CFP: Multiple Classifier Systems workshop

[Nikunj C. Oza]

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*****MCS 2005 Call for Papers*****
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*****Paper Submission: 21th JANUARY 2005*****

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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS
Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA,
June 13-15, 2005
Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs
E-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov (Nikunj Oza) or
                polikar at rowan.edu (Robi Polikar)
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
MCS 2005 is the sixth workshop of a series aimed at creating 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 
http://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 an international 
journal.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Nikunj C. Oza (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Robi Polikar (Rowan University, USA)
Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)


ORGANIZED BY
NASA Ames Research Center
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University
Puresense Environmental

Sponsored by IAPR TC1 Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques

PAPER SUBMISSION
Participants should submit an electronic version of the manuscript 
(PostScript or PDF format) to polikar at rowan.edu. 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 is 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
Leo Breiman (USA)
Second speaker to be determined (see http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs for updates)

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)
V. Govindaraju (USA)
T. K. Ho (USA)
S. Impedovo (Italy)
N. Intrator (Israel)
A.K. Jain (USA)
M. Kamel (Canada)
L.I. Kuncheva (UK)
D. Partridge (UK)
A.J.C. Sharkey (UK)
C.Y. Suen (Canada)
K. Tumer (USA)
G. Vernazza (Italy)
T. Windeatt (UK)

IMPORTANT DATES
January 21, 2004: Paper Submission
February 25, 2004: Notification of Acceptance
March 25, 2004: Camera-ready Manuscript
March 25, 2004: Registration

WORKSHOP VENUE
The workshop will be held at the Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, 
Seaside, California, USA (http://www.embassymonterey.com).

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 an international 
journal.

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Nikunj C. Oza, Ph.D.			Tel: (650)604-2978
Research Scientist			Fax: (650)604-4036
NASA Ames Research Center		e-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov
Mail Stop 269-3			web: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/~oza
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000