DMIN'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:20pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


01:20 - 03:00pm:  Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
                  are of significant interest to DMIN conference participants
                  (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
                  Therefore, you are encouraged to also check the schedules for
                  other joint conferences.  (In particular, schedules for IKE'06,
                  BIOCOMP'06, SWWS'06, and ICAI'06).

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 1-DMIN:   TIME SERIES FORECASTING AND CLUSTERING
                  Chair: Sven F. Crone, UK
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 3:20pm - 6:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  DMIN - Opening Remarks

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Parameter Sensitivity of Support Vector Regression and
                  Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting
                  Crone, Sven; Lessmann, Stefan; Pietsch, Swantje
                  Lancaster University Management School, UK

04:00 - 04:20pm:  The Impact of Preprocessing on Support Vector Regression
                  and Neural Networks in Time Series Prediction
                  Crone, Sven; Guajardo, Jose; Weber, Richard
                  Lancaster University Management School, UK

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Financial Time Series Segmentation based on Specialized Binary
                  Tree Representation
                  Tak Chung, Fu
                  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Clustering of Bi-Dimensional and Heterogeneous Time Series:
                  Application to Social Sciences Data
                  Remi Gaudin; Barbier, Sylvaine; Nicoloyannis, Nicolas;
                  Banens, Maks
                  Laboratoire ERIC - Univ. Lumi?re - Lyon 2, France

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Cost-Sensitive Prediction in Multiple Time Series
                  Kantardzic, Mehmed; Walgampaya, Chamila
                  University of Louisville, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Time Series as a Point - A Novel Approach for Time Series
                  Cluster Visualization
                  Kumar, Pradeep; Bhushan, Naga
                  University of Mysore

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Mining of Stock Data: Intra- and Inter-Stock Pattern
                  Associative Classification
                  Chung, Fu-lai; Ting, Jo; Tak Chung, Fu
                  Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)



09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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