Sledila je udelešba na konferenci »VI. International conference Modern problems of Applied Mathematics and Information Technoloy – Al.Khorezmiy 2018« v Tashkentu, na kateri je bil doc. dr. Branko Kavšek vabljen predavatelj (naslov predavanja: »Using Words from Daily News Headlines to Predict the Movement of Stock Market Indices«), z Mattievom pa sta predstavila še članek »Predicting insurance costs by class associating rule mining (Mattiev J., Matlatipov S., Kavšek B.)«.
