Conference Program:

On Wednesday, March 19, there is an official cocktail reception at the Vienna City Hall where you can already register. Click here for the full social program (incl. location plans).

	Thursday March 20		Friday March 21		Saturday March 22
	08:00-08:45 Registration 08:45-09:00 Opening by Rudolf Freund and Gunther Maier
09:00-10:00	Plenary Session: Ross Ihaka Colour for Presentation Graphics Douglas Bates and Saikat DebRoy Converting a Large R Package to S4 Classes and Methods		Plenary Session: Brian Ripley Spatial Statistics into Software: Past, Present, Future? Roger Bivand Approaches to Classes for Spatial Data in R		Plenary Session: Bill Venables What do Users Really Want in a Statistical Computing Environment?
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break		Coffee Break		Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	Bioinformatics Chair: Wolfgang Huber Contributions	Visualization Chair: Simon Urbanek Contributions	Spatial Statistics 1 Chair: Roger Bivand Contributions	User Interfaces and Office Integration Chair: Philippe Grosjean Contributions	Database Connectivity Chair: David James Contributions	Applications (tbd) Chair: Martin Mächler Contributions
12:30-14:00	Lunch		Lunch		Lunch
14:00-15:00	Plenary Session: Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Peter Bühlmann Boosting Methods: Why They can be Useful for High-Dimensional Data Jennifer Bryan Visualization of Clustering Results Based on Resampling		Plenary Session: Steffen Lauritzen gRaphical models -- A Software Perspective		Plenary Session: Luke Tierney Some New Language Features for R
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break		Coffee Break		Coffee Break
15:30-17:30	Connectivity Chair: Peter Dalgaard Contributions	Resample and Combine Methods Chair: Torsten Hothorn Contributions	Spatial Statistics 2 Chair: Roger Bivand Contributions	Graphs & Graphical Modeling Chair: Steffen Lauritzen Contributions	Odds & Ends Chair: Douglas Bates Contributions
Evening	tba		tba		Conference Dinner at the Heuriger Mayer am Pfarrplatz

There is also a print-version of the program available as pdf: DSC program.

Thursday 20 08:45-09:00	Opening Rudolf Freund (chairman of the senate, Technische Universität Wien) Gunther Maier (vice rector for research, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
	Regular Sessions
Thursday 20 10:30-12:30	Bioinformatics David O. Nelson Evaluating Genotype-Phenotype Relationships in Complex Data Sets with Missing Data Chris Workman Visualization of DNA Microarray Data Reveals Systematic Sources of Variability Stefanie Scheid and Rainer Spang Estimating the Proportion of Non-Induced Genes Marcel Dettling Revealing Predictive Gene Clusters in Microarray Data with Supervised Algorithms Florian Markowetz and Rainer Spang Evaluating the Effect of Pertubations in Reconstructing Network Topologies Fatima Sanchez Cabo, Zlatko Trajanoski, Kwang-Hyun Cho and Olaf Wolkenhauer A Graphical User Interface to Normalize Microarray Data Back to Overview
Thursday 20 10:30-12:30	Visualization Daniel Adler and Oleg Nenadic A Framework for an R to OpenGL Interface for Interactive 3D Graphics David Meyer, Achim Zeileis and Kurt Hornik Visualizing Independence Using Extended Association and Mosaic Plots Paul Murrell and Kurt Hornik Quality Assurance for Graphics in R Deepayan Sarkar Lattice: Trellis Graphics in R Simon Urbanek and Martin Theus iPlots for R: Interactive Java-based Graphics Back to Overview
Thursday 20 15:30-17:30	Resample and Combine Methods Axel Benner Survival Analysis Using Multiple Additive Regression Trees Adele Cutler Graphics for Forests Torsten Hothorn Bundling Predictors in R Andreas Weingessel, Evgenia Dimitriadou and Kurt Hornik An Ensemble Method for Clustering Back to Overview
Thursday 20 15:30-17:30	Connectivity (tbd) Peter Dalgaard The R-Tcl/Tk Interface -- Status and Perspectives Erich Neuwirth R at the Elections: Election Night Forecasting and Analyses Simon Urbanek Rserve -- A Fast Way to Provide R Functionality to Applications Gregory Warnes RSOAP - A Simple SOAP Server for R Dirk Eddelbuettel Quantian: A Scientific Computing Environment Back to Overview
Friday 21 10:30-12:30	Spatial Statistics C. Furlanello, M. Neteler, S. Merler, S. Menegon, S. Fontanari, A. Donini, A. Rizzoli and C. Chemini GIS and the Random Forest Predictor: Integration in R for Tick-Borne Disease Risk Assessment V. Gómez Rubio, J. Ferrándiz and A. López Detecting Disease Clusters with R Barry Rowlingson, Adrian Baddeley, Rolf Turner and Peter Diggle Rasp: A Package for Spatial Statistics Virgilio Gómez Rubio RArcInfo: Using G.I.S. Data with R
15:30-17:30	Edzer J. Pebesma Gstat: Multivariable Geostatistics for S Paulo J. Ribeiro, Ole F. Christensen and Peter J. Diggle Geostatistical Software -- geoR and geoRglm Albrecht Gebhardt PVM-Kriging with R E. Glatzer and R. Müller An Interactive Tool for Residual Diagnostics in Variogram Fitting (with Implementation in R) Links: Open pre-DSC'03 spatial data workshop Back to Overview
Friday 21 10:30-12:30	User Interfaces & Office Integration Christian Ritter Opportunities and Requirements for Open Source/Zero Cost Statistical Software in Companies Under Permanent Reorganization Uwe Ligges R-WinEdt Thomas Baier R: Windows Component Services, Integrating R and Excel on the COM Layer Thomas Baier and Erich Neuwirth High-Level Interface Between R and Excel Balasubramanian Narasimhan Prediction Analysis of Microarrays in Excel Philippe Grosjean SciViews: An Object-Oriented Abstraction Layer to Design GUIs on Top of Various Calculation Kernels General Discussion Back to Overview
Friday 21 15:30-17:30	Graphs & Graphical Modeling Søren Højsgaard mimR -- A (Small) Contribution to gR Jens Henrik Badsberg More Complex Graph Computations for Undirected Graphical Models by the CoCo Bundle for R Susanne Bøttcher and Claus Dethlefsen Learning Baysian Networks with R Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter Recent Direction Toward Improving Statistical Estimation Using MCMC Methods Martyn Plummer JAGS: A Program for Analysis of Bayesian Graphical Models Using Gibbs Sampling Back to Overview
Saturday 22 10:30-12:30	Database Connectivity Vincent Carey Databases and Bioinformatics: The Bioconductor Experience Fei Chen and Brian Ripley Statistical Computing and Databases: Distributed Computing Near the Data Michael Mader and Werner Mewes Database and R Interfacing for Annotated Microarray Data Christian Stratowa Distributed Storage and Analysis of Microarray Data in the Terabyte Range: An Alternative to BioConductor Back to Overview
Saturday 22 10:30-12:30	Applications (tbd) Harald Fekjær and Odd O. Aalen and Ørnulf Borgan Estimating Event Histories of Markov Chains Using Covariate Information in R and S-PLUS Stafano Iacus and Davide La Torre Fractals and Statistics: An R package called `ifs' Alexandros Karatzoglou, Alex Smola, Achim Zeileis and Kurt Hornik `svlab` -- A Kernel Methods Package Josef Leydold and Wolfgang Hörmann and Günter Tirler Automatic Nonuniform Random Number Generation in R Richard M. Heiberger and Burt Holland Trellis Extensions Back to Overview
Saturday 22 15:30-17:30	Odds & Ends Henrik Bengtsson The R.oo Package - Object-Oriented Programming With References Using Standard R Code Vincent J. Carey Practical Uses of External References John W. Eaton and James B. Rawlings Ten Years of Octave -- Recent Developments and Plans for the Future Friedrich Leisch Sweave and Beyond -- Computations on Text Documents Jim Robison-Cox Putting RGtk to Work Back to Overview

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