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