Group Travel Award to Support U.S Participation in Meeting of International Federation of Classification Societies, Rome, Italy, July 1998

国际船级社联合会(IFCS)第六届会议将于1998年7月21-24日在意大利罗马举行。国际船级社由北美、英国、意大利、法国、德国、比利时/荷兰、葡萄牙、波兰、日本和韩国的船级社组成。尽管各成员学会在侧重点和理念上有所不同，但它们在生物、图书馆学、统计学、医学、社会科学、心理学和哲学等领域的分类、聚类分析和数据分析问题上有着共同的兴趣。这项提案将提供赠款，帮助支付大约5000名美国公民或永久居民参加这次会议的旅费。根据这项提议，赠款将被限定为机票的大约成本。这种支持将鼓励那些本来可能无法参加IFCS 98的人，特别是初级学院，成为分类、分类和数据分析领域的国际研究人员社区的一部分，并认识到数据分析和与分类有关的问题的许多替代理念、用途和方法。

The 6th conference of the International Federation of ClassificationSocieties (IFCS) will be held in Rome, Italy, July 21-24, 1998. IFCS consists of the classification societies of North America,Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium/Netherlands, Portugal,Poland, Japan, and Korea. While the various member societies differin emphasis and philosophies, they share a common interest in problemsof classification, cluster analysis, and data analysis in such areasas biology, library science, statistics, medicine, social science, psychology and philosophy. This proposal will provide grants to help defray the cost of travel for approximately 5 U. S. citizens or permanent residents to participate in this conference. Grants under this proposal will belimited to the approximate cost of airfare. This support will encouragethose who might not otherwise be able to attend IFCS 98, junior facultyin particular, to become part of the international community ofresearchers in the fields of classification, clustering, and dataanalysis, and to become aware of the many alternative philosophies,uses of, and approaches to data analysis and classification-relatedproblems in particular.