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*****Paper Submission: 10 January 2003***** *********************************************************************** FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH , United Kingdom June 11-13 2003 Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES MCS 2003 is the fourth workshop of a series aimed to create a common international forum for researchers of the diverse communities working in the field of Multiple Classifier Systems. Information on the previous editions of MCS workshop can be found on www.diee.unica.it/mcs. Contributions from all the research communities working in the field are welcome in order to compare the different approaches and to define the common research priorities. Special attention is also devoted to assess the applications of Multiple Classifier Systems. The workshop is an official event of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC1). WORKSHOP CHAIRS Terry Windeatt (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom) Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) ORGANIZED BY Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc. of the University of Surrey Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. of the University of Cagliari PAPER SUBMISSION Two hard copies of the full paper should be mailed to: MCS 2003 Dr. Terry Windeatt Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. In addition, participants should submit an electronic version of the manuscript ( PDF or PostScript format) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The papers should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS format, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). A cover sheet with the authors names and affiliations is also requested, with the complete address of the corresponding author, and an abstract (200 words). Two members of the Scientific Committee will referee the papers. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the workshop, and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings only if the registration form and payment for one of the authors has been received. WORKSHOP TOPICS Papers describing original work in the following and related research topics are welcome: Foundations of multiple classifier systems Methods for classifier fusion Design of multiple classifier systems Neural network ensembles Bagging and boosting Mixtures of experts New and related approaches Applications INVITED SPEAKERS Jerry Friedman (USA) Mohamed Kamel (Canada) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE J. A. Benediktsson (Iceland) H. Bunke (Switzerland) L. P. Cordella (Italy) B. V. Dasarathy (USA) R. P.W. Duin (The Netherlands) C. Furlanello (Italy) J. Ghosh (USA) T. K. Ho (USA) S. Impedovo (Italy) N. Intrator (Israel) A.K. Jain (USA) M. Kamel (Canada) J. Kittler (UK) L.I. Kuncheva (UK) L. Lam (Hong Kong) D. Landgrebe (USA) D-S. Lee (USA) D. Partridge (UK) A.J.C. Sharkey (UK) K. Tumer (USA) G. Vernazza (Italy) IMPORTANT DATES January 10, 2003 : Paper Submission February 20, 2003: Notification of Acceptance April 1, 2003: Camera-ready Manuscript April 10, 2003: Registration WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. Word processing templates are available (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Furthermore, extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for possible publication in a special journal issue. Selected papers from previous editions of the MCS workshop have been published in Pattern Analysis and Applications, Information Fusion and International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html
