SSPR98 and SPR98, International workshops on Structural & Syntactic Pattern Recognition, and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition - Sydney Australia, August 11-13, 1998 You are invited to participate in the above International workshops on Pattern Recognition to be held together at the Swiss Grand Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. These workshops have traditionally been held in conjunction with ICPR -the International Conference on Pattern Recognition. In 1998 both will be held back-to-back in Australia: SSPR98 &SPR98 in Sydney and the 14th ICPR in Brisbane Regularly updated information including workshop background, lists of all accepted papers, registration details, instructions for authors, accommodation and other information, can be found at http://saishost.cse.unsw.edu.au/ssprspr98/ The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney in August.