sch@idis.UUCP (Stephen Hirtle) (12/29/87)
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CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
1988 ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR PROPOSALS
New York City, NY Co-Chair, Program Committee:
June 16 - 18 Stephen C. Hirtle & Sharon L. Weinberg
The 1988 Classification Society of North America (CSNA)
Annual Meeting will be held June 16 - 18 at the Greenwich
Village campus of New York University in New York City. The
CSNA is a interdisciplinary organization whose purposes are
to promote the scientific study of classification and
clustering (including systematic methods of creating
classifications from data), and to disseminate scientific
and educational information related to its fields of
interests. Programs for previous meetings may be found in
the _Journal of Classification_.
Proposals for papers and/or symposia should be
submitted as soon as possible, and must be received by March
1, 1988. Each proposal should consist of three copies (8
1/2 X 11 paper) of a single spaced summary for use in
judging the merits of the proposed paper and/or symposium.
The amount of time required should be indicated (15-20
minutes recommended for papers); and, each paper should be
classified into one of the following areas: applications,
classification, data analysis, factor analysis, mathematical
models, measurement theory, multivariate analysis, pattern
recognition, scaling, statistical methods, other (specify).
The heading of the summary should use the following format.
In the upper left corner, type the title of the paper,
author(s), institution(s). In the upper right corner, state
the name of presenting author and the mailing address.
For U.S. mail, please include one self-addressed,
stamped, business-size envelope for notification of
acceptance and scheduling and submit to Stephen C. Hirtle,
Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science, 752 LIS
Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260,
USA; 412-624-9434.
For e-mail, submit to Stephen C. Hirtle at
UUCP: {cadre, pitt, decvax, floyd, mcnc}!idis!sch
CSNET: sch%idis.uucp@pitt.csnet
BITNET: IDIS!SCH@PITT or IDIS!SCH@PSUVAX1
Notification of acceptance and scheduling will be mailed
soon after April 1, 1988.
Information on registration will be sent to all members
of CSNA. If you are not a member and would like
registration information and/or other information related to
the meeting, please notify Sharon L. Weinberg, Program of
Educational Statistics, 933 Shimkin Hall, New York
University, New York, NY 10003, USA; 212-998-5206.
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