Draft:International Federation of Classification Societies

  • Comment: Doesn't read like an encyclopedia entry. References are of low quality. It doesn't make a clear description of what the organisation is. No proper Lede. Possibly AI generated. Pencilceaser123 (talk) 02:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: I'm not seeing evidence that this organization is notable. All sources are connected to the IFCS in some way, and are therefore not independent. We need significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:50, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS)

The International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) is an established international classification and data science society. IFCS combines interest in scientific principles, numerical methods, theory and practice of data science, data analysis and classification [1][2]. The understanding of these computer science and statistics methodologies are core for artificial intelligence (AI), especially for building the foundation of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) [3] [4].

History

Learned socities of data science applications and methodologies as supervised (classification) and unsupervised (cluster analysis) learning exist since 1964 when the Classification Society was set up [5] (which separated 1984 into British Classification Society, now British Data Science Society - BDSS [6], and Classification Society of North America nowadays The Classification Society [7]). Founding first officers of the Classification Society were as chairperson Edmund Leach, secretary-treasurer John Gilmour and editor Peter Sneath in 1964. In due course several regional or national classification societies were established in Asia, Europe and North America which led to the founding of International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) during the joint 4th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society [8] and Classification Societies at Queen's College in Cambridge, UK, July 4, 1985 [9]. The founding member societies were British Classification Society (BCS), Classification Society of North America (CSNA), Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl) [10] , Japanese Classification Society (JCS), Societa Italiana di Statistica (SIS) [11] and Societe Francophone de Classification (SFC). IFCS has established protocol agreement of working together with the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) [12] [13] of International Statistical Institute (ISI)[14] and the European Association for Data Science (EuADS) [15] [16] . The first presidents of the IFCS were Hans-Hermann Bock 1985 [17], Robert R. Sokal 1988, J.C. Gower 1990 [18], W.H.E. Day 1992, A. Gordon 1994, Raymond J. Carroll 1996, Chikio Hayashi 1998 and J.-P. Rasson 2000.

Biannual International Conference

The first biannual international conference of the IFCS was in Aachen, Germany, 1987. Since then conferences took place in Charlottesville, USA (1989), Edinburgh, Scotland (1991), Paris, France (1993), Kobe, Japan (1996), Rome, Italy (1998), Namur, Belgium (2000), Cracow, Poland (2002), Chicago, Illinois (2004), Ljubljana, Slovenia (2006), Dresden, Germany (2009), Frankfurt, Germany (2011), Tilburg, The Netherlands (2013), Bologna, Italy (2015), Tokyo, Japan (2017), Thessaloniki, Greece (2019), Porto, Portugal (2022) [19] and San Jose, Costa Rica (2024)[20].

Contribution to Data Science

In 1996, the International Federation of Classification Societies became the first conference to specifically feature data science as a topic [21] [22] [23] [24] .

IFCS Awards

The IFCS Research Medal for Outstanding Research was awarded to: Hans-Hermann Bock 2015 [25], Geoffrey McLachlan 2017, David Hand (statistician) 2019, Bradley Efron 2021, Edwin Diday 2022, Peter Rousseeuw 2024. Further awards of the IFCS are Chikio Hayashi Award, Helga and Wolfgang Gaul Stiftung Award [26] , Student Paper and Travel Award and Student Poster Session Competition Award.

Current Member Societies

Current member societies of IFCS are from Africa, America, Asia and Europe: Associação Portuguesa de Classificação e Análise de Dados (CLAD)[27] , British Data Science Society (BDSS)[28] , The Classification Society (CS)[29] , Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl) Data Science Society[30] , Ελληνική Εταιρεία Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων (GSDA) [31] , Hungarian Statistical Association (CMSG), Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (IPRCS)[32] , Japanese Classification Society (JCS)[33] , Korean Classification Society (KCS), Moroccan Classification Society, Multivariate Data Analysis Group of the South African Statistical Association (SASA-MDAG)[34] , Multivariate Statistics and Classification Group of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO-AMyC)[35] , Sekcja Klasyfikacji i Analizy Danych PTS (SKAD)[36] , Sociedad Centroamericana y del Caribe de Clasificación y Análisis de Datos (SoCCCAD)[37] , Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (ClaDAG-SIS)[38] , Société Francophone de Classification (SFC)[39] , Statistično društvo Slovenije (SdS) [40] and Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie (VOC)[41]

References

  1. ^ Forbes, Gil Press: A Very Short History of Data Science. Mai 2013 https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/05/28/a-very-short-history-of-data-science/
  2. ^ Gower, J.C. (2005). Classification, Overview. In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (eds P. Armitage and T. Colton). https://doi.org/10.1002/0470011815.b2a13007
  3. ^ Friedrich, S., Antes, G., Behr, S. et al. Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence?. Adv Data Anal Classif 16, 823–846 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-021-00455-6
  4. ^ https://rss.org.uk/RSS/media/File-library/Policy/2026/AI-is-Statistics-FINAL.pdf
  5. ^ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNlx9JBWgF8qC2IJGK9K__N0DqnkrNvI/view
  6. ^ "British Data Science Society".
  7. ^ https://www.theclassificationsociety.org/
  8. ^ "Psychometric Society".
  9. ^ Hans-Hermann Bock, Peter Ihm (eds.): 25 Jahre Gesellschaft für Klassifikation. Klassifikation und Datenanalyse im Wandel der Zeit. Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2001. 184 S. ISBN 3-8265-9778-8
  10. ^ "Gesellschaft für Klassifikation – Wikipedia".
  11. ^ "Italian Statistical Society".
  12. ^ "International Association for Statistical Computing".
  13. ^ "Collaborations | IASC-ISI".
  14. ^ "International Statistical Institute".
  15. ^ https://www.euads.org/
  16. ^ Flach, P., Spiliopoulou, M., Allegrezza, S. et al. Introduction to the special issue on Data Science in Europe. Int J Data Sci Anal 6, 163–165 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-018-0153-7
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  18. ^ Cox, David R.; Gower, John C. (2015). "A Conversation with John C. Gower". International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique. 83 (3): 339–356. JSTOR 44162828.
  19. ^ https://ifcs2022.fep.up.pt/
  20. ^ https://ifcs.ucr.ac.cr/
  21. ^ Cao, Longbing (29 June 2017). "Data Science: A Comprehensive Overview". ACM Computing Surveys. 50 (3): 43:1–43:42. arXiv:2007.03606. doi:10.1145/3076253. ISSN 0360-0300. S2CID 207595944
  22. ^ Weihs, C., Ickstadt, K. Data Science: the impact of statistics. Int J Data Sci Anal 6, 189–194 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-018-0102-5
  23. ^ Murtagh, Fionn; Devlin, Keith (2018). "The Development of Data Science: Implications for Education, Employment, Research, and the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development". Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 2 (2): 14. https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/2/2/14
  24. ^ Weihs, C., Ickstadt, K. (2019). Ist Data Science mehr als Statistik? Ein Blick über den Tellerrand. In: Krämer, W., Weihs, C. (eds) Faszination Statistik. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60562-2_26
  25. ^ "Hans-Hermann Bock".
  26. ^ https://www.stiftung.kit.edu/713.php
  27. ^ https://clad.pt/en/clad/
  28. ^ https://www.britishdatasciencesociety.org/
  29. ^ https://www.theclassificationsociety.org/
  30. ^ https://www.gfkl.org/welcome-2/
  31. ^ http://www.gsda.gr/
  32. ^ https://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~iprcs/
  33. ^ https://www.bunrui.jp/en/
  34. ^ https://www.sastat.org/groups/mdag
  35. ^ https://amyc.seio.es/
  36. ^ https://www.skad.edu.pl/
  37. ^ https://www.cimpa.ucr.ac.cr/socccad/socccad.html
  38. ^ https://sites.google.com/view/cladag/
  39. ^ https://sfc-classification.net/
  40. ^ https://statd.wordpress.com/
  41. ^ https://voc.ac/

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