International Federation of Classification Societies Newsletter

President: Akinori Okada Number 55 March, 2017

Editor: Paul McNicholas

Contents The International Federation of Words from the IFCS President Classification Societies, founded in 1985, is News from the IFCS Secretary composed of: News from the IFCS Publication Officer

News from IFCS-2017 Organizing Team Associação Portuguesa de Classificação e BRCA Data Analysis Award Winner Análise de Dados, British Classification News from CLAD Society, Central American and Carribean News from the JCS Society of Classification and Data Analysis, News from The Classification Society The Classification Society, Classification SDA 2017 and Multivariate Statistics Group of the CLADAG 2017 Hungarian Statistical Association, Upcoming Conferences and Meetings Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, Greek Society of Data Analysis, Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society, Words from the IFCS President Japanese Classification Society, Korean Classification Society, Moroccan The IFCS conference, IFCS-2017 will be held Classification Society, Société Francophone from August 8 through 10 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, de Classification, Multivariate Data Japan, and more information is available at Analysis Group of the South African https://ifcs.boku.ac.at/_conference/index.php/ifcs Statistical Association, Multivariate 2017/ifcs2017. The conference venue, Statistics and Classification Group of the Shinagawa, is one of the downtowns located in Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations the southeast part of Tokyo, which has several Research, Società Italiana di Statistica, downtowns. There will be tutorials on August 6, Statistical Society of Slovenia, Vereniging and three tutorials will be given. There will be voor Ordinatie en Classificatie and Section five invited speakers, and details are given in the of Classification and Data Analysis of the News from IFCS-2017 Organizing Team later in Polish Statistical Society. this newsletter.

The IFCS is a non-profit, non-political The conference dinner will be on August 9 scientific organization, the aims of which evening at Meiji Kinenkan, which was originally are to further classification research. built about 140 years ago as one of the buildings Among other activities, the IFCS organises a of the imperial palace complex. It is famous for biennial conference, and supports two its Japanese garden. A bus will take you there and journals: Advances in Data Analysis and then back to the major hotels. During the Classification and the Journal of conference, we will also have the awards Classification. ceremony where the following awards will be presented: IFCS Research Medal for outstanding research achievements, Chikio Hayashi Award, Helga and Wolfgang Gaul Stiftung Award, IFCS Homepage: http://www.ifcs.info Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Paper Competition and Travel Award, and Student Poster Session Competition Award. The BRCA (Breast Cancer)

Data Analysis Award winner, Corinna Ernst, was 2/3 of the 32 Council members’ votes required conferred the award in February 2017 at the 40th for such changes. As there were no negative anniversary of the German Classification Society votes, the EC will probably prepare a revised and will present a lecture at the conference. I am version of changes for another vote. Another looking forward to seeing all of you at IFCS-2017 thing that needs to be clarified are the rules in Tokyo. The IFCS-2017 is the first IFCS according to which some societies have two Conference hosted in Japan since IFCS-1996 in representatives in the Council, for which the EC Kobe, Japan. The Japanese Classification Society, currently prepares a proposal. who will host IFCS-2017, decided to initiate the “Invited by the JCS (Japanese Classification Please note that the IFCS Directory needs to Society)” sessions, where the JCS invites contain updated information on the societies' researchers to organize sessions mainly from Presidents, Treasurers, Council Representatives Asian countries or countries that do not have (names, email adresses and terms of office). Any societies joined the IFCS. change should be emailed to the IFCS Secretary ([email protected]). Currently some Recently, there was a change of the IFCS information is outdated despite having sent Treasurer. I would like to express my profound reminder emails; can I please ask the gratitude to Nema Dean for her excellent service corresponding societies to send me the updated in the last two terms as Treasurer. I am delighted information? With all the best wishes, to welcome Sugnet Lubbe, who has succeeded Nema as Treasurer. Sugnet is a prominent Christian Hennig scientist, and an associate professor at the IFCS Secretary Department of Statistical Science of the University of Cape Town. News from the IFCS Publication Officer Akinori Okada IFCS President There is not much news to report from my side. As usual, thanks to everyone who contributed to this newsletter. I also want to welcome Sugnet News from the IFCS Secretary Lubbe to the IFCS Executive Committee. I hope to see you in Tokyo in August! I hope you all had a good start into 2017. Since the last Newsletter, the Executive Paul McNicholas Committee (EC) had meetings on IFCS Publication Officer 6 October, 24 November, 15 December and 2 March. Much of this was about preparing the IFCS-2017 meeting in Tokyo. On 6 October we News from IFCS-2017 were made aware of a generous donation of a new Organizing Team Award, the Hildegard and Wolfgang Gaul Foundation Award, for researchers in the area of Deadline Extended Data Analysis and related scientific directions, The deadline for the abstract submission and for younger than 30 years old for IFCS conferences early bird registration is extended to 30th,April, in the next 10 years. The Award guidelines were 2017. revised and updated to include this new award (among other updates). The list of invited Tutorials speakers was finalised. As of 18th, March, 2017, we organized three tutorials as follows. These tutorials will be on 7th The IFCS Council elected Sugnet Lubbe (SAS- August, 2017 at the conference venue. Each fee MDAG) as new Treasurer. In January 2017, the will be paid on site. IFCS Council was ballotted on some changes and - Daniel Oberski, Utrecht University, Latent clarifications of the IFCS Constitution and Class Modeling: Basics, Extensions, and Election Rules. The proposed changes received Recent Advances 18 positive and no negative votes. This, however, - Fionn Murtagh and Mohsen Farid, University was not enough to fulfill the number of at least of Derby, Survey Analytics from

Questionnaires and Textual Social Media - Jozef Pociecha, Cracow University of Analytics. With Accompanying Practical Economics, Classification Models in Finance Sessions, Examples and Case Studies in and Business. English and Other Languages - Jean Diatta, Université de La Réunion, - Max Kuhn, RStudio Inc, Predictive Modeling Clustering and Recommendation Systems. in R(Tentative) - Tom Wilderjans, Leiden University, Advanced Techniques for Analyzing (Big) Invited Speakers Multi-set/Multi-subject Data. - Christian Henning, UCL, Decisions that are - Salvatore Ingrassia, University of Catania, needed when using Cluster Analysis, and Advances in Latent Variable Modeling. Research that helps with making them. - Brian Franczak, MacEwan University, Cluster - Tomoyuki Higuchi, The Institute of Statistical Analysis Using non-Gaussian Mixtures. Mathematics, Smart Simulation and Smart - J. Fernando Vera, Universidad de Granada, Experimental Design. and Eva Boj del Val, University of Barcelona, - Irini Moustaki, London School of Economics Classification and Representation for Non & Political Science, An Overview of Hybrid Metric and Symbolic data. Latent Variable Models and how they can be - Yuko Araki, Shizuoka University, Functional used to address Outliers, Flexible Data Analysis. Distributions of Latent Variables and Issues of - Yasunori Endo and Sadaaki Miyamoto, Data Dimensionality. Tsukuba University, Leading-edge Research - Marieke E. Timmerman, University of of Clustering and its Applications. Groningen, Mixture Modelling of Multivariate - Masahiro Mizuta and Shin-ichi Minato, and/or Longitudinal Data: Arriving at Hokkaido University, Enumeration Insightful Representations. Algorithm and Data Science. (Tentative) - Cinzia Viroli, University of Bologna, - Kazuhisa Takemura, Waseda University, Classification by Quantiles. Judgment and Decision Making. - Michiko Watanabe, Keio University, New Invited by the JCS Japanese Classification Society want to promote Development of Application of Latent Class Models in Heathcare Management. (Tentative) an existing scientific Society or an organized

Group of Asian country or the other - Hiroshi Yadohisa, Doshisha University, New Topics with related to Classification Problems. country/region to be interested in IFCS activities.

And we organized “Invited by the JCS”: - Hiroe Tsubaki, National Statistics Center, Recent Problems of Big Data Handling in - Yuan-chin Ivan Chang, Chinese Culture University, Robustness and Active Learning Official Statistics. - Yutaka Kano, Osaka University, Causal with Logistic Models. - Shizuhiko Nishisato, University of Toronto, Inference and related Topics. - Yutaka Kano, Osaka University, Bayesian Cluster Analysis and Quantification. - Shizuhiko Nishisato, University of Toronto, Inference and Model Selection. - Yuichi Mori, Okayama University of Science, Perspectives of Contingency Table Analysis Advances in Sparse Regression, Dimension Invited Sessions Reduction and related Computations. - Sugnet Lubbe, Stellenbosch University, - Yasumasa Baba, The Institute of Statistical Challenges in Visualisation and Classification. Mathematics, Analysis of Micro Official - Paul McNicholas, McMaster University, Statistics. Clustering with Mixture Models. - Yusuke Matsui and Masahiro Nakatochi, - Christian Hennig, UCL, Cluster Validation: Nagoya University, and Yuichi Shiraishi, The New Developments and Issues. University of Tokyo, The Cutting Edge of - Theodore Chadjipantelis, Aristotle University Biomedical Big Data – from Bioinformatic of Thessaloniki, Methods of Data Analysis Methodologies to Data Analysis. and Statistical Measures in the Social - Junji Nakano, The Institute of Statistical Sciences. Mathematics, Analysis and Clustering of - Éva Laczka, Hungarian Statistical Association, Complicated Data. Changing Environment, New Challenges, New Travelling from Airports Responses. From Tokyo(Haneda) International Airport

http://www.haneda-airport.jp/en/ We will have a welcome reception at the By rail: conference site on August 8. (1) Keikyu Line through Shinagawa Station. 25~30 minutes Conference Dinner http://www.haneda-tokyo-access.com/en/ We will have a conference dinner at Meiji (2) Tokyo Monorail Line to JR Hamamatsu-cho Kinenkan on August 9, followed by a small tour Station, then take the trains through JR to Asakusa for applicants. The fee of the dinner is Shinagawa Station, 30 minutes. 8,000 yen, and the dinner with the small tour is http://www.tokyo-monorail.co.jp/english/ 12,000 yen. By Bus: Take the limousine bus to Ebisu and Shinagwa Area. Optional Tours and Activities https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/en/ We do not provide you a service for the optional tours. However, you can find many tours and From Narita International Airport activities on travel agencies’ websites. These http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/ include tours to Mt. Fuji, Kyoto, Kyoto, By rail: Kanazawa, etc. Activities of kimono, tea (1) JR Narita Express Line through JR ceremony, wagashi sweets etc. Experiences of Shinagawa Station, 70 minutes cuisine and cooking of sushi, tempura, sukiyaki http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/nex/ etc., Shows and cultural experiences of sumo (2) Keisei Line to Keisei Ueno Station, walk to wrestling, ninja training, samurai armor etc. You JR Ueno Station, take the trains through JR can find more detail information on the IFCS- Shinagawa Station, 90 minutes 2017 website. It is your own responsibility to http://www.keisei.co.jp/keisei/tetudou/skyline research, make a booking and pay for the service r/us/ provided directly with the supplier. Any issues By bus: Take the limousine bus to Ebisu and relating to tour bookings are not the responsibility Shinagwa Area. of the conference or the conference organizers. https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/en/ We are looking forward to seeing the member of Accommodation each society in Tokyo. Please reserve by yourself on the website such as “Hotels.com”, “Booking.com”, “TripAdvisor”, Tadashi Imaizumi “JAPANiCAN.com” as they will offer lower prices than we can offer. The following hotels are near to the conference venue. BRCA Data Analysis Award - The Prince Sakura Tower Tokyo, Autograph Winner Collection (4.5 star) - The Strings by InterContinental Tokyo (4.5 The BRCA Data Analysis Award was been star) created in Spring 2016 to honour innovative - Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa (4 star) scientific work in the framework of statistics and - Shinagawa Prince Hotel (3.5 star)--- data analysis that focuses on, or can advance, the Shinagawa station, 18 minutes’ walk from prevention of inherited cancer associated with Conference site BRCA gene mutations. Tendering of the award - APA Hotel Shinagawa Sengakuji (3 star)--- was jointly conducted by the International Sengakuji Station, 10 minutes’ walk from Biometric Society (German Region, IBS-DR), the Conference site. German Gesellschaft fuer Klassifikation – Data - Keikyu EX Inn Shinagawa-Ekimae (3 star)--- Science Society (GfKl), the International Shinagawa station, 16 minutes’ walk from Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), the Conference site non-profit research and development organization - Hotel MyStays Gotanda Station (3 star) HeritX (Santa Monica, USA), and the Center for - Hotel Jal City Tamachi Tokyo (3 star) Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer (Cologne, - Tamachi BAY HOTEL (2 star)---Mita Germany). Station, next to Sengakuji Station An international team of reviewers has evaluated Social Program the submitted applications and finally conferred Welcome Reception (free of charge)

the price to Corinna Ernst, a bioinformatician historical core proclaimed a World Heritage Site from Cologne at the early stage of her career who by UNESCO, having been voted the Best has submitted a paper on “A generalized additive European Destination in 2017. The JOCLAD model framework for CNV detection on multi 2017 scientific program includes two short gene panels”. In this framework, Corinna Ernst courses, three plenary sessions, three thematic developed an algorithm for identifying so-called sessions, contributed papers and poster sessions. Copy Number Variations (CNVs), i.e., genetic rearrangements that allow to find new risk genes Both short courses will take place April 20: beyond the well-known BRCA1/2 genes, and this Análise em Componentes Principais, Robustez e directly from observed data obtained from Next Deteção de Outliers: Uma Introdução em Generation Sequencing (NGS) and without R (Maria do Rosário Oliveira, Instituto Superior additional experiments. This analysis was Técnico, Portugal) and Supervised classification possible by using generalized additive models. methods (Pedro Larrañaga, Universidad Former work by Corinna Ernst was devoted to the Politécnica de Madrid, Espanha). Plenary optimization of various algorithms for analyzing sessions are the following: Bayesian networks in NGS data, the development of a data structure for neurosciences (Pedro Larrañaga, Universidad the storage of pan-genomes, and to a study on Politécnica de Madrid, Espanha), Distributional relapses of neuroblastomas. data clustering and visualization for official statistics (Rosanna Verde, Università della The BRCA Data Analysis Award, combined with Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italia), Análise de a prize sum of 1,000 Euro, has been conferred to Dados Geoespaciais utilizando Mapas Auto- Corinna Ernst by Prof. Dr. Hans Kestler (Ulm) on Organizados (Victor Lobo, ISEGI / UNL and February 24, 2017, during a ceremony celebrating Escola Naval, Portugal). the 40th anniversary of GfKl in the Castle of Karlsruhe (Baden, Germany) and in cooperation Thematic Sessions are presented on behalf of: with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology Instituto Nacional de Estatística – INE (Session (KIT). Ms. Ernst will present her scientific results organizer: Carlos Marcelo), Banco de Portugal – to an international audience during the 15th BdP (Session organizer: Filipa Lima), Conference of the IFCS in Tokyo (Japan) in Associação Portuguesa de Demografia – APD August 2017. We cordially congratulate her on (Session organizer: Sónia Pintassilgo). Like in this award and wish her plenty of success for her preceding conferences, authors of the best future research activities. research papers presented at JOCLAD 2017 will be invited to submit full papers for publication in Hans-Hermann Bock the next issue of CLAD’s Book Series, CLADMAp III. The JOCLAD 2017 program and further information is available at the CLAD News from CLAD website http://www.clad.pt/.

JOCLAD 2017 Helena Bacelar-Nicolau The XXIV Annual Meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de CLassificação e Análise de Dados (CLAD) will be held April 20-22 2017, at the News from JCS Faculdade de Engenharia - Universidade do Porto. The main objectives of this annual (I) The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese conference, addressed to teachers, researchers, Classification Society students and users who share interests in the area The 35th Annual Meeting was held on March 6 of Classification and Data Analysis, are: promote and 7, 2017 at Hosei Business School of and develop research as well as stimulate the Innovation Management, Hosei University, national scientific production in that area, both in Tokyo. The chairperson of the organizing theoretical and applied fields; enhance scientific committee was Yuki Toyoda (Hosei University). dialogue, cooperation, discussion and exchange The speakers and the titles of their talks were as between data scientists and companies; strengthen follows:

CLAD's role and cohesion. The meeting will also - Classification model of Convenience Stores: be an opportunity to visit the city of Porto, one of by problem types and problem solving Europe's oldest tourist destinations, with its

methods, Kenji Mizoguchi (Hosei University Statistical Mathematics) Graduate School of Innovation Management) - Two Theoretical Issues on Ward’s Method, - Prediction of the dweller awareness using the Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba) data of the national census, Chiho Mito - Investigation Changes of Political Party (Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.), Katsuyuki Inagaki Support From 2009 to 2013 III: Non- (Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.), Hitomi Tanizawa hierarchical Asymmetric Cluster Analysis, (Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.), and Yuki Toyoda Akinori Okada (Rikkyo University) and (Hosei University) Satoru Yokoyama (Teikyo University) - Support Marketing Decision Using Sequential Probability Ratio Test, Kentaro A seminar about data analysis was held on March Matsumoto (LOCKON CO., LTD. / 6 in the meeting. The organizer was Yuki Toyoda MARKETING METRICS Lab.) (Hosei University) and the lecturers were Naohiro - Extraction and classification of the useful Tsuchida (Nippon Research Center Ltd.) and information from Tweet data after the Yuki Toyoda (Hosei University). Kumamoto Earthquake, Takamitsu Funayama (Tokai University), Yoshiro Satoru Yokoyama

Yamamoto (Tokai University), and Osamu Uchida (Tokai University) News from The Classification Society - Association Rule Analysis and Comparison between Quantification Technique for 2017 Annual Meeting of The Classification Visualization, Sanetoshi Yamada (Graduate Society School of Science and Technology, Tokai The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Classification University) and Yoshiro Yamamoto (Tokai Society will be at the Silicon Valley Campus of University) the University of California, Santa Cruz, June 21- - Data analysis and classification for the text 24. We are lining up a great program, headed data regarding radiation, Takafumi Kubota by Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University (Tama University) and Michael Jordan of the University of - To categorize batters in Nippon Professional California, Berkeley. The conference banquet Baseball Organization by the batted ball will be at a local winery. The conference site is direction, Kazuki Konda (Graduate School of very close to the San Jose Airport, and the San Tokai University) and Yoshiro Yamamoto Francisco and Oakland airports are also (Tokai University) options. We have a special deal with the nearby - Evaluation of the JSSC Examination Using Embassy Suites. All these details and more are Multi-dimensional Polytomous Item available at the conference website: Response Theory, Jun Tsuchida (Graduate http://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/classification-soci School of Culture and Information Science, ety-conference/index.html The submission Doshisha University) and Hiroshi Yadohisa deadline for contributed talks is May 1. The Early (Department of Culture and Information Bird Registration deadline is May 15. The Science, Doshisha University) deadline for the Hotel group rate at the Embassy - Customer segmentation with Qualitative Suites is May 31. Hope to see you all in Comparative Analysis, Yuki Toyoda (Hosei California! University) - Constrained Principal Component Analysis The Classification Society Distinguished for Nonmetric Data, Yuki Yamagishi Dissertation Award Winner 2017 (Faculty of Culture and Information Science The 2017 winner of the Classification Society's Doshisha University), Kensuke Tanioka Distinguished Dissertation Award is Paula (Clinical Study Support Center Wakayama Murray of McMaster University, for her thesis Medical University), and Hiroshi Yadohisa “Detecting Non-Elliptical Clusters”, co- (Faculty of Culture and Information Science supervised by Paul McNicholas and Ryan Doshisha University) Browne. Paula will present her work at the 2017 - Questionnaires and response pattern of the Annual Meeting of the Classification Society in Cross national survey research, Hiroko Santa Cruz this June. Tsunoda (Nihon Wellness Sports University) and Ryozo Yoshino (The Institute of Hans Friedrich Köhn

SDA 2017 September 2017 You are cordially invited to participate at the CLADAG 2017, the 11th Scientific Meeting of Symbolic Data Analysis Workshop SDA 2017, the CLAssification and Data Analysis Group of which will be held in Ljubljana from 12th to 14th the Italian Statistical Society, Milano-Bicocca June 2017. More detailed information is available University, September 13-15, at the web page http://vladowiki.fmf.uni- http://www.unimib.it/go/49084/Home/Italiano/Cl lj.si/doku.php?id=sda:meet:lj17. Welcome. The adag-2017 Local Organizing Committee is Simona Korenjak-Černe, Vladimir Batagelj and Nataša ECDA2017, the Fourth European Conference on Kejžar. Classification and Data Analysis, Wroclaw, September 27-29. Simona Korenjak-Černe

CLADAG 2017

The eleventh biennial international meeting of the CLAssification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society will take place at the University of Milano-Bicocca, from September 13rd to 15th, 2017. Researchers interested in classification, clustering, data analysis, multivariate analysis and computational statistics and their applications are invited to participate. A Springer book of selected Looking Ahead to IFCS Newsletter papers will be published after the Conference. Number 56 Authors are, in alternative, invited to submit to special issues of the journals Statistical Analysis Contributions for the forthcoming issue of the and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal. IFCS newsletter should be sent to Paul McNicholas, IFCS Publication Officer, at Francesca Greselin [email protected] by October 20, 2017.

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April 2017 Thanks! JOCLAD 2017, the XXIV Annual Meeting of the Paul McNicholas Associação Portuguesa de CLassificação e Análise de Dados (CLAD), April 20-22 2017, IFCS Publication Officer http://www.clad.pt/

June 2017 Symbolic Data Analysis Workshop SDA 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 12-14, vladowiki.fmf.uni-lj.si/doku.php?id=sda:meet:lj17

The Classification Society Annual Meeting, University of California, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Campus, June 21-24, www.theclassificationsociety.com

August 2017 IFCS 2017, Tokyo, August 8-10, ifcs.boku.ac.at/_conference/index.php/ifcs2017/ifcs2017