IFCS-2015
Call for papers
Conference
of the International Federation
of Classification Societies
July 6-8, 2015
Bologna, Italy
The conference will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the IFCS, which was founded 4 July 1985.
Conference topics
Contributed papers from scholars and practitioners are invited on any of the topics below as well as on related issues:
Applications in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Biology • Banking and Finance • Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics • Biomedical Data Analysis and Imaging • Business and Industry • Classification, Discriminant Analysis,
and Supervised Learning • Clustering and Unsupervised Learning • Complex Event Processing • Data Analysis in
Archaeology • Databionics • Exploratory Data Mining • Formal Concept Analysis • Geospatial Planning • Graphics
and Vision • Image Analysis and Computer Vision • Information Retrieval and Library Science • Knowledge Discovery
• Linguistics and Musicology • Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition • Marketing and Management • Medical
and Health Sciences • Psychology and Educational Sciences • Social Network Analysis • Statistical Data Analysis and
Models • Swarm Systems • Symbolic Data Analysis • Text Mining, Web Mining, and Ontology Learning • Visualization
Scientific program committee
Francesco Palumbo
Chair
University Federico II, Naples, Italy
Angela Montanari
Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
Maurizio Vichi
Berthold Lausen
Conference
Organizer
Sugnet Lubbe
Mohamed Nadif
Université Paris Descartes, France
Iven Van Mechelen
IFCS
Past-President
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Akinori Okada
IFCS
President-Elect
Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Christian Hennig
IFCS
Secretary, BSC
Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
Paul McNicholas
Publication
officer IFCS
University of Leuven, Belgium
Tama University, Japan
UCL, London, UK
McMaster University, Canada
Nema Dean
Treasurer IFCS
University of Glasgow, UK
Andrea Cerioli
ClaDAG
KCS
SOLCAD
SSS
Tama University, Japan
SKAD
Abderrahmane Sbihi
MCA
Bryan Scotney
IPRCS
Fernanda Sousa
CLAD
University of Ulster, UK
Doug Steinley
CS
Jose Fernando Vera
SEIO
Jeroen Vermunt
VOC
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi
ISBIS
Delegate
Patrick Groenen
IASC
Delegate
ESSEC Business School, France
ClaDAG
University of Pavia, Italy
Tadashi Imaizumi
Józef Pociecha
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Paolo Giudici
GSDA
Universidad di Granada, Spain
Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico
Anuška Ferligoj
Iannis Papadimitriou
University of Missouri, USA
Korean Classification Society
Carlos Cuevas Covarrubias
SFC
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
University of Parma, Italy
Daewoo Choi
SUSE
University of Cape Town, South Africa
IFCS
President
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
GfKl
University of Essex, UK
Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
JCS
ClaDAG
Organizers
Department of Statistical Sciences - University of Bologna
Angela Montanari - Conference Organizer
Laura Anderlucci
Silvia Bianconcini
Silvia Cagnone
Luca De Angelis
Giuliano Galimberti
Alessandro Lubisco
Paola Monari
Luisa Stracqualursi
Cinzia Viroli
Under the auspices of:
ClaDAG - Italian Statistical Society, CLAssification and Data Analysis Group
Timeline
Submission of abstracts
Titles and abstracts should be submitted and uploaded via the conference website
http://ifcs.boku.ac.at/ifcs2015 before March 31, 2015. All abstracts will be subject to a peer
review process. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 15, 2015.
Important dates:
March 31, 2015:
Deadline abstract submission
April 15, 2015:
Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2015:
Deadline standard registration
June 15, 2015:
Deadline late registration on line
July 5, 2015:
Preconference workshops
July 6-8, 2018:
IFCS-2015 conference
Awards will be given to selected papers. For further details see:
https://ifcs.boku.ac.at/_conference/index.php/ifcs2015/index/pages/view/awards
Conference fees
Standard
Late
Late with poster
until May 15,2015
after May 15,2015
after May 15,2015
IFCS Societies Member*
280,00 €
350,00 €
280,00 €
Non member
350,00 €
420,00 €
350,00 €
Student
150,00 €
150,00 €
150,00 €
*IASC and ISBIS members are entitled to IFCS societies members reduced fees
Conference venue
Bologna: The erudite, the red and the fat
Bologna is named “The erudite”, because its University is one of the oldest of the World…
... the red, because of the color of the roofs of its houses, that maintains alive the typical
colors of the medieval age
... the fat, because it has a tasty gastronomy that could satisfy every palate
The “Alma Mater Studiorum”
The University of Bologna was probably the first University in the western world and
represents a point of reference in the panorama of European culture. The University began its
activities at the end of the eleventh century; the year 1088 is actually assumed as the realistic
birthdate. In 1888 the eighth centennial of the University was celebrated with a grand
ceremony where all the universities of the world convened in Bologna to honor the “Alma
Mater Studiorum” (Nourishing Mother of Studies), the mother of universities, representing
their common roots and ideals of progress and tolerance.
Contacts
Mail: stat.ifcs2015@unibo.it
We look forward to seeing you in Bologna in July 2015
Francesco Palumbo
Chair Scientific Program Committee
Angela Montanari
Chair Local Organizing Committee
Maurizio Vichi
President of IFCS