Special Session Management and Representation of Uncertainty within Image Processing Algorithms at the IPMU 2008 Conference, Malaga (Spain), June 22-27, 2008 Call for Papers With the increase of the computers computational power, researchers in the area of image analysis have developed numerous methods and systems, many of which are based on probabilistic paradigms, such as the well-known Bayesian decision rule and evidence-based decision-making systems. The main assumption is that physical laws are ruled by Aristotelic logic; in other words they arise from a crisp-world assumption. Anyway, this assumption is not always true in the physical world; as a matter of fact, crisp assumptions work for some problems, while they fails miserably whenever imprecision and accuracy are not following probabilistic rules. Soft-Computing is an emerging field that consists of complementary elements of fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, neural networks and probabilistic reasoning. Due to their strong learning and cognitive ability, good tolerance of uncertainty and imprecision, Soft Computing techniques may become more effective and powerful in real-world applications and more efforts are being dedicated to apply these techniques to Image Processing. This is why they can offer viable and effective solutions to some of the most difficult problems in Computer Vision. The purpose of this special session is to demonstrate some recent successes in solving image analysis problems by soft computing techniques and hopefully to motivate other image processing researchers to utilize this technology to solve their real-world problems. It will cover a range of domains, from more traditional ones such as image analysis at low, medium and high level, including pattern recognition and all the topics inherent to computer vision, all treated by means of soft-computing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Noise reduction in images * Edge detection and segmentation * Feature extraction and pattern recognition * Image/motion enhancement * Image/motion compression * Similarity between images/motion * Image/motion analysis * Medical imaging * Aerial imaging Submission guidelines. Very detailed guidelines are available at the "Instructions Page" of IPMU 2008. Papers are limited to 6 to 8 pages, and LaTeX- or Word-templates can be downloaded from the site. Please follow the guidelines strictly because this is required in order for your paper to be published in the conference proceedings. Submission. Authors have to submit their paper to the session organizers pilar.sobrevilla@upc.edu, mike.nachtegael@ugent.be and eduard.montseny@upc.edu. We summarize the most important dates: * Submission of papers: December 7, 2008. * Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2008. * Submission of camera ready papers: May 23, 2008.