Welcome to the Fall of 2006
edition of the CSNA Newsletter!
The 2007 CSNA meeting will occur at UIUC in June. Consider attending
and forwarding information on the conference to potentially interested
colleagues.
Another meeting ... in England! A short meeting with the British
Classification Society will include a few talks and discussion of
future collaborations between the Societies.
Renew your membership today for 2007! There are many membership
benefits. Consider passing the newsletter link and conference link on
to your colleagues and encourage them to join. In 2008, there will be
a CSNA meeting in the U.S. as well as an IFCS meeting in Germany.
Vote! Elections for two seats on the governing board are ongoing.
Thanks to all who contributed information for this newsletter!
The Classification Society of North America will hold its annual
meeting on June 7 - 10, 2007, at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The meeting is sponsored by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the UIUC College of
Education and the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science. The organizers of the meeting are David Dubin and Carolyn
Anderson.
We invite proposals for contributed paper sessions in all areas
relating to classification, clustering and data analysis. Proposals
are due March 2, 2007.
CSNA 2007 will follow directly after the 2007 Digital Humanities
meeting, and our meetings will intersect on June 7 with a Joint
Workshop on Data Analysis and Research in the Humanities. DH 2007 and
CSNA 2007 will have a mutual registration agreement, by which
participants in either meeting will be able to attend sessions at
both. So plan to come to Urbana early for the start of the DH meeting
on June 2nd. Persons wishing to participate in planning the Humanities
Data Analysis Workshop should contact David Dubin
(ddubin at uiuc dot edu). Further information on the Digital Humanities
meeting can be found at
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/.
Our keynote speaker will be Michael J. Kurtz of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Kurtz will be speaking on The
Astronomical Information Network.
Announcement: All CSNA members are cordially invited to attend the
following joint meeting of CSNA and BCS (The British Classification
Society). Further details of this meeting may be obtained from the BCS
web site
http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~bcs/:
Analysis and Classification of Large Complex Datasets.
The meeting will occur Friday, 2 February 2007, at Brunel University.
Local organization: Prof. Xiaohui Liu
Intelligent Data Analysis Group
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Provisional timetable
10:00-12:30 Talks: surveys and state of the art
12:30-14:00 Lunch on campus
14:00-15:30 Discussion on organizational perspectives:
The discussion will center around future cooperation between
CSNA and BCS, and will include plans for best dissertation and best
BCS/CSNA conference paper prizes. Short-term and medium term goals and
relationships will also be discussed.
15:45-17:00 Discussion on research and funding perspectives:
establishing a national research Network, and possible plans for a
research network at European level.
Dinner from 18:30
Speakers at this meeting will be
Xiaohui Liu (Brunel), on bioinformatics
Peter Willett (Sheffield), on virtual screening techniques for
chemical databases
Geoff Downs (Leeds), on clustering chemical databases
Mel Janowitz (DIMACS), on formal concept analysis and its relation to
clustering
Bob Nichol (Portsmouth), on cosmology
Boris Mirkin (Birkbeck), on "Neigbourhood Similarity Clustering for
Complex Data and Domain Knowledge" (applied in Bioinformatics) Return to Top
From the Secretary/Treasurer, Stan Sclove
From the Secretary/Treasurer, Stanley L. Sclove
Department of Information & Decision Sciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago
slsclove at uic dot edu
MEETINGS
A very successful CSNA2006 meeting was hosted in May by CSNA President
Mel Janowitz at Rutgers University's Center for Discrete Mathematics
and Computer Science (DIMACS), where Mel is Associate Director.
A report of the meeting was contained in the previous newsletter.
Dave Dubin is hosting CSNA2007 at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. This will be in early June, in
conjunction with the Digital Humanities group.
Further information is given elsewhere in this newsletter.
Plans for CSNA2008 will begin to be made soon.
Doug Steinley of the University of Missouri has offered to organize
the meeting.
ELECTION NOW
Each year, the terms of two members of the
Board of Directors expire, and those two positions on the Board are
to be filled. The Nominating Committee
(Herbie Lee, Chair; Mel Janowitz, Fionn Murtagh, Bill Shannon and myself)
has chosen three persons, who have agreed to run. They are
Michael J. Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Samantha Bates Prins, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg
Padhraic Smyth, Department of Information & Computer Science,
University of California - Irvine
According to the election procedure provided by the by-laws, the
Secretary will issue (by e-mail to the eligible voters)
a call for nominations "from the floor" (by petition of at least five
members). A month is allowed for this. (Often there are no additions
to the slate provided by the Nominating Committee.) This was done.
Now is the one-month voting period. The voting will be
on-line by a ballot prepared by CSNA (and IFCS) Webmaster Dave Dubin.
The Secretary recently sent an e-mail reminder to eligible voters.
See elsewhere in this newsletter for a link to the voting site if you
are eligible.
MEMBERSHIP
Urge your colleagues to join CSNA !
Benefits of membership include:
A subscription to the Journal of Classification
bibliographic Classification Literature Automated Search Service CD
20% discount on all Springer books
Online access to all back issues of the Journal of Classification
Discount registration fees at the annual CSNA meeting
There are three candidates, Michael Kurtz, Samantha Bates Prins, and
Padhraic Smyth, for the two positions on the Board.
Bios of the candidates are included on the site. The voting period is
to be thirty (30) days long; therefore, the closing date is thirty
(30) days from now (24-November), that is, 24-December.
From Professor Anil K. Jain of Michigan State University:
I've received notice of an endowed scholarship established there in
his memory of Professor Richard Dubes. Attached is a description of
the scholarship fund and a picture of Dick.
From Stan Sclove:
Dick passed away a dozen years ago. Anil gave a tribute to him at
the CSNA meeting in Houston in 1994. The book Algorithms for
Clustering Data (Prentice Hall, 1988) by Jain and Dubes
is one of the clustering/classification classics included on CSNA's
Classification Literature Automated Search Service bibliographic CD.
You may remember Dick and may want to contribute to this fund.
WILF 2007 7th International
Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications,
Hotel Portofino Kulm - Portofino Vetta, Ruta di Camogli (Genova),
Italy, July 7-10, 2007.
Conference Website:
http://wilf2007.disi.unige.it.
WILF 2007 covers all topics in theoretical, experimental and applied fuzzy
techniques and systems and is aimed to bring together researchers
and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest
scientific and theoretical advances, to discuss and debate major
issues and to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems.
IFCS 2008
IFCS, the INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES.
IFCS 2008; Dresden, Germany; July, 2008.
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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:
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