The International Workshop on Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. The workshop will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and various related applications. It is meant to promote the advancement, discussion and presentation of new research and development in the areas of machine learning, pattern recognition and applications.

The Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Statistical Learning
- Knowledge Acquisition and Learning
- Knowledge Discovery
- Cooperative Learning
- Support Vector Machines
- Instance Based Learning
- Grammatical Inference
- Computational Learning Theory
- Neural Network Learning
- Object, Character, Graphical and Text Recognition
- Multi-classifiers
- Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
- Fuzzy Methods for Pattern Recognition
- Syntactical Methods
- Statistical Methods
- Structural Methods
- Logical and Combinatorial Methods
- Classification
- Feature Selection and Extraction
- Clustering, Descriptors, Segmentation, and Filtering
- Matching & Verification
- Computer Vision
- Image Understanding, Description and Recognition
- Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition Applications

PAPER SUBMISSION:
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to machine learning, pattern recognition and applications. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s). Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://hpcs2015.cisedu.info/home/posters for posters submission details) will also be accepted. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via email to the Workshop organizers at valev@math.bas.bg and vzeljkovic@lincoln.edu. Submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours.

Only PDF files will be accepted, sent by email to the workshop organizers. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2015 conference to present the paper at the workshop.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2015 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission Deadline: --------------------- March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: ---------------------------- April 15, 2015
Camera-Ready Papers & Registration Due by: ------- May 08, 2015
Conference Dates: -------------------------------------- July 20 – 24, 2015


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Prof. Ventzeslav Valev, IAPR Fellow
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Mobile phone: +359 977-770946
Email: valev@math.bas.bg

Prof. Vesna Zeljkovic
College of Science and Technology
The Lincoln University
Pennsylvania, USA
Mobile phone: +1 302 399 8962
Email: vzeljkovic@lincoln.edu, drzeljkovic@ieee.org


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop International Program Committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2015.
- Sergey Ablameyko, IAPR Fellow, Belarus State University, Belarus
- Arnaldo Abrantes, High Institute of Engineering of Lisbon, Portugal
- Mayer Aladjem, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- Asai Asaithambi, University of North Florida, FL, USA
- Luc Brun, Caen's National School of Engineering (ENSICAEN), France
- Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal
- Alberto Del Bimbo, IAPR Fellow, University of Firenze, Italy
- Jan-Olof Eklundh, IAPR Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Aytul Ercil, Sabanci University, Turkey
- Georgi Gluhchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Muhittin Gokmen, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Michal Haindl, IAPR Fellow, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
- Tin Kam Ho, IAPR Fellow, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA
- Vaclav Hlavac, IAPR Fellow, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
- Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Andrzej Kasprzak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Josef Kittler, IAPR Fellow, University of Surrey, U.K.
- Stefanos Kollias, Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Leszek Koszalka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Adam Krzyzak, Concordia University, Canada
- Mineichi Kudo, IAPR Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Roumen Kunchev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Marek Kurzynski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Jose Francisco Martinez-Trinidad, National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
- Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Vadim Mottl, Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, Russia
- Shmuel Peleg, IAPR Fellow, Hebrew University, Israel
- Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Petia Radeva, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- Branimir Reljin, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Alberto Sanfeliu, IAPR Fellow, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey
- Vladimir Shapiro, CytonomeST LLC, USA
- Jose Ruiz Shulcloper, IAPR Fellow, Advanced Technologies Applications Center, Cuba
- Dacheng Tao, IAPR Fellow, University of Technology, Australia
- Patrick S.P. Wang, IAPR Fellow, Northeastern University, Illinois, USA
- Liu Wenyin, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs15 or contact one of the Conference's organizers.