The following is a tentative list for some of the conference sessions. Others will be added to this list later: Key-Note Speech *****Chikio Hayashi (Japan) " Questionnaire Construction, Data Collection, and Data Analysis: An Approach by the Idea of Data Science" *****John C. Gower (United Kingdom) " Categories and Quantities" *****David J. Hand (United Kingdom) " Quantification and Human Progress" Invited Sessions ** S. Ejaz Ahmed (Canada) ( Shrinkage Estimation and Likelihood Inference) ** Yasumasa Baba (Japan) ( Homogeneity Analysis) ** Hans-Hermann Bock (Germany) ( Classification, Clustering and Neural Networks) ** Hamparsum Bozdogan (USA) ( Information Complexity, Multivariate Modeling, and Genetic Algorithms) **Jose Garcia Clavel (Spain) (Dual Scaling and Correspondence Analysis) ** Alain De Beuckelaer (The Netherlands and Belgium) (Structural Equation Models (2)) ** Wolfgang Gaul (Germany) ( Multivariate Analysis in Economic Research) ** Karl Joreskog (Sweden) ( Latent Variable Modeling with Ordinal Variables ** Daniel R. Lawrence (USA) ( Dual Scaling) ** Tony Lam (Canada) (Educational and Psychological Measurement) ** Jacqueline Meulman (The Netherlands) (Interfaces between Categorical Regression, Correspondence Analysis, and Regression Trees) ** Fionn Murtagh (United Kingdom) (Wavelet Analysis) ** Shizuhiko Nishisato (Canada) (Multidimensional Analysis of Qualitative Data: A One-Day Overview of Dual Scaling) ** Akinori Okada (Japan) (Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling) ** Robert Pruzek (USA) ( Studies of Methods to Facilitate Binary Data Analyses ) ** James O. Ramsay (Canada) (Functional Data Analysis) ** Yoshiyuki Sakamoto (Japan) ( Categorical Data Analysis and Information Criteria ) ** Yoshiharu Sato (Japan) (Recent Developments in Cluster Analysis) ** Kazuo Shigemasu (Japan) (Structural Equation Models (1)) ** Yoshio Takane (Canada) ( Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Data Analysis) ** Yutaka Tanaka (Japan) (Sensitivity Analysis) ** Richard G. Wolfe (Canada) ( Combining Items of Different Types over Time) ** Takemi Yanagimoto (Japan) ( Prior Distributions in Bayesian Inference ) ** Haruo Yanai (Japan) (Canonical Correlation Analysis) ** Ryozo Yoshino (Japan) (Comparative Analyses on Cross-National Survey Data) ** Bruno D. Zumbo (Canada) (Measurement and Multivariate Analysis)