MCS 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS

[Terry Windeatt]

**Apologies for multiple copies**

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*****MCS 2003 Call for Papers*****
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*****Paper Submission: 10 January 2003*****

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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: mcs2003 at eim.surrey.ac.uk
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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 mcs2003 at eim.surrey.ac.uk.
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.