IAPR International Conference
on
Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
MLDM´2003

Renaissance Hotel Leipzig / Germany, July 5-7, 2003

Co-chairs
Petra Perner
IBaI Leipzig / Germany

Azriel Rosenfeld
University of Maryland / USA

Program Committee
Agnar Aamodt        NTNU / Norway
Horst Bunke         University of Bern / Switzerland
Terri Caelli              University of Alberta / Canada 
Susan Craw      The Robert Gordon University / UK
Dragan Gamberger    Rudjer Boskovic Institute / Croatia
Lothar Gierl        University of Rostock /Germany
Thomas S. Huang     University of Illinois / USA
Atsushi Imiya       Chiba University /Japan     
Horace Ip             City University / Hong Kong 
Brian Lovell        University of Queensland /Australia
Herbert Jahn        Aero Space Center / Germany

Ryszard Michalski   George Mason University / USA
Donato Malerba        University of Bari / Italy
Sethuraman Panch  Arizona State University / USA  
Maria Petrou          University of Surrey / UK
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja Istituto di Cibernetica / Italy
Fabio Roli             University of Cagliari / Italy
Michele Sebag        Ecole Polytechnique / France
Arnold Smeulders   University of Amsterdam/ NL
Minerva Yeung        Intel Corporation / USA
Ari Visa               Tampere University / Finland
Sholom Weiss         IBM Yorktown Heights / USA     

 Sponsors
International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
 IAPR TC 17 Machine Learning and Data Mining
The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the 
world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the 
recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic 
research papers as well as application papers are welcome. All kinds of 
applications are welcome but special preference will be given to multimedia 
related applications, biomedical applications, and webmining. MLDM03 
continues in a series of MLDM events that originally started out as 
workshops. Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the 
following topics:

- inductive learning including decision tree and rule induction learning
- conceptual learning and clustering
- case-based reasoning and learning
- similarity measures and learning of similarity
- association rules
- visualization and data mining
- video mining
- mining structural representations such as log files, text documents and 
HTML documents  - statistical learning and   
  neural net based learning
- classification and interpretation of images, text, video
- organisational learning and evolutional learning
- probabilistic information retrieval
- mining gene data bases and biological data bases
- mining images, temporal-spatial data, images from remote sensing
- mining text documents
- knowledge extraction from text, video, signals and images

     Participants should submit an electronic version of their paper to the 
e-mail address: ibaiperner@aol.com at the  Institut für Bildverarbeitung und 
angewandte Informatik,  Arno-Nitzsche-Str. 45, 04277 Leipzig Germany. For the 
latest news as well as for the program of the previous MLDM and the 
publications within MLDM and IAPR TC 17 Machine Learning and Data Mining look 
at http://www.ibai-research.de/ under the link MLDM2003 or under link TC 17.
      The paper should have no more than 15 pages (double-spaced) and present 
original work of the authors. Papers will be reviewed by the program 
committee. Accepted papers will appear in proceedings published by Springer 
Verlag.  Extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special 
issue of an international journal after the workshop.

Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission   January, 10th 2003      Notification of 
acceptance April, 1st  2003 
Final Paper submission          May  1st , 2003