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International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis
14-16 May 2003, Palermo - Italy


First announcement

  IWCIA2003  is  the  nineth  in a series of workshops on parallel and
  combinatorial image analysis. Prior meetings  took  place  in  Paris
  (France,  1991),  Ube (Japan, 1992), Washington DC (USA, 1994), Lyon
  (France, 1995), Hiroshima (Japan, 1997), Madras (India, 1999),  Caen
  (France,  2000)  and  Philadelphia (USA, 2001). This edition will be
  held in  Palermo  (Italy,  14-16  May  2003).  Topics  treated  will
  include,   but  are  not  limited  to:  Discrete  geometry;  Digital
  topology; Discrete tomography; Array, graph and  parallel  grammars;
  Cellular  automata;  Tilings  and patterns; Combinatorial methods in
  image  analysis;  Combinatorial  problems  in  the  discrete  plane;
  Integer-only   algorithms   for   image  analysis;  Non-conventional
  computing for image analysis  such  as  genetic  algorithms,  global
  optimization...


Program chairs / Principal organizers

  Alberto Del Lungo (University of Siena, Italy)
  Vito Di Ges�� (University of Palermo, Italy)
  Attila Kuba (University of Szeged, Hungary)


Program committee

  Alfred M. Bruckstein (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
  Jean-Marc Chassery (TIMC-IMAG, France)
  Katsushi Inoue (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
  T. Yung Kong (CUNY University, USA)
  Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  Maurice Nivat (LIAFA, France)
  Mike Reed (Oxford University, UK)
  Rani Siromoney (Madras Christian College, India)
  Patrick S.P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)
  Gerhard Woeginger (University of Twente, The Netherlands)


Invited speakers

  Gabor Herman (CUNY University, USA)
  Reinhard Klette (University of Auckland, New Zealand)


Scientific secretariat

  Andrea Frosini (University of Siena, Italy)
  Cesare Valenti (University of Palermo, Italy)


Call for papers

  Prospective contributors  are  invited  to  submit  full  papers  in
  English  reporting  their original work. The scientific program will
  include lectures by invited speakers and selected  papers  presented
  in the workshop sessions.
  Deadline for submission and early registration: October 1, 2002
  Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2002
  Due date for final versions of accepted papers: February 1, 2003


Info

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