Special Issue on

Pattern Recognition in Interdisciplinary Perception and Intelligence

On August 31st 1955 , J. McCarthy ( Dartmouth College , New Hampshire ), M. L. Minsky ( Harvard University ), N. Rochester (I.B.M. Corporation) and C.E. Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories) proposed to hold a meeting during the successive summer. The aim of the meeting was to gather a group of researchers to provide ideas on all aspects of learning and intelligence that could be simulated on machines. During that meeting, now known as the Dartmouth Conference, the term Artificial Intelligence was coined. In 2006, the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference will be celebrated worldwide.

Pattern Recognition is the research area studying the operation and design of systems that recognise patterns in data. It encloses subdisciplines like discriminant analysis, feature extraction, error estimation, cluster analysis (together sometimes called statistical pattern recognition), grammatical inference and parsing (sometimes called syntactical pattern recognition). Pattern Recognition is largely related to Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Vision, and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Perception, among others.

The Pattern Recognition Letters special issue on “Pattern Recognition in Interdisciplinary Perception and Intelligence” is intended to provide a forum for scientists to report their recent research advances and exchange knowledge in the field of Pattern Recognition in close relation to the state-of-the-art of Perception and Intelligence, in occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence. More concretely, the special issue aims to gather high quality papers related to the general topics of Perception and Intelligence from both the Natural and the Artificial points of view. Thus, the global purpose is to provide a broad and interdisciplinary journal special issue for researchers in Pattern Recognition.

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Method of Review: NEW

Expected contributions should be around 10 PRL pages long (approximately 5000 words, plus a reasonable number of Figures/Tables). Submissions will be handled electronically through the EES (Elsevier Editorial System). When uploading a paper, the corresponding author has to choose the so-called Article Type: "Special Issue: PRiIntPercIntel" (drop down menu) in the EES system. It is also wise to type in the paper comment field: This submission is part of the special issue "Pattern Recognition in Interdisciplinary Perception and Intelligence".

The Guest Editors will first evaluate all manuscripts. Manuscripts meeting the minimum criteria are passed on for peer review, to be accomplished by two external experts. The method of review in this special issue will employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous throughout the process. The Guest Editors board is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the articles, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Decision on acceptance of the whole special issue is taken in agreement between the Guest Editors and the PRL Editor-in-Chief for Special Issues. Accepted papers will have to be sent to the Guest Editors electronically, both as source files (LaTex, MS Word, including all original Figures/Tables and References) and in printable version (PDF).

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