Dear All,

Note that the deadline for "regular papers" and invited session has been 
postponed
to Wednesday, 15 December 2004.



CONFERENCE ANOUNCEMENT
(second CALL)

XIth  International Symposium  on
A p p l i e d   S t o c h a s t i c   M o d e l s
a n d   D a t a  A n a l y s i s 

Brest, France - May 17-20 2005.
http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr


GENERAL INFORMATION
-------------------
Since 1981, the  aim of ASMDA has been to serve  as an interface between
Stochastic Modeling  and Data Analysis and their  real life applications
such  as business,  finance  and insurance,  management, production  and
reliability, biology  and medicine.  The 2005 Symposium  will take place
in  Brest,   France.   Both  theoretical   and  practical  contributions
presenting new  results and having  the potential for  solving real-life
problems  are  concerned.   More  specifically,  one main  goal  of  the
symposium is to  promote new methods for analyzing  data, in fields like
stochastic  modeling, optimization  techniques, statistical  methods and
inference, data  mining and knowledge  systems, computing-aided decision
supports and neural networks. Acting as an interface between theory and
practice,  ASMDA is  of great  interest for  both the  academic  and the
business world.  The high  standard of ASMDA  meetings is  guaranteed by
international  scientific   committees  and  recently   by  a  permanent
world-wide ASMDA Committee.

The symposium will include
    - keynote presentations,
    - invited sessions
    - and regular papers.

A poster  session on  solving problems will  be organized:  the proposed
solutions will be presented on posters at the Symposium. In the ASMDA'05
website, interested  authors will  find a short  list of problems  to be
resolved, proposed by participants.

An IBM scientific price will be  awarded to the best student works (1 to
3) presented  at  the conference.  See  the  ASMDA'05  Website for  more
information.

Some papers  will be selected for publication  in international journals
after an extended version has been reviewed.


CONFIRMED KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
-------------------------------
Giovani Barone-Adesi  (University of Lugano, Switzerland),
    "The stability of Factor Models of Interests rates".

Erhan Cinlar (Princeton University, USA),
    "Brownian movement in gamma fields".

William H. E. Day  (Port Maitland, Canada),
    "Biological Aggregation at the Interface Between Theory and
    Practice".

Paul Deheuvels (Université Paris 6, France),
    title to be precised.

Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA),
    "The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Machine".


CONFIRMED INVITED SESSIONS with their chairman
----------------------------------------------
Modeling functional data analysis in practice,
organized by Pr. M.-J. Valderrama (Sp.).

Functional statistics,
organized by Pr. G. Biau (Fr.).

Sequential Analysis and Applications,
organized by Pr. J. Glaz (USA).

Migration credit risk models,
organized by Pr. J. Janssen (Belg. & Fr.).

Stochastic Models for insurance,
organized by Pr. R. Manca (It.).

Probabilistic Methods in Reliability,
organized by Pr. S. Ross (USA).

Statistical Analysis of data text,
organized by Dr. L. Lebart (Fr.).

Bioinformatics,
organized by Pr. J.-F. Zagury (Fr.).

Semi-Markov Processes: Estimation and Control,
organized by Pr. N. Limnios (Fr.).

Lifetime Data Analysis,
organized by Pr. M.-L. Ting Lee (USA).

Internet Modeling,
organized by Dr. S. Vaton (Fr.).

Business Intelligence,
organized by Dr. D. Ho (Fr.).

Biological Data Analysis,
organized by Prof. O. Hudry (Fr.) and Dr. A. Guénoche (Fr.).

...


CALL FOR INVITED  SESSIONS
--------------------------
The  organization  of   invited  sessions  is  encouraged.   Prospective
organizers are  requested to send  a session proposal together  with the
three invited papers list (see the Website for details).


MAIN TOPICS
-----------
1) Methodological approaches -
* Poisson models, Markov models and extensions
  (semi-Markov, hidden-Markov, non homogeneous Markov , ...),
* Point processes (Poisson, ...),
* Martingales, stochastic calculus,
* Diffusion and Poisson approximations,
* Stochastic control and decision,
* Asymptotic models and weak convergences,
* Statistical inference for stochastic processes,
* Fitting models for data,
* Reliability and survival analysis,
* Bayesian inference,
* Functional data analysis,
* Discriminant and regression analysis,
* Mixture model and probabilistic approach to clustering,
* Theories of uncertainty,
* Graphical models and Bayesian networks,
* Multidimensional scaling and multi-way data analysis,
* Sensory analysis,
* Classification,
* Analysis of complex data: incomplete, censored, missing,
  spatio-temporal, imprecise, fuzzy, etc.
* Data and text mining.
 
2) Special techniques and algorithms -
* Neural Networks,
* Genetic and fuzzy algorithms,
* Support vector machine,
* Monte Carlo Methods.

3) Application fields -
* Engineering,
* Production, inventory and logistics,
* Reliability and maintenance,
* Planning and control, 
* Quality control,
* Finance and insurance,
* Management and administration,
* Marketing,
* Environment,
* Human resources,
* Biotechnology, bioinformatics, genome and medicine,
* Signal processing and telecommunication.


FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT
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http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr/
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DATE LINES
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Paper and invited session submission deadlines   Dec. 15, 2004
Submission of  problems                          Jan. 31,  2005
Notification to authors                          Feb. 15, 2005
Submission of problem solutions                  March. 15, 2005
Camera ready paper and registration              March. 15, 2005
ASMDA 2005 Conference                            May 17-20, 2005


REGISTRATION FEES
-----------------
Students
Before   17/03/05               162 euros  (TTC)
After    17/03/05               195 euros  (TTC)

University members
Before   17/03/05               270 euros  (TTC)
After    17/03/05               324 euros  (TTC)

Other  participants
Before   17/03/05               405 euros  (TTC)
After    17/03/05               486 euros  (TTC)


CHAIRMEN
--------
J.P. Barthélemy (ENST Bretagne, France)
N. Limnios (UTC, Compiègne, France)
G. Saporta (CNAM, Paris, France)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE HEAD
-------------------------
J. Janssen (CESIAF, Belgium and EURIA, France)
Ph. Lenca (ENST Bretagne, France)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
--------------------
-  N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University, Canada
-  M. Bardos, Banque de France, France
-  E. Cinlar, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
-  J. Glaz, University of Connecticut, Stors, USA
-  F. Guillet, Université de Nantes, France
-  G. Govaert, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
-  C. Huber, Université Paris V, France
-  D. Ho, IBM, Paris, France
-  S. Lallich, University Lyon 2, France
-  L. Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, France
-  N. Limnios, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
-  R. Manca, University La Sapiensa, Roma, Italy
-  M. Mesbah, Université Paris VI, France
-  M. Nikulin, Université Bordeaux II, France
-  J. Teghem, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
-  M.L Ting Lee, Harvard University, USA
-  S.M. Ross, University of Southern California, USA
-  G. Saporta, CNAM, Paris, France
-  C. Skiadas, Technical University of Creta, Chania, Greece
-  M. J. Valderrama, Universidad de Granada, Spain
-  D. Zighed, Université Lyon 2, France


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE HEAD
---------------------------
P. Bertrand (ENST Bretagne, France)


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
----------------------
-  F. Brucker, ENST Bretagne, France
-  T. Chonavel, ENST Bretagne, France
-  G. Coppin, ENST Bretagne, France
-  G. Le Gall, ENST Bretagne, France
-  N. L'Hopital, ENST Bretagne, France
-  S. Moga, ENST Bretagne, France
-  D. Pastor, ENST Bretagne, France
-  Ph. Tanguy, ENST Bretagne, France
-  B. Vaillant, ENST Bretagne, France