Phipps Arabie, President
Mel Janowitz, President-Elect
Mike Larsen, Newsletter Editor
Classification Society of North America (CSNA) Newsletter
October 2005, Issue #70
Contents
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Notes from Newsletter Editor
Greetings and Welcome to the Fall of 2005
edition of the CSNA Newsletter!
The 2006 CSNA meeting will occur at the DIMACS Center at Rutgers
University, May 10-13, 2006. CSNA president-elect Mel Janowitz is
organizing. David Banks and Bill Shannon are the program committee
members. The meeting will overlap with the DIMACS
workshop on Clustering Problems in Biological Networks May 9 - 11,
2006. Despite the fact that the date is a little earlier than usual,
we hope that many of you will be able to attend the CSNA meeting and
that several of you will also take advantage of hte DIMACS workshop.
The 2005 meeting, joint with the Interface foundation (see previous
newsletters), was a big success in part due to the interaction with
researchers from diverse backgrounds and interests.
CSNA elections are upcoming. Nominations can be made until November
1, 2005. If you are not a CSNA member, you still have time to sign
up. See previous newsletters and the CSNA homepage for information on
becoming a member. The current board of directors is listed in this
edition for your information.
As always, suggestions, comments, and news items are welcome.
Best regards,
Mike
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CSNA Annual Conference Information
Classification Society of North America 2006 Meeting
on
Network Data Analysis and Data Mining:
Applications in Biology, Computer Science,
Intrusion Detection, and Other areas
May 10 - 13, 2006
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Organizer:
Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, melj at dimacs dot rutgers dot edu
Program Committee:
David Banks, Duke University, banks at stat dot duke dot edu
William Shannon, Washington University School of Medicine,
shannon at ilya dot wustl dot edu
This meeting will be held partly as a joint meeting with the DIMACS
workshop on Clustering Problems in Biological Networks May 9 - 11,
2006.
This is the annual meeting of the Classification Society of North
America. (CSNA). Further information about CSNA may be obtained from
its web site
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html.
The theme of the meeting is Network Data Analysis and Data Mining:
Applications in Biology, Sociology, Computer Science, Intrusion
Detection, and Related Areas.
Further information about the meeting may be obtained by email from
csna06 at dimacs dot rutgers to edu. Proposals for special sessions,
contributed papers and invited speakers are welcome and may be
submitted via this email address.
This meeting will be held partly as a joint meeting with the DIMACS
workshop "Clustering Problems in Biological Networks" that is being
held May 9-11, 2006 at DIMACS. See:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Clustering/. Both DIMACS and the
CSNA cordially invite you to participate in these
meetings. Registration for the CSNA meeting alone is welcome, and
there will also be a special combined rate available for people
wishing to attend both events.
The general theme involves data analysis of various types of networks,
and as is typical in DIMACS sponsored events, the meeting will involve
interdisciplinary approaches that will include ideas from discrete
mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Background material
will be provided by means of tutorials and expository talks, and there
will be a strong emphasis on the solution of real world problems. The
formation of research alliances for future work will be
encouraged. CSNA meetings are traditionally informal and
interdisciplinary. The annual meeting of CSNA will be held as part of
this meeting, as will the meeting of its Board of Directors.
The organizers of the meeting are especially interested in the
inclusion of a wide variety of contributed papers involving
applications and theory for classification, clustering and related
methodologies as they might apply to topics related to the theme of
the meeting. There will be ample opportunity for informal discussions
and the exploration of new research ideas. Suggestions for invited
paper sessions, short courses, panel discussions and invited speakers
are encouraged, and may be directed by email to
csna06 at dimacs dot rutgers dot edu. Proposals for contributed talks
or special sessions should be directed to that same address.
Registration: Pre-registration deadline: May 3, 2006
Please see website for additional registration information.
Information on participation, registration, accommodations, and travel
can be found at:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/CSNA/.
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CSNA Elections Upcoming
The Nominating Committee (Mel Janowitz, Chair; Phipps Arabie, Jennifer Pittman
Clarke, Herbie Lee, Stan Sclove) has formed a slate, as follows. These
people have agreed to run.
President-Elect -- to become President on 1-January-2008 (two
candidates, one to be elected)
Fionn Murtagh Bill Shannon
Secretary / Treasurer (one candidate, one to be elected)
Stan Sclove
Board of Directors (four candidates, two to be elected)
Carolyn Anderson
F. James Rohlf
Stanley Wasserman
Jayson Wilbur
The list of current officers is given below, so that you
can see who will continuing.
There is a
provision for nominations "from the floor". From the CSNA
By-Laws:
" . . . the membership shall
be notified of a closing date for direct nominations at least 30 days
in advance, and any member for whom the Secretary receives at least
five nominations from voting members in writing shall be eligible to
run for office. "
This note was sent to the entire CSNA e-mail list, as a matter of
information. If you are a voting
member (a regular or student member in good standing,having paid dues
for the year
2005), and you wish to make a further nomination, of a person who is as of
today a member in good standing,please let me hear from you by
1-November. E-mail suffices. If at least four others nominate the
person you name,the person will be slated.
Thanks.
-- stan
Stan Sclove, Sec'y/Treas., CSNA,
slsclove at uic dot edu.
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CSNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS, eff. 1-Jan-2005
latest update 2005: Jan 6
OFFICE OFFICER TERM E-MAIL
OFFICER DIRECTORS
Past Pres. Stanley Wasserman 2004-2005 stanwass at indiana.edu
Pres. Phipps Arabie 2004-2005 arabie at andromeda.rutgers.edu
Pres.-Elect Melvin F. Janowitz 2004-2005 melj at dimax.rutgers.edu
Secy/Treas. Stanley L. Sclove 2003-2005 slsclove at uic.edu
ELECTED DIRECTORS
Director Carolyn J. Anderson 2003-2005 cja at uiuc.edu
Director Kert Viele 2003-2005 viele at ms.uky.edu
Director Michael Brusco 2004-2006 mbrusco at garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Director Wm. D. Shannon 2004-2006 wshannon at wustl.edu
Director Robert C Powers 2005-2007 rcpowe01 at louisville.edu
Director Douglas Steinley 2005-2007 steinleyd at missouri.edu
EDITOR DIRECTORS
J. of Cl. Willem Heiser (indefinite) heiser at fsw.leidenuniv.nl
CSNA Service Fionn Murtagh (indefinite) fmurtagh at acm.org
Newsletter Michael D. Larsen (indefinite) larsen at iastate.edu
Webmaster David S. Dubin (indefinite) ddubin at uiuc.edu
REPRESENTATIVES TO IFCS COUNCIL
(Elected by Board. By custom, the terms are overlapping terms of four years.)
F. R. Buck McMorris 2002-2005 mcmorris at iit.edu
F. James Rohlf 2004-2007 rohlf at life.bio.sunysb.edu
Notes.
(i) There are 16 positions: four officers, six elected directors, four
editors, and two ex officio IFCS Reps. The IFCS Reps are non-voting members
of the Board.
(ii) For matters regarding the Journal, please use:
joc at fsw dot leidenuniv dot nl
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New Contract with Springer for Journal of
Classification
New publishing agreement for the Journal of
Classification
After over a year of negotiations, the CSNA now has a new publishing
agreement for the Journal of Classification (JoC). It is effective
1/1/06. The terms are much more favorable to CSNA than the original
agreement that was established in 1983. The format, size, and
frequency of publication of the journal will be the same.
Some highlights that are important to members include:
- Subscriptions will include both print and electronic editions of
the JoC (older issues of the JoC will be scanned and made available
electronically). CSNA members will be issued passwords by Springer to
allow access to the electronic edition including back issues.
- There will be no page charges unless a paper contains
exceedingly complicated type material, color pictures, foldouts, or
similar material.
- An author can choose to have their article made available free
of charge for all online users (open publishing). The current charge
for this is $3,000.
- Members have the right to purchase books from Springer with a 20%
discount through their website (this benefit is available now). (See
the previous newsletter for details.)
Some of the important highlights that are important to the society are
as follows:
- CSNA owns the JoC, all copyrights, and membership lists.
- The term of this agreement is six years and the terms of a
renewal can be negotiated in the final year.
- The cost of publication is on a sliding scale that will be
reduced as we increase our membership.
- With the approval of the editor, Springer can include a limited
number (maximum of two pages at the back) of advertisements in the
JoC.
- Springer will pay the CSNA a fee to defray its editorial
expenses.
- Authors are allowed to place a copy of their paper on a personal
website as long as a citation to the published article is included.
The members of the committee that negotiated the new agreement were
F. James Rohlf, Mel Janowitz, Phipps Arabie, and Willem Heiser. This
news is reported by F. James Rohlf.
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Conference Listings
The 2006 Meeting of the Society for Social
Choice and Welfare
The Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and
Welfare will be held in Istanbul, 13-17 July 2006. This is a short and
early announcement to facilitate your making travel plans. As the
meeting draws closer, more information will be posted on its website,
which is already open at
http://scw2006.bilgi.edu.tr.
See also
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/socialchoice.html.
Other Listings
The IFCS conference page:
http://www.classification-society.org/ifcsconf.html
American Statistical Association meetings page:
http://www.amstat.org/meetings
The International Biometric Society conferences page:
http://www.tibs.org/conferences.htm
Institute of Mathematical Statistics meetings page:
http://www.imstat.org/meetings/
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About CSNA
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a service of the Classification Society of North America (web site:
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
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