Special Session on Pattern Analysis and Recognition, (PAR'2008)
As part of the 2008 International Conference on High Performance
 Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2008), http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/08/
  and in conjunction with the 22nd European Conference on Modeling
 and Simulation (ECMS 2008), http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2008/

The special session on Pattern Analysis and Recognition aims to bring
together researchers in the fields of Pattern Recognition.  The
special session will address recent advances in theory, methodologies
and applications.  It is meant to promote the discussion and
presentation of new research and development in the area of pattern
recognition and applications.

We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas
and other related topics:

·	Feature selection and extraction 	Ÿ  Neural network
·	Classification 	Ÿ  Fuzzy methods
·	Clustering 	Ÿ  Syntactical methods
·	Multi-classifiers 	Ÿ  Statistical methods
·	Descriptors 
·	Logical and combinatorial methods
·	Segmentation	Ÿ  Hybrid methods
·	Filtering	Ÿ  Computer vision
·	Object recognition	Ÿ  Image understanding 
·	Face recognition	Ÿ  Image compression and coding
·	Character, graphical and text recognition	Ÿ  Image description and recognition
·	Multimedia processing	Ÿ  Applications

Paper Submission
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to pattern analysis and recognition.
Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 7
double-column IEEE formatted pages, and include up to 6 keywords and
an abstract of no more than 350 words.  Each paper will receive a
minimum of three reviews.  At least one of the authors of each
accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS'08 conference
for presenting the paper at the session.  Accepted papers will be
published by ECMS in the conference proceedings. Papers should be
submitted as attachments to: valev@math.bas.bg.  Your submission will
be acknowledged within 48 hours.  If accepted, final papers will
follow the format that ECMS follows which will be posted on the web
site.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the session,
please contact the session organizer.

Important Dates:
     *  Full Paper Submission Deadline: --------- March 15, 2008
     *  Notification of Acceptance: ----------------- March 31, 2008
     *  Camera-Ready papers Due: ----------------- April 17, 2008

Session Organizer
Prof. Ventzeslav Valev, IAPR Fellow
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: + 359 2 979-2830
Fax:      + 359 2 971-3649
Email:   valev@math.bas.bg

Program Committee
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the session
international program committee members.

* Prof. Asai Asaithambi, University of South Dakota, USA  
* Prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Dr. Tin Kam Ho, Bell Laboratories, USA
* Prof. Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
* Prof. Marek Kurzynski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Prof. Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
* Prof. Petia Radeva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 
* Prof. Bulent Sankur, Bosphorus University, Turkey 
* Dr. Jose Ruiz Shulcloper, Advanced Technologies Applications Center, Cuba

If you have any questions about conference paper submission, please contact conference Program Chair: Waleed W. Smari, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA, Voice: (937) 229-2795, Fax: (937) 229-4529, Email: Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu.  For information about the HPCS conference in general, please contact the General Chairs or consult the conference web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/08/. 


Kind regards,

Prof. Ventzeslav Valev
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: + 359 2 979-2830
Fax:      + 359 2 971-3649
Email:   valev@math.bas.bg