[Fwd: FW: Call for papers Joclad 2009]

[Carlos Soares]

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Carlos


*Subject:* Call for papers Joclad 2009

**XVI Classification and Data Analysis Journeys (JOCLAD 2009), **

**Faro (Portugal),**

** 2- 4 ****April 2009**

http://www.fct.ualg.pt/joclad2009

Abstracts submission deadline: 09 February 2009/ Early registration 
deadline: 28 February 2009

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to participate and submit abstracts to 
JOCLAD 2009 in order to share your achievements in the field 
**Classification and Data Analysis that for the first time will be held 
in Algarve, the warm south cost of Portugal**.


JOCLAD 2009 is an opportunity to meet other researchers, make new 
contacts that will emphasize interdisciplinary research and interaction 
between theory and practise. This meeting in specially dedicated to 
Health Sciences and Tourism thematic.


*_PUBLICATIONS_*__

The contributions for presentation should be presented in a form of 
extended abstract 2-4 pages to be considered for publication in the 
Conference Proceedings Book.

Paper length: 2-4 printed pages - *see template at 
http*://www.fct.ualg.pt/joclad2009/JOCLAD2009/Comunicacoes_files/JOCLAD2009_Template_Abstract.doc

The authors of the best research papers presented at the Conference will 
be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for 
publication in some special issues of collaborating journals which will 
be announced later.

*_KEY DATES_*__

- 14 February 2009: Deadline for extended abstracts submission

- 25 February 2009: Notification of acceptance

- 28 February 2009: Early Registration Deadline

- 12 March 2009: Deadline for extended abstracts final version

*_INVITED SPEAKERS include_*

    * Michael Greenacre

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

    * Purificación Galindo Villardón

Departamento de Estadística, Universidad de Salamanca

    * Miguel Angel Fajardo Caldera

Departamento de Estadística y Economía, Universidad de Extremadura

    * Purificación Vicente Galindo

Departamento de Estadística, Universidad de Salamanca

    * Teresa Bago d’Uva

Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus 
University Rotterdam

*_SHORT COURSES_*

In addition to the oral and posters presentations, two short courses 
will take place:

*_TOPICS_*__

The conference program will be structured in sessions, which will cover 
a wide range of topics:

· Actuarial Science and Insurance

· Applications and Methods in Official Statistics

· Applications and Methods for Industry

· Bayesian Methods

· Biostatistics

· Business Intelligence

· Categorical Data Analysis

· Classification and Discrimination

· Clinical Trials

· Clustering

· Conjoint Analysis

· Data Mining

· Design of Experiments

· Dimensionality Reduction

· Econometrics

· Environmental Statistics

· Functional Data Analysis

· Graphics and Data Visualization

· Image and Signal Processing

· Imprecise Data and Fuzzy Methods

· Internet Based Methods

· Machine Learning

· Matrix Computations and Statistics

· Metadata and Data Representation

· Microarray Data Analysis

· Multivariate Data Analysis

· Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms

· Nonparametric Statistics and Smoothing

· Optimization Algorithms

· Partial Least Squares

· Pattern Recognition

· Quantitative Finance

· Resampling Methods

· Risk analysis

· Robustness

· Simulation

· Software Evaluation

· Spatial Statistics

· Statistical Databases

· Statistical Education and Web Based Teaching

· Statistics for Medical Diagnosis

· Statistical Matching and Data Imputation

· Statistical Methods for Market Analysis

· Statistical Software

· Statistics in Finance

· Support Vector Machine

· Symbolic Data Analysis

· Textual Data Analysis and Information Retrieval

· Time Series Analysis

· Web Mining

For any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us 
at joclad2009 at gmail.com <mailto:joclad2009 at gmail.com>

We would also appreciate if could disseminate this invitation and Call 
for Papers through your Department or Institution.

We look forward to seeing you in Faro.

Filipe Barros

JOCLAD2009 Secretariat

E-mail: joclad2009 at gmail.com <mailto:joclad2009 at gmail.com>

http://www.fct.ualg.pt/joclad2009

Phone: +351 934271230

Fax: +351 289 800 066