CNED'96 4th French National Conference on Writing and Document Nantes, France, July, 3rd, 4th and 5th 1996 Call for Papers The French National Conference on Writing and Document is an event created by the AFCET (French Association on Information Technologies and Sciences and on Systems) technical group on Automatic Processing of Written Matter and by the Group for Written Communication Research. CNED is a biennial event and aims at getting together all the different practitionners (researchers, students, industrials, users, etc.) of written matter and document processing in France and in the french speaking community to update the state of the art in the domain. Topics - Analysis and recognition of document images - Document image processing - Models for generating, segmenting and recognizing written matter - On-line handwriting recognition - Analysis of drawings, plans, maps, musical scores, etc. - Reader models - Hypermedia - Hardware architectures for document recognition - Man-machine interfaces - Applications Paper submission You are invited to submit, before decembre 15th 1995, 5 copies of a paper WRITTEN IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. Papers are limited to 8 double-spaced A4 pages and should include at least 6 pages. They must describe methods and systems corresponding to at least one one the themes of the conference. The first page shall include a title, the name of authors and the address of the author to whom all correspondance should be addressed. The second page shall include the title of the paper, an abstract of about 200 words, the topics of the conference covered by the paper and a list of key words. This page will not feature the names of authors. Papers must be sent to: Michel Gilloux Service de Recherche Technique de la Poste - SRTP/RVA 10, Rue de l'Ile-Mabon F-44063 Nantes Cedex 02 France Important dates Paper submission : december 15th, 1995 Notification of acceptance : march 1st, 1996 Camera ready paper : april 30th, 1996 Chairman D. Barba - SEI/IRESTE Universite de Nantes, France Program chair M. Gilloux - Service de Recherche Technique de la Poste, Nantes, France Program committee J. Andre IRISA Univ. Rennes I Rennes, France E. Andreewsky INSERM Paris, France A. Belaid CRIN CNRS/INRIA Lorraine Nancy, France F. Bretaudeau MCS Val de Reuil, France J. Camillerapp IRISA/INSA Rennes, France A. Chehikian INPG/ENSERG Grenoble, France J.-P. Crettez ENST/CNRS Paris, France B. Dorizzi INT Evry, France N. Ellouze IRSIT Tunis, Tunisia H. Emptoz INSA Lyon, France A. Faure LACOS Univ. du Havre, France C. Faure ENST/CNRS Paris, France P. Gentric LEP Limeil-Brevannes, France J.-P. Haton CRIN-CNRS/INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France R. Ingold IIUF Univ. Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland J. Labiche ISMRA Univ. de Caen Caen, France Y. Lecourtier La3i Univ. de Rouen Rouen, France H. Le Men IGN Saint-Mande, France L. Likforman-Sulem ENST/CNRS Paris, France G. Lorette IRISA Univ. Rennes I Rennes, France J.-V. Moreau MCS Velizy, France R. Plamondon Ecole Polytech. Montreal, Canada R. Sabourin LIMT/ETS Montreal, Canada J.-C. Simon A2iA Univ. Paris VI Paris, France G. Stamon SIP Univ. Paris V Paris, France K. Tombre CRIN-CNRS/INRIA Lorraine Nancy, France J. Touze JOUVE Mayenne, France N. Vincent INSA Lyon, France J. Virbel IRIT/Univ. P.Sabatier Toulouse, France Organisation chair C. Viard-Gaudin - IRESTE/IUT Nantes, France Contacts: Dominique BARBA SEI/IRESTE Route de Gachet CP 3003 44087 NANTES Cedex 03 France Tel. (33) 40 68 30 22 Fax (33) 40 68 30 66 E-mail : dbarba@lati.ireste.fr Michel GILLOUX Service de Recherche Technique de la Poste RD/RVA 10, Rue de l'Ile Mabon 44063 NANTES Cedex 02 France Tel. (33) 40 69 97 06 Fax (33) 40 89 60 00 E-mail : gilloux@srtp.srt-poste.fr Christian VIARD-GAUDIN SEI/IRESTE Route de Gachet CP 3003 44087 NANTES Cedex 03 Tel. (33) 40 68 30 40 Fax (33) 40 68 30 66 E-mail : cvg@lati.ireste.fr CNED'96 Secretariat Nadege BRAUD SEI/IRESTE Route de Gachet CP 3003 F-44087 NANTES Cedex 03 France Tel. (33) 40 68 30 48 Fax (33) 40 68 30 66 E-mail : cned96@lati.ireste.fr World Wide Web server