CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA 1995 ANNUAL MEETING

Executive Tower Inn
Denver, Colorado
June 22 - 25, 1995
FINAL PROGRAM (subject to change)

The annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America will be held at the Executive Tower Inn, 1405 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado 80202 USA. The meeting is supported in part by the College of Business and Administration and Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Colorado at Denver.

The section immediately following gives the schedule of presentations at the conference. The abstracts of the papers and Information on registration are available.

Thursday, June 22, 1995: Short Course: Introduction to Classification and Clustering

Instructors: Pierre Legendre, Universiti de Montreal; Glenn Milligan, The Ohio State University; Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Short Course Registration
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Short Course Session 1: Exploratory Data Analysis: An Overview
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Short Course Session 2: Cluster Analysis
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Short Course, Session 3: Clustering Validation and Comparison
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM Short Course, Session 4: Examples, Analysis and Discussion

Thursday, June 22, 1995: Conference Welcoming

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM CSNA registration
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Welcome reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CSNA Board of Directors Meeting

Friday, June 23, 1995: Contributed and Invited Papers

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM CSNA Registration
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Greetings and Opening Announcements:
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Session 1. CLASSIFICATION AND NEURAL NETS
Organizer and Chair: Manavendra Misra, Colorado School of Mines
8:30 B. Warner, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
INCORPORATING A NEURAL NETWORK INTO LOGISTIC REGRESSION
8:50 L. Pratt & C. Medina, Colorado School of Mines
FORENSIC HAIR ANALYSIS USING PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES
9:10 D. Miller, A. Rao, K. Rose & A. Gersho, University of Califor nia at Santa Barbara
AN INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH TO OPTIMAL DESIGN OF STATISTICAL CLASSIFIERS
9:30 M. P. Peacock and P. A. Olmos-Gallo, University of Denver
A COMPARISON OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR CLASSIFICATION METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DYSLEXIA
9:50 Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Session 2: CLASSIFICATION IN MARKETING
Organizers and Chairs: J. Douglas Carroll, Rutgers University and Paul E. Green, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 P. E. Green & A. M. Krieger, University of Pennsylvania
A COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CLUSTER-BASED MARKET SEGMENTATION
10:50 A. Chaturvedi, J. D. Carroll, P. E. Green & J. A. Rotondo, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Rutgers University and University of Pennsylvania
AN OVERLAPPING K-CENTROIDS APPROACH TO CLUSTER ANALYSIS
11:10 V. Ramaswamy, R. Chatterjee & S. H. Cohen, University of Michigan and Stratford Associates
MARKET SEGMENTATION ON MULTIPLE BASES WITH PICK-ANY DATA: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
11:30 F. Carmone, Wright State University
Discussion of previous papers
11:50 General discussion
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch Break
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Session 3: INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Don Dearholt, Mississippi State University
1:15 Bernard Harris & Erhard Godehart, University of Wisconsin & Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
PROBABILITY MODELS AND LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM INTERVAL GRAPHS WITH APPLICATIONS TO CLUSTER ANALYSIS
1:45 Helena Bacelar-Nicolau & F. C. Nicolau, Universidade de Lisbo a & Universidade Nova de Lisboa
THE FORMULA OF LANCE & WILLIAMS AND ITS EXTENSION TO CLASSIFICATION MODELS OF VL TYPE
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Session 4: GRAPHS AND GRAPH THEORY
Chair: Dawn Iacobucci, Northwestern University
2:15 D. W. Dearholt, Mississippi State University
GROWING-SPHERE GRAPHS AS A GENERALIZATION OF SPHERE OF INFLUENCE GRAPHS AND THE UNION OF MINTREES
2:35 T. E. Goldsmith & P. J. Johnson University of New Mexico
PREDICTIVENES OF HIGHER-ORDER GRAPH STRUCTURE
2:55 Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Session 5: STATISTICAL IDEAS IN CLASSIFICATION
Chair: Arthur J. Kendall, U. S. Government
3:30 B. Mirkin and I. Muchnik, Rutgers University and T. F. Smith, Boston University
A BIOLOGICALLY MEANINGFUL MODEL FOR COMPARING MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC TREES
3:50 M. Zhang, Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc.
APPLICATIONS OF SPLINE TRANSFORMATIONS TO BUILDING MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION
4:10 S. Wasserman & P. Pattison, University of Illinois & University of Melbourne
LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR GRAPHS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
4:30 Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CSNA GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CSNA ANNUAL BANQUET
6:00 - 7:00 PM Cash Bar
7:00 - 9:00 PM Banquet

Saturday, June 24, 1995: Invited and Contributed Papers

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM CSNA Registration
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Session 6: CLASSIFICATION AND AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION
Organizer and Chair: David Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University
8:30 J. Rudman, Carnegie-Mellon University
STATISTICS AND AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION STUDIES
8:50 D. I. Holmes, University of the West of England
MULTIVARIATE APPROACHES TO AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION
9:10 W. Elliott, Claremont McKenna College
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: A COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS OF THE SHAKESPEARE CLAIMANTS
9:30 D. Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University
Discussion of above papers
9:50 General Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Session 7. GRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS
Chair: Peter Bryant, University of Colorado at Denver
10:30 P. A. Olmos-Gallo, University of Denver
A MULTI-LAYER RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK THAT CAN IMPROVE GENERALIZATION
10:50 J. L. Goldberg, Texas A&M University
A LEARNING METHOD FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION
11:10 L. A. Alfonso-Reese, F. G. Ashby & D. H. Brainard, University of California at Santa Barbara
CATEGORIZATION EFFICIENCY MEASURED WITH TRIVARIATE STIMULI
11:30 Discussion
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM -- 2:30 PM Sesion 8. GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND NEURAL NETS
Chair: Dennis Johnston, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1:15 L. Bobrowski, M. Vriesenda & J. Sklansky, University of California at Irvine
RESUBSTITUTION CRITERIA IN THE DESIGN OF LINEAR CLASSIFIERS
1:35 J. E. Boggess, Mississippi State University
USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM TO EVOLVE A SET OF RULES FOR CLASSIFYING ROADS IN SATTELITE IMAGES
1:55 M. Pei, Y. Ding, W. F. Punch III & E. K. Goodman, Beijing Union University & Michigan State University
GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND FEATURE EXTRACTION
2:15 discussion
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Session 9. VARIOUS ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS
Chair: Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh
3:00 M. Mazumdar, D. F. Bajorin, R. J. Motzer, V. Vlamis & G. J. Bosi, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
CLASSIFICATION OF PATIENTS WITH GERM CELL TUMORS (GCT) USING FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF RESPONSE TO PLATINUM-BASED CHEMOTHERAPY
3:20 W. H. E. Day, Memorial University of Newfoundland
CONSENSUS RULES FOR MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: THEORY VS. BIOLOGY
3:40 D. Banks, Carnegie-Mellon University
CLUSTERING PROBLEMS THAT ARISE IN THE ANALYSIS OF DATA ON PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION ON THE INTERNET
4:00 Discussion
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM (Approx.) WALKING TOUR OF LOWER DOWNTOWN ("LO-DO") DENVER
Tour Guide: Dennis Gallagher, Colorado State Senator, Denver and newly-elected City Councilman, Denver.

Dennis Gallagher has a master's degree from Catholic University, and was an Eagleton Fellow at Rutgers before joining the faculty of Regis University in Denver. He has been a state representative and state senator from Denver, and was elected this year to the Denver City Council. He has specialized in the history of Denver, and often leads such tours as this one. Tour leaves from the lobby of the Executive Tower Inn, and will include historic taverns and saloons, the former red-light district, Coors field, Union Station, and other landmarks from Denver's "Wild West" history. Free to conference registrants and accompanying guests.

Sunday, June 25, 1995: Invited and Contributed Papers

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CSNA Registration
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM Session 10. CLASSIFICATION AND MODEL SELECTION Organizer/Chair: Hamparsum Bozdogan, University of Tennessee
8:15 H-K Luh, J. Gittleman & H. Bozdogan, University of Tennessee
A CORRELATED EVOLUTION MODEL USING A MULTIPLE REGRESSION WITH PHYLOGENETICALLY AUTOREGRESSIVE ERROR COMPONENTS
8:35 M. Smith de Borrero, Lehigh University
DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF MIXTURE COMPONENTS: A SIMULATION STUDY
8:55 C. Hild & H. Bozdogan, University of Tennessee
TREE-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF PREDICTORS IN REGRESSION MODELS AND STRUCTURE DETERMINATION VIA SELF-ORGANIZATION: THE GMDH
9:15 Discussion
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Break
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Session 11. APPLICATIONS OF CLASSIFICATION: MOSTLY IN MARKETING Chair: Michael Windham, Utah State University
10:00 A. Kara, Pennsylvania State University of York
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE "HEURISTIC IDENTIFICATION OF NOICE VARIABLES (HINOV)" ALGORITHM
10:20 S. M. Keaveney, University of Colorado at Denver
CONSUMERS' PRICE-QUALITY SCHEMAS FOR SERVICES
10:40 M. A. Arrufat, Manacon, Inc.
A MONTE-CARLO STUDY TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF A [NEW] FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHM USED IN MARKET DEFINITION AND SEGMENTATION
11:00 R. P. Mignogna, Technology/Engineering Management, Inc.and D. I. Hart, Western Geophysical
A COMPARISON OF NEURAL NETWORK AND LINEAR PROGRAMMING-BASED PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO SEISMIC PROCESSING
11:20 Discussion
11:30 AM CONFERENCE CLOSING