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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL-BE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>Second VOC Conference, May 31 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>Final Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b><span style='color:#FF9900'>Scope<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The Dutch/Flemisch Classification Society, VOC, aims at communicating scientific principles, methods, and applications of ordination and classification. The VOC is a member of the International Federation of Classification Societies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The VOC would like to invite you to attend its second conference. Contributed papers can be submitted on topics such as classification, clustering, scaling, data analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, statistical modeling, and applications of classification and data analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>Fee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To encourage PhD students to participate, the conference fee is kept very low (±15€/35€ for members/non-members; lunch included).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>Keynote<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b><span style='color:#FF9900'>Important Dates / Deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>April 30: deadline for abstract submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>May 10: notification of acceptance of presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>May 17: deadline for inscription of non presenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br>For more information, visit the conference website:<br></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a href="https://ppw.kuleuven.be/english/mesrg/voc-conference-2013/registration-form-for-the-second-voc-conference">https://ppw.kuleuven.be/english/mesrg/voc-conference-2013/registration-form-for-the-second-voc-conference</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>On behalf of the organizers: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ralph Rippe, Katrijn Van Deun, </span><span lang=NL style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Jeroen Vermunt, Tom Wilderjans, Berrie Zielman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>