Important dates

  • Submission deadline:
    • February 21st
    • February 28th
    • March 5th (Definitive)
  • Poster Submission deadline:
    • June 1st
  • Camera ready:
    • April 20th
  • Early bird registration:
    • Before May 12th
  • Registration deadline:
    • 15th of June
  • Conference dates:
    • 28th – 30th of June

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Conference Program

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

11.00h – 13.00h

Room 01. Digital transition and global society
Chair: Esther Chávez Miranda
1. An energy transition without externalization?
Alejandro Caballeros-Finkelstein, Jesús Ramos-Martín,, Cristina Madrid-López
2. Analysis of challenges of digital service enabled by big data analytics technologies using a new integrated multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method
Sara Saberi, Abbas Mardani
3. The digital divide: An approach through machine learning classifiers
Andrés Aleán, Manuel Vicente Nieto Mengotti
4. Can websites reveal a firma’s innovativeness? Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing SMEs
Carlo Bottai, Lisa Crosato, Joseph Domenech, Marco Guerzoni, Caterina Liberati
5. Digital transformation strategies for the sustainable growth of startups in Australia
Majdah AL Nefaie, Siva Muthaly, Shahadat Khan

Room 02. Big Data applications (I)
Chair: Francisco Javier Quirós Tomás
1. SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: Impact on the digital sphere discussion
Enara Zarrabeitia-Bilbao, Rosa María Rio-Belver, Maite Jaca-Madariaga, Izaskun Álvarez-Meaza
2. Deepening big data sustainable value creation: Exploring the IPMA and NCA perspectives
Randy L. Riggs, Carmen M. Felipe, José L. Roldán, Juan C. Real
3. Data frequency and forecast performance for stock markets: A deep learning approach for DAX index
Diana A. Mendes, Nuno B. Ferreira, Vivaldo M. Mendes
4. Analysis of the effectiveness of measures to reduce the severity of traffic accidents in the city of Barcelona in the period 2013-2019
Lluís Bermúdez, Isabel Morillo
5. Redrawing Electoral Maps to Curb Gerrymandering: A Case Study of New York State in 2022
Shipeng Sun

14.00h – 15.45h

Room 01. Google Trends
Chair: Pedro Baena Luna
1. A Machine Learning Approach to Constructing Weekly GDP Tracker Using Google Trends
Jean Christine A. Armas, Cherrie R. Mapa, Ma. Ellysah Joy T. Guliman, Michael Lawrence G. Castañares, and Genna Paola S. Centeno
2. An estimate of the Italian Consumer Confidence Index at regional level using Google Trends data
Josep Domenech, Andrea Marletta
3. The Role of Twitter and Google Trends in Identifying the Perception of Russia-Ukraine Wars
Vincenzo Miracula, Elvira Celardi
4. Two Stories of Cancel Culture. How Value-Driven Calls to CancelAffect the Bottom Line (WIP)
Paul Reyes-Fournier, Elizabeth Reyes-Fournier, David Bracken
5. Google Search Volume Index: A Systematic Review (WIP)
María José Ayala, Nicolás Gonzálvez-Gallego, Rocío Arteaga-Sánchez

Room 02. Big Data sources
Chair: Samuel Yanes Luis
1. Analysing the process of territorial data collection for the Consumer Price Survey (WIP)
Loredana De Gaetano, Gabriella Fazzi, Serena Liani
2. Density modelling with functional data analysis
Stefano A. Gattone, Tonio Di Battista
3. Assessing the impact of innovation signaling on the investment
Mikaël Héroux-Vaillancourt, Catherine Beaudry, Davide Pulizzotto, Margaret Dalziel
4. Preventing Data Quality Issues with Data Contracts: A Proactive Solution
Vanya Petrova Kostova

Room 04. Natural Language Processing (I)
Chair: Markus Herrmann
1. Evaluation of term-weighting measures for grouped text documents with a target variable: a simulation study(WIP)
Riccardo Ricciardi, Marica Manisera
2. Discourses as units of knowledge in the light of neural language models. Refinement of the theory of discursive space (WIP)
Rafal Maciag
3. Suitability of various machine learning approaches for recognition of antisocial behaviour on social networks (WIP)
Kristína Machová, Tomáš Tomčík
4. Mapping policymaker narratives of the climate security nexus on social media: a case study from Kenya
Bia Silveira Carneiro, Giuliano Resce, Giosuè Ruscica, Giulia Tucci
5. Applying Transformers-based NLP Models to Explore Credibility in Different Product Categories in Amazon’s online reviews
María Olmedilla, José Carlos Romero, Rocío Martínez-Torres, Sergio Toral

16.15h – 17.45h

Room 01. Advances in travel, tourism and leisure
Chair: Félix Martín Velicia
1. Engagement Analysis on Instagram:  Contributions to the Co-Creation of Tourism Experiences
Marta Andrade-Cunha, Ana Irimia-Diéguez, David Perea
2. Georeferencing sentiment scores to map and explore tourist points of interest
Luigi Celardo, Michelangelo Misuraca, Maria Spano
3. How can destinations get engagement on Instagram? Artificial Intelligence as a tool for photo analysis
Sofía Blanco-Moreno, Ana M. González-Fernández, Pablo Antonio Muñoz-Gallego
4. UGCs and wellness touristic image:  the Spanish case
Myriam González-Limón, Lourdes Cauzo-Bottala, Rocío Martínez-Torres, F. Javier Quirós-Tomás

Room 02. Big Data Sources: Social Media
Chair: Sergio Toral Marín
1. Not your Fault, but your Responsibility: Worsened Consumer Sentiment on Work-from-Home Products during COVID-19
Giovanni Cintra, Filipe Grilo
2. Assessing the spread of Keynesian ideas in the economic policy debate: a Text Mining approach on Twitter
Chiara Perfetto, Antonella Rancan, Giuliano Resce
3. Measuring Social Mood on Economy during Covid times: effects of retraining  Supervised Deep Neural Networks
Elena Catanese, Mauro Bruno, Luca Stefanelli, Francesco Pugliese
4. Exploring emotional responses on Twitter after the Algeciras attack on Catholic churches in 2023: Between anti-immigration discourse and sadness reactions
Carolina Rebollo-Díaz, Estrella Gualda, Elena Ruiz-Ángel

THURSDAY, JUNE 29

9.00h – 10.00h

Room 01. Big Data Applications in Education
Chair: María Olmedilla Fernández
1. Account for variation by field in publication: bibliometric databases’ analysis in a Portuguese Higher Education Institution
Cátia Malheiros, Conceição Gomes, Filipa Campos, Sofia Eurico
2. A data analytics enabled curriculum
Duane B. Kennedy, Theophanis C. Stratopoulos
3. Emotions of the main educational agents involved in the App educational applications
Francisco Javier Rondán-Cataluña, Begoña Peral-Peral, Patricio E. Ramírez-Correa, Jorge Arenas-Gaitán

Room 02. Natural Language Processing (II)
Chair: Caterina Liberati
1. Newspapers, Images and Income Support Policy
Pietro Cruciata, Chiara Perfetto, Giuliano Resce
2. Food insecurity trends in the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
Bia Carneiro, Chiara Perfetto, Giuliano Resce, Giosuè Ruscica, Giulia Tucci
3. 0-shot text classification for web-based environmental indicators: Pilot study on B-Corp data
Pietro Cruciata, Davide Pulizzotto, Mikaël Héroux-Vaillancourt, Catherine Beaudry

Room 04. Big Data sources: public opinion mining
Chair: Sergio Toral
1. On the Involvement of Bots in Promote-Hit-and-Run Scams – The Case of Rug Pulls
Dietmar Janetzko, Jonas Krauß, Frederic Haase, Oliver Rath
2. Exploring expert opinion on climate policy using Twitter
Enrico Bergamini, Ivan Savin, Jeroen van den Bergh
3. Networks and Narratives on Twitter about the #8M International Women’s Day (2018) in Spain: Feminist Social Movement and counter-movement expressions
Elena Ruiz-Angel, Patricia Ruiz-Angel, Francisco Javier Santos, Estrella Gualda

14.30h – 16.15h

Room 01. Big Data Sources in Economics and Social Sciences
Chair: Giuliano Resce
1. Suitable statistical approaches for novel policies: spatial clusters of childcare’s services in Veneto, Italy
Angela Andreella, Stefano Campostrini
2. Measuring energy poverty in Spain with the new EU expenditure-based indicators (WIP)
Judit Mendoza Aguilar, Francisco J. Ramos-Real, Alfredo J. Ramírez-Díaz
3. Exploring the Impact of Websites on Hospital Services in Puerto Rico: Analyzing Opportunities and Challenges in Healthcare Administration through Internet and Social Media Integration (WIP)
Dharma Vazquez Torres, Michael Concepción-Santana
4. AI in the newsroom: A data quality assessment framework for employing machine learning in journalistic workflows
Laurence Dierickx, Carl-Gustav Lindén, Andreas L Opdahl, Sohail Ahmed Khan, Diana Carolina Guerrero Rojas
5. Study of the relationship between competitiveness and digital footprint indicators in Valencian wineries
Leonardo Castro, Ana Debón, Josep Domench

Room 02. Big Data Methods. Machine Learning
Chair: Francisco Javier Rondán Cataluña
1. Solo Consumption “ A machine learning approach
Aikaterini Manthiou, Van Ha Luong, Phil Klaus
2. Exploring the use of machine learning and explainability in Marketing Mix Modeling
Slava Kisilevich, Markus Hermann
3. A simple and efficient kNN variant with embedded feature selection
Almudena Moreno-Ribera, Aida Calviño
4. Optimization techniques for Kernel Logistic Regression on large-scale datasets: A comparative study
José Ángel Martín-Baos, Ricardo García-Ródenas, Luis Rodriguez-Benitez
5. Use of machine learning techniques in non-probabilistic samples
Jorge Rueda, Beatriz Cobo, Luis Castro

Room 04. Big Data Applications in Prices
Chair: Ana Irimia Diéguez
1. Optimizing floor price in Real Time Bidding
David Gávez, Víctor Dugo
2. Hotel price forecasting using time series. An exploratory research
Esther Chávez-Miranda, Sergio Toral, M. Rocío Martínez-Torres
3. Some empirical observations on price patterns in online stores
Álvaro Gómez-Losada, Néstor Duch-Brown
4. Estimating Policy Uncertainty Within Monetary Policy Debates
Sami Diaf, Florian Schütze
5. Density Forecasts with Quantile Autoregression with an Application to Option Pricing
Johannes Bleher, Thomas Dimpfl, Sophia Koch

16.45h – 17.30h

Poster Session

1. Exploring Experts’ Approaches to Creativity Evaluation
Yingyue (Luna) Luan, Yeun Joon Kim
2. Evaluation of Various Probability Distributions for Flood Frequency Analysis: A Case of Bhairab River and Kumar River from Bangladesh
Mohammed Motaher Hossain, Muhammad Enamul Quadir 
3. Blockchain and smart contracts for SMEs in smart supply chains. An experiential tool for learning how to operate in a smart supply chain
Joaquín Adiego-Rodríguez, Natalia Martín-Cruz
4. Unveiling the Digital Pathway: Exploring the Utilization of ICTs in Tourism in Andalusia, Spain
Manuel J. Sánchez-Franco, Félix Martín Velicia
5. Crowd modelling socially acceptable, techno-economically viable and environmentally feasible pathways for the energy transition
Alexander de Tomás, Francesco Lombardi, Ines Campos, Debora Conceição Firmino De Souza, Miquel Sierra, Stefan Pfenninger, Cristina Madrid-López
6. Territorial Economic Data viewer: a tool to support policy monitoring
Anabela M. Santos, Andrea Conte, Tauno Ojala, Niels Meyer, Ilias Kostarakos, Pietro Santoleri, Yevgeniya Shevtsova, Alicia de Quinto Notario, Francesco Molica, Marie Lalanne
7. How text-mining can help policy monitoring? The case of circular economy
Anabela M. Santos, Andrea Conte, Tauno Ojala
8. Including balance of trade in energy system optimization: a first prototype of Calliope Spain
Cristina Madrid-López, Aina Brichs-Rallò, Alejandro Caballeros-Finkelstein, Alexander de Tomás-Pascua, Ramin Soleymani-Fard

FRIDAY, JUNE 30

9.30h – 11.15h

Room 01. Big Data Applications
Chair: Josep Domènech
1. Spatial Distribution of Health Care Facilities in City of Cape Town, South Africa
Sebnem Er
2. Analysing ride behaviours of shared e-scooter users: a case study of Liverpool
Yuanxuan Yang, Susan Grant-Muller
3. Estimation by kernel weighting of parameters related to employment in the confinement period
Beatriz Cobo, Luis Castro, Jorge Rueda
4. Finding patterns from a user-centric perspective using knowledge discovery methods
Arturo Palomino, Karina Gibert

Room 02. Big Data Methods
Chair: Lisa Crosato
1. Productivity, Digital Footprint and Sustainability in the Textile and Clothing Industry
Josep Domenech, Ana Garcia-Bernabeu and Pablo Diaz-Garcia
2. FAIR2: A framework for addressing discrimination bias in social data science
Francisca Garcia-Cobián Richter, Emily Nelson, Nicole Coury, Laura Bruckman, Shanina Knighton
3. Predicting the helpfulness score of videogames of the STEAM platform
Leonardo Espinosa-Leal, María Olmedilla, Zhen Li