We are very pleased to announce the:
International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (KNEMO'06)
September 4th-6th, 2006
Island of Capri (Italy)
(www.knemo.unina.it)
organised by
Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the
University of Naples “Federico II” Italy
and jointly sponsored by:
IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing)
INTERFACE (Interface between Statistics and Computing)
IFCS (International Federation of Classification Societies)
The objective of the Workshop is to give an
overview on the theme of "Knowledge Extraction &
Modeling" with up-to-date lectures showing the
state-of-art but also the most recent advances
and future challenges. The Workshop is aimed at
focusing on a theme that is not yet firmly
established in literature or research. Namely,
the Workshop is meant to address the analysis of
"complex systems" where the difficulty of
analysis is not only the availability of huge
masses of data but also the complex structure of
relationships. It is somehow the problem of
extracting information from models, not just
data. The challenge consists in considering the
interaction between Knowledge Extraction and
Modeling by investigating two possible
directions: Knowledge Extraction from models, Knowledge Extraction by modeling.
The structure of the Workshop foresees key-note
speakers that can provide lectures on the theme
of interest from different points of view (data
analysis, machine learning, statistical modeling,
data mining etc.), discuss among them and with
the other attendees during the days of the
Workshop and then conclude the Workshop with a
round table where the results of the discussion
hold and the thinking done during the Workshop are expressed.
A group of scientists have been invited to
discuss on the theme of the Workshop during the
forthcoming months that preceed the beginning of
the Workshop. The idea is to collect all possible
opinions from the known international leaders in
the different fields of interest to the themes of
the Workshop and then produce a document that
will represent the Manifesto of the Workshop.
This Manifesto will comprise the leading thread
that shall give life to the presentations and
discussions held during the Workshop.
Among the scientists invited to the pre-Workshop
discussion and tentative invited speakers:
Tomas Aluja-Banet (Spain), Stan Azen (USA),
Helena Bacelar Nicolau (Portugal), Hans Bock
(Germany), Amy Braverman (USA), Hamparsum
Bozdogan (USA), Edwin Diday (France), Vincenzo
Esposito Vinzi (Italy), Wolfgang Haerdle
(Germany), David Hand (UK), Henk Kiers (The
Netherlands), Erricos Kontoghiorghes (Cyprus),
Carlo Lauro (Italy), Yves Lechevallier (France),
Alain Morineau (France), Alfredo Rizzi (Italy),
Michael Schimek (Austria), Roberta Siciliano
(Italy), Michel Tenenhaus (France), Rosanna Verde
(Italy), Maurizio Vichi (Italy), Giorgio Vittadini (Italy), Ed Wegman (USA)
Aside the key-note speakers, tutorials will be
ensured and, finally, research papers may be
submitted and presented by other scientists who
wish to contribute and do not necessarily come
from the field of Statistics (e.g. computer
science, machine learning, bioinformatics, etc.
with a background related also to application fields).
Prospective authors are invited to submit an
extended abstract (2 pages) of their paper to
Prof. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi no later than March
24th, 2006. The contents of the abstract should
clearly contain the following information about the paper:
- Relationship with literature
- Original contributions with main formulas
- Methodological, computational and/or application relevance
- Main references
For more information:
Prof. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi
Dipartimento di Matematica e Statistica
Facoltà di Economia
Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
Via Cintia, 26 - Complesso Monte Sant'Angelo
80126 Napoli - Italy
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.knemo.unina.it
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