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> AGROSTAT 2012
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> 12th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry
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> AgroParisTech (Paris, France)
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> FEBRUARY (28), 29 and MARCH 1-2, 2012
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> http://chimiometrie.fr/agrostat2012.html
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> Honorary President: André Kobilinsky (INRA, France)
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> Invited speakers: Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London)
> Rune Christensen (Technical University of Denmark)
> Tormod Naes (NOFIMA MAT, Norway)
> Jukka Ranta (Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira & University of Helsinki, Finland)
> Eva Van Derlinden (BioTeC, KULeuven, Belgium)
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> Scientific committee President: Jean-Pierre Gauchi (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
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> Organization committee Presidents: Isabelle Albert (INRA, France)
> Douglas N. Rutledge (AgroParisTech, France)
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> The AGROSTAT conference aims at drawing an overview of the use of statistical methods in the food industry and at evaluating practical benefits given by new techniques. It offers an ideal opportunity to statisticians and industrial users to meet, exchange experiences, keep in touch with the state-of-art of statistical methods in the food industry and evaluate their impact upon food quality and industrial competitiveness.
> The conference focuses strongly on applications. It should be of particular interest for professionals using statistics in the food industry, i.e., people in charge of quality control, production engineering, research and development. The aim is to highlight the power of statistical analysis as a decision tool and as a help for defining locally optimal competitive industrial strategies.
> This event is an initiative of the Agro-Industry Group of the French Statistical Society (SFdS).
> Agrostat 2012 follows the last Agrostat conferences held in Benevento (Italy, 2010), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium, 2008), Montpellier (France, 2006) and Rennes (France, 2004). For the previous editions see the SFdS website (http://www.sfds.asso.fr/). Agrostat 2012 is organized in 2012 at the Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement - AgroParisTech (Paris, France).
> The conference will consist of invited lectures, organized and contributed sessions and poster presentations.
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> The conference will be preceded, on 28 February by an afternoon training: an introduction to microbial risk assessment in food (http://chimiometrie.fr/crbst_94.html).
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> TOPICS
> SENSOMETRICS: Statistical methods for sensory analysis. Planning of sensorial evaluations, analysis of expert panel or consumer data, analysing relationships between instrumental and sensorial measurements, relating consumer preferences to sensorial data.
> CHEMOMETRICS: Extraction of useful information from data collected in analytical chemistry, from physical measurement data, etc. Exploration and prediction in a supervised or an unsupervised framework with linear or nonlinear procedures. Analysis of multi-way data tables.
> PROCESS CONTROL : Use of statistical or artificial intelligence methods to develop and better control a process and to enhance product quality: quantitative and qualitative modelling, experimental design, validation of fast measurement methods, control charts, neuronal nets, fuzzy logic, etc.
> RISK ANALYSIS : Better understanding and control of the evolution of micro-organisms and of their effects upon human health. Prevention of the risks linked with their development in food industries. Epidemiology, predictive microbiology, dose-effect model, shelf-life testing, etc.
> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
> A one page abstract should be submitted by October 17th, 2011 through the conference website (http://chimiometrie.fr/crbst_93.html).
> The Scientic Committee will notify to authors the acceptance of the paper by December 2nd, 2011.
> After acceptance, a short paper of at most 10 pages should be submitted through the conference website by January 6th, 2012.
> These texts will be published in the Proceedings and distributed to the conference participants.
> This year a special issue of the Journal of SFdS will be devoted to scientific articles from papers presented at AgroStat2012.
> DEADLINES
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> - October 17th, 2011: abstract submission deadline;
> - December 2nd, 2011: notification of acceptance;
> - January 6th, 2012: short paper submission.
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> Best regards,
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> Isabelle Albert and Douglas Rutledge
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> Chairmen of the Organizing Committee
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