PRIS-2001 Pattern Recognition in Information Systems

Sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition

 (www.iceis.org/workshops/pris)


Co-chairs:

Ana Fred, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (afred@lx.it.pt)
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA (jain@cse.msu.edu)


Program Committee:

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Philips Research, USA
Adnan Amin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Aurélio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal
Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Bilge Gunsel, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey
Tin Ho, Bell Labs, USA
Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA
Jorge S. Marques, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica /IST, Portugal
Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, UK
Pavel Pudil, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Jianzhong Qian, Siemens Research, USA
Nalini Ratha, IBM Watson Research Lab, USA
Aditya Vailaya, Agilent Research Lab, USA
Enrique Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China



 Invited Speakers:

Ruud Bolle, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China



Aim of the Workshop:

Huge amounts of information in digital format is 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:

Biometrics-based personal authentication systems
Multimedia information systems
Content-Based analysis and Retrieval
Data categorization (text documents and images)
Interfaces for retrieval
Document recognition and retrieval
Data and knowledge representation
User profile modeling
Feature extraction and selection
Unsupervised learning
Efficient and scalable learning
Quality assessment and performance measurement
Tutoring systems


Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The
proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a book.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Pattern
Recognition Journal.


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 (5,000 words).
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format) are
available HERE.

Postscript versions of the manuscript should be sent electronically to:
w1-secretariat@iceis.org


Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission: 25th January 2001
Author Notification: 15th March 2001
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 5th April 2001


Workshop Location:

The workshop will be held at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the
Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. Setúbal is located at the south bank of
Tagus river, about 50 km from Lisbon. The workshop will take place before
the Third International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS
2001. For further information, see the conference web page site
www.iceis.org


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
E-mail: w1-secretariat@iceis.org
Web: site www.iceis.org



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Joaquim B. L. Filipe (Prof. Adjunto)
Dept Sistemas e Informática
Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal
Campus do IPS / R. Vale Chaves - Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal
Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 790 040
Fax: +351 265 721 869
e-mail: jfilipe@iceis.org
web: http://www.est.ips.pt/docentesweb/jfilipe
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