Submission of abstracts
Titles and abstracts should be submitted and uploaded via de conference website
www.ifcs2013.org before March 1, 2013. All abstracts will be subject to a peer review
process. Notifications of acceptance will be sent on April 15, 2013.

Important dates
June 1, 2012:
March 1, 2013:
April 15, 2013:
May 15, 2013:
June 15, 2013:
July 14, 2013:
July 15-17, 2013:

First call for papers
Deadline abstract submission
Notification of acceptance
Deadline standard registration
Deadline late registration
Preconference workshops
IFCS-2013 conference

Call for Papers
Conference of the International Federationof Classification Societies
IFCS-2013

Publications related to the conference
Special issues linked with the conference are planned in journals such as the Journal ofClassification, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, and Computational Statisticsand Data Analysis.
Fees (which include conference materials, an extended reception, coffee breaks, and threelunches)
Registration
Pre-conferenceStandard
LateWorkshop
Member of IFCS
member society
Non-member
Student

€250
€350
€125

€300
€420
€150

€50
€50
€25

Further information
Further information will be posted on the conference website www.ifcs2013.org
Please, note that IFCS-2013 is scheduled just after the Meeting of the German
Classification Society, held in nearby Luxemburg (www.gfkl.org), and just before
the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society held in nearby Arnhem, The
Netherlands (www.psychometricsociety.org).

We look forward to seeing you in Tilburg in July 2013.
Jeroen Vermunt, Chair Scientific Program Committee
Andries van der Ark, Chair Local Organizing Committee
Iven Van Mechelen, President IFCS

July 14-17, 2013
Tilburg, the NetherlandsConference setup
The 2013 conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS)
will be held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands from July 14 to July 17, 2013.
The conference theme will be ‘United through Ordination and Classification’.
On July 14, preconference workshops will be held. The conference itself will start on July
15 in the morning, and will close on July 17 with a full day conference program and aconference dinner. The conference will include a president’s invited session and apresidential address, key note presentations, invited presentations, invited andcontributed symposia, and oral and poster presentations.
The opening session will further feature the presentation of the Chikio Hayashi Awards,
which are scientific prizes for young researchers with promising track records in theareas of classification and data analysis, as a support of their professional career; for2013 the members of the Awards Committee are: Michel Wedel (chair), Edwin Diday,
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and James Ramsay.

Tilburg
Tilburg is a lively student city - with 200,000 inhabitants of which 30,000 are students!
When you have finished your studies for the day, a short trip to the city centre takes you
to theatres, cinemas, museums, restaurants, pubs, nightclubs and a concert hall –with enough variety for every taste. Or if you want to go further, other cities such as
Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Cologne are within easy reach of Tilburg. Festivals areorganized throughout the year in and around Tilburg and the University. Tilburg is also
host to the largest funfair in the Benelux.
Tilburg has good train connections to two major airports, Schiphol (Amsterdam) andBrussels, as well as to the smaller “budget flights” airport of Eindhoven. Tilburg
University has its own train station and within town there is a good public (bus)transportation system.

Conference topics
Contributed papers from scholars and practitioners are invited on any of the topics below aswell as on related issues:Applications in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Biology • Banking andFinance • Bioinformatics and Biostatistics • Biomedical Data Analysis and Imaging• Business and Industry • Classification, Discriminant Analysis, and Supervised
Learning • Clustering and Unsupervised Learning • Complex Event Processing • DataAnalysis in Archaeology • Databionics • Exploratory Data Mining • Formal Concept
Analysis • Geospatial Planning • Graphics and Vision • Image Analysis and ComputerVision • Information Retrieval and Library Science • Knowledge Discovery • Linguisticsand Musicology • Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition • Marketing andManagement • 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
Jeroen Vermunt
Chair, Tilburg University, NL
Carlos Cuevas
Anahúac University, Mexico, MXRozenn Dahyot
Trinity College, Dublin, IE
Anuška Ferligoj
University of Ljubljana, SI
Patrick Groenen
Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Christian Hennig
UCL, London, UKKrzysztof Jajuga
University of Wrocław, PLTae Rim Lee
Korea National Open University, KR
Friedrich LeischUniversity of Vienna, (BOKU), AT
Niel le Roux
University of Stellenbosch, ZA
Angelos Markos
Democratius University of Thrace, GR

Geoff McLachlan
University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUFred R. McMorris
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,USBoris Mirkin
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RU
Mohamed Nadif
René Descartes University, FR
Rebecca Nugent
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US
Akinori Okada
Tama University, JPFernanda Campos de Sousa
University of Porto, PTIven Van Mechelen
IFCS President, University of Leuven, BEMaurizio Vichi
University of Rome, IT
Claus Weihs
University of Dortmund, DE
Junjie Wu
Beihang University, Beijing, CN

Local organizers
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University in cooperation with theDutch/Flemish Classification Society (VOC).
address

phone
fax
email
websiteTilburg University
Warandelaan 25037 AB, Tilburg
the Netherlands+31 13 466 2544
+31 13 466 3002
info@ifcs2013.org
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