Overview

The IFCS was founded in 1985, it is composed of 18 national, regional or linguistically-based data science and classification societies al around the world. These societies are:

Periodically, the IFCS organizes conferences where the most recent developments of classification, data science, data analysis, data mining, machine learning and applications using these tools are presented and published. There have been seventeen conferences

  1. Aachen, Germany (1987),
  2. Charlottesville, USA (1989),
  3. Edinburgh, Scotland (1991),
  4. Paris, France (1993),
  5. Kobe, Japan (1996),
  6. Rome, Italy (1998),
  7. Namur, Belgium (2000),
  8. Cracow, Poland(2002),
  9. Chicago, Illinois(2004),
  10. Ljubljana, Slovenia(2006),
  11. Dresden, Germany(2009),
  12. Frankfurt, Germany(2011),
  13. Tilburg, The Netherlands(2013),
  14. Bologna, Italy(2015),
  15. Tokyo, Japan(2017),
  16. Thessaloniki, Greece(2019),
  17. Porto, Portugal(2022).