CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM website: http://www.icpram.org/ February 15 - 18, 2013 Barcelona, Spain In Cooperation with: AAAI Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC IMPORTANT DATES: Position Paper Submission: October 30, 2012 Authors Notification (position papers): December 3, 2012 Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: December 17, 2012 _____________________________________ ICPRAM 2013 welcomes the submission of position papers whose deadline is set for next October 30. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster". Please check further details about position papers submission at the conference website (http://www.icpram.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx#submission_guidelines). The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). ICPRAM is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 259 submissions, 24% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 21% were presented as short papers and 12% as posters. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. BMKW A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a AISC Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.icpram.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). ICPRAM 2013 will be held in conjunction with ICAART 2013 and ICORES 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. Registration to ICPRAM will enable free attendance to any sessions of ICAART and ICORES conferences as a non-speaker. We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: - Alberto Sanfeliu, Universitat Politècnica de Cataluyna, Spain - Tomaso Poggio, CBCL, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States - Mario Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal - Bikash Sabata, Ventana Medical Systems, United States We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following Satellite Workshop and Special Session: Workshop: - International Workshop on Biometrics: Technologies, Systems and Applications - BTSA 2013 (http://www.icpram.org/BTSA.aspx) Special Session: - Pattern Recognition in Geosciences: Theory and Applications - PRG 2013 (http://www.icpram.org/PRG.aspx) Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Vera Coelho ICPRAM Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 Email: icpram.secretariat@insticc.org