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Apologies for Cross Posting. ---------------------- CONFERENCE ANOUNCEMENT (Last CALL) XIth International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis 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 (see the Web site of ASMDA'05 Conference for the updated list of international journals). 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 Modelling, 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.). Degradation and Accelerated Models in Life Sciences and Industry, organized by Prof. M. Nikulin (Fr.). The stakes of construction and use of credit scoring, organized by Dr. M. Bardos (Fr.). Special Models, Methods and Techniques: Chaotic, Neuro-Fuzzy, and Delay-logistic, organized by Prof. C. Skiadas (Gr.). Validation in unsupervised classification, organized by Prof. A. Hardy (Belg.). The Symbolic Approach in the Analysis of Interval and Distributional Data, organized by Prof. P. Brito (Pt.) and Dr. Y. Lechevallier (Fr.). Mining High Dimensional Data, organized by Prof. S. Lallich (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 ----------------------------- http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr/ [log in to unmask] DATE LINES ---------- Regular papers: * December 15, 2004: submission of regular papers (8 pages max) * February 15, 2005: notification of acceptance. * March 15, 2005: final version using the instructions to authors and registration. Invited sessions: * January 15, 2005: proposal for invited sessions. * January 31, 2005: notification of acceptance of the proposal for an invited session. After acceptance of the proposal, each promotor of the session will be responsible for his/her session (including the review process of the papers of his/her session) and will chair it. * February 20, 2005: final version of the papers using the instructions to authors. * March 15, 2005: registration. Problem sessions: * January 31, 2005: problem submission. * March 15, 2005: problem solutions submission. * March 30, 2005: problem solutions notification. ASMDA 2005 Conference: May 17-20, 2005 REGISTRATION FEES ----------------- Students Before 17/03/05 162 euros (incl. tax) After 17/03/05 195 euros (incl. tax) University members Before 17/03/05 270 euros (incl. tax) After 17/03/05 324 euros (incl. tax) Other participants Before 17/03/05 405 euros (incl. tax) After 17/03/05 486 euros (incl. tax) 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 - S. Moga, ENST Bretagne, France - D. Pastor, ENST Bretagne, France - Ph. Tanguy, ENST Bretagne, France - B. Vaillant, ENST Bretagne, France