From: michel@srtp.srt-poste.fr (Michel Gilloux)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: JET POSTE'93
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:00:49 GMT
Expires: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: michel@srtp.srt-poste.fr ()
Organization: Service de Recherche Technique de la Poste


                        C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

                           J E T   P O S T E ' 9 3

		 1st European Meeting on Postal Technologies

                     Nantes, France, June 14-16, 1993

                          Organized by La Poste

The 1st European meeting on Postal Technologies (JET POSTE'93) is scheduled for
June 14-16, 1993 at the Nantes (France) Congress Hall. The meeting is designed
to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers and practitioners from a
variety of specialities with interest in technologies which might be applied in
the domains of mail, parcel, and bank services.

SCOPE
The scope of this congress includes, but is not limited to, the following
topics:

Pattern recognition and machine vision
- Image acquisition and processing
- Handwriting recognition
- Process control by machine vision
- Multi-expert recognition
- Parallel architectures for pattern recognition
- High speed image acquisition
- Objective assessment of image acquisition and processing system
- Neural nets
- Probabilistic models
- Fuzzy logic

Archiving and viewing systems
- Video encoding of mail
- Video encoding of checks

Human factors
- Ergonomics
- Computer-human interaction

Post office equipments
- Postal automata
- Meters

System engineering
- Mail processing scenarios
- Delivery organization
- Transport vectors equipment
- Transfer (hub, docks, transshipment)
- Containers handling
- Containers (matters and functions)
- Optimization under constraints
- Supervision of flows
- Handling simulation
- Reliability
- Workshops organization

Identification/Id tags
- Bar codes
- Tracing/tracking
- Automatic identification
- Electronic labels
- Standardization

Future sorting machines
- Stackers and destackers
- Flow fusion, and parallel machines
- Automatic feeding
- Temporary stocking systems
- High speed conveyors
- High speed deviators


Deadline for summary submissions	January 1st, 1993
Notification of acceptance or reject	February 1st, 1993
Final camera ready copy due	        April 1st, 1993

General chair
J.-J. Viard (La Poste, France)

Program chair
J.-C. Burbaud (La Poste, SRTP, France)

Program Committee
D. Barba (Univ. de Nantes, France)
M. Dannawi (Ecole centrale de Nantes, France)
B. Dolphin (Univ. d'Amiens, France)
M. Feuillas (SRTP, France)
F. Fogelman (Univ. de Paris-Orsay, France)
T. Fritz (Deustche Bundespost, Germany)
M. Gilloux (SRTP, France)
M. Grolee (Alisa, France)
J. Helard (SRTP, France)
G. Lorette (Univ. de Rennes, IRISA, France)
O. Palmieri (Ministry of P. and T., Italy)
K. Phillips (Royal Mail, England)
D. Scapin (INRIA, France)
L. Simonet (SRTP, France)
V. Uzylevsky (Technopost, Russia)
W. Veenstra (PTT Research, The Netherlands)

Local arrangements
D. Heitz (SRTP, France)
Phone: +33.40.69.98.78

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit 5 copies of a summary of their paper no later than
January, 1st, 1993 to the program chair. Summaries should be of 1000 words or
less. Proposals and requests for panel discussions and working groups should be
sent to the Program Chair as soon as possible, but no later than February, 1st,
1993.
Notification of acceptance or reject for each summary will be posted February
1st, 1993. Final manuscripts (10 pages including figures) must be received by
April 1st, 1993 for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

ADDRESS
Summaries and all requests for information concerning the content of papers
should be sent to:

Mr Jean-Claude Burbaud
SRTP
10, Rue de l'ile Mabon
F-44038 Nantes Cedex 01, France
Tel.: +33.40.69.98.04
Fax: +33.40.89.60.00

IMPORTANT DATES
January 1st, 1993:	deadline for summary submissions
February 1st, 1993: 	notification of acceptance or reject
April 1st, 1993: 	final version due

ABOUT NANTES
Nantes is located 400 km west from Paris and only 70 km from the Atlantic Ocean.
It takes only one hour by plane from either Paris Charles-de-Gaulle or
Paris-Orly airports to Nantes International Airport and two hours by high speed
train (TGV) from Paris Montparnasse Station. There also exist airline
connections with major european cities.



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