PAST MEETINGS/REUNIONS PASSEES

PAST MEETINGS/REUNIONS PASSEES
mars 1997 a Paris. le Groupe Interuniversitaire de Recherche
Sciences de 1’Information et de la Communication (GIRSIC, J.-M.
Noyer. URFIST de Paris. 17 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris.
France; email roy®ccr.jussieu.fr) a organise un s6minaire sur
Evolution des Outils de Recherche sur Internet&dquo; par Francois
Bourdoncle (Ecole des Mines de Paris) qui a presente LiveTopics.
outil developpe pour le robot de recherche Altavista et accessible
depuis le 15 f6vrier 1997 sur Internet <http://www.altavista.com>.
De 1’aide a la requete a 1’6mergence des categories. Livetopics
marque une evolution majeure, non seulement dans le domaine de
1’acces aux documents, mais aussi dans le domaine de la
representation (a 1’aide de graphes 6mergents) des corpus
Il est possible, des a present, d’envisager une
documentaires.
exploitation plus cr6ative des &dquo;intelligences collectives&dquo;, expression
du reseau Internet.
Le 14
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On 1-2 April 1997 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, an international
conference on Multilevel Analysis was organized by Tom A. B.
Snijders (ICS, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/ 1, 9712
TS Groningen, Netherlands; fax 31 50 363 6304). The conference
was one of the Social Science Information Technology workshops of
the Dutch group ProGAMMA and drew about 60 participants from
10 countries. The conference was followed by a one-day course by
Donald Hedeker (University of Illinois at Chicago) on Multilevel
Analysis of Categorical Outcomes. The software treated in the
his
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A full list of the
<http://www.uic.edu/-hedeker/mix.html>.
presentations given during the meeting has already been sent out to
BMS subscribers by email and can be sent out on request to any of
our
readers
by email.
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On 15-16 May 1997 in Utrecht, Netherlands, the 18th Meeting of
the
Working Group on Structural Equation Modeling
(Arbeitsgruppe Strukturgleichungsmodelle; email j.hoxC~?fsw.ruu.nl;
web http//www.uni-muenster.de/SoWi/struktur [English]) took
place at the Department of Methodology and Statistics, University of
Utrecht. The meeting focused on &dquo;Violations of Assumptions and
Robustness of Estimation&dquo;. The registration fee was NLG 25/DM
20.
The social sciences research chapter of the Netherlands
Society for Statistics and Operational Research (email
[email protected]; web http://www.fsw-ruu.nl/ms/welcome.html
[dutch]) decided to organize a special meeting on May 14 on
&dquo;Computer Intensive Statistics&dquo; such as bootstrapping, jackknifing,
The meetings were
Gibbs sampling which was free of charge.
organized &dquo;back-to-back&dquo; to allow interested participants to attend
both meetings.
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Le 30 mai 1997 a Paris, le Groupe Interuniversitaire de Recherche
en Sciences de 1 Information et de la Communication (GIRSIC, J.-M.
Noyer, URFIST de Paris, 17 rue des Bernardins. 75005 Paris,
France; email [email protected]) a organise un seminaire sur &dquo;Les
Systemes d’Infornaation en Sciences de 1’Education&dquo; par
Iiuguette Rigot (Institut National de la Recherche Pedagogique).
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