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Invited Speakers

Preliminary Programme

The preliminary programme for ICC-2011 and the Bourdieu Symposium is now available  

Following the banquet, a 'cello concert will be given in Upper College Hall by Patrick and Gabriela Bradley

Keynote Speakers

C.J. (Keith) van Rijsberen on clustering and classification in information retrieval.

Adrian Raftery on model-based classification and clustering in high dimensions.

Contributed Abstracts

1, New initialization algorithm for k-means clustering, Amit Thombre.

2, Leading indicators of currency crises in emerging economies, Stephen Reid.

3, Between group metrics, and their use in canonical variate analysis, Casper Albers and John Gower.

4, Minkowski metric k-means for feature weighting, Renato Cordeiro de Amorim and Boris Mirkin.

5, A taxonomic analysis of female pathways to crime: from qualitative descriptions to replicated quantitative patterns, Tim Brennan and Markus Brietenbach.

6, A method of pattern recognition applied to the Poggendorff Illusion, Fred Stentiford.

7, Using image clustering algorithms for marketing purposes, Daniel Baier and Ines Daniel.

8, Detection of Musical Instruments in Intervals and Chords, Markus Eichhoff and Claus Weihs.

9, Selecting clustering models by maximizing approximation capacity, Joachim M Buhmann.

10, Behaviour-based surveillance videos analysis, Virginia Fernandez Arguedas and Ebroul Izquierdo.

11, Mapping an illegitimate field: power relations in international education, Jacquie Widin.

12, Clusters defined by distinct correlation structures, Nicholas T. Longford.

13, Distinguishing and classifying from n-ary relations, Pascal Préa and Monique Rolbert.

14, How to find the best cluster analysis method (for social stratification based on mixed data)?  Christian Hennig.

15, Correspondance analysis with incomplete paired data using Bayesian imputation, Jules J.S. de Tibeiro and Duncan J. Murdoch.

16, Handling missing values with regularized iterative multiple correspondence analysis, Julie Josse, Marie Chavent, Benoît Liquet and François Husson.

17, A recurrence quantification analysis based approach to lung sounds classification, Sivarit Sultornsanee, Ibrahim Zeid, and Sagar Kamarthi.

18, Simultaneously selecting categorical features and the number of clusters in model-based clustering, Claudia Silvestre, Margarida Cardoso and Mario Figueiredo.

19, Auto-focus algorithm selection: a methodology for comparing blur perception between observers, Robert Shilston, Fred Stentiford.

20, Clustering of a variables via the PCAMIX method, Marie Chavent, Vanessa Kuentz, Benoît Liquet and Jerome Saracco.

21, Structure and vocabulary flow in chronological corpora. Contribution of correspondence analysis, Mónica Bécue-Bertaut, Belchin Kostov and Annie Morin.

22, Verbalisation tasks in hall test sessions, Belchin Kostov, Mónica Bécue-Bertaut, Jérôme Pagès, Marine Cadoret, Jordi Torrens and Pilar Urpi.

23, The use of GPS tracking data to infer foraging behaviour in seabirds, Adam Butler and Ellie Owen.

24, Measuring the agreement between partitions: the use of thresholds values, Maria José P. C. Amorim and Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso.

25, Understanding the immune system by correspondence analysis, Masahiro Ono, Manabu Kano and Toshio Sugiman.

26, Clustering data described with discrete distributions: an application on population pyramids,Simona Korenjak Cerne, Natasa Kejzar and Vladimir Batagelj.

27, A k-means inspired heuristic for microdata protection, Daniel Aloise and Arthur Araúo.

28, Supervised learning of shapes of galaxy clusters, Dalia Chakrabarty.

29, Advanced analysis and classification of images using conformal predictors, S. González, J. Vega, A. Pereira and  I. Pastor.

30, Baire distance and feature ranking in classification, Patrick Erik Bradley and Andreas Christian Braun.

31, Mixture semiparametric regression, Jan Schepers.

32, Clustering constrained spatially, Ayale Daher.

33, The nine nations of North America, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuska Ferligoj and Patrick Doreian.

34, Validation of trajectories on factorial plans after a tandem clustering approach, Solène Bienaise and Mireille Gettler Summa.

35, Investigation on classification tree: handling and accommodating the outliers, Ch’ng Chee Keong and Nor Idayu binti Mahat.

36, How well does mixture clustering do according to distance-based criteria?  Anderlucci Laura and Christian Hennig.

37, Parametric discriminant analysis of interval data, Paula Brito and A. Pedro Duarte Silva.

38, Linear time hierarchical clustering: efficient and effective hierarchical clustering of very large data sets, Fionn Murtagh and Pedro Contreras.

39, Application of Bayesian model averaging to the construction of regulatory networks, Ka Yee Yeung.

40, Towards learning with complementary labels, Nicolas Cebron, Fabian Richter and Rainer Lienhart.

41 Show me a picture: visualising interactive machine learning algorithms, Brian MacNamee.

42, Using crowdsourcing in the rating of emotional speech assets, Sarah Jane Delany and Alexey Tarasov.

43, Valid predictions with confidence estimation in air pollution problem, Olga Ivina, Ilia Nouretdinov and Alex Gammerman.

44, Methods for reliable classification of network traffic, Zhiyuan Luo.

45, Non-conformity measures in multi-class prediction, Ilia Nouretdinov, Matilde Santos and Alex Gammerman.

46, The canonical analysis of distance, John C Gower, Niel J Le Roux and Sugnet Lubbe.

47, Optimization in k-means analysis: some new developments, David Wishart.

48, Lost in transformation: data mining beyond CRISP, Simon Fischer.

49, Meta-analysis methods for gene expression profiles, Berthold Lausen.

50, Variable selection for latent class analysis applied to HapMap SNP data, Nema Dean and Adrian E. Raftery.

51, Clustering students by their skill set profiles on the unit hypercube, Rebecca Nugent and Nema Dean.

52, Succeeding in economics: capital resources and performances among students in France, K. Darin.

53, Positioning political producers: the field of American campaign professionals, D. Laurison.

54, Une population de dirigeants de banques centrales (provisional title), F. Lebaron.

55, Widening participation in higher education: capital that counts, J. Watson.

56, Political space of young Swedish upper secondary pupils, Y. Bergstrom and T. Dalberg.

57, In which social context will working class students obtain a university diploma, A. Tribess.

58, Bourdieu in the playfield: rethinking video game studies, V. Berry, M. Boute, and S. Coavoux.

59, Geometric data analysis of French cultural practices, F. Lebaron, P.  Bonnet and B. Le Roux.

60, Bourdieu and the geometric analysis of data, M. Grenfell.

61, Trawling for students: how do educational institutions regulate for students, Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen.

62, Re-presenting the social world: Bourdieu and graphic illustrations of fields, C. Hardy.

63, Cultural distinctions: a geometric data analysis, J. Hjellbrekke and O. Korsnes.

64, Beauty and the eye of the beholder: aesthetic dispositions and museum audiences in Flanders (Belgium), H. Roose, L. Hanquiet and M. Savage.

65, Applying Bourdieusian social theory to the interaction between identity, power and inclusive practice in a minority language school, C. DiGiorgio.

66, Structure and vocabulary flow in chronological corpora: contribution of correspondence analysis, M. Becue-Bertaut, B. Kostov and A. Morin.

67, A metric and ultrametric platform for analysis of semantics and change, F. Murtagh, A. Ganz and J. Reddington.

68, Text detection in natural scenes using cliques of interest: points for mobile visual search, F. Stentiford.

The Symposium on Bourdieu and Multiple Correspondence Analysis has further submission details here