CSNA '95 Call for Papers

[Manavendra Misra]

         PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
	            1995 Annual Meeting,
	 Classification Society of North America,
	            June 22-25, 1995,
                   Denver, Colorado, USA

The 1995 annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America
(CSNA) will be held in Denver, Colorado from June 22-June 25, 1995 at
the Executive Tower Inn, 14th and Curtis Streets. The meeting is
supported by the College of Business, University of Colorado at
Denver.  The meeting plans currently include a short course on
Thursday, June 22, a welcoming reception on Thursday night, and
regular sessions from Friday morning, June 23 until Sunday noon, June
25, 1995. A banquet is planned for Friday night and a variety of
social activities in Denver and the surrounding area will be
available.

As is traditional at CSNA meetings, the conference will be
interdisciplinary and informal. Abstracts of papers presented are
distributed, but no formal proceedings are produced. Speakers are
encouraged to present work in progress.  CONTRIBUTED PAPERS RELATED TO
CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF STATISTICS,
BIOLOGY, THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES, BUSINESS, LIBRARY SCIENCE, COMPUTER
SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OTHER FIELDS ARE WELCOME AND ARE
SOLICITED. We are particularly interested in including a wide variety
of contributed papers concerned with applications of classification
and clustering as well as methodological issues. In addition, invited
sessions on

    Classification and Clustering in Marketing 
         P. Green, the Wharton School and J. D.Carroll,
	 Rutgers University, organizers

    New Optimization and Neural Network Approaches to Discriminant Analysis,
    with Applications 
         Fred Glover, University of Colorado at Boulder,organizer

    Neural Networks for Classification 
         Manavendra Misra, Colorado School of Mines, organizer
	 (mmisra at mines.colorado.edu)

    Model Selection Methods in Classification and Clustering
         Hamparsum Bozdogan, University of Tennessee, organizer

    Authorship Attribution
         David Banks, Carnegie Mellon University, Organizer
	 
are planned. A Graduate Student Session, in which graduate students
will present their research and will meet with mentors to review and
discuss the work will also be offered.

Abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation at the meetings
should be submitted as soon as possible, so as to arrive no later than
March 15, 1995. Please limit abstracts to one page or less, and
include appropriate keywords indicating the topics the paper
addresses. We encourage you to submit abstracts via electronic mail.
Abstracts submitted electronically may be in LaTex format or in
unformatted text, and should be submitted to the email address listed
below. Abstracts submitted in text format should avoid the use of
formulae if at all possible. Written abstracts may be mailed to the
program chair at the address below, or sent via FAX. Authors will be
notified of acceptance of abstracts in late March or early April.  If
your abstract is intended for the graduate student session, please
indicate this clearly.

It will help the organizers plan appropriate conference facilities if
those intending to attend the meeting and/or submit abstracts will
inform the committee (preferably via e-mail) of those intentions as
soon as possible, so that appropriate facilities can be
arranged. Further information may be obtained from the Program
Chair. Detailed registration and hotel information will be distributed
in late March or early April.

All inquiries, abstracts, etc. should be directed to:
   Peter Bryant, CSNA-95
   College of Business, University of Colorado at Denver
   Campus Box 165, Denver, Colorado 80217-3364 USA
   Telephone (303)-556-5833
   Fax (303)-556-5899
   E-mail csna95 at castle.cudenver.edu.

Please distribute or post this notice as appropriate.



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Manavendra Misra
Dept of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Ph.  (303)-273-3873	Fax. (303)-273-3875
Home messages/fax : (303)-271-0775
email: mmisra at mines.colorado.edu
WWW URL: http://vita.mines.colorado.edu:3857/1s/mmisra

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