CALL FOR  PAPERS 
 
 EVOIASP2004  
 
 Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis
 and Signal Processing 
 
 Coimbra, Portugal, 5 April 2004
 Web Address: http://www.evonet.info/eurogp2004/evoiasp
 
 Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be tools which can be used
 effectively in the development of systems (software or hardware) for
 image analysis and signal processing in complex domains of high
 industrial and social relevance. 
 
 EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the
 applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and
 signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers
 in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to
 present their latest research and to discuss current developments and
 applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between
 members of the three scientific communities. 
 
 The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Goteborg, Sweden
 (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy (2001), Kinsale, Ireland
 (2002), and Colchester, UK (2003). 
 
 The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in
 Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoIASP, the
 EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation for Image Analysis and
 Signal Processing. It will be part of EvoWorkshops2004 and will be held
 in conjunction with EuroGP2004, the European Conference on Genetic
 Programming, and EvoCOP2004, the 4th European Conference on Evolutionary
 Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. 
 
 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
   - applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems,    
   - evolvable vision and signal processing hardware,
   - evolutionary pattern recognition,
   - hybrid  architectures  for machine  vision  and  signal  processing  
     including evolutionary components,
   - theoretical developments,
   - comparisons between  different evolutionary techniques and  between
     evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications,
   - time series analysis by means of EC techniques.
 
 SUBMISSIONS
 
 Send your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format
 (instructions downloadable from
 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf ) to the
 programme chair, Stefano Cagnoni, in gzipped PostScript or pdf format by
 email no later than November 14, 2003.  The papers will be peer reviewed
 by at least two members of the program committee.  Authors will be
 notified via email on the results of the review by December 19, 2003. 
 
 The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
 basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera
 ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and
 pictures, by January 16, 2003. The accepted papers will appear in the
 workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be
 available at the workshop. 
 
 IMPORTANT DATES:
   Submission deadline:        14 November 2003
   Notification of acceptance: 19 December 2003
   Camera ready papers due:    16 January  2004
   Workshop:                    5 April    2004