MCS 2002 - Third International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems

[Fabio Roli]

**Apologies for multiple copies**

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*****MCS 2002 Call for Papers*****
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*****Paper Submission: 1 FEBRUARY 2002*****

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THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS
Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Cagliari, Italy, June 24-26 2002
Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs  E-mail: mcs at diee.unica.it
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
MCS 2002 is the third 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 papers will be published in the 
workshop proceedings,
and extended versions of selected papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of 
Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)

ORGANIZED BY
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng. of the University of Cagliari
Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc. of the University of Surrey

Sponsored by IAPR TC1 Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques

PAPER SUBMISSION
Three hard copies of the full paper should be mailed to:
MCS 2002
Prof. Fabio Roli
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng.
University of Cagliari
Piazza d'armi 09123 Cagliari Italy
In addition, participants should submit an electronic version of the
manuscript (PostScript or PDF format) to mcs at diee.unica.it.
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 will be 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
Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas, USA)
Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA)
Sarunas Raudys (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

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)
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)
T. Windeatt (UK)

IMPORTANT DATES
February 1, 2002 : Paper Submission
March 15, 2002: Notification of Acceptance
April 10, 2002: Camera-ready Manuscript
April 10, 2002: Registration

WORKSHOP VENUE
The workshop will be held at Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Cagliari, 
Italy. See http://www.crs4.it/~zip/EGVISC95/chia_laguna.html (in 
English) or http://web.tiscali.it/chialaguna (in Italian).

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. Extended versions of selected papers will considered
for possible publication in a special issue of the International 
Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence..

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Fabio Roli, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept. - University of Cagliari
Piazza d'Armi 09123 Cagliari Italy
Phone +39 070 675 5874 Fax +39 070 6755900  e-mail roli at diee.unica.it
Web Page at http://www.diee.unica.it/~roli/info.html