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<b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang="EN-GB">New Style VOC Conference, May 25 2012 at Tilburg University
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<b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="COLOR: #ff9900"><font size="3">Scope</font></span></b></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">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
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">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.</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">PhD students are encouraged to actively participate; therefore, the conference fee is kept very low.</font></span></p>
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<b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #ff9900" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Keynote</font></span></b></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Emmanuel Lesaffre, Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre</font></span></p>
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<b><span style="COLOR: #ff9900"><font size="3">Important Dates / Deadlines</font></span></b></span></p>
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<font size="3">March 30: deadline for abstract submission.</font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">May 11: deadline for inscription of non presenters.</font></span></p>
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<font color="#0000ff"><font size="3"><u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><span> </span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/voc-conference" target="_blank"><span lang="NL">http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/voc-conference</span></a></span></span></u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"></span></span></font></font></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><font size="3">Ralph Rippe, Katrijn Van Deun, Michel van de Velden,
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><font size="3">Jeroen Vermunt, Tom Wilderjans, Berrie Zielman</font></span></p>
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