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EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
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  Special Issue on
  Particle Filtering in Signal Processing

Particle filtering is a Monte Carlo methodology that is used for
nonlinear and non-Gaussian sequential signal processing. Its
beginnings can be traced back into the late 1940s and early 1950s,
which were followed in the last fifty years with sporadic
outbreaks of intense activity. In the past few years, particle
filtering has again gained the attention of scientists,
statisticians, and engineers, and as a result, many new
contributions have been reported. Although its implementation is
computationally intensive, the widespread availability of fast
computers and the amenability of the particle filtering methods
for parallel implementation make them very attractive for solving
difficult signal processing problems. The objective of this
special issue is to present original research results on particle
filtering and bring its vast scope of applications closer to the
signal processing community. Original research papers are
solicited from the following nonexhaustive list of topics. Other
related work is also welcome for publication.

Suggested Topics: 

 - General theory of particle filtering 
 - Communications 
 - Target tracking 
 - Positioning and navigation 
 - Radar and sonar 
 - Bioinformatics 
 - Computer vision 
 - Processing of speech and music signals 
 - Bayesian networks 
 - Architectures for particle filtering 
 - Financial time series 

Submission procedure:

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format 
described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. 
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy 
of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's
web submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/, 
according to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            April 30, 2003
  Acceptance Notification   October 31, 2004
  Final Manuscript Due      January 31, 2004
  Publication Date          3rd Quarter, 2004

GUEST EDITORS:

Petar M. Djuric, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2350, USA;
djuric@ece.sunysb.edu

Simon J. Godsill, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK; sjg@eng.cam.ac.uk

Arnaud Doucet, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK; ad2@eng.cam.ac.uk

EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Zhi Ding, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California - Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA