Conference Program


Conference site: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Main Building, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Austria.

The program includes several half-day tutorials (prior to the conference on June 14), and a social program. A print version of the program is available as pdf.

The abstracts and slides for all presentations can be browsed as a HTML page and the book of abstracts is available in a single PDF document.


Thursday
June 15

Friday
June 16

Saturday
June 17


08:00-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00 Opening



09:00-10:30

Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Paul Murrell

John Chambers
A History of S and R (with some questions for the future)

Peter Rossi
Bayesian Statistics with Marketing Data in R

Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Luke Tierney

Jan de Leeuw
R in Psychometrics and Psychometrics in R

Brian Everitt
Cluster Analysis: Past, Present and Future

Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Friedrich Leisch

Trevor Hastie
Data Mining in R: Path Algorithms

Paul Murrell
Can R Draw Graphs?

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

useR! Kaleidoscope

useR! Kaleidoscope

useR! Kaleidoscope

Thursday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Chair: Simon Jackman
Contributions

Thursday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Chair: Thomas Lumley
Contributions

Thursday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Chair: Anthony Rossini
Contributions

Friday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Chair: Martyn Plummer
Contributions

Friday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Chair: Duncan Murdoch
Contributions

Friday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Chair: Gerhard Tutz
Contributions

Saturday (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Douglas Bates
Contributions

12:30-13:00

Lunch

Lunch

Coffee Break

13:00-14:00

Panel discussion (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Kurt Hornik

14:00-14:45

Keynote Lecture (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Martin Mächler

Stefano Iacus, Uwe Ligges and Simon Urbanek
R on Different Platforms: The useRs' Point of View

Keynote Lecture (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Peter Dalgaard

John Fox and Sanford Weisberg
UseR! for Teaching

14:45-15:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

15:00-18:30

useR! Focus: Spotlights & Forum
Bayesian Methods & Graphical Models (Chair: Andrew Martin, Rooms: HS 0.1, Aula 1)
Connectivity, Web-based Computing and Parallelization (Chair: Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, Rooms: HS 0.2, Aula 2)
Finance & Applied Time Series Modeling (Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel, Rooms: HS 0.3, Aula 3)
Applied & Medical Statistics (Chair: Frank Harrell, Rooms: HS 0.4, Festsaal 1)
Ecology & Spatial Statistics (Chair: Roger Bivand, Rooms: HS 0.5, Atrium)
Machine Learning (Chair: Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Rooms: HS 0.7, Festsaal 2)

useR! Focus: Spotlights & Forum
Teaching & User Interfaces (Chair: Uwe Ligges, Rooms: HS 0.1, Aula 1)
Visualization (Chair: Antony Unwin, Rooms: HS 0.2, Aula 2)
Econometrics & Social Science (Chair: Roger Koenker, Rooms: HS 0.3, Aula 3)
Omic Statistics: Genomics and Proteomics (Chair: Axel Benner, Rooms: HS 0.4, Festsaal 1)
Business Analytics (Chair: Peter Rossi, Rooms: HS 0.5, Atrium)
Robust Statistics (Chair: Claudio Agostinelli, Rooms: HS 0.7, Festsaal 2)

15:00-16:30

Spotlights (Rooms: HS 0.1-0.5, 0.7)

Spotlights (Rooms: HS 0.1-0.5, 0.7)

16:30-16:45

Break

Break

16:45-18:30

Discussion and Exhibition Forum (Rooms: Aula 1-3, Festsaal 1-2, Atrium)

Discussion and Exhibition Forum (Rooms: Aula 1-3, Festsaal 1-2, Atrium)

Evening

Cocktail Reception

Conference Dinner


Thursday 15
08:45-09:00

Opening
Horst Breitenstein (Vice-Rector of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)


useR! Kaleidoscope Sessions

Thursday 15
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Thursday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)

Micah Altman, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald
R Modules for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing, Perturb package

John M. Chambers, David A. James, Diane Lambert and Scott Vander Wiel
Computation and Aggregation of Quantiles from Data Streams

Rob Hyndman
Automatic time series forecasting

Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis
Applied Econometrics with R

Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni
ZipfR: Working with words and other rare events in R

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Thursday 15
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Thursday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)

Zubin Dowlaty, Dean Mao and Simon Urbanek
Enterprise Automatons with R

Douglas Wood, David Chang, Solomon Henry and Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Using R as a web service

Philippe Grosjean
Collaborative writing of R documentation using a Wiki

Tobias Wichtrey, Alexander Gouberman, Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek
iPlots 2.0

Hadley Wickham
An implementation of the grammar of graphics in R: ggplot

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Thursday 15
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Thursday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)

Heather Turner and David Firth
gnm: A Package for Generalized Nonlinear Models

Peter Dalgaard
Repeated measures tools for multivariate linear models

Gregory Warnes, Max Kuhn and Jim Rogers
Open Source Software in Pharmaceutical Research

Mike Smith, John Marioni, Natalie Thorne and Simon Tavaré
snapCGH (segmentation, normalisation and processing of arrayCGH data) and methods for combining with gene expression information

Alessandra R. Brazzale
Applied Asymptotics in R

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Friday 16
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Friday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)

Martin Mächler and Andreas Ruckstuhl
Robust Statistics Collaborative Package Development: 'robustbase'

Claudio Agostinelli
Robust Estimation for Circular Data using R

Kevin Quinn and Andrew Martin
Applied Bayesian Inference in R using MCMCpack

Susan Thomas and Shobhana Vyas
Bringing transparency to commodity markets in India: A real-world mission-critical deployment of R

Patrick Burns
Using R to Evaluate Trading Strategies

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Friday 16
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Friday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)

Kosuke Imai, Gary King and Olivia Lau
A Unified User Interface for Single and Multi-Equation Models (aka "Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software")

Thomas Baier, Richard Heiberger, Erich Neuwirth and Wilfried Grossmann
Using R for teaching statistics to nonmajors: Comparing experiences of two different approaches

François Husson and Sébastien Lê
SensoMineR: A package for sensory data analysis with R

Pedro Andrade Neto and Paulo Justinano Junior
aRT: R-TerraLib API

Tim Hesterberg and Chris Fraley
Least Angle Regression

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Friday 16
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Friday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)

Sören Sonnenburg, Fabio De Bona and Gunnar Rätsch
SHOGUN - A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox

Axel Benner
Statistical Learning for Analyzing Functional Genomic Data

Ron Wehrens, Egon Willighagen, Willem Melssen and Lutgarde Buydens
Supervised Self-Organising Maps

Göran Broström
A fixed effects approach to GLMs with clustered data

Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Popi Akantziliotou
The generalized additive model for location, scale and shape

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Saturday 17
11:00-12:30

Kaleidoscope: Saturday (Room: Audimax)

Frank Harrell
Statistical Principles to Live By

Roger Koenker
Parametric link functions for binary response models: A Fisherian Holiday

Stephen Kaluzny
The S Package System

Brian D. Ripley
Can R speak your language?

Ivan Mizera
Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis Using Halfspace Depth

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useR! Focus Sessions

Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Bayesian Methods & Graphical Models (Spotlights: HS 0.1, Forum: Aula 1)

Martyn Plummer
Bayesian Modeling in R with JAGS

Massimiliano Mascherini
MASTINO: A suite of R functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data.

Luca La Rocca, Jens Henrik Badsberg and Claus Dethlefsen
The giRaph package for graph representation in R

Giovanni Petris
Bayesian analysis of Dynamic Linear Models in R


Markus Kalisch
pcalg: Estimating and visualizing high-dimensional dependence structures using the PC-algorithm

Andrew Thomas
Extending BRugs

Ravi Varadhan, Christophe Roland and Hormuzd Katki
Accelerating Any EM Algorithm Without Sacrificing Simplicity and Stability

Regina Tüchler and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
Bayesian Covariance Selection in Hierarchical Linear Mixed Models

Yu-Sung Su
Applied Bayesian Multilevel Modeling: Remittances and Political Liberalization in the Developing Countries

David Lindelöf
Integrating R in an advanced building control system

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Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Connectivity, Web-based Computing and Parallelization (Spotlights: HS 0.2, Forum: Aula 2)

Jeffrey Horner
Using R/Apache as the Statistical Engine for Web Applications

Tom Short and Philippe Grosjean
Online Applications with Rpad

Justin Harrington and Matias Salibian-Barrera
Adventures in High Performance Computing and R: Going Parallel

Nick Carriero, J. Lai, Martin Schultz, S. Weston and Greg Warnes
Parallel Computing in R using NetWorkSpaces


Tim F. Liao
Using R as a Wrapper in Simulation Studies

Angelo Mineo and Alfredo Pontillo
Using R via PHP: R-php

Seisho Sato
Web Decomp and E-Decomp - Time Series Analysis using R

Ramon Díaz-Uriarte, Andres Cañada, Edward Morrissey and Oscar Rueda
Asterias: An example of using R in a web-based bioinformatics suite of tools

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Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Finance & Applied Time Series Modeling (Spotlights: HS 0.3, Forum: Aula 3)

Tomoaki Nakatani and Timo Teräsvirta
Testing volatility interactions in a constant conditional correlation GARCH model

Harald Schmidbauer and Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu
mgarch: A Package for the Analysis of Multivariate GARCH Models

Thomas Jakobsen and Jeffrey Todd Lins
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in R

Giulio Mignola and Roberto Ugoccioni
Statistical Approach to Operational Risk Management


Stefano Iacus and Davide La Torre
Iterated function system and simulation of Brownian motion

Lucas Julian Carbonaro
Studies on financial time series analysis

Javier López-de-Lacalle
The uroot and partsm R-Packages: Some Functionalities for Time Series Analysis

Svetlana Unkuri
Automated Lag Order Selection and Forecasting in VAR modeling

Robert Ferstl
Term structure and credit spread estimation with R

Jeffrey Lins and Thomas Jakobsen
Markov Decision Processes, Dynamic Programming, and Reinforcement Learning in R

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Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Applied & Medical Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.4, Forum: Festsaal 1)

Zdenek Valenta
Estimating survival from Gray's flexible model

Ben B. Hansen
The Optmatch Package: Flexible, Optimal Matching for Observational Studies

Juha Karvanen
Visualizing covariates in proportional hazards model using R

Andrea Konnert
LabNetAnalysis - An instrument for the analysis of data from laboratory networks based on RExcel


Gemechis Dilba, Frank Schaarschmidt and Ludwig A. Hothorn
A Package for Inference about Ratios of Normal Means

Pierre-Alois Beitinger, Romain Beitinger, Stephany Fulda and Thomas-Christian Wetter
R in clinical practice - summarizing pharmacological data

Shusaku Tsumoto and Yuko Tsumoto
Construction of Statistical Models for Hospital Management

Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert G. Staudte
Calibrating the evidence in experiments with applications to meta-analysis

Jake Bowers and Ben Hansen
The ritools package: Tools for Exact and Randomization Inference

Tim Hesterberg
Resampling Libraries in S-PLUS and R

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Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Ecology & Spatial Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.5, Forum: Atrium)

Philippe Grosjean, Richard Hillary, Ernesto Jardim, Laurie Kell, Iago Mosqueira, Jan Jaap Poos, Robert Scott and Hunter S. Thompson
Fisheries modelling in R: The FLR (Fisheries Library in R) project

Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke and Louis Kates
Population ecology modelling with R: A comparison of object oriented approaches

Daniel Doktor
Spatial and statistical modelling of phenological data

T. Laurent, A. Ruiz-Gazen, and C. Thomas-Agnan
GEOXP: An R package for interactive exploratory spatial data analysis


Vojtech Janousek, Vojtech Erban and Colin Farrow
Using the R language for graphical presentation and interpretation of compositional data in mineralogy: Introducing the package GCDkit-Mineral

Rudolf Dutter
Data Analysis System with Graphical Interface

Norbert Solymosi, Andrea Harnos, Jenő Reiczigel and Ferenc Speiser
RpostGIS an R-library for using PostGIS spatial structures and functions

A. Pedro Duarte Silva, Jorge Cadima, Manuel Minhoto and Jorge Orestes Cerdeira
Subselect0.99: Selecting variable subsets in multivariate linear models

Lisbeth Riis and Mikkel Grum
Using R to Reduce Pesticide Usage in the Horticultural Industry

Keiji Osaki
Spatial characteristics of vegetation index map in urban area derived by variogram analysis

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Thursday 15
15:00-18:30

Machine Learning (Spotlights: HS 0.7, Forum: Festsaal 2)

Geoffrey Matthews and Robin Matthews
Riffle: An R Package for Nonmetric Clustering

Ralf Seger and Antony Unwin
Managing Large Sets Of Models

Carolin Strobl, Achim Zeileis, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Torsten Hothorn
Variable Selection Bias in Classification Trees and Ensemble Methods

Marlene Müller
KernGPLM - A Package for Kernel-Based Fitting of Generalized Partial Linear and Additive Models


Harald Binder
Comparison of approaches for fitting generalized additive models

Stefan Neubauer and Georg Dorffner
Neural network algorithms and related models

Romain François and Florent Langrognet
Double Cross Validation for Model Based Classification

Eduardo San Miguel
3D Semantic Knowledge Retrieval

Clara Cordeiro, Alexandra Machás and Manuela Neves
Missing Data, PLS and Bootstrap: A Magical Recipe?

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Teaching and User Interfaces (Spotlights: HS 0.1, Forum: Aula 1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Use R fifteen different ways: R front-ends in Quantian

Adrian Bowman and Ewan Crawford
rpanel: Simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package

Hutcha Sriplung, Edward McNeil, Apiradee Lim and Naratip Junsakul
R-ICE - A Modular R GUI

Rafael Pino Mejías and María Dolores Cubiles de la Vega
Teaching the Theory of Information and Coding with R


Vincent Goulet
Introduction to S programming: A teaching experience and a manual

Sigbert Klinke, Sibylle Schmerbach and Olga Troitschanskaia
Integration of R into Wikis

Mario Gellrich, Rudolf Gubler, Andreas Papritz and Andreas Schönborn
SimSurvey - An R-based E-learning tool for geo-statistical analyses

Pin Ng
RXL - A Free Excel Add-in for Introductory Business Statistics

Pascale Voirin, Omar Abou Khaled and Tadeusz Senn
R as integrated engine in blended learning environment

Gunther Maier
Simple-R - A Windows-based interface to R for basic statistics

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Visualization (Spotlights: HS 0.2, Forum: Aula 2)

John Emerson, Walton Green, Avi Feller and John Hartigan
SparcMats and Generalized Pairs Plots

Ching-Fan Sheu and Cheng-Te Chen
Turing Output of IRT Data Analysis into Graphs with R

Gordon Blunt
Using Grid Graphics to produce linked micromap plots of large financial datasets

Heike Hofmann, Karen Kafadar and Hadley Wickham
Letter-Value Box Plots: Adjusting Box Plots for Large Data Sets


Jussi Klemelä
Visualization of multivariate functions, sets, and data with package "denpro"

Alexander Gribov
Interactive Glyph Analysis with R

Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek
Extending Interactive Statistical Graphics

Michael Lawrence and Hadley Wickham
Rggobi2 - Bringing R and GGobi Closer

Christophe Pouzat, Andrea Ridolfi and Pascal Viot
Spike Sorting with R and GGobi

Geoffrey Matthews
Four Dimensional Barycentric Plots in 3D

M. Rui Alves and M. Beatriz Oliveira
R algorithms for the calculation of markers to be used in the construction of predictive and interpolative biplot axes in routine multivariate analyses.

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Econometrics and Social Science (Spotlights: HS 0.3, Forum: Aula 3)

Arne Henningsen and Jeff D. Hamann
systemfit: A Package to Estimate Simultaneous Equation Systems in R

Jeff Racine
np: A Package for Nonparametric Kernel Smoothing with Mixed Datatypes

Yves Croissant
plm: Linear models for panel data

Christine Choirat, Paolo Paruolo and Raffaello Seri
GEAR: GNU Econometric Analysis with R


Arne Henningsen and Ott Toomet
Microeconomic Analysis with R

Achim Zeileis and Giovanni Millo
A framework for heteroskedasticity-robust specification and misspecification testing functions for linear models in R

Stefano Iacus and Giuseppe Porro
Matching and ATT Estimation via Random Recursive Partitioning

Martin Elff, Thomas Gschwend and Ron Johnston
How Much Can Be Inferred From Almost Nothing? A Maximum Entropy Approach to Fundamental Indeterminacy in Ecological Inference With an Application to District-Level Prediction of Split-Ticket Voting

Olivia Lau, Ryan Moore and Michael Kellermann
Ecological Inference and Higher Dimension Data Management

Katarzyna Kopczewska
Geographical benefits in socio-economics development in post-socialist countries

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Omic Statistics: Genomics and Proteomics (Spotlights: HS 0.4, Forum: Festsaal 1)

Gregory Warnes, Scott Chasalow, Giovanni Montana, Michael O'Connell, David Henderson, Nitin Jain, Weiliang Qiu, Junsheng Cheng, and Ross Lazarus
The R Genetics Project: `Bioconductor' for Genetics

Mark Dunning, Natalie Thorne, Mike Smith and Simon Tavaré
Using R for the Analysis of BeadArray Microarray Experiments

Oscar Rueda and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte
RJaCGH, a package for analyisis of CGH arrays with Reversible Jump MCMC

Sukbir Singh, Loy Chen Change and Lai Weng Kin
Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis Software Suite


Jan Budczies and Joachim Grün
oligoExpress - exploiting probe level information in Affymetrix GeneChip expression data

Gregoire R. Thomas, Sven Degroeve, Luc Krols and Koen Kas
Biomarker detection in LC-MALDI mass spectrometry proteomic profiles using R

Eberhard Korsching, Walter Nadler and Horst Bürger
Cancer research - R package to analyze genomic regulation and tumor pathways based on array data from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) experiments

Benjamin Saussen, Marc Kirchner, Hanno Steen, Judith A. J. Steen and Fred A. Hamprecht
The rpm package: Aligning LC/MS mass spectra with R

Katharine M. Mullen and Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
TIMP: A package for parametric modeling of multiway spectroscopic measurements

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Business Analytics (Spotlights: HS 0.5, Forum: Atrium)

Jim Porzak
Data Profiling with R

Reinhold Hatzinger and Patrick Mair
eRm - extended Rasch modelling

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Christoph Pamminger
Capturing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Austrian Labor Market Using Finite Mixtures of Markov Chain Models

Marcello D'Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu
Some experiments on statistical matching in the R environment


Yuji Nakayama, Tomonori Ishigaki and Nagateru Araki
Estimating Consumer Demand for Hedonic Portfolio Products: A Bayesian Analysis using Scanner-Panel Data of Music CD Stores

Joris De Wolf, Koen Bruynseels, Rindert Peerbolte and Willem Broekbaert
The use of R as part of a large-scale information management and decision system

Luis Huergo, Ralf Münnich and Michaela Saisana
Robustness assessment for composite indicators with R

Christine Choirat and Raffaello Seri
Computing Weighted Chi-square Distributions and Related Quantities

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Friday 16
15:00-18:30

Robust Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.7, Forum: Festsaal 2)

Valentin Todorov
Robust Location and Scatter Estimators for Multivariate Analysis

Peter Ruckdeschel and Bernhard Spangl
A Package on Robust Kalman Filtering

Andreas Baierl and Andreas Futschik
Implementation of robust methods for locating quantitative trait loci in R


Peter Filzmoser and Heinrich Fritz
Robust Principal Component Analysis by Projection Pursuit

Matthias Templ and Peter Filzmoser
Stability of Cluster Analysis

Jan Dienstbier and Jan Picek
Regression rank-scores tests in R

Peter Filzmoser
Outlier Detection with Application to Geochemistry

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Session Format

useR! 2006 has two kinds of user-contributed sessions

which have different aims and formats: the useR! kaleidoscope sessions will give a broad overview of various activities while the useR! focus sessions will provide a discussion and exhibition forum for ideas, software tools and applications focusing on certain topics of interest. Here, the users are actually brought together for demonstrations and discussions.

useR! Kaleidoscope Sessions

These are semi-plenary sessions with oral presentations of 15 minutes each. The aim is to give an overview of the many different applications and usages of the R system that should appeal to a broader audience.

Technical details: All lecture rooms are equipped with a laptop and an LCD projector. All presenters should send a PDF (preferred) or PPT file with their presentation slides to useR-submit@ci.tuwien.ac.at by 2006-06-08 (unless the presenters need their own laptop for software demonstrations).

useR! Focus Sessions

These sessions focus on topics of special interest and their goal is to provoke fruitful discussions in the respective user communities (e.g. Robust Statistics or Econometrics etc.). They consist of two stages: 1. spotlight presentations and 2. a big discussion and exhibition forum.

First, the spotlight presentations take place in a lecture room and should give a structured introduction (in a discussion free-context) to the discussion forum: each participant can briefly advertise his/her project (in 15 or 5 minute oral presentations, respectively).
Second, presenters and audience move to the assembly hall where each focus session has an exhibition stand. The participants can demonstrate their software, explain the conceptual and computational background of their applications and discuss future directions and projects which should help to set the course for R software projects in the respective communities.

Technical details: For the spotlights, all presenters should send a PDF (preferred) or PPT file with their presentation slides to useR-submit@ci.tuwien.ac.at by 2006-06-08 (unless the presenters need their own laptop for software demonstrations). The latter option is only available for the long 15 minute spotlights (the first four spotlights in each focus session), all short 5 minute spotlight presenters need to send in their slides in advance to minimize the time for switching between the talks.
For the discussion and exhibition forum, each presenter should bring along a poster describing their project and a laptop that can be used for further interactive demonstrations. The poster should not be wider than 111cm (43.7in) and higher than 166.5cm (65.6in). Posters must be fastened with sticky tape (no pins). A supply of tape will be available. One LCD projector per focus session is available. For the discussion and exhibition forum, there is no formal schedule. It is up to the participants to either start with an organized demonstration/discussion or directly start discussions in smaller groups. In any case, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks will be available to create a relaxed but stimulating environment.


useR-2006@R-project.org