=================== CALL FOR PAPERS PRIP'99 Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing May 18-20, 1999 Minsk, Belarus The conference will provide a forum for scientists and engineers to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience and define ways of further development of this field. The conference will focus on both theory and applications. The Conference is organized by: Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, (Belarus) Technical University of Szczecin, Institute of Computer Science & Information Systems (Poland) in cooperation with: Belarusian State University (Belarus) Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics (Belarus) Sponsored by International Association for Pattern Recognition Belarusian Association for Image Analysis and Recognition Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Belarus and Poland Centers IEEE Computer Society, Belarus Committee Chairman of the Conference: R.Sadykhov (Belarus) Vice-Chairmen of the Conference: J.Soldek (Poland) S.Ablameyko (Belarus) International PROGRAM COMMITEE K. Abe (Japan) G. Borgefors (Sweden) D. Chetverikov (Hungary) V. Di Gesu (Italy) A. Gagalowicz (France) I. Gourevich (Russia) R. Haralick (USA) V. Hlavac (Czech Republic) Yu. Kharin (Belarus) J. Kittler (UK) V. Krasnoproshin (Belarus) W. Mokrzycki (Poland) A. Piegat (Poland) W. Rucinski (Poland) G. Sanniti di Baja (Italy) M. Schlesinger (Ukraine) V. Shmerko (Poland) F. Solina (Slovenia) G. Sommer (Germany) A. Zhilinskas (Liethuania) Yu. Zhuravlev (Russia) Chairman of Organizing Committee: A.Doudkin (Belarus) Vice-Chairman : G. Holowinski (Poland) The topics of the Conference include, but are not limited to: Pattern Recognition Image Analysis Signal Processing Systems and Parallel Architectures for Signal and Image Processing Knowledge - Based Expert and Decision Support System Application of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 3D Image Processing and Modelling Working languages of the Conference: English and Russian. Papers for the Conference can be submitted in any working Conference language (preferable English) in three copies in a camera-ready format. Two copies of each paper will be sent out for review. If the paper is accepted as it is, the third copy will be directly used for publication in the Conference proceedings. The length of the submitted papers is restricted to 5 A4 pages. The text should be printed within 240(165 mm area in one column by 1.5 space and 12 point font of Times family. The first page should include the title, author's name(s), complete mail and e-mail addresses, fax number. It should be centered, the title should be bolded and capitalized. The title, the author's name(s) and complete address are separated by one space. An abstract and the number of keywords must not exceed 100 and 6 correspondingly. The headings should be centered and bolded. Leave space of two lines above and one line below these headings. All paragraphs should have a five space indentation. 3 copies of your paper should be submitted by November 15, 1998. Please send 3 hard copies of your paper with 3.5( diskette in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or LaTEX word processors to PRIP`99 Chairman. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of PRIP`99 that will be available at the conference. Paper submission November 15, 1998 Acceptance Notification February 15, 1999 Payment March 31, 1999 All other materials will be sent to authors of the accepted papers. PRIP`99 Prof. R. Sadykhov Department of Computer Systems, Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics; ul. P. Brovki, 6 220600 Minsk, Belarus Phone, Fax: +375-17-2310982 Phone: +375-17-2685164 E-mail: prip99@newman.basnet.minsk.by PRIP'99 home pages: http://www.bas-net.by/iec/conferen.htm