Preface

摘要

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Statistical Learning and Data Sciences, which was held at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, during April 20-23, 2015. The original idea of the Symposium on Statistical Learning and Data Sciences is due to two French academics - Professors Mireille Gettler Summa and Myriam Touati - from Paris Dauphine University. Back in 2009 they thought that a "bridge" was required between various academic groups that were involved in research on Machine Learning, Statistical Inference, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Data Analysis, and so on; a sort of multilayer bridge to connect those fields. This is reflected in the symposium logo with the Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir bridge. The idea was implemented and the First Symposium on Statistical Learning and Data Sciences was held in Paris in 2009. The event was indeed a great "bridge" between various communities with interesting talks by J.-P. Benzecri, V. Vapnik, A. Chervonenkis, D. Hand, L. Bottou, and many others. Papers based on those talks were later presented in a volume of the Modulad journal and separately in a post-symposium book entitled Statistical Learning and Data Sciences, published by Chapman & Hall, CRC Press. The second symposium, which was equally successful, was held in Florence, Italy, in 2012.