9.00 a.m. – 9.15 a.m. Opening of the Workshop

Francesca Ravazzolo, Coordinator of the cluster “Quantitative methods and economic modeling”, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
F. Marta L. Di Lascio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

9.15 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Session I
Chair: Francesco Ravazzolo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

“Regime switching structure of tail dependence in fuzzy clusters of stocks”
Giovanni De Luca, Parthenope University of Napoli, Italy

“Copula-based clustering: a journey into time and space”
Fabrizio Durante, University of Salento, Italy

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11.00 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. Session II
Chair: Fabrizio Durante, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

“Non parametric clustering based on data depth”
Claudio Agostinelli, University of Trento, Italy

“Variable selection in Bayesian latent class analysis using shrinkage priors”
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli, WU Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria

“Estimation of Mutual Information via Gaussian Mixture Modelling”
Luca Scrucca, University of Perugia, Italy

12.45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch

2.00 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. Session III
Chair: Davide Ferrari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

“Dissimilarity functions for copula-based hierarchical clustering of continuous variables”
Sebastian Fuchs, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

“K-means seeding via MUS algorithm”
Roberta Pappadà, University of Trieste, Italy

“Biclustering algorithms for functional data”
Simone Vantini, Politecnico of Milano, Italy

3.45 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. Coffee break

4.15 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Session IV
Chair: F. Marta L. Di Lascio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

“Dynamic time warping-based fuzzy clustering with spatial information”
Marta Disegna, Bournemouth University, UK

“Model-based clustering with R-vine copulas”
Marta Nai Ruscone, LIUC University Cattaneo, Milano, Italy

“The CLV approach for clustering of variables and its extension to a supervised context”
Evelyn Vigneau, INRA Nantes Research Center, France

6.00 p.m. Conclusions
Chair: F. Marta L. Di Lascio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy