ITAT 2019 Proceedings

19th Conference on Information Technologies – Applications and Theory
Hotel Zornička, Donovaly,Slovakia, September 20–24, 2019.


Preface



   ITAT (Information Technologies—Applications and Theory) is a traditional Czecho-
Slovak conference gathering scientists and experts working within a broad scope of com-
puter science. ITAT not only offers a possibility to exchange ideas and information, it also
emphasizes informal communication and discussions among participants.


   In 2013 at the 13th ITAT, several small accompanying workshops were introduced as
a part of the conference for the first time. The popularity of such workshops has grown in
the following years and they also started to attract more international submissions. At the
same time, the number of submissions to the ITAT conference itself has been decreasing
steadily (and also declining in quality) to the point where last year at the 18th ITAT,
more than 80 % of the papers were submitted to accompanying workshops rather than
to the main conference track. Based on this development, the ITAT steering commitee
has decided to discontinue the main track of the conference and transform ITAT to the
collection of specialized international workshops. This change is symbolically taking place
at Donovaly, a mountain resort between the Veĺká Fatra National Park and the Low Tatras
National Park, where the workshops were introduced for the first time in 2013.
   We have not taken this decision lightly and we realize that it may prevent some au-
thors to contribute to ITAT in future. On the other hand, we strongly believe that this
change will help to significantly increase the quality of the feedback received by the au-
thors, who are primarily PhD students and young researchers. We believe that by focusing
on smaller number of areas of interest, we will be able to secure internationally recognized
expert reviewers in the workshop areas, which in turn will not only improve the papers
under review, but also contribute to a higher quality of future papers by the ITAT authors,
no matter whether submitted again to ITAT workshops or to other international events.
Despite its Czecho-Slovak origin, due to the increased interest, workshop organizers have
got the opportunity to open their workshops for participants from other countries as well.


   This year, two traditional workshops SloNLP – Slovakoczech Natural Language Pro-
cessing and Computational Intelligence and Data Mining have been complemented by a
new workshop on Intelligent Speech and Audio Technologies. More information about the
workshops can be found in the introductions to the respective parts of the proceedings.
Initially, another workshop on Data Science for Intrusion Detection and Digital Forensic
was planned, but it was cancelled by the organizers due to low number of submissions.
   Continuing a long-standing ITAT tradition, in the collection-of-workshops setting, the
best paper award sponsored by PROFINIT has been selected in two phases. First, the
workshop organizers proposed the best paper for their workshops, typically based on the
results of the peer review process. Second, these papers were assessed by a committee of
seven senior scientists (from three countries and six universities) from among the workshop
organizers and the ITAT steering committee.


Steering committee of the ITAT series of conferences:

   • Peter Gurský, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

   • Martin Holeňa, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

   • Tomáš Horváth, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

   • Markéta Lopatková, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

   • Tomáš Vinař, Commenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia


Organizing committee of ITAT 2019:

   • Lubomı́r Antoni, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

   • Peter Gurský, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

   • Alexander Szabari, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia