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The International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) was founded during the 4th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society and Classification Societies at Queen’s College in Cambridge, UK, July 4, 1985 ^[1]. The founding member societies were British Classification Society (BCS), Classification Society of North America (CSNA), Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl), Japanese Classification Society (JCS), Societ`a Italiana di Statistica (SIS) and Soci ́et ́e Francophone de Classification (SFC). The IFCS is about scientific principles, numerical methods, theory and practice of data science, data analysis, and classification ^[2].

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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) and San Jose, Costa Rica (2024).

In 1996, the International Federation of Classification Societies became the first conference to specifically feature data science as a topic ^[3]. Further recent conference proceedings were published by Springer ^[4]. IFCS supports the journals: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (ADAC) ^[5] and Journal of Classification (JoC) ^[6].

The IFCS Research Medal for Outstanding Research was awarded to: Hans-Hermann Bock 2015 at IFCS2015 Bologna, Italy, Geoffrey McLachlan, 2017 at IFCS2017 Tokio, Japan, David Hand (statistician), 2019 at IFCS2019 Thessaloniki, Greece, Bradley Efron, 2021 IFCS online event, Edwin Diday, 2022 at IFCS2022 Porto, Portugal, Peter Rousseeuw, 2024 at IFCS2024 San Jose, Costa Rica. Further awards of the IFCS are Chikio Hayashi Award, Helga and Wolfgang Gaul Stiftung Award, Student Paper and Travel Award and Student Poster Session Competition Award ^[7].

Current member societies of IFCS are: Associação Portuguesa de Classificação e Análise de Dados (CLAD), British Data Science Society (BDSS), The Classification Society (CS), Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl) Data Science Society, Ελληνική Εταιρεία Ανάλυσης Δεδομένων (GSDA), Hungarian Statistical Association (CMSG), Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (IPRCS), Japanese Classification Society (JCS), Korean Classification Society (KCS), Moroccan Classification Society Multivariate Data Analysis Group of the South African Statistical Association (SASA-MDAG), Multivariate Statistics and Classification Group of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO-AMyC), Sekcja Klasyfikacji i Analizy Danych PTS (SKAD), Sociedad Centroamericana y del Caribe de Clasificación y Análisis de Datos (SoCCCAD), Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (ClaDAG-SIS), Société Francophone de Classification (SFC), Statistično društvo Slovenije (SdS) and Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie (VOC) ^[8].