First Announcement and Call for Papers:

WORKSHOP ON PATTERN RECOGNITION IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

July  6-7, 2001 - Setúbal, Portugal   


Sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition - IAPR
 
In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2001


CO-CHAIRS:
Ana Fred, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (afred@lx.it.pt)
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA (jain@cse.msu.edu)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
- Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Philips Research, USA
- Adnan Amin, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden
- Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Aurélio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal
- Mario Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
- Bilge Gunsel, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey
- Tin Ho, Bell Labs, USA
- Horace Ip, City Univ. of Hong Kong
- Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA
- Jorge S. Marques, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica /IST, Portugal
- Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, UK
- Pavel Pudil, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
- Jianzhong Qian, Siemens Research, USA
- Nalini Ratha, IBM Watson Research Lab, USA
- Aditya Vailaya, Agilent Research Lab, USA
- Enrique Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China


INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Ruud Bolle, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
- Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China


AIM OF THE WORKSHOP:
Huge amounts of information in digital format are currently available; for example, 
the world-wide-web is an immense source of text, images, video, and sound. 
Structuring/understanding this multimedia information is a difficult task. Accessibility
issues arise in this context, with personal identification techniques playing a key 
role in human-machine interfaces for security and restricted-access systems. Pattern 
recognition (PR) and machine learning (ML) provide formal frameworks in which this class
Of problems can be adequately addressed. On the other hand, exploratory analysis (mining)
and content-based retrieval of multimedia data serve both as important practical 
application domains for PR and ML techniques, and as a source of challenging research 
problems.  The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners and potential 
users with interests in the multidisciplinary topics listed above.


AREAS OF INTEREST:
Paper submissions should be related to the following areas: pattern recognition, 
biometrics and personal identification; multimedia storage and retrieval; and data 
mining and machine learning. Focus on applications (industrial, medical, entertainment, 
home media) is desirable, although new techniques and algorithms are also highly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Biometrics and Personal authentication systems
* Multimedia information systems
* Content-Based analysis and Retrieval
* Data categorization (text documents and images)
* Interfaces for retrieval
* Document recognition and retrieval
* Data and knowledge representation
* User profile modelling
* Feature extraction and selection
* Unsupervised learning 
* Efficient and scalable learning
* Quality assessment and performance measurement
* Tutoring systems


FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP:
The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of 
the workshop will be published in the form of a book. Selected papers will be published
in a special issue of the Pattern Recognition Journal.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the 
areas listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the 
paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000 words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript 
(in Word and Latex format) are available at the web site: 
www.iceis.org/workshops/pris/pris-cfp.htm
Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be sent electronically to:
 w1-secretariat@iceis.org 


IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission: 10th January 2001
Author Notification: 15th March 2001
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 5th April 2001


CONFERENCE LOCATION:
The workshop will be held at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the Polytechnic 
Institute of Setúbal. Setúbal is located at the south bank of Tagus river, about 50 km 
from Lisbon. For further information, see the conference web page site www.iceis.org


SECRETARIAT:

ICEIS Secretariat
Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
Rua Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal

Fax:  +351 265 721 869     Tel: +351 265 790 000
E-mail: site w1-secretariat@iceis.org 
Web: site www.iceis.org/workshops/pris/pris-cfp.htm