Winner of the Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award 2011 The Award honors the best PhD (or approximately equivalent doctoral) dissertation nominated by an annual deadline. The theme is clustering, classification, related areas of data analysis, encompassing both associated theory and/or applications.
The 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award winner is Dr. Frank Busing for his dissertation "Advances in Multidimensional Unfolding" defended at Leiden University in April 2010. All 7 nominations were of excellent quality and are listed at http://www.classification-society.org/csna/dissaward-shortlist11.html . In 2011 the Award totals US$500 in book vouchers from Chapman and Hall/CRC. The winner is invited to make a presentation in a special plenary session at the Classification Society 2011 Meeting with CS providing travel funds. ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
