Technical Sessions

IBERAMIA 2024. 18th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Universidad de la República. Montevideo, Uruguay. November 13-15th, 2024

Technical Sessions Programme

(Programme in PDF)

Sites:   Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República. Montevideo, Uruguay. More info in venue.

  • Room 1: Room 726 (Central Building, 7 Floor)
  • Room2: Room 701 (Central Building, 7 Floor)
  • Room 3: Room 705 (Central Building, 7 Floor)
  • Openning Ceremony & Plenary Talks: Salón de Actos «Ing. y Agr. Enrique de Martini» (Central Building, 1 Floor)

Wednesday 13, November, 2024

9:00. Registration

10:00-11:00.  Openning Ceremony,  Room: Salón de Actos «Ing. y Agr. Enrique de Martini» (Cuerpo Central, piso 1)

11:00-12:00. Plenary Talk 1   Room: Salón de Actos «Ing. y Agr. Enrique de Martini» (Cuerpo Central, piso 1),   Chair: A. Rosá

  • Assessing social bias in AI: Who decides how language models discriminate?. Pr. Luciana Benotti. National Research Council CONICET. Argentina.

12:00-12:30. Opening Cocktail

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00.   Session 1   AI Engineering & Applications (EA)  Room 1,   Chair:  C. Bicharra

  • Adjusting convolution blocks of U-Net to improve sugarcane crop line segmentation . Backes, Ribeiro
  • Mapping Motion: A Cognitive Approach to Dyspraxia Multimodal Analysis. Muvdi, Hernandez, Cifuentes, Di Somma, Chiappone, Di Maro, Martínez-Santos, Puertas           
  • AI-assisted bronchoscopy in the intensive care unit: Corpus development and an application to anatomic position identification.Tarsia, Mastropasqua, Carboni Bisso, Las Heras,Burgos, Risk, Courtois, Fernandez Ceballos, Lockhart, Acevedo, Cotik       

14:30-16:00   Session 2   Machine Learning (ML)   Room 2,  Chair:  E. Sucar

  • Semi-Supervised Hierarchical Bayesian Multi-label Classification. Serrano-Pérez, Sucar 
  • Advancing Photovoltaic Forecasting with Neural Networks: Integrating N-Beats and Sequential Models with Fourier Analysis . Surribas-Sayago, Fernández-Rodríguez, Dominguez            
  • Efficiency of the Transformer model in time series forecasting: A case study in Wastewater Treatment Plants   Medeiros, S. Marcondes, Oliveira, Machado, Novais                      

16:00-16:30   Coffee Break                                     

16:30-18:00.   Session 3   Bio-inspired & Soft Computing (BSC); NLP; SAI    Room 1,   Chair: V. Cotik

  • X-COVNet: Externally Validated Model for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Pneumonia-Like Lung Diseases in Chest X-Rays    Martínez Pazos, Orellana García, Batard Lorenzo, Gulín Gonzáles         
  • Information extraction from Electronic Health Records written in Spanish for epidemic intelligence      Petri, Cotik, Barcena Barbeira              
  • From AI Act to Public-Private-People Partnerships: Building AI as a Global Public Good    Laukyte           

16:30-18:00.   Session 4   Computer Vision & Robotics (CVR)    Room 2,   Chair: F. Benavides

  • Evaluation of mares uterine health based on endometrial biopsies using image processing and machine learning techniques.    Zimmer, Díaz, Aguilera, Estradé, Lecumberry, Musé       
  • Fairtrees: A Deep Learning Approach for Identifying Deforestation on Satellite Images. Lira, De Wolff, Martí, Sanchez-Pi                     
  • Ensembling convolutional neural networks for human skin segmentation. Kuban, Kawulok                                                     

18:00. Social  & Cultural Event. Meeting point at the Facultad de Ingeniería.

Thursday 14, November, 2024

9:00.   Registration

9:00-10:30.  Session 5   AI Engineering & Applications (EA)    Room 1,   Chair:  Sanchez-Pi

  • Peak Ground Acceleration Prediction for Earthquake Early Warning with Multivariable Long Short-Term Memory Networks and Temporal Transformers.    Fuentes, Yari, Soriano-Vargas, Rocha    
  • Green Security Along Trails.   Betancourt, Velasco                
  • Identification of dating violence with Machine Learning algorithms: analysis and results. Cruz Mendoza, Canul-Reich, Melendez-Armenta, Malvaez-Hernández    

10:30-11:00. Pitch talks 1   Room 1,   Chair: Sanchez-Pi

  • Optimization of Generalized Assignment Problem for a Machinery-Aided Composting Process.           Andrade-Ibarra, Trejo-Ramirez, Cuate, Lara López, Uribe           
  • Configuring an LLM Chatbot as Practice Partner for Language Learning. Gervás, León, Kumar, Bautista             
  • Using Deep Learning Models in Clinical Histories in Order to Find Precursors of Diseases.     Climent Querol, Hernández Ortega, Valveny                
  • Evaluating State-of-the-Art Extractive Summarization Methods for Brazilian Portuguese.      Jorge, Bezerra, Pardo, Castellã Xavier 

9:00-10:30. Session 6    Natural Language Processing (NLP)   Room 2,   Chair: L. Chiruzzo

  • Te Ahorré Un Click: A Revised Definition of Clickbait and Detection in Spanish News.    Mordecki, Moncecchi, Couto    
  • Entrainment-Metrics: An Open-Source Toolkit for Quantifying Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue.       Ernest, Gálvez, Gravano            
  • Derivation Prompting: A Logic-Based Method for Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation.  Sastre, Moncecchi, Rosá    

10:30-11:00. Pitch talks 2    Room 2,   Chair: L. Chiruzzo

  • Adversarial attacks in a shallow neural network to classify android malware.   Aldana, Camargo         
  • Harnessing Deep Learning for Detection of Violence and Vandalism.   Ribeiro, Pavón, Machado, Novais, Rodrigues               
  • Magic Matching: A virtual assistant for financial trading using Machine Learning . Olivera, Perez, Romay, Sabbia, Arena              
  • Design of a machine learning algorithm for precipitation prediction in Riobamba using neural networks.    Urquizo, Ramos, Villacrés, Pozo            

11:00-11:30.  Coffee Break     

11:30-12:30.  Plenary Talk 2   Room: Salón de Actos «Ing. y Agr. Enrique de Martini» (Cuerpo Central, piso 1),   Chair:  F. Garijo

  • From Bayesian to Causal Networks: Graphical Models in Artificial Intelligence. Pr. Luis Enrique Sucar. INAOE. México.    

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00.  Session 7   AI Engineering & Applications (EA)   Room 1,    Chair: J. Machado

  • Capturing the Essence of Plankton: A Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping Analysis.          Callejas, Lira, Berry, Martí, Sanchez-Pi 
  • Agent-Based Model and Machine Learning for the Analysis of Barter Regulated by Lotka-Volterra Equations.   Villacrés                     
  • A Geometric Attention Mechanism to Classify Parkinsonism Smooth Pursuit Patterns.     Celis, Olmos,Martínez          

14:30-16:00.  Session 8   Computer Vision & Robotics (CVR)    Room 2,   Chair: F. Barber

  • Risk Assessment for Autonomous Landing in Urban Environments using Semantic Segmentation.   Loera-Ponce, Mercado-Ravell, Becerra, Valentín-Coronado      
  • Visual SLAM in underground environments: preliminary results.  Bliman, Llofriu, Monzon                       
  • Sound-based parakeets detection system.    Benavides, Rován, Monzón             

14:30-16:00.  Industry  Session   Room 3,  Chairs: G. Moncecchi, D. Garat, J. Prada     

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break      

16:30-18:00.  Session 9  AI Engineering & Applications (EA)    Room 1,   Chair: P. Terenziani       

  • A Mixed audio-video SPD network for online classification of Parkinsonian speech patterns.           Archila, Manzanera, Martínez   
  • Transformers for Genomic Prediction.    Fariello Rico, Castro, Hoffman, Musitelli, Belzarena, Lecumberry    
  • Improving Assembly Lines with Digital Twins: A Synthetic Case Study.  Juarez Juarez, Giret, Botti       

16:30-18:00.  Session 10   Machine Learning (ML)    Room 2,   Chair: M.ª I. Fariello

  • Bayesian Regularized Iterative Soft Thresholding Algorithm.    Cutrona, Guillot           
  • Performance Evaluation of Data Analysis Techniques in Dry Bean Seed Classification Using kNN and MLP.  Lopes, Bof, Bof, Barone                       
  • Integrating Convolutional Neural Networks and Omics to Promote Precision Medicine in Atopic Dermatitis.    Duarte, Belo                

19:30. Gala Dinner (in Bodega Spinoglio, Avda. Pedro de Mendoza 8238). Meeting Point at 19:30 at Facultad de Ingeniería.

Friday 15, November, 2024

9:00.   Registration

9:00-10:30.  Session 11    Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)    Room 1,   Chair:J. Garcia-Ojeda

  • Reliability Analysis of Organization-based Multiagent System Designs.   Garcia Ojeda           
  • Emotions Identification in Exchanges of Messages between Agents.    Dantas, Farias, Billa, Gonçalves, Adamatti                    
  • Explaining Task Delegation Through Argumentation Debates with Votes. Baqueta, Tacla         

10:30-11:00.  Pitch talks 3   Room 1,   Chair: J. Garcia-Ojeda

  • Comparative Evaluation of Algorithms for Adaptive Learning Analytics: A Systematic Review of Higher Education Applications.  Quijano-Cabezas, Duque, Jimenez Builes 
  • Audio-Based Violence Detection Using Spectrograms and Deep Learning.  Campos, Rodríguez-Domínguez, J. Hornos, Rodrigues            
  • Capturing Collective Memories of the Disappeared with Artificial Intelligence. Laurenzo                     

9:00-10:30. Session 12  Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KRR)   Room 2,   Chair: A. Giret 

  • AI-based medical education: coping with clinical decisions in GLARE-Edu.   Bottrighi, Maconi, Nera, Piovesan, Raina, Terenziani    
  • Generating Contrastive Explanations from Gradual Semantics Ranking.  Morveli-Espinoza, Nieves                    
  • Automatic Classification of Secondary and High School Students Dropout Risk via Knowledge Graphs and Machine Learning.   Zapata-Medina, Espinosa-Bedoya, Jimenez Builes            

10:30-11:00.  Pitch talks 4   Room 2,   Chair: A. Giret 

  • Personalizing Learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Leveraging GenAI and Predictive AI for Adaptive Education.    Zuluaga-Morillo, Tous-de la Ossa, Giraldo-Cadavid, González-McMahon, Moreno-López, Duque, Restrepo Carmona, Jimenez Builes 
  • Improving Efficiency of QBF Planning with Mixed Linear – Compact Tree Encodings.    Maris              
  • Assessing AI’s Persuasive Power: Can an AI Agent Influence Belief in News?.    Nguema Ngomo, Bicharra Garcia                    

11:00-11:30.  Coffee Break       

11:30-12:30.  Plenary Talk 3    Room: Salón de Actos «Ing. y Agr. Enrique de Martini» (Cuerpo Central, piso 1),    Chair: P. Novais

  • A look into the video generation frontier: continuous and discrete approaches. Dr. José Lezama.  Senior Research Scientist. Google Deepmind.

12:30-12:40. Closing Ceremony