[Forum SIS] MBC2 - Call for papers - extended deadline

[Salvatore Ingrassia]

MBC2  – An International workshop on 

Model Based Clustering and Classification

Catania (Italy), September 6-7th, 2012 



The deadline has been postponed to May 15, 2012



The workshop aims at providing a focus on the state-of-the-art research in the field of model based clustering and classification as well as a forum of scientific discussions and comparisons among young and senior researchers. The workshop will be held in Catania (Italy) on September 6-7, 2012 and takes places under the auspices of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society. 

The scientific program includes 5 main invited lectures, 15 oral presentations and a poster session. Topics concern methodological, applied and computational issues in model based clustering and classification. 

The scientific program of the workshop is based on 

·         5 main lectures (40’+20’ discussion)

·         15 contributed talks organized in 5 three-paper sessions (3 x 20’ + 30’ discussion)

·         A poster session

Contributors are requested to submit an abstract concerning their research and some background literature (papers or technical reports). 



Scientific Committee: Andrea Cerioli (University of Parma, Italy), Salvatore Ingrassia (University of Catania, Italy), Angela Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy) , Roberto Rocci (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) 

Keynote Speakers

·         Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA)

·         Friedrich Leisch (University of Vienna, Austria) 

·         Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland, Australia) 
On Mixtures of Skew Normal and Skew t-Distributions 

·         Paul McNicholas (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) 
Recent Work on Parameter Estimation and Non-Gaussian Methods

·         Jeroen K. Vermunt (University of Tilburg, The Nederlands)



Organized sessions



Robust clustering (Organizer: Andrea Cerioli, University of Parma, Italy) 
Agustin Mayo-Iscar (University of Valladolid, Spain) 
Domenico Perrotta (JRC, Ispra, Italy)



Mixture modeling (Organizer: Christian Hennig, UCL, Great Britain) 
Laura Anderlucci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Ryan Browne (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Daniel Oberski (University of Tilburg, The Nederlands)

Extended paper submission

After the workshop, papers can be submitted for publication in a special peer-reviewed issue of the Journal ADAC - Advances in Data Analysis and Classification on “Model Based Blustering and Classification” (Guest Editors: H.H. Bock, S. Ingrassia, J. Vermunt)



Important Dates

  a.. May 15, 2012: Submission of an abstract (max 500 words) and some background literature (max 3 papers or technical reports) for either paper sessions or poster session. 
  b.. June 15, 2012: Notification of the acceptance of the papers. 
  c.. June 30, 2012: Payment of registration fee (Standard registration: 120 euro). 
  d.. August 31, 2012: Submission of the slides (for oral presentations) or short papers (for poster session). Such documents will be available to the participants of the workshop.


Registration fee

The registration fee includes lunches, coffee breaks and workshop material. 

Standard registration (until June 30th, 2012): 120 euro.

Late registration (after June 30th, 2012): 150 euro.



Contact: mbc2 at unict.it

Website: http://www.economia.unict.it/mbc2/





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Prof. Salvatore Ingrassia
Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa 
Università di Catania 
Corso Italia, 55 - 95129 Catania, Italy 

Tel. +39 095 7537732
Fax +39 095 7537610
e-mail: s.ingrassia at unict.it 
web: www.economia.unict.it/ingrassia
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