INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on
  MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING IN PATTERN RECOGNITION
 
 Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences
                     Leipzig /Germany
 
                 September 16 - 18, 1999
 
 Co-chairs: Petra Perner and Maria Petrou
 Program Committee:
   Adnan Amin (University of New South Wales / Australia) 
   Bir Bhanu  (University of California, Riverside / USA) 
   Terri Caelli (Ohio State University / USA) 
   Janice Glasgow (Queen's University / Canada) 
   Irwin King (Chinese University / Hong Kong) 
   Erkki Oja (Helsinki University of Technology / Finland) 
   Petra Perner (IBaI / Germany) 
   Maria Petrou (University of Surrey/United Kingdom) 
   Sholom Weiss (Yorktown Heights / USA)
 
 The Aim of the Workshop
   The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from all over
   the world dealing with machine learning for image processing, image
   interpretation and computer vision in order to discuss the recent
   status of the research and to direct further developments in machine
   learning for image related topics. It is the first workshop of a
   series of workshops dealing with this specific topic. 
      The first workshop will give an overview to the on-going activities in
   this field and it will offer a platform to discuss particular problems
   concerned with learning in image related fields.  Paper submissions
   should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:
      * inductive learning including decision tree and rule induction learning
      * conceptional learning
      * case-based learning
      * statistical learning
      * neural net based learning and 
      * organizational learning
      * probabilistic information retrieval related to image processing,
        image analysis, image interpretation, pattern recognition and computer
        vision. 
   Applications can be medical applications, industrial applications,
   biological applications but are not limited to these topics. 
      Researchers from the machine learning community are invited to present
   new topics in learning, which might be interesting to our research
   field. 
 
   Participants should submit three copies of their contribution to the
   workshop secretary:
      Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, "MLPR",
      Arno-Nitzsche-Str. 45, 04277 Leipzig, Germany
   In addition, participants should submit an electronic version of the manuscript
   to: ibai@aol.com
 
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   The paper should have no more than 15 pages (double-spaced) and
   present original work of the authors.  Papers will be reviewed by the
   program committee.  It is under consideration to publish workshop
   papers in Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences and an
   extended version of selected papers will be published in a special
   issue of the Pattern Recognition Letters after the workshop. 
 
 Important Dates
   Deadline for paper submission    May 15th, 1999
   Final Paper submission           August  1st, 1999