Shortlist 2008 Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Jorge Santos, "Data Classification with Neural Networks and Entropic
Criteria", (ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto,
Jan. 2007).
Link to dissertation.
- Jorge Caiado, "Distance-based methods for classification and clustering
of time series" (ESCE/Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Setubal, Portugal,
2006)
- Jonathan Schler, "Authorship Analysis in the Absence of a
closed Candidate Set" (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Jan. 2007)
- Hans-Friedrich Koehn, "The Structural Representation of Three-Way
Proximity Data" (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007)
- Cem Iyigun, "Probabilistic Distance Clustering" (Rutgers University, Nov.
2007)
- Balazs Feil, "Fuzzy Clustering in Process Data Mining",
(University of Veszprem (Pannonia)), Hungary, Sept. 2006), published as
monograph "Cluster Analysis for Data Mining and System Identification",
by Birkhaeuser, 2007
- Teemu Roos, "Statistical and Information-Theoretric Methods for Data
Analysis" (University of Helsinki, June 2007).
Link to homepage.
- Nema Dean, "Variable Selection and Other Extensions of the Mixture Model
Clustering Framework" (University of Washington, Seattle, 2006)
- Marielle Linting, "Nonparametric Inference in Nonlinear Principal
Components Analysis: Exploration and Beyond" (Leiden University, October
16, 2007)
- Anita Van der Kooij, "Prediction Accuracy and Stability of Regression
with Optimal Scaling Transformations" (Leiden University, June 27, 2007).
Link to homepage.
Link to
dissertation.
Winner 2008 Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Congratulations to the Winner: Anita Van der Kooij
- Runner-up: Jonathan Schler
- Honorable mention: Balazs Feil and Jorge Santos
- All dissertations were of excellent quality. Congratulations
to all listed above.
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