| dc.description.abstract | We are proud to present the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on
Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2020), which was held during April 27–29, 2020, in
Konstanz, Germany. The first symposium of this series was organized in 1995 and held
biannually until 2009, when the conference switched to being held annually. Following
demand expressed by the IDA community in a survey held in 2018, IDA 2020 was the
first of the series to take place in spring rather than fall, as was common before.
The switch to April, and a more organized outreach to the community, coincided
with an increase in the number of submissions from 65 in 2018, to 114 in 2020. After a
rigorous review process, 45 of these 114 submissions were accepted for presentation.
Almost all submissions were reviewed by at least three Program Committee
(PC) members (only two papers had two reviews) and a substantial number of submissions received more than three reviews. In addition to the PC, the review process
also involved program chair advisors – a select set of senior researchers with a
multi-year involvement in the IDA symposium series. Whenever a program chair
advisor flagged a paper with an informed, thoughtful, positive review due to the paper
presenting a particularly interesting and novel idea, the paper was accepted irrespective
of the other reviews. Each accepted paper was offered a slot for either oral presentation
(15 papers) or poster presentation (30 papers).
We wish to express our gratitude to the authors of all submitted papers for their
high-quality contributions; to the PC members and additional reviewers for their efforts
in reviewing, discussing, and commenting on all submitted papers; to the program chair
advisors for their active involvement; and to the IDA council for their ongoing guidance and support. Many people have helped behind the scenes to make IDA 2020
possible, but this year we are particularly grateful to our publicity chairs who helped
spread the word: Daniela Gawehns and Hugo Manuel Proença! | spa |
