[Socbin] CFP Workshop on feature selection in Bioinformatics

[Yvan Saeys]

[apologies for multiple postings]

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                 FSBIO 09

   Feature Selection in Bioinformatics Workshop

              May 25th, 2009

          Ghent, Belgium

    http://www.psb.ugent.be/~yvsae/fsbio09/

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MOTIVATION


Feature or variable selection is an important topic in Bioinformatics,
Systems Biology, and related fields. Important advantages of feature
selection in these fields include the ability to create better and
more compact models, as well as gaining a better insight into the
processes described by the data.

This workshop focuses on recent challenges for feature selection in
Bioinformatics, such as the design of feature selection algorithms
that scale well to high-dimensional spaces, can deal with small sample
sizes, design robust feature sets and are able to support interactions
or dependencies between variables.


PROGRAM


09.50h    Welcome

10.00h    Badih Ghattas, Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille, 
France

    Comparing different strategies for variable selection in large 
dimensions

11.00h    Carolin Strobl, Institut für Statistik, 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    Unbiased measures of variable importance for random forests

12.00h    Alexandros Kalousis, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Stability of Feature Selection Algorithms


LOCATION


Department of Plant Systems Biology
Ghent University
Technologiepark 927
B-9052 Gent (Zwijnaarde)
Belgium


REGISTRATION


Registration to the workshop is free of charge. In order to register,
send a mail with your name and contact details to
yvan.saeys at psb.ugent.be


ORGANIZATION


Yvan Saeys, Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group, Ghent 
University, Belgium
Pierre Geurts, Department of EE and CS & GIGA-Research, University of 
Liège, Belgium