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October 28, 2007
Workshop: NIPS Workshop on Statistical Models of Networks
NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems, although in terms of topics, the N could probably be dropped without anyone noticing) has an interesting looking workshop coming up. Sadly, I think I will have to miss it, although there should be some interesting talks (Mark Handcock and Stephen Fienberg I know will give good ones), and it's hard to beat Whistler as a conference location.
NIPS Workshop on Statistical Models of Networks
December 8, 2007 at Whistler, Canada
Organizers: Lise Getoor (UMD), Raphael Gottardo (UBC), Kevin Murphy (UBC), and Eric Xing (CMU)
Description: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together people from different disciplines - computer science, statistics, biology, physics, social science, etc - to discuss foundational issues in the modeling of network and relational data. In particular, we hope to discuss various open research issues, such as:
- How to represent graphs at varying levels of abstraction, whose topology is potentially condition-specific and time-varying
- How to combine techniques from the graphical model structure learning community with techniques from the statistical network modeling community
- How to integrate relational data with other kinds of data (e.g., gene expression, sequence or text data).
posted October 28, 2007 08:33 AM in Conferences and Workshops | permalink