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Apologies for cross postings. This is the second announcement. HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS as general-purpose models for time series data Presented by Professor Walter Zucchini Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Göttingen Hosted by the Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 3-4 April 2005 Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been used for about three decades in signal processing, mainly in the context of automatic speech recognition. They have been applied in a wide range of disciplines such as acoustics, biosciences, climatology, process control, communications, econometrics, handwriting and text recognition, image processing and computer vision, and many other fields. Considerable interest has been generated by their application to protein sequence analysis in bioinformatics. This tutorial-style short course is an introduction to HMMs intended for non-specialists. The objective is to demonstrate the simplicity and versatility of HMMs as general-purpose models for time series, and to provide sufficient theoretical and applied background on the topic to enable participants to begin applying the methods. The short course is being held at Macquarie University campus, North Ryde, Sydney, immediately prior to the ISI2005 conference in Sydney. Webpage: http://www.stat.mq.edu.au/HMM/ Contact: Gillian Heller [log in to unmask] _______________________________________________________ Gillian Heller Department of Statistics Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia Phone : +61 2 98508541 Fax: +61 2 98507669 email : [log in to unmask] http://www.stat.mq.edu.au/staff/gheller/gheller.htm