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CONFERENCE: INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY - IMPS 2003 (II announcement)
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY
IMPS-2003
(SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT)
The 13th International Meeting
and the 68th Annual American Meeting of the Psychometric Society
JULY 7 – 10, 2003
CHIA LAGUNA, CAGLIARI, SARDINIA, ITALY
http://www.imps2003.unina.it/
ORGANIZED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY
IMPS is an international biannual meeting organized under the auspices of
the Psychometric Society, a no/profit international organization aimed to
encourage the development of Psychology as quantitative rational science.
The meeting concentrates on the various aspects of psychological scaling
models and procedures, including theoretical developments, applications and
computational methods. The scientific program will be characterized by
having keynote speakers, invited lectures and invited sessions.
For the first time, this will also be the Annual American Session of the
Meeting of the Psychometric Society.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to, the following:
Applications, Bayesian Statistics, Inference, Classification/Cluster
Analysis, Classical Test Theory / Educational Measurement, Factor Analysis,
Graphical Methods, Independent Component Analysis, Item Response Theory and
Test Development, Loglinear/Categorical Data Analysis, Multiway Data
Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Missing Observations, Marketing
Research/Marketing Engineering Method, Neural Network Models, Principal
Component Analysis, Quantification Theory / Dual Scaling / Homogeneity
Analysis / Correspondence Analysis / Optimal Scaling, Covariance Structure
Analysis/Structural Equation Models, Statistical Inference and Modeling,
Time Series Analysis/Longitudinal Data Analysis, Non Linear Regression,
Tree-based Models, Latent Variables, Multivariate Analysis, Model Checking /
Robustness and Diagnostics.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Jacqueline Meulman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Leo Breiman (University of Berkeley, California),
Jerome Friedman (Stanford University, California),
Ingram Olkin (Stanford University, California).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Submissions will be accepted both at the IMPS2003 e-mail address
(imps2003@unina.it) (either in pdf or Microsoft Word format), and at the
Psychometric Society website (www.psychometricsociety.org). At the latter
website, an online submission form will be provided, followed by an e-mail
link for sending the abstract as a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect file to the
Psychometric Society Central Office.
Submissions must include the following information for each author: name,
institutional affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address.
PUBLICATION
- A Volume of Abstracts will be published before the Meeting.
- A Proceedings Volume of full papers will be published after the Meeting.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the Advisory Board.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Chair: Willem Heiser (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Jacqueline Meulman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Francesco Mola (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Roberta Siciliano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chair: Francesco Mola (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Co-chairs: Jacqueline Meulman (Leiden University, The Netherlands) and
Roberta Siciliano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Giuseppe Bove (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
Marcello Chiodi (University of Palermo, Italy)
Claudio Conversano (University of Cassino, Italy)
Francesco De Antoni (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
Giorgio Garau (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Giuseppe Puggioni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Giuliana Satta (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Maria Targhetta (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Maurizio Vichi (University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy)
ADVISORY BOARD
Chair: James Ramsay (Canada)
Erling B. Andersen (Denmark)
Jaromir Antoch (Czech Republic)
Phipps Arabie (USA)
Jean Pierre Barthelemy (France)
Peter Bentler (USA)
Francesco Bertolino (Italy)
Ulf Bockenholt (USA)
Michael Browne (USA)
Paul de Boeck (Belgium)
Bruce Bloxom (USA)
J. Douglas Carroll (USA)
Mauro Coli (Italy)
Renato Coppi (Italy)
Luigi D’Ambra (Italy)
Luigi Fabbris (Italy)
Bernard Fichet (France)
Josep Fortiana (Spain)
John Gower (United Kingdom)
Patrick Groenen (The Netherlands)
Wolfgang Hardle (Germany)
Willem Heiser (The Netherlands)
Lawrence Hubert (USA)
Margo Jansen (The Netherlands)
Brian Junker (USA)
Yutaka Kano (Japan)
Henk Kiers (The Netherlands)
Jan Klaschka (Czech Republic)
Wojtek Krzanowski (UK)
Carlo Lauro (Italy)
Ludovic Lebart (France)
Gideon Mellenbergh (The Netherlands)
Jacqueline Meulman (The Netherlands)
Francesco Mola (Italy)
Ivo Molenaar (The Netherlands)
Peter Molenaar (The Netherlands)
Paola Monari (Italy)
Ab Mooijaart (The Netherlands)
Eiji Muraki (Japan)
Shizuhiko Nishisato (Canada)
Akinori Okada (Japan)
Corrado Provasi (Italy)
Walter Racugno (Italy)
Alfredo Rizzi (Italy)
Gilbert Saporta (France)
Albert Satorra (Spain)
Kazuo Shigemasu (Japan)
Roberta Siciliano (Italy)
William Stout (USA)
Yoshio Takane (USA)
David Thissen (USA)
Antony Unwin (Germany)
Wim Van der Linden (The Netherlands)
Iven Van Mechelen (Belgium)
Stanley Wasserman (USA)
Haruo Yanai (Japan)
Sergio Zani (Italy)
PRE-REGISTRATION
Interested people are invited to fill the pre/registration form at the
conference web page
http://www.imps2003.unina.it/
and to join the conference mailing list, in order to be updated about the
most important facts connected with the IMPS-2003, including deadlines,
program details and more. All information will be handled confidentially.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 2003: Abstract Submission.
People wishing to submit earlier in order to obtain a travel grant, can
submit their abstract as of now.
Acceptance notification will be sent within one month from the receipt.
March 31, 2003: Notification of acceptance.
May 1, 2003: Early Registration
CONFERENCE FEES
BEFORE May 1, 2003 AFTER May 1, 2003
Psychometric Society Members 230 Euro 330 Euro
Non-members 300 Euro 400 Euro
Student members 115 Euro 165 Euro
Student non-members 150 Euro 200 Euro
Participants can pay the registration fee at the Conference Website
www.imps2003.unina.it
Participants from the US can pay the registration fee in the same amount of
US dollars at the Psychometric Society website:
www.psychometricsociety.org
ACCOMODATION:
Conference attendants will be lodged in the hotels being part of the Chia
Laguna Area (http://www.hotelchialaguna.com/), the Hotel Laguna and the
Hotel Domus.
The address of the conference center is:
Hotel CHIA LAGUNA
Località Chia, I-09010, Italy
Tel: +39 070 92391
Fax: +39 070 9239586
Conference attendants are invited to contact directly the Chia Laguna
Reception for the reservation.
SOCIAL EVENTS
Possible excursions to be organized during the conference time are listed
below. These will be organized according to the initial indication of
interest by the conference attendants.
- Su Nuraxi of Barumini:
a special type of defensive structure, known as nuraghi, built in the
Bronze Age, for which no parallel exists anywhere else, developed on the
island of Sardinia. The complex consists of circular defensive towers in the
form of truncated cones built of dressed stone, with corbel-vaulted internal
chambers. The complex at Barumini, which was extended and strengthened in
the first half of the 1st millennium under Carthaginian pressure, is the
finest and most complete example of this remarkable form of prehistoric
architecture.
- Cagliari:
A tour in the ancient part of the capital of Sardinia
- Is Zuddas Caves:
The cave Is Zuddas is famous for a hall which contains many beautiful
Helictites or Eccentriques. They are built on Aragonite. A skeleton of the
endemic rodent Prolagus Sardus is on display near the cave entrance. It is
extinct for about 400 years and lived only in Sardinia and Corsica.
- Nora and Pula old ruins:
Nora and Pula villages are located at about 30 km. from Caglairi. Their
ruins were probably built in the Nuragic age, even if for this historical
period information are very generic. According to local traditions, Nora is
the most ancient town of Sardinia, and this seems to be also confirmed from
the ancient Phoenician stele. Recent archeological discoveries revealed a
sacred areas and an ancient Punic district.