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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
(DAS'2000)

RIO OTHON PALACE HOTEL
COPACABANA BEACH - RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
10 -13 DECEMBER, 2000

    You are invited to participate in the Fourth International Workshop
on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'2000). The first three workshops were
successfully held, respectively, in Germany, United States, and
Japan.
    DAS'2000 will be a single-track and 100% participation workshop. It
will aim at bringing together outstanding research and developments in
Document Analysis Systems. The workshop will be held over four days. The
first day is reserved for tutorials. The technical program will consist
of invited talks, given by expert in the field, oral presentations, and
panel discussions. Panel discussions will focus on 10 Years of
Document Image Analysis, and will attempt to pin-point the areas where
progress has been fast and where it has been slow. In addition, panel
discussions will attempt to identify new directions toward the third
millennium.  The DEADLINE for full paper submission is May 15th. Other
details can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.utp.br/das2000.

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN PATTERN
RECOGNITION
RIO OTHON PALACE HOTEL
COPACABANA BEACH - RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
11 -13 MARCH, 2001
The main aim of ICAPR is to bring together the very best in pattern
recognition research. The conference is intended for putting forward
both recent and futuristic advances that are of critical and fundamental

importance to the field in both application and theory. The conference
will bring together elite researchers in their fields through invitation
calls but each subject to blind reviewing procedure.
ICAPR^2001 will be organized over four days. Interested researchers are
invited to propose for  for tutorials.
Tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference and will last
for approximately two hours each.
Tutorial proposals should be sent to Sameer Singh, ICAPR'2001,
Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PT, UK
as a 500 word summary of the tutorial contents and a 150 word biography
of the author(s) no later than 15 May, 2000. Tutorial acceptances will
be notified within a period of four weeks after the deadline to allow
enough time for presenters to prepare their work. A standard paper based
on the tutorial will also be published in the proceedings following the
same guidelines as for standard papers.
More details can be found in the conference web site:
http://www.utp.br/icapr2001.