COST FinAI Meets Istanbul
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During a two-day event, we will feature presentations from WG1, WG2, WG3 and a Core group meeting on COST FinAI Topics. All speakers and participants will be from COST FinAI, with focus on those with active participation. There will be 0.5 day talks including PhD presentations on topics related to WG1 and WG3. 0.25 day working session for drafting D7 a DP on the methodology used by P2P and crowdfunding regarding detection of fraud. Secondly, 0.25 day will be allocated for Core group meeting and presenting the call for publications for an edited volume belonging to the event, 0.25 day for WG2 presentations and 0.25 working session on finalising the paper for D7 involving all the COST members present and online. This event will contribute to the reaching our Action's objectives of transparency in financial services and the development of conceptual and methodological tools for establishing when black-box models are admissible and, to the extent possible, making them more transparent and/or replacing them with interpretable and explainable models. It will also contribute to the objective of creating an excellent network of researchers in Europe with lasting collaboration beyond the lifetime of the Action. We will have at least 5 countries from our members that will be involved in the organization and participation to the event and we will ensure gender balance. They will also join the scientific committee. Support, taking COST FinAI contributions into account, will be prioritised: 1) young researchers from ITC 2) ITC 3) young researchers non-ITC. Funds will only be paid, even if an invite for reimbursement is issued, if all COST rules for the entire activity are adhered to. Overall priority of funding is given to active contributors to the COST Action as evidenced by output with COST aknowledments and DOIs as well as COST country reports and contributions to the edited volume. Reimbursement is also conditional on attending 80% of the time on each day.
The conference will take place in Otag-i Humayun, which is located as a historical building in Yildiz Technical University-Davutpasa Campus, Istanbul, Türkiye. The campus can be reached from Istanbul airport by shuttle service or metro lines and from Sabiha Gokcen airport by metro lines, as well.
COST FinAI Meets Istanbul