Conference Outline
Since SISAP 2020 is online this year, the program has some significant differences from previous years, as we have carefully designed the program to offset the significant time differences within the community, and to try to replicate the good spirit of SISAP in the virtual space!
The purpose of this page is to give an overview of the conference program and all the ways to interact with participants. For a detailed program, see the conference program.
| CEST | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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| 8:00 | Posters 3 08:00 - 09:00 |
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| 8:30 | ||||
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| 13:00 | Opening |
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| Keynote 1 13:15 - 14:15 |
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| 13:30 | ||||
| 14:00 | Clustering 14:00 - 14:30 |
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| 15 min Break | ||||
| 14:30 | Scalable Similarity Search 14:30 - 15:45 |
30 min Break | ||
| 15:00 | Keynote 2 15:00 - 16:00 |
High-dimensional Data and Intrinsic Dimensionality 15:00 - 16:15 |
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| 15:30 | ||||
| 30 min Break | ||||
| 16:00 | 30 min Break | |||
| Similarity Measures, Search, and Indexing 16:15 - 17:30 |
15 min Break | |||
| 16:30 | Posters 2 16:30 - 17:30 |
Special Session: Artificial Intelligence and Similarity 16:30 - 17:30 |
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| 17:00 | ||||
| 17:30 | Demo and Position Papers 17:30 - 17:45 |
Social Event 17:30 - 19:00 |
30 min Break | |
| 15 min Break | ||||
| 18:00 | Doctoral Symposium 18:00 - 19:00 |
Keynote 3 18:00 - 19:00 |
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| 18:30 | ||||
| 19:00 | Closing and Awards 19:00 - 19:30 |
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| ... | ||||
| 21:00 | Posters 1 21:00 - 22:00 |
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| 21:30 |
We start with an outline of how we all, as general participants, can take in the technical and social program of the conference. Following that, we discuss in more detail how authors of the various papers must contribute to the program.
The access information for the conference has been sent out via email to registered participants. If you have registered but are missing this information, please send an email to [email protected].
Technical Sessions
As a general attendee, you have the following means to explore the research contributions:
- The detailed program on the SISAP website has password-protected links to the paper PDFs, allowing you to read the program at your own pace.
- The detailed program also has links to pre-recorded talks via the conference program on the SISAP website, allowing you to listen to the authors also in your own time.
- During the live Zoom sessions, authors will present short summaries of the work and answer questions, so you can tune in to the live sessions as much as your time difference allows, to listen to the short summaries and ask questions that have arisen.
- During the special session on day 3, a panel discussion will be held on AI and Similarity, in addition to the short paper summaries.
- Finally, the schedule has three poster sessions, hosted on gather.town, where you can meet the authors and ask questions, in case you missed the live sessions and/or have further questions and comments.
Keynotes
The three keynotes are placed in different time slots during the conference, to allow attendees from different time zones to see 1-2 keynotes in the best possible time slot. Note that keynotes will be held on Zoom. Keynotes 1 and 3 will be recorded and made available to participants, while keynote 2 will not be recorded.
Social Events
The main social event will be held at the end of day 2. Since we are all stuck at home, we will try to bring Copenhagen to you in some small measure, hoping to inspire you to visit this wonderful city at a later time! We will also present the venue for next year’s SISAP, in the hope that it will not be held virtually again! We will start the event on Zoom, but end it in gather.town.
There will also be two shorter “social” events: Welcome Session on day 1 and Closing Session on day 3, both on Zoom. Note that awards for best paper, best student paper, and best doctoral symposium paper will be announced during the Closing Session.
Poster sessions
Each presenting author (all papers!) must be present in two of the three poster sessions that are scattered through the program. This is an opportunity for participants to meet with authors and ask questions about their work, especially when the time difference prevented the participants from attending the live session.
The presenting authors indicated their availability during the poster session here.
Regular and Short Papers
Authors of regular and short papers have three duties for the conference:- They must pre-record a presentation of the work, no longer than 25 minutes in duration.
- They should create a simple poster for the poster room.
- They must give a 5-minute summary during the live Zoom session and subsequently answer questions from the audience for up to 5 minutes.
- They must attend two of the three poster sessions scattered through the conference programme (more details above).
Special Session Papers
Authors of special session papers have the same duties as authors of regular papers (see above). Additionally, during the live special session, the presenters will be asked to take part in a panel discussion organised by the special session chairs. The special session chairs will communicate more details about the panel discussion before the conference.Doctoral Symposium Papers
Authors of doctoral symposium papers have the same duties as authors of regular papers (see above). Additionally, for each doctoral symposium paper, the Q&A session will be about 25 minutes per paper.Demonstrations
Authors of demonstrations have three duties:- They must pre-record a presentation of their work, no longer than 25 minutes in duration.
- They should create a simple poster for the poster room.
- They must give a 3 minute teaser presentation during the last short session of the first day, followed by 2 minutes of questions.
- They must attend two of the three poster sessions scattered through the conference programme (more details below).
Vision Paper
Authors of the sole vision paper have the same duties as authors of demonstrations. Their presentation will also take part in the last short session of the first day.
