ASC 2007 - The Challenges of a Changing World

Proceedings of the ASC International Conference, September 2007

Edited by Mike Trotman, Tim Burrell, Laurance Gerrard, Ken Anderton, Garj Basi, Mick Couper, Keigh Morris, David Birks, AJ Johnson, Reg Baker, Malcolm Rigg, Steve Taylor, Andrew Westlake.  ISBN: 0 9546748 2 0, ix+400 pages.

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This is the Association for Survey Computing’s fifth major international conference on survey and statistical computing. As with others in the series, the aim of this one was to provide as broad a view as possible of the salient issues and challenges confronting the field.

Papers by two of the four speakers invited to address plenary sessions of the conference comprise the first section of this volume.

The remainder and majority of this volume consist of contributed papers addressing one of the four major themes that emerged when the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) grouped together the proposals that were accepted from amongst the many excellent offers we originally received. In the order in which they appear in this volume, they are:

• The Interview
• The Respondent
• The Data
• The Software

In some respects, these themes serve as headings for convenience only, as many papers could easily fit under more than one heading. We expect the reader to find much pleasure in noting the many points of contact and convergence between the papers regardless of the immediate company they are seen to be keeping. The contributed papers include both case studies and more theoretical reflections; some represent the outcome of purely methodological investigations, while others have a substantive focus. Regardless of content or technique, however, we are sure that the reader will find the papers in this volume instructive, thought-provoking and, in many cases, directly and practically applicable to his or her own circumstances.

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Full details of the conference programme, including all the abstracts, PDF versions of the papers, and the presentation slides, can be found at the Conference Web Site.