzzy information. In J.C. Bezdek, D. Dubois, and H. Prade, editors, Fuzzy Sets in Approximate Reasoning and Information Systems, The Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets Series, pages 335–401. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999.
[4] S. Konieczny and R. Pino-Perez. Logic based merging. J. Philosophical Logic, 40(2):239-270, 2011.
[5] N. Rescher and R. Manor. On inference from inconsistent premises. Theory and Decision, 1:179–219, 1970.
[6] P. Smets. Analyzing the combination of conflicting belief functions. Information Fusion, 8(4):387–412, 2007.
[7] P.Walley. The elicitation and aggregation of beliefs. Technical report, University of Warwick, 1982.
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Session 4A: Machine Learning
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM, room C4
Chair: Akm Rafiqul Haque
On the Effectiveness of Evidence-based Terminological Decision Trees
Giuseppe Rizzo, Claudia D'Amato and Nicola Fanizzi
Abstract ()
Clustering Classifiers Learnt from Local Datasets Based on Cosine Similarity
Kaikai Zhao and Einoshin Suzuki
Abstract ()
HC-edit: A Hierarchical Clustering Approach To Data Editing
Paul Amalaman and Christoph F. Eick
Abstract ()
Ontology-based Topic Labeling and Quality Prediction
Heidar Davoudi and Aijun An
Abstract ()
Session 4B: Databases, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems
10:15 AM - 12:45 PM, room C5
Chair: Andrzej Janusz
An Approximate Proximity Graph Incremental Construction for Large Image Collections Indexing
Frédéric Rayar, Sabine Barrat, Fatma Bouali and Gilles Venturini
Abstract ()
Experimenting analogical reasoning in recommendation
Nicolas Hug, Henri Prade and Gilles Richard
Abstract ()
Personalized Meta-Action Mining for NPS Improvement
Jieyan Kuang, Zbigniew Ras and Albert Daniel
Abstract ()
On the Qualitative Calibration of Bipolar Queries
Jalel Akaichi, Ludovic Lietard, Daniel Rocacher and Olfa Slama
Abstract ()
Multi-Dimensional Reputation Modeling using Micro Blog contents
Jean-Valère Cossu, Eric Sanjuan, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno and Marc El-Beze
Abstract ()
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Session 5A: Applications
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, room C4
Chair: Alicja Wieczorkowska
Audio-Based Hierarchic Vehicle Classification for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Elzbieta Kubera, Alicja Wieczorkowska and Krzysztof Skrzypiec
Abstract ()
A Novel Information Fusion Approach for Supporting Shadow Detection in Dynamic Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Enzo Mumolo, Alessandro Moro and Kazunori Umeda
Abstract ()
Extending SKOS: A Wikipedia-based unified annotation model for creating interoperable domain ontologies
Elshaimaa Ali and Vijay Raghavan
Abstract ()
Session 5B: Knowledge representation, semantic Web
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, room C5
Chair: Didier Dubois
Safe Suggestions Based on Type Convertibility to Guide Workflow Composition
Mouhamadou Ba, Sebastien Ferre and Mireille Ducasse
Abstract ()
MUSETS: Diversity-aware Web Query Suggestions for Shortening User Sessions
Marcin Sydow, Cristina Muntean, Franco Nardini, Stan Matwin and Fabrizio Silvestri
Abstract ()
Encoding a preferential extension of the description logic SROIQ into SROIQ
Laura Giordano and Valentina Gliozzi
Abstract ()
Coffee Break
03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Session 6A: Machine learning, semantic Web
03:45 PM - 05:15 PM, room C4
Chair: Christophe Rey
Tweets as a Vote: Exploring Political Sentiments on Twitter for Opinion Mining
Muhammed Olorunnimbe and Herna Viktor
Abstract ()
Sentiment Dictionary Refinement Using Word Embeddings
Aleksander Wawer
Abstract ()
iQbees: Towards Interactive Semantic Entity Search Based on Maximal Aspects
Grzegorz Sobczak, Mateusz Chochół, Ralf Schenkel and Marcin Sydow
Abstract ()
Session 6B: Planing, classification
03:45 PM - 05:15 PM, room C5
Chair: Laura Giordano
Planning with Sets
Rajdeep Niyogi and Alfredo Milani
Abstract ()
Qualitative planning of object pushing by a robot
Domen Šoberl, Jure Žabkar and Ivan Bratko
Abstract ()
Musical Instrument Separation Applied to Music Genre Classification
Aldona Rosner and Bozena Kostek
Abstract ()
Gala Dinner
07:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Friday October 23
Morning Keynote by Thomas Lukasiewicz: Uncertainty in the Semantic Web
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM, room C4
Chair: Mohand-Saïd Hacid
Abstract: Significant research activities have recently been directed towards the Semantic Web as a potential future substitute of the current World Wide Web. Many experts predict that the next huge step forward in Web information technology will be achieved by adding semantics to Web data. An important role in research towards the Semantic Web is played by formalisms and technologies for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness. In the invited talk, I first provide some motivating examples for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness in the Semantic Web. I then give an overview of some own recent formalisms for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness in the Semantic Web.
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Session 7A: Textual Data Analysis and Mining
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, room C4
Chair: Mirsad Hadzikadic
Harvesting comparable corpora and mining them for equivalent bilingual sentences using statistical classification and analogy-based heuristics
Krzysztof Wołk, Emilia Rejmund and Krzysztof Marasek
Abstract ()
Discovering Type of Spatial Relations with a Text Mining Approach
Sarah Zenasni, Eric Kergosien, Mathieu Roche and Maguelonne Teisseire
Abstract ()
Author Disambiguation
Aleksandra Campar, Burcu Kolbay, Hector Aguilera, Iva Stankovic, Kaiser Co, Fabien Rico and Djamel Abdelkader Zighed
Abstract ()
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Session 7B: Applications
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, room C4
Chair: Stefano Ferilli
Toward real-time multi-criteria decision making for bus service reliability optimization
Vu Tran, Peter Eklund and Chris Cook
Abstract ()
Building Thermal Renovation Overview Combinatorics + Constraints + Support System
Andrés Felipe Barco Santa, Elise Vareilles, Michel Aldanondo and Paul Gaborit
Abstract ()
Frequency based mapping of the STN borders
Konrad Ciecierski, Zbigniew Ras and Andrzej Przybyszewski
Abstract ()
Closing Session
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM