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> CONFERENCE ANOUNCEMENT
> (second CALL)
> 
> XIth International Symposium on
> A p p l i e d S t o c h a s t i c M o d e l s a n d D a t a A 
> n a l y s i s
> 
> Brest, France - May 17-20 2005.
> http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr
> 
> 
> GENERAL INFORMATION
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> 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.
> 
> 
> CONFIRMED KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
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> 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
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> 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.).
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 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
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> 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
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> http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr/
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> 
> 
> DATE LINES
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> 
> Paper and invited session submission deadlines Dec. 15, 2004
> 
> Submission of problems
> Jan. 31, 2005
> 
> Notification to authors
> Feb. 15, 2005
> 
> Submission of problem solutions
> March 15, 2005
> 
> Camera ready paper and registration
> March 15, 2005
> 
> ASMDA 2005 Conference
> May 17-20, 2005
> 
> 
> REGISTRATION FEES
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> 
> Students
> --------
> Before 17/03/05
> 162 euros (TTC)
> 
> After 17/03/05
> 195 euros (TTC)
> 
> University members
> ------------------
> Before 17/03/05
> 270 euros (TTC)
> 
> After 17/03/05
> 324 euros (TTC)
> 
> Other participants
> -------------------
> Before 17/03/05
> 405 euros (TTC)
> 
> After 17/03/05
> 486 euros (TTC)
> 
> 
> CHAIRMEN
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> J.P. Barthelemy (ENST Bretagne, France)
> N. Limnios (UTC, Compiegne, France)
> G. Saporta (CNAM, Paris, France)
> 
> 
> SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE HEAD
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> J. Janssen (CESIAF, Belgium and EURIA, France) Ph. Lenca 
> (ENST Bretagne, France)
> 
> 
> SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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> - 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, Universite de Nantes, France
> - G. Govaert, Universite de Technologie de Compiègne, France
> - C. Huber, University Paris V, France
> - D. Ho, IBM, Paris, France
> - S. Lallich, Universite Lyon 2, France
> - L. Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, France
> - N. Limnios, Universite de Technologie de Compiègne, France
> - R. Manca, University La Sapiensa, Roma, Italy
> - M. Mesbah, Universite Paris VI, France
> - M. Nikulin, Universite Bordeaux II, France
> - J. Teghem, Faculte 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, Universite Lyon 2, France
> 
> 
> ORGANISATION COMMITTEE HEAD
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> P. Bertrand (ENST Bretagne, France)
> 
> 
> ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
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> - F. Brucker, ENST Bretagne, France
> - T. Chonavel, ENST Bretagne, France
> - G. Coppin, ENST Bretagne, France
> - G. Le Gall, ENST Bretagne, France
> - N. L'Hopital, ENST Bretagne, France
> - S. Moga, ENST Bretagne, France
> - D. Pastor, ENST Bretagne, France
> - Ph. Tanguy, ENST Bretagne, France
> - B. Vaillant, ENST Bretagne, France
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