Overview of Schedule: PDF (with Abstracts)

Talks will be held in Baker Hall A51 (Giant Eagle Auditorium) or Baker Hall A53 (Steinberg Auditorium).
Registration will be in the Baker Lower Level lounge.

Overview of Conference Locations: Map

For those who are not able or comfortable walking between the campus and the hotel, there will be a hotel shuttle that will leave in the morning at 7:45am. The shuttle will also be arranged as needed for return trips.

Wednesday, June 13th

• Welcome Social, Bridges Lounge, Holiday Inn, 6-8pm

Thursday, June 14th

• 7:45-8:30am: Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 8:30am: Conference Welcome/Opening Remarks
  
  
• 8:30-10:00am: Multidimensional Scaling, Data Analysis, and Associated Software
  Chair: Beth Ayers, American Institutes of Research
  
  Stephen France, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Analysis of a Generalized Agreement Metric for Comparing Configurations
  
  Cherise R. Chin Fatt, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Science
  DISTATIS: Three-way Metric Multidimensional Scaling and its Extensions
  
  Ulas Akkucuk, Bogazici, Istanbul, Turkey
  Applications of Perceptual Mapping Software on Data Originating from Social Sciences
  
  
• 10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 10:30-11:30am: Classification Applications in Criminal Behavior Patterns
  Chair: Beth Ayers, American Institutes for Research
  
  Tim Brennan, Northpoint Institute
  Toward a Multi-Axial Classification for a State Prison System: Balancing Cluster Reliability, Case Assignment Accuracy, and User Requirements
  
  Constantinos Kallis, Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
  Computer Instrument for Violence (CIV): A New Prognostic Model for Violent Reoffending for UK Serious Offenders
  
  
• 11:30am-1:00pm: Lunch Break
  
  
• 1:00-1:45pm: Keynote Address
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  Douglas Steinley, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia
  Distinguishing between Continuous and Discrete Latent Spaces: Implications for Psychological Research
  
  
• 1:45-2:00pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 2:00-3:30pm: Improving the Utility and Tractability of Classification
  Chair: Stan Sclove, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
  Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
  Clustering of Rankings using Kemeny Distance
  
  Dave Dubin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  On Data Identity and Scientific Equivalence
  
  Hans-Friedrich Koehn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  A Branch-and-Bound Max-Cardinality Algorithm for Exploratory Mokken Scale Analysis
  
  
• 3:30-4:00pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 4:00-5:30: Updating (Mixture) Model-Based Clustering I
  Chair: Doug Steinley, Univ of Missouri Psychology
  
  Emilie Rausch, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
  K-Means and Mixture Model Clustering: A Comparison
  
  Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Revisiting the Problem of Finding the Optimal Number of Clusters
  
  Yuhong Wei, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
  Mixture Model Averaging for Clustering
  
  
• 6:00-7:30pm Reception (drink and light snacks), Lucca Ristorante
  The reception is at 317 S. Craig St (about 10 minutes walk from conference and 5-10 minutes from hotel).
  See Map. Restaurant is marked.
  Note that Baker/Porter Hall is on Frew Street adjacent to Flagstaff Hill; the Holiday Inn University Center is on Lytton Avenue.

Friday, June 15th

• 7:45-8:30am Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 8:30-10:00am: Record Linkage and Disambiguation
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, CMU Statistics
  
  Mauricio Sadinle, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Multiple Record Linkage Using a Generalized Fellegi-Sunter Framework
  
  Rob Hall, Department of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University
  Valid Statistical Inference on Automatically Matched Files
  
  Sam Ventura, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Disambiguating USPTO Inventors with Classification Models Trained on Comparison of Labeled Inventor Records
  
  
• 10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 10:30-11:30am: Classification Society Dissertation Award Winners
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, CMU Statistics
  
  Theodore Damoulas, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
  Probabilistic Multiple Kernel Learning
  
  Ondrej Vencalek, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc
  Depth-based Classification
  
  
• 11:30am-1:00pm: Lunch Break (CS Board Meeting in Baker 154R)
  
  
• 1:00pm-1:45pm: Presidential Address
  Chair: Doug Steinley
  
  Rebecca Nugent, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  A Self-Tuning Diffusion Framework for Use in Document Clustering
  
  
• 1:45-2:00pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 2:00-3:00pm: Memorial Session Celebrating the Life and Work of Bob Sokal and Phipps Arabie
  Chair: Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
  
  Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
  
  F. James Rohlf, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
  
  Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, Rutgers University
  
  
  
• 3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 3:30-5:00pm: Advances in Classification/Clustering Methodology
  Chair: Doug Steinley, Univ of Missouri Psychology
  
  Pascal Cuxac, INIST-CNRS
  A New Approach for Improving Clustering Quality Based on Connected Maximized Cluster Features
  
  Jean-Charles Lamirel, Synalp team - LORIA
  A New Incremental Clustering Approach Based on Cluster Data Feature Maximization
  
  Rebecca Le, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
  Alternative Approaches in Multi-label Neutral Zone Classification Problems
  
  
• 5:00-5:30pm: Classification Society General Meeting
  
  
• 7:00-10:00pm: Classification Society Banquet, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Map
  

Saturday, June 16th

• 8:00-9:00am Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 9:00-10:30am: The Use of Indices for Clustering Quality
  Chair: Beth Ayers, American Institutes for Research
  
  Michaela Hoffman, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
  Comparing Methods for Link Prediction in Networks
  
  Jean-Charles Lamirel, Synalp team - LORIA
  An Unbiased Symbolico-numeric Approach for Reliable Clustering Quality Evaluation
  
  Ahmed Albatineh, Florida International University
  On the Equivalence of Some Indices of Similarity: Implication to Binary Presence/Absence Data
  
  
• 10:30-11:00am Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 11:00am-12:30pm: Applications in the Biological Sciences
  Chair: Beth Ayers, American Institutes for Research
  
  Tanzy Love, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester
  Latent Effect Modification found in the Effect of Fish Consumption on IQ
  
  Gabrielle Flynt, Department of Mathematics, Bucknell University
  Clustering Trajectories in the Presence of Informative Monotone Missingness
  
  Sonia Todorova, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Model-Based Clustering of non-Poisson, non-homogenous Point Processes Events with Application to Neuroscience
  
  
• 12:30-1:30pm Coffee/Lunch Break (sandwiches provided), Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 1:30-3:00pm: Updating (Mixture) Model-Based Clustering II
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, CMU Statistics
  
  Brian C. Franczak, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
  The ParSAL Family
  
  Irene Vrbik, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
  MCLUST Models Extended to Mixture of Multivariate Skew-T Distributions
  
  Jeff Andrews, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
  Using Evolutionary Algorithms for Model-Based Clustering
  
  
• 3:00pm Conference Closing Remarks