edited by H Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

This book series addresses all aspects of machine perception and artificial intelligence. Of particular interest are the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, natural language understanding, speech processing, neural computing, machine learning, hardware architectures, software tools, and others. The series includes publications of various types, for example, textbooks, monographs, edited volumes, conference and workshop proceedings, PhD theses with significant impact, and special issues of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Potential authors and editors are encouraged to contact Prof. H Bunke, e-mail: bunke@iam.unibe.ch or Prof. P S P Wang, e-mail: pwang@ccs.neu.edu

Published titles

Vol. 1:
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
Selected Papers from the IVth Spanish Symposium
edited by A Sanfeliu (Univ. Politécnica de Cataluña), N Pérez de la Blanca (Univ. de Granada) & E Vidal (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia)

Vol. 2:
Theory and Applications of Image Analysis
Selected Papers from the 7th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
edited by P Johansen & S Olsen (Univ. Copenhagen)

Vol. 3:
Neural Networks in Vision and Pattern Recognition
edited by J Skrzypek & W Karplus (UCLA)

Vol. 4:
Parallel Image Processing
edited by A Saoudi (Univ. Paris XIII), M Nivat (Univ. Paris VII) & P S P Wang (Northeastern Univ.)

Vol. 6:
Active Robot Vision
Camera Heads, Model Based Navigation and Reactive Control
edited by H I Christensen (Aalborg University), K W Bowyer (University of South Florida) & H Bunke (Universität Bern)

Vol. 7:
Advances in Pattern Recognition Sytems Using Neural Network Technologies
edited by I Guyon (AT&T Bell Labs.) & P S P Wang (Northeastern Univ.)

Vol. 8:
Thinning Methodologies for Pattern Recognition
edited by C Y Suen (Concordia Univ.) & P S P Wang (Northeastern Univ.)

Vol. 9:
State of the Art in Digital Mammographic Image Analysis
edited by K W Bowyer (University of South Florida, USA) & S Astley (University of Manchester, UK)

Vol. 10:
Generic Object Recognition Using Form and Function
by Louise Stark (University of the Pacific, USA) & Kevin Bowyer (University of South Florida, USA)

Vol. 11:
Experimental Environments for Computer Vision and Image Processing
edited by H I Christensen (Aalborg Univ.) & J L Crowley (Inst. Nat'l Poly. de Grenoble)

Vol. 12:
Computer Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision
by Sudeep Sarkar (Univ. South Florida) & Kim L Boyer (The Ohio State Univ.)

Vol. 13:
Progress in Automatic Signature Verification
edited by R Plamondon (École Poly. de Montreal)

Vol. 15:
Parallel Image Analysis and Processing
edited by K Inoue (Yamaguchi Univ.), A Nakamura (Meiji Univ.), M Nivat, A Saoudi (Univ. Paris VII) & P S P Wang (Northeastern Univ.)

Vol. 16:
Document Image Analysis
edited by H Bunke (Univ. Bern), P S P Wang (Northeastern Univ.) & H Baird (AT&T Bell Labs.)

Vol. 17:
Applications of AI, Machine Vision and Robotics
edited by K L Boyer (The Ohio State University), L Stark (The University of the Pacific) & H Bunke (University of Bern)

Vol. 18:
VLSI and Parallel Computing for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
edited by N Ranganathan (Univ. South Florida)

Vol. 19:
Parallel Image Analysis: Theory and Applications
edited by L S Davis, A Rosenfeld (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), K Inoue (Yamaguchi University, Japan.), M Nivat (Universite Paris VII, France) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

Vol. 20:
Picture Interpretation: A Symbolic Approach
by S Dance, Z-Q Liu (Univ. Melbourne) & T Caelli (Curtin Univ. of Tech.)

Vol. 21:
Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems
edited by H Bunke (Univ. Bern, Switzerland), T Kanade (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) & H Noltemeier (Univ. Würzburg, Germany)

Vol. 22:
Machine Vision for Advanced Production
edited by M Pietikäinen (Univ. Oulu, Finland) & L F Pau (Ericsson Telecom. Sys., Sweden)

Vol. 24:
Spatial Computing: Issues in Vision, Multimedia and Visualization Technologies
edited by T Caelli, P Lam (Curtin University of Technology) & H Bunke (Universität Bern)

Vol. 25:
Studies in Pattern Recognition
A Memorial to the Late Professor King-Sun Fu
edited by H Freeman (Rutgers University)

Vol. 27:
Intelligent Robots — Sensing, Modeling and Planning
edited by R C Bolles (SRI International, USA), H Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & H Noltemeier (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Vol. 28:
Automatic Bankcheck Processing
edited by S Impedovo (University of Bari), P S P Wang (Northeastern University) & H Bunke (Universität Bern)

Vol. 29:
Document Analysis Systems II
edited by Jonathan J Hull (RICOH California Research Center) & Suzanne L Taylor (Lookheed Martin)

Vol. 30:
Compensatory Genetic Fuzzy Neural Networks and Their Applications
by Yanqing Zhang (University of South Florida & Georgia Southwestern State University) & Abraham Kandel (University of South Florida & Tel-Aviv University)

Vol. 31:
Parallel Image Analysis
Tools and Models
edited by S Miguet (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France), A Montanvert (Institut Albert Bonniot, France) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

Vol. 32:
Introduction to Pattern Recognition
Statistical, Structural, Neural and Fuzzy Logic Approaches>
by Menahem Friedman (Nuclear Research Center-Negv, Israel) & Abraham Kandel (University of South Florida, USA & Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Vol. 33:
Advances in Oriental Document Analysis and Recognition Techniques
edited by S-W Lee (Korea University), Y Y Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University)

Vol. 34:
Advances in Handwriting Recognition
by Seong-Whan Lee (Korea University)

Vol. 35:
Vision Interface
Real World Applications of Computer Vision
edited by M Cheriet (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) & Y H Yang (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Vol. 36:
Wavelet Theory and Its Application to Pattern Recognition
by Y Y Tang, J Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University), L H Yang (Zhongshan University) & H Ma (Sichuan University)

Vol. 37:
Image Processing for the Food Industry
by E R Davies (University of London)

Vol. 38:
New Approaches to Fuzzy Modeling and Control
Design and Analysis
by Michael Margaliot (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) & Gideon Langholz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Vol. 39:
Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis
edited by Ashlesha Jain (University of Adelaide), Ajita Jain (Private Practitioner, Adelaide), Sandhya Jain (Julia Farr Centre, Adelaide) & Lakhmi Jain (University of South Australia)

Vol. 40:
Texture Analysis in Machine Vision
edited by M K Pietikäinen (University of Oulu, Finland)

Vol. 41:
Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition
edited by H Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & A Kandel (University of South Florida, USA)

Vol. 42:
Invariants for Pattern Recognition and Classification
edited by Marcos A Rodrigues (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Vol. 43:
Agent Engineering
edited by Jiming Liu, Yuan Y Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) & Patrick S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

Vol. 44:
Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
edited by Jun Shen (Bordeaux-3 University, France), P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA) & Tianxu Zhang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)

Vol. 45:
Hidden Markov Models
Applications in Computer Vision
edited by Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Terry Caelli (University of Alberta, Canada)

Vol. 46:
Syntactic Pattern Recognition for Seismic Oil Exploration
edited by Kou-Yuan Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Vol. 47:
Hybrid Methods in Pattern Recognition
edited by H Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & A Kandel (University of South Florida, USA)

Vol. 48:
Multimodal Interface for Human–Machine Communication
edited by P C Yuen, Y Y Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

Vol. 49:
Neural Networks and Systolic Array Design
edited by David Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) & Sankar K Pal (The Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India)

Vol. 50:
Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision
edited by Henrik I Christensen & P Jonathon Phillips (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

Vol. 51:
Automatic Diatom Identification
edited by Hans du Buf (University of Algarve, Portugal) & Micha M Bayer (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg, UK)

Vol. 52:
Advances in Image Processing and Understanding
A Festschrift for Thomas S Huang
edited by Alan C Bovik (University of Texas, Austin, USA), Chang Wen Chen (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) & Dmitry Goldgof (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA)

Vol. 53:
Soft Computing Approach to Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
edited by Ashish Ghosh & Sankar K Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)

Vol. 54:
Fundamentals of Robotics
Linking Perception to Action
by Ming Xie (Singapore–MIT Alliance & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Vol. 55:
Web Document Analysis
Challenges and Opportunities
edited by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (University of Liverpool, UK) & Jianying Hu (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA)

Vol. 56:
Artificial Intelligence Methods in Software Testing
edited by Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Abraham Kandel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel & University of South Florida, USA ) & Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Vol. 57:
Data Mining in Time Series Databases
edited by Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Abraham Kandel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel & University of South Florida, USA) & Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Vol. 58:
Computational Web Intelligence
Intelligent Technology for Web Applications
edited by Y-Q Zhang (Georgia State University, USA), A Kandel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel & University of South Florida, USA), T Y Lin (San José State University, USA) & Y Y Yao (University of Regina, Canada)

Vol. 59:
Fuzzy Neural Network Theory and Application
by Puyin Liu (National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China) & Hongxing Li (Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China)

Vol. 60:
Robust Range Image Registration Using Genetic Algorithms and the Surface Interpenetration Measure
by Luciano Silva, Olga R P Bellon (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil) & Kim L Boyer (Ohio State University, USA)

Vol. 61:
Decomposition Methodology for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Theory and Applications
by Oded Maimon & Lior Rokach (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Vol. 62:
Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining
by Adam Schenker, Abraham Kandel (University of South Florida, USA), Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Vol. 63:
Computational Intelligence in Software Quality Assurance
edited by S Dick (University of Alberta, Canada) & A Kandel (University of South Florida, USA)

Vol. 64:
Dissimilarity Representation for Pattern Recognition, The
Foundations and Applications
by Elżbieta Pękalska & Robert P W Duin (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Vol. 65:
Fighting Terror in Cyberspace
edited by Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) & Abraham Kandel (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA)

Vol. 66:
Formal Models, Languages and Applications
edited by K G Subramanian, K Rangarajan (Madras Christian College, India) & Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India)

Vol. 67:
Image Pattern Recognition
Synthesis and Analysis in Biometrics
edited by Svetlana N Yanushkevich, Marina L Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada), Patrick S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA) & Sargur N Srihari (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Vol. 68:
Bridging the Gap Between Graph Edit Distance and Kernel Machines
by Michel Neuhaus & Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Vol. 69:
Data Mining with Decision Trees
Theory and Applications
by Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) & Oded Maimon (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Vol. 70:
Personalization Techniques and Recommender Systems
edited by Gulden Uchyigit (Imperial College, UK) & Matthew Ma (Scientific Works, USA)

Vol. 71:
Recognition of Whiteboard Notes
Online, Offline and Combination
by Marcus Liwicki (DFKI GmbH, Germany) & Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Vol. 72:
Kernels for Structured Data
by Thomas Gärtner (Fraunhofer Institute Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Germany)

Vol. 73:
Progress in Computer Vision and Image Analysis
edited by Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland), Juan José Villanueva, Gemma Sánchez & Xavier Otazu (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Vol. 74:
Wavelet Theory Approach to Pattern Recognition
(2nd Edition)
edited by Yuan Yan Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Vol. 75:
Pattern Classification Using Ensemble Methods
by Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Vol. 76:
Automated Database Applications Testing
Specification Representation for Automated Reasoning
by Rana Farid Mikhail, Donald Berndt & Abraham Kandel (University of South Florida, USA)

Vol. 77:
Graph Classification and Clustering Based on Vector Space Embedding
by Kaspar Riesen & Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Vol. 78:
Integration of Swarm Intelligence and Artificial Neural Network
edited by Satchidananda Dehuri (Fakir Mohan University, India), Susmita Ghosh (Jadavpur University, India) & Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, South Korea)

Forthcoming title

Vol. 79:
Multimodal Interactive Handwritten Text Transcription
by Verónica Romero (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain), Alejandro Héctor Toselli (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) & Enrique Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

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