Preliminary Call for Papers

            The 5th IEEE International Symposium on
          Signal Processing and Information Technology

            December 18-21, 2005, Athens, Greece

The IEEE ISSPIT 2005 is the fifth in a series of international
symposia aiming at the coverage of key aspects in the fields of
signal processing and information technology. Sessions will
include tutorials in addition to presentations on new research
results. Papers describing original work are invited in any of
the areas of Information Technology and Signal Processing as
outlined below. Accepted papers will be published in the
Proceedings of IEEE ISSPIT 2005, while acceptance will be based
on paper quality, relevance, and originality. A contest for the
Best Paper Award will be held and an award will be given.

Papers are invited in the following topics:

Signal Processing Track:
 * Signal Processing Theory and Methods
 * Signal Processing for Communications
 * DSP architectures and Implementation
 * DSP for Space Applications/Highly Available Architectures
 * Multimedia Signal Processing
 * Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
 * Audio and Electro Acoustics
 * Sensor Array and Multi-channel
 * Speech Processing
 * Radar Signal Processing
 * Neural Networks
 * Internet Software Architectures

Information Technology Track:
 * Multimedia and Image-based Systems
 * Mobile Computing and Applications
 * E-Commerce and Pricing
 * Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
 * Information Processing
 * Geographical Information Systems
 * Object-based Software Engineering
 * Speech Processing
 * Parallel and Distributed Computing
 * Computer Networks


Authors are invited to submit papers of 4 pages as PDF or
Postscript files through the online submission system found on
the ISSPIT website: http://www.isspit.org. The title page should
include author name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone,
fax, and e-mail address. The author should indicate one or two of
the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper.
Questions regarding manuscripts should be submitted to the
appropriate track Technical Program Co-chair.

Important Dates

 * Proposals for Tutorials and Special Sessions: June 30, 2005
 * Four-page paper submission: June 30, 2005
 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2005
 * Final camera-ready copy paper and registration: October 3, 2005

Organizing Committee

General Co-chairs:
  Dimitrios Serpanos, U. of Patras, Greece
  Ahmed Tewfik, U. of Minnesota, U.S.A.

Technical Program Co-chairs
  Burkhard Stiller, U. of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  (Information Technology Track)
  Miguel Lagunas, Centre Tecnologic de Telecom. de Catalunya, Spain
  (Signal Processing Track)

Registration and Finance Chair:
  Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, U.S.A.

Tutorials Chair:
  Esam Abdel-Raheem, U. Windsor, Canada

Local Arrangement Chair:
  Christos Douligeris, U. of Pireaus, Greece

Web Manager and Publication Chairs:
  Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, U.S.A.
  Mostafa G. Mostafa, WKU, U.S.A.

Publicity Chair:
  Stefanos Kaxiras, U. of Patras, Greece

Further information can be obtained from the ISSPIT^Ò05 Website
at http://www.isspit.org.

IEEE Approval Pending