Announcement: Joint meeting of CSNA Classification Society of North
America) and BCS (The British Classification Society). Further details of
this meeting may be obtained from the BCS web site
http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~bcs/
Analysis and Classification of Large Complex Datasets
Friday, 2 February 2007, Brunel University
Local organization: Prof. Xiaohui Liu
Intelligent Data Analysis Group
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Provisional timetable
10:00-12:30 Talks: surveys and state of the art
12:30-14:00 Lunch on campus
14:00-15:30 Discussion on organizational perspectives:
The discussion will center around future cooperation between CSNA and BCS,
and will include plans for best dissertation and best BCS/CSNA conference
paper prizes. Short-term and medium term goals and relationships will also
be discussed.
15:45-17:00 Discussion on research and funding perspectives: establishing
a national research Network, and possible plans for a research network at
European level.
Dinner from 18:30
Speakers at this meeting will be
Xiaohui Liu (Brunel), on bioinformatics
Peter Willett (Sheffield), on virtual screening techniques for chemical
databases
Geoff Downs (Leeds), on clustering chemical databases
Mel Janowitz (DIMACS), on formal concept analysis and its relation to
clustering
Bob Nichol (Portsmouth), on cosmology
Boris Mirkin (Birkbeck), on "Neigbourhood Similarity Clustering for
Complex Data and Domain Knowledge" (applied in Bioinformatics)
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