First Announcement and Call for Papers

                       2nd International
     Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems

                April 2-3, 2002 - Alicante, Spain


                  http://www.dlsi.ua.es/pris2002

    In conjunction with the fourth international conference on 
             Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS 2002

* Aim of the Workshop
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 Huge amounts of information in digital format is 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. In addition,
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 
this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners and 
potential users with interests in the multidisciplinary topics listed above.

* Topics of interest include, but are not limited
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Main Areas
* Document analysis and classification 
* Image classification and retrieval 
* Biometrics and personal authentication
* Pattern recognition in multimedia 
* Content-based analysis and retrieval
* Face recognition
* 2D and 3D object recognition
* Speech and 1D signal analysis

Techniques
* Feature extraction and selection 
* Neural-based methods
* Grammar and language methods 
* Classification algorithms 
* Unsupervised learning 
* Nonparametric methods 
* Prototype-based techniques 
* Structural matching 
* Shape analysis 
* Graph-based methods
* Grammatical inference
* Genetic techniques
* Comparative studies
* Applications

* Submission of papers
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of
the topics listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted, and 
the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5,000 words). Instructions
for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format, this latter
preferred) are available in the workshop web page. Electronic versions 
(PDF or PS) of the manuscript should be sent through the workshop web page.

* Co-chairs
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Jos�é Manuel I�ñesta, Luisa Mic�ó
Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform�áticos
Universidad de Alicante, Spain

* Program Committee
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Adnan Amin (Australia)
Josef Bigun (Sweden)
Ruud Bolle (USA)
Colin de la Higuera (France)
Robert Duin (Netherlands)
Francesc J. Ferri (Spain)
Mario Figueiredo (Portugal)
Ana Fred (Portugal)
Bilge Gunsel (Turkey)
Tin Ho (USA)
Horace Ip (Hong Kong)
Josef Kittler (UK)
Mingjing Li (China)
Jianchang Mao (USA)
Simone Marinai (Italia)
Anil K. Jain (USA)
Jorge S. Marques (Portugal)
Nicol�ás P�érez de la Blanca (Spain)
Maria Petrou (UK)
Pavel Pudil (Czech Republic)
Jian Zhong Qian (USA)
Lilian Tang (UK)
Enrique Vidal (Spain)

* Organising Committee
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J. Calera-Rubio, R. Carrasco, M. Forcada, E. G�ómez, 
F. Moreno-Seco, J. Oncina, J. Verd�ú, J.A.P�érez-Ortiz.
Dpt. LSI, Universidad de Alicante  http://www.dlsi.ua.es

* Important dates
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Full paper submission: 15th november 2001
Author notification: 15th january 2002
Camera-ready submission and registration: 5th february 2002

* Secretariat
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PRIS 2002
Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform�áticos
Universidad de Alicante
Campus de San Vicente del Raspeig
E-03071 Alicante, Spain
Fax:  +34 96590 9326
e-mail:   pris2002@dlsi.ua.es