Special Workshop on
            APPLICATIONS OF FRACTALS
    IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING
                (APPLI-FRACT 02)
                      in
 THE 2002 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGING SCIENCE,
           SYSTEMS, AND TECHNOLOGY
                 (CISST'2002)
 
               June 24 - 27, 2002
 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
 
 This workshop is mainly devoted  to the applications Of fractal
 analysis and techniques in all fields of Computer science, signal
 and image processing including (but not restricted to) the fields
 of:
 - speech characterization and processing, speaker identification
 - character and text recognition
 - fractal techniques for data analysis
 - visualization and physical models, hybrid models
 - automatic object classification
 - fractal and multifractal texture characterization
 - shape generation, rendering techniques and image synthesis
 - 2D, 3D fractal interpolation
 - image denoising and restoration
 - image indexing, thumbnail images
 - fractal still image and video compression, wavelet and fractal
   transforms, hardware
 - audio, image and video watermarking
 - fractal and compilers, VLSI design
 - fractals and formal languages, cellular automata
 - biomedical applications
 - non classical applications
 
 * PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
   All  submissions will  be  reviewed by  at  least 2  members of  the
 International  Programme   Committee;  additional  reviewers   may  be
 consulted  if   needed.   The   papers  have  to   provide  sufficient
 information about the background  to the problem, clearly indicate the
 original  contribution,  evaluate the  results,  draw conclusions  and
 provide adequate references.
   Full  regular papers  have  a  maximum of  7  pages long  (including
 figures) in times 11pt, A4.
   We strongly recommend the use of LaTex format; the style macros will
 be  available soon  at the  conference web  server (see  below).  Word
 documents or other formats are  also accepted, but only accompanied by
 the corresponding PostScript  files. Make sure that PS  files are kept
 within reasonable limits.
   The papers can be sent by e-mail to mailto:jacques.blanc-talon@etca.fr
 
 * PROCEEDINGS
   All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
 
 * IMPORTANT DATES
       Deadline for paper submission:  March 23, 2002
    Notification of paper acceptance:  April 4,   2002
            Camera-ready manuscripts:  May 3,      2002
             Conference date:  June 24-27,  2002          
 
 * WORKSHOP WEB SERVER
   Information about the workshop can  be found at:
   http://www.etca.fr/CTA/Events/Conf/appli-fract02
   http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences
 
 * CONFERENCE VENUE
 As part of CISST, the  workshop will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
 hotel, Las Vegas,  Nevada,  USA.  This is a great hotel with excellent
 conference facilities and over 3,000  rooms. The hotel is minutes from
 the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the airport. This
 hotel  has  many  vacation  and recreational  attractions,  including:
 waterfalls,  casino, spa, pools  & kiddie  pools, sunning  decks, Easy
 River  water ride,  wave pool  with cascades,  lighted  tennis courts,
 health  spa (with  workout equipment,  whirlpool, sauna,  ...), arcade
 virtual reality  game rooms,  nightly shows, snack  bars, a  number of
 restaurants, shopping  area, bars, ...  Many of these  attractions are
 open  24  hours  a  day   and  most  are  suitable  for  families  and
 children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is
 very reasonable  (79USD + tax) per  night (no extra  charge for double
 occupancy) for the duration of the conference.
 The  hotel  is within  walking  distance  from  most other  Las  Vegas
 attractions  (major shopping  areas,  recreational destinations,  fine
 dining and  night clubs, free street  shows, ...). For  the benefit of
 our international  colleagues: the state of Nevada  neighbors with the
 states of California,  Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.  Las Vegas is
 only a few driving hours  away from other major cities, including: Los
 Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...
 
 * SPONSORS
 A number of university faculty  members and their staff in cooperation
 with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, Las Vegas ), will be
 organizing the  conferences. The  conferences will be  co-sponsored by
 Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA
 Federal   EIN   #   58-2171953)   together  with   research   centers,
 international   associations,  international   research   groups,  and
 developers of high-performance machines and systems. The complete list
 of   sponsors  and   co-sponsors  will   be  available   at   a  later
 time.  (Previous conferences' sponsors  included: CSREA,  the National
 Supercomputing  Center  for Energy  and  the  Environment  - DOE,  The
 International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation,
 The   International  Technology   Institute  (ITI),   The   Java  High
 Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and Engineering
 Society, Sundance Digitial Signal Processing Inc., the Computer Vision
 Research  and  Applications Tech.,  The  Korea Information  Processing
 Society (KIPS), Information Processing Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ),
 ...)
 
 * WORKSHOP CONTACTS
   Jacques Blanc-Talon, CTA/GIP, Arcueil, France
   Appli-Fract Chair                                                     
   mailto:Jacques.Blanc-Talon@etca.fr                 
 
   Hamid R. Arabnia, General Chair
   The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
   The University of Georgia, Department of Computer Science
   415 Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.
   Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra@cs.uga.edu