::::::: President's Corner :::::::

Dawn Iacobucci
Department of Marketing
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

The CSNA Secretary has some news. First, the following new members have been elected to CSNA! Congratulations and thanks go to: Tony Babinec, I. Barthelemy, Percy B. Brown, Anil Chaturvedi, Trevor F. Cox, Dr. Wolfgang Fleischer, Jens C. Frisvad, George Garrity, R. J. Henery, Christian Hennig, Henk A. L. Kiers, An-Hsiang Kuo, Georgios F. P. Martakis, Gabor S. Melli, Dr. Jake Milman, Vadim Pliner, Venkatram Ramaswamy, Maurice Roux, Richard Schwarz, D. J. Smith, Margaret A. Waterman, Yuh-Cherng Wu, Herman Wynne.

Second, please check to see that the number on your mailing label is "95" or higher--the number reflects the last year for which you have paid dues. If you have not yet paid 1995 dues, please do so. You can send a check ($65 regular membership, $35 for students, $50 for Journal of Classification only) to me at the above address. Alternatively, you can send a Visa/MC number (we do not take AmEx, Discover, Diners' Club, Nordstrom's, etc.). Be sure to include your authorization signature, the expiration date, and how much you should be charged (see fees above). Also include your email address so that I can keep the CSNA files up-to-date.

Third, the first issue of the journal should arrive to each of you within the next month or so. If you have not received it by the end of the summer, or if you have any CSNA-related questions, please let me know -- I am always glad to try to track down errors and try to fix things (d- iacobucci@nwu.edu).

Thank you. Dawn Iacobucci

F.R. McMorris
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
frmcmo01@homer.louisville.edu
(502)852-6826

This issue contains the scientific program from the Denver meeting. The minutes of Board of Directors and the General Business meetings were sent to all members of the society.

1995 Annual Meeting
Classification Society of North America
June 22-25 1995
Denver, Colorado

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Program Chair: Peter Bryant, University of Colorado at Denver

Friday, June 23

Session 1. CLASSIFICATION AND NEURAL NETS
Organizer and Chair: Manavendra Misra, Colorado School of Mines

B. Warner, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, INCORPORATING A NEURAL NETWORK INTO LOGISTIC REGRESSION
L. Pratt & C. Medina, Colorado School of Mines, FORENSIC HAIR ANALYSIS USING PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES
D. Miller, A. Rao, K. Rose & A. Gersho, University of California at Santa Barbara, AN INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH TO OPTIMAL DESIGN OF STATISTICAL CLASSIFIERS
M. P. Peacock and P. A. Olmos-Gallo, University of Denver, COMPARISON OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR CLASSIFICATION METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DYSLEXIA

Session 2: CLASSIFICATION IN MARKETING
Organizers and Chairs: J. Douglas Carroll, Rutgers University and Paul E. Green, University of Pennsylvania

P. E. Green & A. M. Krieger, University of Pennsylvania, COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CLUSTER-BASED MARKET SEGMENTATION
A. Chaturvedi, J. D. Carroll, P. E. Green & J. A. Rotondo, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Rutgers University and University of Pennsylvania, AN OVERLAPPING K-CENTROIDS APPROACH TO CLUSTER ANALYSIS
V. Ramaswamy, R. Chatterjee & S. H. Cohen, University of Michigan and Stratford Associates, MARKET SEGMENTATION ON MULTIPLE BASES WITH PICK-ANY DATA: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
F. Carmone, Wright State University, Discussion of previous papers

Session 3: INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Don Dearholt, Mississippi State University

Bernard Harris & Erhard Godehart, University of Wisconsin & Heinrich- Heine-Universitaet, PROBABILITY MODELS AND LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM INTERVAL GRAPHS WITH APPLICATIONS TO CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Helena Bacelar-Nicolau & F. C. Nicolau, Universidade de Lisboa & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, THE FORMULA OF LANCE & WILLIAMS AND ITS EXTENSION TO CLASSIFICATION MODELS OF VL TYPE

Session 4: GRAPHS AND GRAPH THEORY
Chair: Dawn Iacobucci, Northwestern University

D. W. Dearholt, Mississippi State University, GROWING-SPHERE GRAPHS AS A GENERALIZATION OF SPHERE OF INFLUENCE GRAPHS AND THE UNION OF MINTREES
T. E. Goldsmith & P. J. Johnson, University of New Mexico, PREDICTIVENES OF HIGHER-ORDER GRAPH STRUCTURE

Session 5: STATISTICAL IDEAS IN CLASSIFICATION
Chair: Arthur J. Kendall, U. S. Government

B. Mirkin and I. Muchnik, Rutgers University and T. F. Smith, Boston University, A BIOLOGICALLY MEANINGFUL MODEL FOR COMPARING MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC TREES
M. Zhang, Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc., APPLICATIONS OF SPLINE TRANSFORMATIONS TO BUILDING MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION
S. Wasserman & P. Pattison, University of Illinois & University of Melbourne, LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR GRAPHS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Saturday, June 24, 1995

Session 6: CLASSIFICATION AND AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION
Organizer and Chair: David Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University

J. Rudman, Carnegie-Mellon University, STATISTICS AND AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION STUDIES
D. I. Holmes, University of the West of England, MULTIVARIATE APPROACHES TO AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION
W. Elliott, Claremont McKenna College, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: A COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS OF THE SHAKESPEARE CLAIMANTS
D. Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University, Discussion of above papers

Session 7. GRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS
Chair: Peter Bryant, University of Colorado at Denver

P. A. Olmos-Gallo, University of Denver, MULTI-LAYER RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK THAT CAN IMPROVE GENERALIZATION
J. L. Goldberg, Texas A&M University, LEARNING METHOD FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION
L. A. Alfonso-Reese, F. G. Ashby & D. H. Brainard, University of California at Santa Barbara, CATEGORIZATION EFFICIENCY MEASURED WITH TRIVARIATE STIMULI

Session 8. GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND NEURAL NETS
Chair: Dennis Johnston, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

L. Bobrowski, M. Vriesenda & J. Sklansky, University of California at Irvine, RESUBSTITUTION CRITERIA IN THE DESIGN OF LINEAR CLASSIFIERS
J. E. Boggess, Mississippi State University, USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM TO EVOLVE A SET OF RULES FOR CLASSIFYING ROADS IN SATELLITE IMAGES
M. Pei, Y. Ding, W. F. Punch III & E. K. Goodman, Beijing Union University & Michigan State University, GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND FEATURE EXTRACTION

Session 9. VARIOUS ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS
Chair: Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh

M. Mazumdar, D. F. Bajorin, R. J. Motzer, V. Vlamis & G. J. Bosi, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, CLASSIFICATION OF PATIENTS WITH GERM CELL TUMORS (GCT) USING FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF RESPONSE TO PLATINUM-BASED CHEMOTHERAPY
W. H. E. Day, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CONSENSUS RULES FOR MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: THEORY VS. BIOLOGY
D. Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University, CLUSTERING PROBLEMS THAT ARISE IN THE ANALYSIS OF DATA ON PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION ON THE INTERNET

Sunday, June 25, 1995

Session 10. CLASSIFICATION AND MODEL SELECTION
Organizer/Chair: Hamparsum Bozdogan, University of Tennessee

H-K Luh, J. Gittleman & H. Bozdogan, University of Tennessee, CORRELATED EVOLUTION MODEL USING A MULTIPLE REGRESSION WITH PHYLOGENETICALLY AUTOREGRESSIVE ERROR COMPONENTS
M. Smith de Borrero, Lehigh University, DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF MIXTURE COMPONENTS: A SIMULATION STUDY
C. Hild & H. Bozdogan, University of Tennessee, TREE-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF PREDICTORS IN REGRESSION MODELS AND STRUCTURE DETERMINATION VIA SELF- ORGANIZATION: THE GMDH

Session 11. APPLICATIONS OF CLASSIFICATION: MOSTLY IN MARKETING
Chair: Michael Windham, Utah State University

A. Kara, Pennsylvania State University of York, AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE "HEURISTIC IDENTIFICATION OF NOICE VARIABLES (HINOV)" ALGORITHM
S. M. Keaveney, University of Colorado at Denver, CONSUMERS' PRICE- QUALITY SCHEMAS FOR SERVICES
M. A. Arrufat, Manacon, Inc., A MONTE-CARLO STUDY TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF A [NEW] FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHM USED IN MARKET DEFINITION AND SEGMENTATION
R. P. Mignogna, Technology/Engineering Management, Inc and D. I. Hart, Western Geophysical, A COMPARISON OF NEURAL NETWORK AND LINEAR PROGRAMMING-BASED PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO SEISMIC PROCESSING