Let me kindly inform you that those papers that are presented at the "2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2012)" http://www.icpram.org can be selected (based on their quality) so that extended versions of them can be published in one of the three following Special Issues: 1) "Springer Proceedings in Mathematics" (PROM) http://www.springer.com/series/8806 2) "Neurocomputing" http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505628/description#description 3) Springer-Verlag "Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing" http://www.springer.com/series/4240 Should you have any question about the Special Issues for ICPRAM 2012, please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Patricia Alves ICPRAM Secretariat Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 Email: icpram.secretariat@insticc.org BMKW