[Forum SIS] MBC2 2018 - Workshop on Model-Based Clustering and Classification - Call for papers

[Salvatore Ingrassia]

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MBC2  – 4th International Workshop on 
Model-Based Clustering and Classification
Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università di Catania
Catania (Italy), September 5-7, 2018

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 in different areas of statistics and data science. Topics concern methodological, applied and computational issues in model-based clustering and classification. The workshop will take place in Catania (Italy) on September 5-7, 2018 with the support of the Italian Statistical Society and the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG). 
Scientific Committee
Christophe Biernacki (France), Andrea Cerioli (Italy), Luis Angel García-Escudero (Spain), Christian Hennig (UK), Salvatore Ingrassia (Italy), Geoffrey McLachlan (Australia), Volodymyr Melnykov (USA), Angela Montanari (Italy), Roberto Rocci (Italy), Maurizio Vichi (Italy).


Scientific Program
•	5 main lectures (40'+15' discussion)
•	21 oral presentations organized in 7 talk sessions (20' for each talk + 25' discussion in each session)
•	18 Lightning talks (3') + poster session for discussion

Confirmed Main Lecturers
•	Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich, CH) 
•	Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol, UK)
•	Eustasio del Barrio (University of Valladolid, Spain) 
•	Dimitris Karlis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) 
•	Cinzia Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy)

Important Dates
•	May 7, 2018: Submission of an abstract  for either paper or poster sessions
•	June 4, 2018: Notification of the acceptance.
•	June 30, 2018: Payment of registration fee (standard registration: 210 euro).
•	August 26, 2018: Submission of the slides and references (to be uploaded in the dropbox folder).


Registration fee
The registration fee includes lunches, coffee breaks and workshop material. 
•	Standard registration (until June 30, 2018): EUR 210.
•	Late registration (after June 30, 2018): EUR 260.

The workshop will take place at Collegio d’Aragona (Via Ventimiglia 184, 95129 Catania, Italy). 

For more information, visit: http://mbc2.unict.it/



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Salvatore Ingrassia, Ph.D. 
Professor of Statistics
Department of Economics and Business 
Data Science Research Group
University of Catania (Italy)

Corso Italia, 55 - 95129 Catania, Italy 
Tel. +39 095 7537732
Fax +39 095 7537610
e-mail: s.ingrassia at unict.it 
http://www.dei.unict.it/docenti/salvatore.ingrassia
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