The Fourth International Workshop on

Pattern Recognition in Information Systems – PRIS 2004

April 13-14, 2004 – Porto, Portugal

  First Announcement and Call for Papers 

See here the workshop program:

In conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2004 (http://www.iceis.org/)

In collaboration with The International Association for Pattern Recognition

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Chair:

Ana Fred, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (afred@lx.it.pt)

Workshop Background and Goals

Huge amounts of information in digital format are currently available; for example, the world-wide-web is an immense source of text, images, video, and sound. Structuring/understanding this multimedia information is a difficult task. Accessibility issues arise in this context, with personal identification techniques playing a key role in human-machine interfaces for security and restricted-access systems. Pattern recognition (PR) and machine learning (ML) provide formal frameworks in which this class of problems can be adequately addressed. On the other hand, exploratory analysis (mining) and content-based retrieval of multimedia data serve both as important practical application domains for PR and ML techniques, and as a source of challenging research problems.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners and potential users with interests in the multidisciplinary topics listed above.

Areas of Interest 

Paper submissions should be related to the following areas: pattern recognition, biometrics and personal identification; multimedia storage and retrieval; and data mining and machine learning. Focus on applications (industrial, medical, entertainment, home media) is desirable, although new techniques and algorithms are also highly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Data mining
- Multimedia information systems
- Content-Based analysis and Retrieval
- Data categorization (text documents and images)
- Document analysis and classification
- Feature extraction and selection (for IP applications)
- Biometrics and personal authentication systems
- Learning systems and learning repositories
- Databases, and web-based information systems
- Data and knowledge representation
- Efficient and scalable learning
- Human computer interaction
- User profile modelling
- Quality assessment and performance measurement

Techniques:
- Classification algorithms
- Unsupervised learning
- Combination techniques
- Nonparametric methods
- Prototype-based techniques
- Structural Matching
- Neural-based pattern recognition
- Graph-based methods
- Genetic techniques
- Grammar and language methods
- Grammatical inference
- Comparative studies
- Hybrid methods

Format of the Workshop

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

Confirmed Invited Speakers

- Joachim Buhmann (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Jake Aggarwal (University of Texas, USA)
- John B. Oommen (University of Carleton, Canada)

Submission of Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers in english will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000 words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available in the ICEIS web page. Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be submitted thru ICEIS web-based paper submission procedure.

Important Dates

Full paper submission: January 15, 2004
Author notification: February 15, 2004
Camera-ready paper submission: March 1, 2004

Workshop Program Committee

Aditya Vailaya, USA
Adnan Amin, Australia
Anil K. Jain, USA
Aurélio Campilho, Portugal
Bob Duin, The Netherlands
Colin de la Higuera, France
Enrique Vidal, Spain
Eric Trupin, France
Francesc J. Ferri, Spain
H Lilian Tang, UK
Hong Jiang Zhang, China
Horace Ip, Hong Kong
Jean-Marc Ogier, France
Jianchang Mao, USA
Joachim Buhmann, Germany
Jorge S. Marques, Portugal
Jose M. Inesta, Spain
Marcello Pelillo, Italy
Mário Figueiredo, Portugal
Mingjing Li, China
Nalini Ratha, USA
Ruud Bolle, USA
Sameer Singh, UK
Simone Marinai, Italy
Terry Caelli, Canada
Tin Ho, USA

Conference Location

The workshop will be held at the Universidade Portucalense in Porto, Portugal.

Registration Information

To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat

ICEIS Secretariat
Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
Rua Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal

Fax: +351 265 721 869 Tel: +351 265 790 000
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