[Forum SIS] Second Call for Papers-CLADAG PAVIA September 2011

[Paola Cerchiello]

Call for Papers

The 8th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis
Group of the Italian Statistical Society

Theme: Classification, Clustering, Data Analysis, Multivariate
Analysis, Computational statistics and their applications



Venue: University of Pavia, Strada Nuova 65, Pavia

Date: September 7-9, 2011



Conference Website: www.cladag2011.it


CLADAG promotes advanced methodological research in multivariate
statistics with a special interest in Data Analysis and
Classification. It supports the interchange of ideas in these fields
of research, including the dissemination of concepts, numerical
methods, algorithms, computational and applied results. CLADAG
organizes a biennial international scientific meeting, schools related
to classification and data analysis, publishes a newsletter, and
cooperates with other member societies of the IFCS in the organization
of their conferences.



This year’s conference will address, in particular, young
statisticians, whose presented papers will be  the subjects of a
research prize competition, and professionals, whose presented papers
will be organized in thematic sessions.





People who wish to submit a paper should send a tentative title by
January 31,2011 by filling in the on-line form. A short paper should
be sent to the Scientific Committee by April 5, 2011 – guidelines on
the conference web site.

Short Papers will be refereed. Accepted manuscripts will be published
in a Book of Short Papers.

Authors are encouraged to submit full papers after the conference.
These will be reviewed and, if accepted, published in a Proceedings
volume by Springer in the series ‘Studies in Classification, Data
Analysis and Knowledge Organization’.



 The conference will contain also a symposium on: “Reputation: a
statistical challenge?” This  satellite workshop will be devoted to
listen, discuss and understand how statistical methods can help
quantifying this central topic of today society. In the session
professional experts will discuss how to practically measure
reputation in different fields such as Business, Finance and  the
Academic sector.



Yours sincerely,



Paolo Giudici & Paola Cerchiello

Local Organizing Committee

www.cladag2011.it



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Paola Cerchiello
Dipartimento di Statistica ed Economia Applicate 'L.Lenti'
Tel 0382984348