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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