Informatics Institute Annual Report 004 Chapter introduction

3. Programming Methods and Programming Environments
National:

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica; University of Utrecht; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Vanenburg Group; SERC; PinkRoccade; AtosOrigin; Software Improvement Group; Microsoft Research (GB)

The group is supported by:

The Dutch National Science Council NWO.

The Intelligent Systems Laboratory Amsterdam
1. Intelligent Sensory Information Systems
The ISIS group is supported by:

ICES-KIS, IOP-BV, IOP-MMI, EU, NWO-GBE, NWO-STW, Dutch forensic Institute, TNO-TPD, TNO-FEL, TNO-LIFT, Océ, Philips CFT, Elsevier.

2. Intelligent Autonomous Systems
International

Science and Technology (AIST, Japan); KTH (Stockholm, Sweden); LAAS, (Toulouse, France); Frauenhofer Insitute IPA (Stuttgart, Germany); EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland); Caltech (USA); University of Waterloo (Canada); Arizona State University (USA); Cambridge University Engineering (GBR).

National

Stichting Neurale Netwerken (SNN); ITS, TUDelft; Korteweg de Vries Institute for Mathematics (UvA); CWI, Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Maastricht (Institute for Knowledge and Agent Technology IKAT); University of Nijmegen (Institute for Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Information Technology NICI, Max Planck Institute and Department of Linguistics); University of Twente (Center for Telematics and Information Technology,CTIT).

Industry:

TNO-D&V; TNO/TPD; Philips CFT; Philips Research: Sentient Machines Research (SMR); Shell; Unilever; KiQ; Noldus BV; Eagle Vision; Epictoid; Thales Nederland B.V.; 4Tec B.V.; DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology (Ulm, Germany).

The Intelligent Autonomous Systems group is supported by:

Stichting Technische Wetenschappen (STW); NWO (ToKeN 2000); D&V-TNO; Ministry of Economic Affairs; Ministry of Education; DECIS lab; STW/PROGRESS; The European Commission (IST 6^th framework program)

3. Information and language Processing Systems
International:

Alechina (Nottingham, UK); Becher (Buenos Aires); Bernardi (Bolzano); Blackburn (Nancy); Demri (Paris), Fisher (Liverpool); Fundulaki (Bell Labs); Gabbay (London); Gardent (Nancy); Lutz (Dresden); Montanari (Udine); Muthukrishnan (Rutgers); de Nivelle (Saarbrücken); Ohlbach (München); Sattler (Dresden); Schlingloff (Berlin); Striegnitz (Saarbrücken); UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business); Technion (Haifa); Stanford University; IMS Stuttgart, University of Manchester; Liverpool University; and Imperial and King’s College (London); Universiteit van Antwerpen; IRIT (Toulouse).

National:

Hiemstra (Enschede); Moortgat (Utrecht); de Vries (CWI); Limburgs Universitair Centrum.

Industry:

Bell Labs, Bolesian, Elsevier Science, IBM (Haifa), IRION, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Xerox Europe, Unilever.

The ILPS group is supported by NWO, EU/CologNET, Elsevier Science Publishers, and a subproject of the VL-e Virtual Lab project.

The Laboratory for Human Computer Studies
International:

University of Brazil (Brazil); University of Jena (Germany); University of Wales (Uk, Wales); Northwestern University (USA); New University of Lisbon (Portugal); VTT (Finland); UNINOVA (Portgal); TES (Italy); Virtual Fabrik (Germany); Groupo Formula (Italy); SAGE (Spain); TXT (Italy); JSI (Slovenia) BIBA (Germany); Czech University of Technology (Czech republic); Federal University of Santa Caterina (Brazil); ITESM (Mexico); ENICMA (Germany); CERTICON (Czech republic); France Telecom (France); Siemens (Austria); AIESEC (Slovakia); ComArch (Poland); Roundrose Associates, Ltd. (The United Kingdom); SKILL Consejeros de Gestión, SL. (Spain); Cámara de Comercio e Industria - Unidad de Promoción y Desarrollo de Navarra, SL., (Spain); CSIC (Spain); Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (Greece); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (United Kingdom); University of Reading (United Kingdom); The Natural History Museum (United Kingdom); University of Turku (Finland); OOEL (Austria); University of Kiel (Germany); University of Copenhagen (Denmark); IBM Life Sciences Solutions - La Gaude (France); Jozef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Mladenic en Urbancic); Telematica Instituut; European Center for Ontology Research (ECOR, Germany); ISOCO (Madrid Spain); KU Leuven (Belgium).

National:

Alterra; Wageningen University; Interapy; Spin in het Web; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences; University of Nijmegen, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics; Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre; Wageningen University, Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Zoological Museum; ETI biodiversity Center,; Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics; Association for Research on Flora and Fauna; IBM Life Sciences; LOGICA CMG; LUMC (Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum); TNO Prevention and Health (P. Toussaint); Thales Research & Technology Netherlands; Acklin (van Aart); IBM (Zijlstra, Rongen), Textkernel (Zavrel), Robosail, v. Aartrijk; TNO-TPD (Kolb); Free University (Amsterdam); Sonokids (Amsterdam)

The Human Computer Studies group is supported by:

EC (6FP-IP, 5FP); ICES-KIS-2; Bsik ; NWO; IOP-MMI (Senter)

Appendix 3 Other contributions

The Laboratory for Computing, System architecture, and Programming
1. Computational Informatics
The group takes the lead in the organisation of several important international symposia and conferences. Foremost among these is the series of International Conferences on Computational Science. ICCS 2004 was held in Cracow; ICCS 2005 will be held in Atlanta.
Editorial positions
G.D. van Albada: Computational Science - ICCS 2004, Cracow, Poland, in series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3036 - 3099, 2004, co-editor.

A.G. Hoekstra, Cellular Automata – ACRI 2004, Amsterdam, in series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3305, 2004, co-editor; FGCS, guest editor.

Jaap A. Kaandorp: Virtual Medical Worlds, member of the advisory board.

P.M.A. Sloot: Elsevier Science FGCS, editor in chief: International Journal on Grid Computing, theory, methods and applications: www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs; Computational Science - ICCS 2004, Cracow, Poland, in series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3036 - 3099, 2004, co-editor; Cellular Automata – ACRI 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3305, 2004, co-editor.

International functions
A.G. Hoekstra: Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), member of the Scientific Advisory Board.
J.A. Kaandorp: NWO, Member BCI (“open competitie informatica”) committee; member PhD committee C. Maier, title Phd thesis: The skeletal isotopic composition as an indicator of ecological plasticity in the coral genus {\em Madracis}, March 2004; member PhD committee D. Sipkema, title Phd thesis: Cultivation of marine sponges: from sea to cell, October, 2004, Univerity of Wageningen.
S.F. Portegies Zwart: Peer review committee APPEC for the design and development of a European ground based gravitational wave interferometer (Paris, 27-29 July 2004); Peer review committee NWO-EW (Utrecht, 24 Mei 2004)
P.M.A. Sloot: Informatica Kamer Nederland, member; NWO, member working group on Biomolecular Informatics; NWO, member working group on Computational Science; Foundation of Beta Companies, Amsterdam, advisor; NIP: Nederlands Instituut in St. Peterburg, Russia, scientific advisor; Russian Academy of Sciences, advisor; AgH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, scientific advisor; Scientific Board Lorentz Center, Universiteit Leiden; scientific advisor European HealthGrid Society; Advisory board EU: Complex Systems; Included in 'who is who in computational science': http://www.wwcse.com/; Visiting Professor WSZIB Poland: http://artemis.wszib.edu.pl/~sloot/; NWO Begeleidings Commissie 'Citaten Analyse'; NWO Verkennigs Cie Stedelijke Ruimte; SURF: Wetenschappelijke Advies Raad; Lorentz Centre: Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad; NIP Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad
Scientific events organised
G.D. van Albada: Workshop Chair of the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2004, Cracow, 2004; Workshop Chair of the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2005, Atlanta, 2005.
A.G. Hoekstra: Chair Scientific Committee European Grid Conference 2005; Organisation Committee ACRI 2004 Sixth International conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry; Workshop ‘Light Scattering Revisited’, ISAC conference, Montpellier, 2004.
J.A. Kaandorp: Chair Symposium 1st Internationaal symposium on networks in bio-informatics, March 22 - 23, 2004, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park Amsterdam; Chair Symposium 2nd Internationaal symposium on networks in bio-informatics, May 23 - 25, 2005, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park Amsterdam.
V. Krzhizhanovskaya: Workshop on “Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Simulation” in the International Conference on Computational Science June 2004 (ICCS 2004), Cracow, Poland; Workshop on “Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Simulation” in the International Conference on Computational Science May 2005 (ICCS 2005), Atlanta, USA.
S.F. Portegies Zwart: MODEST-4b: Workshop on performing direct N-body calculations on massive parallel distributed memory platforms with special purpose hardware, June 7 and 8, 2004 in Amsterdam; MODEST-5c: Gravitational N-body summer school, 24-30 July 2005 in Amsterdam.
P.M.A. Sloot; Overall Chair of the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2005, Atlanta, 2005; Overall Chair of the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2004, Cracow, 2004; Chair Organisation Committee ACRI 2004 Sixth International conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry.
E.V. Zudilova: Workshop on “Interactive Visualisation and Interaction Technologies” in the International Conference on Computational Science June 2004 (ICCS 2004), Cracow, Poland.
Invited speaker
A.G. Hoekstra: Elastic Light Scattering in FCM – or – do you need to know more than Mie scattering?, ISAC, Montpellier, France, May 2004; Towards Grid Based Virtual Vascular Reconstruction, ICMCC, Den Haag, June 2004; Invited lecture ICMMES, Braunschweig, Computational “Hemodynamics with the Lattice Boltzmann Method”, Braunschweig, July 2004.
J.A. Kaandorp: Modelling developmental regulatory networks, University of Mainz,Germany, March 2004; Modelling and analysis of three-dimensional morphologies of scleractinian corals using computer tomography, SYNTHESIS: integrated infrastructure initiative (I3) Network activity F, Madrid, Spain June 2004.
S.F. Portegies Zwart: Blue Gene/L workshop, Juelich, Germany, September 2004; On Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries, Montreal, Canada August 2004; COSPAR meeting,Paris, July 2004; On the formation of intermediate mass black hole X-ray binaries, workshop on X-ray binaries Amsterdam, July 2004; On the emission of gravitational waves from young dense star clusters, ESTEC Noordwijk, July 2004; Penn State University (USA), December, 2002; Workshop on Gravitational wave astronomy, May 2003 and June 2004; Americal Astronomical Society Atlanta, USA, January 2004; Two colloquia at Leiden University, February 2004.
P.M.A. Sloot: IHPCIS Seminair, St. Petersburg State University, 19 Maart; BREIN seminair: RIVM Bilthoven, 29 Maart; BioGrid, IEEE CCGrid Chicago, 21 April; Computational Science Workshop, Poland Cracow AgH, 1 June; Keynote, PARA 2004, Copenhagen Denmark, 22 June.
Program committees
G.D. van Albada: European Grid Conference 2005, Amsterdam; International Conference on Computational Science 2004, Cracow; International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta.
A.G. Hoekstra: European Grid Conference 2005, Amsterdam; International Conference on Computational Science 2004, Cracow; International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta.
J.A. Kaandorp: BioMED 2004, 2004 Innsbruck, Austria; ACRI 2004, Amsterdam.
V.V. Krzhizhanovskaya: International Conference on Computational Science 2004, Cracow; International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta.
S.F. Portegies Zwart: Conference on Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries, Montreal, Canada 15--20 August 2004.
P.M.A. Sloot: European Grid Conference 2005, Amsterdam; International Conference on Computational Science 2004, Cracow; International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta; IEEE CCGrid; CARS 2004; IEEE GRid 2004; EuroPar 2004; Para2004; IEEE Cluster 2004; ICMCC 2004; PaCT 2004; PPAM 2004; HiPC 2004.
E.V. Zudilova: International Conference on Computational Science 2004, Cracow; International Conference on Computational Science 2005, Atlanta.

2. Advanced Computing Systems Engineering
Editorial positions
L.O. Hertzberger, Future Generation Computer Systems, editor in chief.

A.D. Pimentel, Proceedings of the 3^rd and 4^th Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2004), LNCS 3133, editor.

International functions
L.O. Hertzberger: member of advisory committee, IPDPS conference.

C. de Laat: Grid Forum Steering Group member; Gridforum.nl consortium, chair.

A.D. Pimentel: member of the European Network of Excellence on High-Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC)
National functions
L.O. Hertzberger: scientific adviser at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; member of the management team of the ASCI school.

A.D. Pimentel: member of the Educational Board of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI).

A. Visser: core member of the DECIS Lab, which is a collaboration to combine the knowledge, insight and capabilities of the partners in the area of distributed and intelligent decision support systems and related technologies.
Scientific events organised
A.D. Pimentel, ASCI Winterschool on Embedded Systems
Invited speaker
A. Belloum: EDG-tutorial Hands-on the Grid, October 2004, Amsterdam.
Y.. Demchenko: GGF12 Operational Security Workshop (Brussels); TF-EMC2 meeting, Joint Security Policy Group meeting (CERN); EGEE MWSG3 meetings (Stockholm+CERN).
L. Gommans: Nextgrid cross WP security workshop (Stockholm,S);KLM workshop; Beeyond workshop, Gridnets 2004 (San Diego,USA); EU grid technology days (Brussels,B); Gridforum.nl, SURFnet RoN day, MCNC workshop (Chicago,USA); Optiputer Workshop (UCSD San Diego,USA); ON*Vector photonics workshop (San Diego, USA); VL-e workshop; Microsoft workshop.
C. de Laat: SURFnet relatiedagen, Universiteit Twente; e-IRG workshop, 2nd MCNC workshop (Pittsburgh,USA); Amsterdam Internet Exchange member meeting; GridNets conference (San Jose, USA); Lawrence Berkely Laboratory (Berkely, USA); 4th Global Lambda Integrated Facility meeting, NORTEL HQ (Ottawa, CA); INET2004 (Barcelona, Sp); TF-NGN, Astro-Particle Physics workshop (NIKHEF, Amsterdam); MCNC workshop (Chicago, USA); DATATAG review (Geneva,CH); SURFnet, GNEW workshop, (Geneva,CH); GGF 10 (Berlin, D); ON*VECTOR (San Diego, USA); LISHEP (Rio de Janeiro, Br); FermiLab (Chicago,USA).
Program committees
A.D. Pimentel, Int. workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, Samos, Greece, July, Program Chair; 5^th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, 2004, member.

3. Programming Methods and Programming Environments
Editorial positions
J.A. Bergstra: Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, managing editor; Science of Computer Programming, managing editor.

I. Bethke: Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, editorial assistent.

P. Klint, IEE Proceedings – Software, editor; Science of Computer Programming, editor.

A. Ponse, Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, editor.

International functions
P. Klint: European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS), president; Steering Committee European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Programming (ETAPS), member; Scientific Directorate Schloss Dagstuhl, member.
National functions
P. Klint, Chair Adviescommissie Informatica ACI (NWO), chair; IPN (Informatica Platform Nederland), chair; ICT Forum, member; Program Committee Jacquard (6 year NWO programme for stimulating software engineering research), member; Board of Institute for Programming and Algorithms (IPA), member.Program Board Lorentz Center, Leiden, member; PhD committee: P. Klint, promotion of Y. Qian (Technical University Eindhoven, June 2, 2004), member; PhD committee: P. Klint, promotion of M. Schrage (University of Utrecht, October 15, 2004), member.
Program committees
P. Klint: Workshop on Rapid Integration of Software Engineering techniques (RISE '04), member; Fifth Workshop on Language Definitions Tools and Applications (LDTA '05), member.

The Intelligent Systems Laboratory Amsterdam
1. Intelligent Sensory Information Systems
Editorial positions
Th. Gevers: special issue on Colour for Image Indexing and Retrieval, Comp. Vision & Im. Underst. (CVIU), 2004, guest editor.

M.L. Kersten: The VLDB Journal.

N. Sebe: Multimedia Information Retrieval research area section of the ACM SIGMM (Special Interest Group on Multimedia).

A.W.M. Smeulders: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; Int. J. Computer Vision.

A.W.M. Smeulders, T. Huang, Th. Gevers: Int J. Computer Vision, special issue on Content-based image retrieval.
International Functions
M.L. Kersten: member scientific advisory board Helsinki Institute for Information Technology; GMD IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany, member scientific advisory board.
A.W.M. Smeulders: ICME2005 organizing committee, general chair; Committee S.K. Fu distinguished career award, IAPR, member; European Networks of Excellence: DELOS for digital libraries (with a special assignment in the EU - NSF task force on cultural heritage), member; European Networks of Excellence: ECVISION for computer vision; Muscle for Multimedia understanding, member; European Networks of Excellence: Muscle for Multimedia understanding, member.
National Functions
J. M. Geusebroek: Kascommissie NVPHBV, member.
M.L. Kersten: Token 2000 research program committee, NWO, member; Amsterdam New Media Association, member of board; Executive board Data Distilleries B.V., Amsterdam, co-founder and member; Scientific Advisor Philips Natlab; ToKeN2000 research programme committee, NWO, member.
A.W.M. Smeulders: MultimediaN, scientific director; ASCI research school, scientific director; Kenniscentrum MediaMil UvA-TNO, non-executive member;

TODS cooperation Dutch Forensic Lab – UvA; Scientific advisory board of the Dutch Forensic Institute, member; IOP Beeldverwerken, 1995 - 2004, member of the board.

P. Werkhoven, the Steering Group of the research consortium MultimediaN, Member; The Research & Innovation Board of the Dutch Police, member; The V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, Board member; SURF Foundation, the higher education and research partnership organisation for network services and ICT, member of the board.
M. Worring, TODS cooperation Dutch Forensic Lab - UvA, responsible; MediaMill, co-director; Board of the Dutch chapter of the IAPR, member; Evaluation committee NWO-Computer Science Open Competition,

member.
Invited speaker

J.M. Geusebroek: Instructor, Colour in image and video databases, IS&T Conf. Color in Graphics, Image and Vision, Germany, 2004; Cognitive vision systems, Computer vision workshop, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, 2004; Color measurement and invariants in image Processing, Computer vision workshop, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, 2004.
Th. Gevers: Instructor, Colour in Image and Video Databases, IS&T Conf. Color in Graphics, Image and Vision, Germany, 2004; Instructor, Content-based Image Retrieval, Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, UK, 2004.
S. Ghebreab, C.J. Jaffe, A.W.M. Smeulders: Washington, 2004.
M.L.Kersten: Some open issues in database research, 11th Database

Conference, Amsterdam, March 23, 2004; Twin peaks or pits, how intelligent applications affect a DBMS kernel, Philips Symposium on Intelligen Applications, Eindhoven(Nederland) Dec 1-2, 2004.

H.T. Nguyen and A.W.M. Smeulders: Everything gets better all the time apart from the amount of data, CIVR Dublin, 2004; Active learning using pre-clustering, ICML Ottawa, 2004; Eur Conf Computer Vision, 2004.
N. Sebe: Tutorial on Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems at the 5^th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
A.W.M. Smeulders: Color image search engines, a tutorial, ICPR2004, London; Intelligent Sensory Information Systems, Delos kick-off meeting, Versailles, 2004; MultimediaN, kick-off meeting, Amersfoort 2004; The future is multimedia, Utrecht 2004; Forensics goes digital, EU-conference Making smart combinations in forensics, Den Haag, 2004.
A.W.M. Smeulders and D. Koelma: Waarom weet een computer altijd alles?, Nemo kinderlezingen, 2004.
AWM Smeulders and H.T. Nguyen: Active Annotation, Content based image retrieval, Dagstuhl, 2004.
AWM Smeulders and F. de Jong: Multimedia information technology for automatic annotation; what can and cannot be expected, IFTA/FIAT International Federation of Television Archivists, Amsterdam, 2004.
A.W.M Smeulders and M. Worring: Content-based image retrieval, Hanoi 2004.
AWM Smeulders met J.M. Geusebroek: In den beginne het beeld, Maagdenhuis op maandag, 2004.
C. Snoek: Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl) University of Dortmund, March 9-11th, 2004; Mediamanagement Seminar, 20 maart 2004; Workshop on the Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval, CWI, Amsterdam, 24 november 2004;
M. Worring: Interactive Multimodal Search in Video Archives, in Dagstuhl Seminar, Content Based Retrieval; Multimodal Indexing of Video, in Changing sceneries, changing roles, FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar
Program committees
J.M. Geusebroek: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004), Prague, Czech Republic, 2004.
Th. Gevers: IS&T European Conference on Color in Graphics, Image and Vision (CGIV), Germany, 2004; SPIE Electronic Imaging, Conference on Internet Imaging (SPIE), San Jose, USA, 2004; International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, 2004; International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction (in conjunction with the ECCV 2004), Prague, 2004; International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP04), Singapore, 2004; 12th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO04), Vienna, Austria, 2004; International Conference on Visual Information (Visual04), San Francisco, USA, 2004; Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Curitiba, Brazil, 2004;ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, New York, NY, USA, 2004.
M.L.Kersten: COMAD 2004, Goa (India), 2004; WISE 2004, Brisbane (Australia), 2004; IDEAS 2004, Coimbra (Portugal),2004; ICWS 2004, San Diego (USA), 2004; SSDBM, Santorini (Greece), 2004; VLDB, Toronto (Canada), 2004; VLDB 2005, Trondheim (Norway), co-chair; WISE 2005, New York (USA), 2005; Thematic workshop on DL Architectures, Dagstuhl (Germany), March 2005; DaMoN 2005, Baltimore (USA), 2005; VLDB 2006, Seoul (Korea), co-chair; ICDE PhD/WS March/April 2004, Boston, USA; DELOS workshop on Architectures for DL, May 2004, Dagsthul, Germany.
N. Sebe: 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR04), New York, USA, October 2004, co-chair; 1st International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction (HCI04), Prague, Czech Republic, May 15, 2004, Co-Chair; special session on Immersive Conferencing: Novel Interfaces and Paradigms for Remote Collaboration at the 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, December 2004 5th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, December 2004, member; 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries, TEDC 2004, Joensuu, Finland, August 31, 2004, member; International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval – CIVR 2004, Dublin, Ireland, 2004, member; IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004, member; 1st ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Computer Vision and Databases, Paris, France, 2004, member.
A.W.M. Smeulders: CVPR 2004 Washington DC, member; ICPR 2004 London, member; Challenge Image and Video Retrieval, 2004 Dublin, chairman; International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei 2004, member;
J. van de Weijer: ICIP 2004, Singapore, member.
M. Worring: ICME, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, member; SPIE: Document Recognition and Retrieval XI, 2004, San Jose, USA, member; CIVR, 2004, Dublin, Ireland, member; DAS, 2004, Florence, Italy, member; GREC, 2004, Hong Kong, member; PCM, 2004, Tokyo Japan, member.