2nd Internation Workshop on Multiple Cassifier Systems

[Giorgio Giacinto]

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                Preliminary Call for Papers
                           MCS 2001
SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS
      Robinson College, Cambridge, UK, July 2-4 2001
    Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs
              E-mail: mcs2001 at eim.surrey.ac.uk
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                      WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
MCS 2001 is the second 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 first edition
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 and the potential market perspectives. The
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and extended versions
of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of
an international journal.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Josef Kittler (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 and
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. of the University of Cagliari


CO-SPONSORED BY
International Association for Pattern Recognition

PAPER SUBMISSION
Three hard copies of the full paper should be mailed to:
MCS 2001
Prof. Josef Kittler
Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc.
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK

In addition, participants should submit an electronic version of the
manuscript (PostScript or PDF format) to mcs2001 at eim.surrey.ac.uk. The
papers should not exceed 15 A4 pages (12pt, double-spaced). 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.
 
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 (algebraic and discrete mathematical methods,
intelligent agents, etc.)
* Applications

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)
L.I. Kuncheva (UK)
D. Landgrebe (USA)
D-S. Lee (USA)
D. Partridge (UK)
C. Scagliola (Italy)
A.J.C. Sharkey (UK)
S. N. Srihari (USA)
C.Y. Suen (Canada)
K. Tumer (USA)
G. Vernazza (Italy)

IMPORTANT DATES
February 1, 2001  : Paper Submission
March 15, 2001       : Notification of Acceptance
April 10, 2001       : Camera-ready Manuscript
April 10, 2001       : Registration

WORKSHOP VENUE
The workshop will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
The papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and extended
versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special
issue of an international journal.

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Dr. Giorgio Giacinto, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari, Italy
e-mail: giorgio.giacinto at computer.org