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                      FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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               JOINT IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON 
   Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2000) 
                              and 
             Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR 2000) 
           Alicante, Spain, 30 August - 1 September, 2000

A Satellite Event of the International Conference of Pattern Recognition
                           ICPR 2000
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* * * * * * Deadline has been extended to: January 10, 2000 * * * * * *
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The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and its
technical committees on Statistical PR (TC1) and Syntactical and 
Structural PR (TC2) are organising a Joint workshop in Alicante prior to
the next ICPR in Barcelona. The workshop aims at promoting interaction 
and collaboration not only among researchers working directly in the 
areas covered by TC1 and TC2 but also among those specialized in other 
fields but using or developing statistical, syntactic or structural
techniques. In this relation it is of particular interest to encourage
links with many mathematical statisticians, theoreticians and practitioners
alike who work at present outside the pattern recognition community.

Papers should describe original and unpublished work about these topics
(SPR, SSPR) or closely related ones. Five hard copies of the manuscripts 
have to be sent by January 10, 2000 to:
  
        Francesc J. Ferri (S+SSPR 2000) 
        Dept. Informŕtica. Universitat de Valčncia 
        Dr. Moliner, 50 
        46100 Burjassot (Valencia). Spain 

All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings that will be 
published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-
Verlag, and will be distributed to all participants at the workshop.

Structure of the manuscripts:

1. A cover page containing title, author's name, affiliation, and address,
phone/fax number and e-mail address of the correspondence author. 

2. A first page including the title, a 150-word abstract, and a keyword
list. 

3. The paper should have an extent of up to 9 more A4 pages, starting with
the introduction (please do not repeat the headings, abstract, etc). 

 This way, the entire manuscript will consist of cover page, first page and 
up to 9 more pages. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the 
instructions for authors from LNCS series (details in the workshop web page).

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    S P R  2000
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Co-Chairmen
Francesc J. Ferri        Pavel Pudil 
Universitat de Valčncia  Academy of Sciences 
Spain                    Czech Republic

Program Committee 
V. Brailovsky (Israel) 
B. V. Dasarathy (USA) 
R. W. Duin (The Netherlands) 
N. Gorsky (Russia) 
T. M. Ha (Switzerland) 
V. Hlavac (Czech Rep.) 
J. Kittler (U.K.) 
L. Lam (Hong Kong) 
A. Maeder (Australia) 
N. Murshed (Brazil) 
E. Nyssen (Belgium) 
P. Rocket (U.K.) 
S. Singh (U.K.) 
R. C. Carrasco (Spain) 
L. P. Cordella (Italy) 
M. Gilloux (France) 
J. Grim (Czech Rep.) 
J. P. Haton (France) 
A. K. Jain (USA)
M. Kudo (Japan) 
G. Lugosi (Spain) 
D. Maravall (Spain) 
J. Novovicova (Czech Rep.) 
S. Raudys (Lithuania) 
M. Schlesinger (Ukraine) 
C. Y. Suen (Canada) 

Topics
General methodology 
Density estimation 
Neural Networks 
Clustering and Quantization 
Random fields 
Applications
Feature extraction and selection 
Hybrid methods 
Contextual PR 
2D and 3D object recognition 
Speech and image analysis 
Comparative studies

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   S S P R  2000
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Co-Chairmen
Jose M. Inesta           Adnan Amin
Universidad de Alicante  University of New South Wales
Spain                    Australia

Program Committee 
K. Abe (Japan) 
G. Borgefors (Sweden) 
T. Caelli (USA) 
D. Dori (Isreal) 
L. Goldfarb (Canada) 
R. Haralick (USA) 
R. Kasturi (USA) 
H-J. Lee (Taiwan) 
J. Oommen (Canada) 
A. Sanfeliu (Spain) 
E. Vidal (Spain) 
P. Wang (USA) 
H. Baird (USA) 
H. Bunke (Switzerland) 
I. Dinstein (Isreal) 
G. Gimelfard (New Zealand) 
E. Hancock (UK) 
J. M. Jolion (France) 
W. Kropatsch (Austria) 
J. Oncina (Spain) 
P. Perner (Germany) 
G. Sanniti de Baja (Italy) 
K. Tombre (France) 

Topics
Structural Matching 
Shape analysis 
Neural-based SSPR 
Graph-based methods 
Applications
Grammar and language methods 
Grammatical inference 
SSPR methods in computer vision 
Speech and 1D signal analysis 
Structure document image analysis

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Important DATES:

Submission of papers        January 10, 2000
Notification of acceptance  March 2000 
Camera-ready                April 2000 
Early registration          May 2000