KNEMO'06 Conference: Call for Papers

[Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi <vincenzo.espositovinzi@unina.it>]

International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Modeling
(KNEMO'06)
September 4th-6th, 2006
Island of Capri (Italy)
(
www.knemo.unina.it)

organised by
Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Naples
“Federico II” Italy

and jointly sponsored by:
IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing)
INTERFACE (Interface between Statistics and Computing)
IFCS (International Federation of Classification Societies)

The objective of the Workshop (a satellite event of COMPSTAT 2006
Conference in Rome, w3.uniroma1.it/compstat2006/) is to give an overview
on the theme of "Knowledge Extraction & Modeling" with
up-to-date lectures showing the state-of-art but also the most recent
advances and future challenges. The Workshop is aimed at focusing on a
theme that is not yet firmly established in literature or research.
Namely, the Workshop is meant to address the analysis of "complex
systems" where the difficulty of analysis is not only the
availability of huge masses of data but also the complex structure of
relationships. It is somehow the problem of extracting information from
models, not just data. The challenge consists in considering the
interaction between Knowledge Extraction and Modeling by investigating
two possible directions: Knowledge Extraction from models, Knowledge
Extraction by modeling.

The structure of the Workshop foresees key-note speakers that can provide
lectures on the theme of interest from different points of view (data
analysis, machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining etc.),
discuss among them and with the other attendees during the days of the
Workshop and then conclude the Workshop with a round table where the
results of the discussion hold and the thinking done during the Workshop
are expressed.

A group of scientists have been invited to discuss on the theme of the
Workshop during the forthcoming months that preceed the beginning of the
Workshop. The idea is to collect all possible opinions from the known
international leaders in the different fields of interest to the themes
of the Workshop and then produce a document that will represent the
Manifesto of the Workshop. This Manifesto will comprise the leading
thread that shall give life to the presentations and discussions held
during the Workshop. 

Among the scientists invited to the pre-Workshop discussion and tentative
invited speakers: 

Tomas Aluja-Banet (Spain), Stan Azen (USA), Helena Bacelar Nicolau
(Portugal), Hans Bock (Germany), Amy Braverman (USA), Hamparsum Bozdogan
(USA), Edwin Diday (France), Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi (Italy), Wolfgang
Haerdle (Germany), David Hand (UK), Henk Kiers (The Netherlands), Erricos
Kontoghiorghes (Cyprus), Carlo Lauro (Italy), Yves Lechevallier (France),
Alain Morineau (France), Alfredo Rizzi (Italy), Michael Schimek
(Austria), Roberta Siciliano (Italy), Michel Tenenhaus (France), Rosanna
Verde (Italy), Maurizio Vichi (Italy), Giorgio Vittadini (Italy), Ed
Wegman (USA) 

Aside the key-note speakers, tutorials will be ensured and, finally,
research papers may be submitted and presented by other scientists who
wish to contribute and do not necessarily come from the field of
Statistics (e.g. computer science, machine learning, bioinformatics, etc.
with a background related also to application fields). 

Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (2 pages)
of their paper to Prof. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi no later than March
24th, 2006. The contents of the abstract should clearly contain the
following information about the paper:

- Relationship with literature
- Original contributions with main formulas
- Methodological, computational and/or application relevance
- Main references

For more information:
Prof. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi
Dipartimento di Matematica e Statistica
Facoltà di Economia
Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
Via Cintia, 26 - Complesso Monte Sant'Angelo
80126 Napoli - Italy
e-mail: vincenzo.espositovinzi@unina.it
Web:

www.knemo.unina.it