The Workshop is organized by the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, and co-sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

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

PROGRAM CHAIR:

Gianni Vernazza (Univ. of Genoa, Italy)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Thomas G. Dietterich
Robert P.W. Duin
Amanda J.C. Sharkey
Sargur N. Srihari
Ching Y. Suen

(Oregon State University, USA)
(Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands)
(Dept. Computer Science, Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
(CEDAR, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, USA)
(CENPARMI, Concordia Univ., Montreal, Canada)

SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE:

J. A. Benediktsson (Iceland)
H. Bunke (Switzerland)
L. P. Cordella (Italy)
B. V. Dasarathy (USA)
T. G. Dietterich (USA)
R. P.W. Duin (The Netherlands)
J. Ghosh (USA)
S. Impedovo (Italy)
N. Intrator (Israel)
D. Landgrebe (USA)
Dar-Shyang Lee (USA)
A. K. Jain (USA)
T. K. Ho (USA)
D. Partridge (UK)
C. Scagliola (Italy)
R. Schapire (USA)
A. J.C. Sharkey (UK)
S. N. Srihari (USA)
C.Y. Suen (Canada)
D. Wolpert (USA)

LOCAL COMITTEE:

G. Armano (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)
G. Fumera (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)
G. Giacinto (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)