New Style VOC Conference, May 25 2012 at Tilburg University Call for Papers Scope The Dutch/Flemisch Classification Society, VOC, is an interdisciplinary society that aims at communicating scientific principles, methods, and applications of ordination and classification. The VOC is a member of the International Federation of Classification Societies. The VOC would like to invite you to attend its first new style 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. Fee PhD students are encouraged to actively participate; therefore, the conference fee is kept very low. Keynote Emmanuel Lesaffre, Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre Important Dates / Deadlines March 30: deadline for abstract submission. April 15: notification of acceptance of presentation. May 11: deadline for inscription of non presenters. For more information, visit the conference website: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/voc-conference On behalf of the organizers: Ralph Rippe, Katrijn Van Deun, Michel van de Velden, Jeroen Vermunt, Tom Wilderjans, Berrie Zielman