After serving as newsletter editor for a few years I am turning over
the responsibility and position on the Classification Society Board to
Hans-Friedrich Koehn. Welcome aboard Frieder!
The 2008 Classification Society meeting was held
at Washington University in St. Louis. Plans are underway for the
2009 meeting. Please see below for more
information on how you can participate NOW.
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society (CSNA),
organized by Doug Steinley (Univ. of Missouri) and Bill Shannon
(Washington Univ.), was held at the Washington University campus in
early June (June 5-7). The 2009 meeting also will be held in St.
Louis. Organizer for 2009, Bill Shannon, has sent the following
announcement.
From Bill:
Thank you everyone who attended this years meeting which I feel was
well received. It is time to start organizing next year's
meeting.
I NEED THE INFORMATION BELOW SENT NOW. IT IS IMPORTANT TO BEGIN
ORGANIZING THE MEETING TO HAVE A GREAT EVENT IN 2009, THE 45TH
ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY.
As many of you know, the Board voted to host the annual meeting in St
Louis again next year in order to establish a consistent
organizational plan. St Louis was selected based on my willingness to
serve as organizer, the central location within the U.S., the ease of
getting to the hotel/conference site from the airport, and the
excellent facilites available at Washington University.
To increase attendance I am asking all Classification Society members
and others intersested in being active to do the following:
Send me times in June 2009 that conflict with other society
meetings. I will try to avoid as many conflicts as possible.
Send me names and web sites/contact people of other small
academic socieities which might be good candidates for meeting at the
same time (e.g., Interface, Psychometrics, ASA Section on Defense and
National Security ("Quantitative Methods in D&NS")).
Send me ideas for invited sessions you want to organize.
Thanks.
Bill Shannon
314-704-8725 (call anytime to discuss this)
Bill Shannon at wshannon at wustl dot edu
The Classification Society Distinguished
Dissertation Award
Information on the 2009 Classification Society Distinguished
Dissertation Award, supported by Chapman and Hall/CRC is now
available. Deadline is January 1, 2009. See the link to
"Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award, for PhD or equivalent
doctoral dissertation" at
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html
for more information.
Conference and Other Listings
IFCS 2009
The next IFCS Conference will be in Dresden, Germany, on 13-18 March
2009. See http://www.ifcs2009.de.
A call for papers has been posted.
COMPSTAT 2008
International Conference on Computational Statistics.
Porto - Portugal, August 24-29, 2008.
Conference webpage: http://www.fep.up.pt/compstat08/.
ISKO Spanish Chapter 2009
The Spanish Chapter of ISKO (International Society of Knowledge
Organization) announces the first call for papers for the "9th
Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter" which will be held in Valencia
on 11, 12 and 13 March 2009. Website:
http://www.iskoIX.org.
The WWW and ascii version of the CSNA Newsletter is made available as
a service of the Classification Society of North America
(
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html ).
Information on becoming a member of
CSNA is available at the CSNA website.
CSNA Webmaster:
Dave Dubin, ddubin at uiuc dot edu
Newsletter editor:
Mike Larsen, larsen at iastate dot edu
