CSNA 2007 Meeting Schedule 

The 2007 Meeting of the Classification Society of North America is
Sponsored by National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the UIUC
College of Education, Department of Computer Science, and the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science. Special thanks also to CRC
Press and to Wolfram Research.

All events are at NCSA, 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, except where noted.

Thursday, June 7

  1:00pm-4:45pm Room 1030. Short Course: Introduction to Classification and Clustering

  6:00-9:00pm Joint DH/CSNA Reception (NCSA lobby)

Friday, June 8.

  8:30am-10:00am Auditorium. CSNA/DH Workshop on Data Analysis in the Humanities. 
  Panelists: D. J. Birnbaum, D. Dubin, D. L. Hoover.

  10:00am-10:10 Auditorium. Opening Remarks. D. Dubin, C. Anderson. M. Janowitz

  10:10-10:30 break

  10:30-12:00 Room 1030 Session F1: Text and Document Analysis. Chair: V. Torvik.

    B. Chee, B. Schatz. Modularity Clustering for Thematic Document
    Clustering.

    D. L. Hoover. Text Classification with Customized Word Lists:
    Delta-Lz and Delta-Oz

    V. I. Torvik, N. R. Smalheiser. Author name disambiguation in
    MEDLINE: results from first-pass clustering

  10:30-12:00 Room 1040 Session F2: Contributed Papers. Chair: B. Harris.

    B. Harris. A Useful Combinatorial Lemma and Some Applications

    R. VanDyke, K. Viele, R. Cooper. Classification of Self-Modeling
    Regressions.

    A. Albatineh, M. Niewiadomska-Bugaj, D. Mihalko. On Similarity
    Indices and Correction for Chance Agreement.

  12:00-1:30 Lunch break

  1:30-3:00 Room 1030 Session F3 Applications in Music. Chair: D. Dubin.

    X. Hu, J. S. Downie. Constructing A Music Mood Taxonomy By
    Clustering

    J. H. Lee. Analysis of Information Features in Natural Language
    Queries Seeking Music

    D. K. Tcheng. A Scalable Approach to Clustering Massive Audio Catalogs.

  1:30-3:00 Room 1040 Session F4 Contributed Papers. Chair: W. Heiser

    A. Turkmen, N. Billor. Robust Partial Logistic Regression (RoPLR)

    H. Köhn. Avoiding Degeneracy in Multidimensional Unfolding by
    Combinatorial Optimization.

    U. Akkucuk, J. D. Carroll. Dimension Reduction Using a Hybrid of
    PARAMAP and Isomap Procedures.

  3:00-3:15 Break

  3:15-4:45 Room 1030 Session F5 Contributed Papers. Chair: M. Janowitz

    M. D. Larsen. Logistic Regression using Fractional Imputation for
    Missing Data

    D. Steinley, L. Hubert. Order-Constrained Solutions in K-Means
    Clustering: Even Better Than Being Globally Optimal

    C. Chiu, J. Douglas. Connections between K-Means Cluster Analysis
    and Restricted Latent Class Models.

  3:15-4:45 Room 1040 Session F6 Contributed Papers. Chair: C. Anderson

    P. Hadjicostas. One-sided Elasticities and Technical Efficiency in
    Multi-output Production: A Theoretical Framework

    B. Dohleman, H. D. Green Jr., D. Williams, N. Contractor. Putting
    Some 'WoW' into Modeling Longitudinal Networks.

    A. Brenning. Challenges in the classification of spatial data 

  6:00pm Room 131 LIS Building CSNA Board meeting

Saturday, June 9

  9:00am-10:00 NCSA Auditorium, Keynote Address: Michael Kurtz. The Astronomical Information Network

  10:00-10:30 Break

  10:30-12:30 Room 1030 Session S1 Contributed Papers. Chair: D. Dubin

    P. McCullagh and J. Yang. How Many Clusters?

    R. Nugent, W. Stuetzle, X. Fei. Visualizing Clusters with a
    Density-Based Similarity Measure.

    P. Ma. Large Scale Functional Data Clustering

    N. Billor, A. Abebe, A. Turkmen, S. Nudurapati. Influence analysis
    in Depth Transvariation based Classification.

  10:30-12:30 Room 1040 Session S2 Contributed Papers. Chair: A. Kendall

    P. Contreras and F. Murtagh.  Evaluation of Hierarchies based on the
    Longest Common Prefix, or Baire, Metric

    J. Verkuilen, M. Smithson. Beta-Distributed Generalized Linear Mixed
    Models.

    H. Yu. Multilevel Latent Markov Models for Discrete Longitudinal Data 

    M. de Rooij. Trend vector models for multiple groups in continuous time.

  12:30-1:50pm Lunch Break

   1:50-2:30 Room 1030 Invited Talk: Guy Lebanon, Non-Parametric Modeling of Partially Ranked Data
 
   2:30-4:00 Room 1040 Session S3 Data Mining and Machine Learning. Chair: F. R. McMorris

    E. Hooper. Intrusion Detection and Response using Effective Data
    Mining Techniques: Classification, Clustering and Data Analysis in
    Intrusion Information Retrieval.

    K. J. Archer. An ordinal impurity function for classification trees
    when predicting an ordinal response.

    D. Cai. Classification of Massive, Structured Data: Research
    Progress @ Data Mining Group.CS.UIUC

   2:30-4:00 Room 1030 Session S4 Brain Sciences. Chair: W. Shannon.

    W. Shannon. Objective Measurement of Fatigue in HIV/AIDS Using
    Actigraphy and Functional Data Analysis.

    H. Ombao, R. Ho. Discrimination and Classification of Non-Stationary
    Brain Signals Using Higher Order Spectral Analysis.

    M. Hersh, K. Viele, and R. Cooper. Identification of Multiple
    Functional Peaks resulting from a Common Peak Shape Function

  4:00-5:00 NCSA Lobby, Student Poster Session

  6:00pm-10:00pm Illini Union, CSNA Banquet

Sunday, June 10

  9:00am-10:30 Room 1030, Session SN Social Networks. Chair: C. Anderson

    H. Ahn, C. Garandeau. How are bullies and victims embedded in the
    classroom peer network? : Factors linked to the heterogeneity of
    their structural embeddedness
  
    P. C. Rodkin, H. Ahn. An evaluation of social cognitive mapping
    procedures for identifying middle childhood social networks

    P. C. Rodkin and T. Wilson. Racially integrated social networks
    among African- and European-American elementary children across
    differing classroom contexts

10:30-:10:45 break

10:45-11:15 Room 1030 CSNA Membership Meeting

11:30 Close of Meeting.