Call for Papers Pattern Recognition in Information Systems In collaboration with the International Association for Pattern Recognition http://www.iceis.org/workshops/pris/pris2004-cfp.html To be held in: Universidade Portucalense, Porto April 13, 2004. ________________________________________________________________________________ _ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Full Paper Submission: 15th December 2003 Author Notification: 30th January 2003 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 15th February 2004 ________________________________________________________________________________ _ MAIN TOPICS - Data mining - Multimedia information systems - Content-Based analysis and Retrieval - Data categorization (text documents and images) - Document analysis and classification - Feature extraction and selection (for IP applications) - Biometrics and personal authentication systems - Learning systems and learning repositories - Databases, and web-based information systems - Data and knowledge representation - Efficient and scalable learning - Human computer interaction - User profile modelling - Quality assessment and performance measurement Techniques: - Classification algorithms - Unsupervised learning - Combination techniques - Nonparametric methods - Prototype-based techniques - Structural Matching - Neural-based pattern recognition - Graph-based methods - Genetic techniques - Grammar and language methods - Grammatical inference - Comparative studies - Hybrid methods