2001-2006 Special Focus on Data Analysis and Mining: Working Groups

Interdisciplinary working groups will explore specific research areas. Each working group will consist of researchers with expertise in the field and/or in one of the applications areas. We will bring these working groups together for several days to a week for a first meeting. There will be informal presentations and lots of time for discussion and interaction. At the end or beginning of this first get-together, we will hold a public workshop with more formal presentations. During the public workshop, others in the community interested in the field will be given an opportunity to learn about the working group's efforts and the working group will have the opportunity to learn about the efforts of others that they might not have known about. Because we want to be inclusive, we will use this public meeting to identify individuals from the community who might wish to join the working group or have their students do so, and we will include them in the second working group meeting. The goals of this first get-together at DIMACS will be to formulate problems, share ideas and approaches, and set an agenda for future interactions. These interactions will take place via email and such interactions as take place normally in scientific collaborations. After six to twelve months, we will bring the working groups back together at DIMACS for another meeting. We expect that at this second meeting, the participants will have an opportunity for intensive collaborations and also that they will make informal presentations to each other about their progress. At the end of the second get-together, we hope that the working groups will have obtained exciting results, at least of a preliminary nature, and we will have laid the groundwork for extensive future collaborations.

The working groups will be interdisciplinary. Researchers who have addressed the problems we shall investigate include theoretical and applied computer scientists, statisticians, discrete and non-discrete mathematicians, chemists, astronomers, economists, psychologists, information theorists, management scientists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and others. Most of these fields will be represented in our working groups. DIMACS has a long and successful history of getting researchers with different backgrounds and approaches together, stimulating new collaborations, helping to set the agenda for future research, and acting as a catalyst for major new developments at the interface among disciplines and we hope to build on this tradition with these working groups.

The following is the meeting schedule of the groups:

Algorithms for Multidimensional Scaling I
Dates: August 6 - 10, 2001
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: J. Douglas Carroll and Phipps Arabie, Rutgers University
Email: dcarroll@rci.rutgers.edu, arabie@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Streaming Data Analysis and Mining I
Dates: November 5 - 9, 2001
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs
Email: alb@research.att.com

Computer-Generated Conjectures from Graph Theoretic and Chemical Databases I
Dates: November 12 -16, 2001
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Patrick Fowler, University of Exeter; Pierre Hansen, GERAD - University of Montreal
Email: P.W.Fowler@exeter.ac.uk, pierreh@crt.umontreal.ca

Streaming Data Analysis and Mining II
Dates: March 24-26, 2003
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs and Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University
Email: alb@research.att.com, rajeev@cs.stanford.edu

Algorithms for Multidimensional Scaling II
Dates: June 11-12, 2003
Location: Doubletree Hotel, Tallahassee, FL
Organizers: J. Douglas Carroll and Phipps Arabie, Rutgers University
Email: dcarroll@rci.rutgers.edu, arabie@andromeda.rutgers.edu

New Algorithms for Inferring Molecular Structure from Distance Restraints
Dates: January 12 - 16, 2004
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Michael W Trosset, College of William & Mary
Email: trosset@MATH.WM.EDU

Computer-Generated Conjectures from Graph Theoretic and Chemical Databases II
Dates: June 2 - 5, 2004
Location: Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Organizers: Patrick Fowler, Univeristy of Exeter; Pierre Hansen, GERAD - University of Montreal
Email: P.W.Fowler@exeter.ac.uk, pierreh@crt.umontreal.ca

Working Group on The Burrows - Wheeler Transform: Ten Years Later
Dates: August 19 - 20, 2004
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa; Giovanni Manzini, University of Piemonte Orientale; S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
Email: muthu@cs.rutgers.edu

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0100921

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