Co-Chairs
Gemma Sánchez-Albaladejo
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CVC)
gemma@cvc.uab.es

Alfons Juan-Císcar
Universitat Politècnica de València (DSIC)
ajuan@dsic.upv.es

Aim of the Workshop
Huge amounts of information in digital format are currently available; for example, the world-wide-web is an immense source of text, audio, images and video. Organizing and understanding this multimodal information is a difficult problem, which requires advanced techniques from pattern recognition and related fields such as machine learning, computer vision and human language technology. An increasingly important aspect of this problem is human-computer interaction, especially multi-modal interactive systems in which humans and machines seamlessly cooperate to efficiently solve a given task. On the other hand, accessibility issues also arise in this problem, with personal identification techniques playing a key role in human-computer interfaces for security and restricted-access systems.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners and potential users with interests in the multidisciplinary topics listed below.

Topics of interest
Paper submissions should be related to the following areas: pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision and human language technology.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Text, audio, image and video processing
• Unsupervised learning and clustering
• Classification and browsing of multimodal data
• Indexing, structuring and summarization
• Human-computer interaction modelling
• Discourse and dialogue
• Machine translation
• Multimodal fusion
• Biometrics and personal authentication systems

Format of the Workshop
The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral and poster presentations. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a book.

Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words or 10 pages (including figures and tables). See Workshops Templates and Examples. Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted online through the online submission system.

Workshop Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book with an ISBN#, which will be issued by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop.

Keynote Speakers
Horst Bunke, Switzerland
Hermann Ney, Germany

Important Dates
Paper Submission: Deadline Expired
Author Notification: Deadline Expired
Final Camera-Ready and Registration: Deadline Expired

Workshop Program Committee
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, UK
Horst Bunke, Switzerland
Alberto Del Bimbo, Italy
Robert Duin, The Netherlands
Francesc J. Ferri, Spain
Ana Fred, Portugal
Norihiro Hagita, Japan
José M. Iñesta, Spain
Anil K. Jain, USA
Dimostenis Karatzas, Spain
Josep Lladós, Spain
Simone Marinai, Italy
Hermann Ney, Germany
Jean-Marc Ogier, France
Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca, Spain
Fabio Roli, Italy
Arun Ross, USA
Massimo Tistarelli, Italy
Eric Trupin, France
Enrique Vidal, Spain
Dit-Yan Yeung, China
Liang Wang, Australia

Workshop Location
The workshop will take place in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008) in Barcelona - Spain.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by April 14, 2008, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. For registering go to http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat
ICEIS 2008 Secretariat - The Eighth International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS-2008)
E-mail: workshops@iceis.org
Web site: http://www.iceis.org