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 For the lastest news look at http://members.aol.com/ibai. 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