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SFC'2011 (WEB site : http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/SFC2011/)

The 18th Francophone Classification Society (SFC) meeting
Orléans-France, September 28-30, 2011

Contact: sfc2011@univ-orleans.fr

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Goals of SFC'2011
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The 18th Francophone Classification Society (SFC) meeting will be held at Orléans (France) on September 28-30 2011. The scientific program will include sessions with invited talks and selected presentations.
The main topics of the conference are:
* Classification and discrimination
* Clustering and distance analysis
* Combinatorial methods
* Data mining
* Hierarchical and non hierarchical classification
* Image and signal analysis
* Mathematical and statistical approaches
* Neural networks and genetic algorithms
* Optimization approaches
* Representation and visualisation
* Similarities and dissimilarities
* Symbolic data analysis
* Trees, graphs and lattices
* Validation

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Special Topics
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Special emphasis will be laid on the following topics:
* Bayesian classification (Dirichlet processes)
* Mixtures of distributions
* Visual interactive mining
* Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering for multi-view data
* Classification for Text mining, bioinformatics and chemoinformatic

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Important dates:
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Short paper submission due: May 6th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 17th, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: July 1st, 2011

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Invited Speakers (in preparation)
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* Gérard Govaert (Technical University of Compiègne, FRANCE)
* Christian Sohler (Technical University of Dortmund, GERMANY)

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Program Committee
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Program Chair: Richard Emilion (MAPMO - Univ. Orléans)
Program Committee Members :

* R. Abdesselam (ERIC   Univ. Lyon 2)
* H. Azzag (LIPN   Univ. Paris 13)
* S. Ben Yahia (Fac. sciences of Tunis, TUNISIA)
* Y. Bennani (LIPN   Univ. Paris 13)
* P. Bertrand (Ceremade   Univ. Paris Dauphine)
* C. Biernacki (LIFL   Univ. Lille)
* G. Bisson (TIMC-IMAG   Univ. Joseph Fourrier Grenoble)
* H. Bock (Univ. Aachen, GERMANY)
* P. Brito (Univ. Porto, PORTUGAL)
* F. Brucker (LIF   Univ. Marseille)
* D. Chauveau (MAPMO   Univ. Orléans)
* M. Chavent (IMB   Univ. Bordeaux)
* B. Crémillieux (GREYC   Univ. Caen)
* G. Cucumel (Univ. Montréal, CANADA)
* F. De Carvalho (UFPE, BRAZIL)
* L. Delsol (MAPMO   Univ. Orléans)
* J. Diatta (LIM   Univ. of La Réunion)
* J.P. Domenger (LaBRI   Univ. Bordeaux)
* F. D'alché-Buc (IBISC   Univ. Evry)
* P. Gançarski (LSIIT   Univ. Strasbourg)
* G. Govaert (UTC   Compiègne)
* A. Guénoche (IML   Univ. Marseille)
* A Gély (LITA   Univ. Metz)
* A. Hardy (Faculty of Namur, BELGIUM)
* P. Kuntz (LINA   Univ. Nantes)
* M. Lebbah (LIPN   Univ. Paris 13)
* Y. Lechevallier (INRIA   Rocquencourt)
* M.J. Lesot (LIP6   Univ. Paris 6)
* L. Martin (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* C. Maugis (INSA Toulouse)
* E. Mephu Nguifo (LIMOS   Univ. Clermont-Fd)
* M. Nadif (LIPADE   Univ. Paris Descartes)
* A. Napoli (LORIA   Nancy)
* C. Nédellec (INRA   Jouy en Josas)
* N. Niang (CNAM   Paris)
* G. Ritschard (Univ. Genève, SWITZERLAND)
* R. Verde (Univ. Naples, ITALY)
* M. Vichi (Univ. Roma, ITALY)
* Ch. Vrain (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)

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Local Organization Chairs
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Local chairs:
* Guillaume Cleuziou (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)

Organization Committee Members:
* Sylvie Billot (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Laurent Delsol (MAPMO   Univ. Orléans)
* Matthieu Exbrayat (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Vincent Levorato (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Matthieu Lopez (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Lionel Martin (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Yannick Parmentier (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Damien Poirier (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Jacques-Henri Sublemontier (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)
* Isabelle Tellier (LIFO   Univ. Orléans)