International Association for Pattern Recognition Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Malvern, Pennsylvania, October 14-16, 1996 Call for Papers An intensive, three-day, single-track, 100% participation workshop on the research and development of systems for the analysis of document images. Academic and industrial researchers, end-users and students are encouraged to attend. We expect to provide several student scholarships Attendance will be limited to 75 people. Papers will be delivered in a single-track format. A portion of the workshop will also be devoted to panel discussions and working groups. Participants will be invited to propose topics for these in advance. There will be ample opportunity for informal discussion and socializing. Sponsors IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition (TC-10) IAPR Technical Committee on Text Processing (TC-11) Loral Defense Systems-Eagan Ricoh Corporation U.S. Department of Defense Topics - descriptions of complete, working document image analysis systems, including applications to large document image databases - applications to text, graphics, maps, logic diagrams, music, etc. - studies of system architectures - methods of performance evaluation for whole systems or system modules - interfaces to knowledge databases and post-processors - algorithms for symbol recognition - layout segmentation Submission of Papers Authors are invited to submit either a full paper or an abstract of remarks. Full papers, of up to book-chapter length, will be presented formally, published in a limited number of refereed Proceedings available at the meeting, and considered for archival publication in a post-workshop book. Abstracts of remarks, one page in length, will be delivered more briefly, and will not be published in the Proceedings. Authors should submit four copies of each paper or abstract, cleanly typed and in English. If there are several authors, please indicate the author that will handle all correspondence. The email address of the corresponding author should be provided. If any part of a full paper has been submitted to another conference, please state where it has been submitted and how it differs from this paper. Acceptance of a paper or abstract will result in automatic distribution of registration materials. Send full papers, abstracts, or inquiries about the technical program to: Jonathan J. Hull Ricoh California Research Center 2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115 Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA TEL: 415-496-5723 FAX: 415-854-8740 EMAIL: hull@crc.ricoh.com Organization Chairs Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor Loral Defense Systems-Eagan (USA) Jonathan J. Hull Ricoh California Research Center (USA) Program Committee Henry Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA) Horst Bunke, University of Berne (Switzerland) Dick Casey, IBM Almaden (USA) Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) Stephen Dennis, U.S. Department of Defense Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi (Japan) Tin Kam Ho, AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA) Junichi Kanai, ISRI-UNLV (USA) Louisa Lam, Concordia University (Canada) Daniel Lopresti, Panasonic Technologies (USA) Guy Lorette, IRISA, University of Rennes 1 (France) Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz (Germany) Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz (USA) Sargur N. Srihari, CEDAR-SUNY/Buffalo (USA) Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine & CRIN/CNRS (France) Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Gifu University (Japan) Important Dates April 1, 1996 Submission of full Papers June 15, 1996 Acceptance of full papers July 1, 1996 Submission of abstracts August 1, 1996 Acceptance of abstracts August 15, 1996 Camera-ready copy of full papers September 1, 1996 Registration payment and hotel reservation Workshop Information Pre-registration will be required. Information about the workshop and the registration procedure will be available over the World Wide Web Other inquiries about local arrangements, registration, and scholarships should be directed to: Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor Loral Defense Systems-Eagan 70 E Swedesford Road Paoli, PA 19301-0517 TEL: 610-648-2009 FAX: 610-648-2288 EMAIL: das@vfl.paramax.com