The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.Conference Areas:Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:1. THEORY AND METHODS 2. APPLICATIONSAREA 1: THEORY AND METHODS Neural NetworksCase-Based ReasoningExact and Approximate InferenceDensity EstimationBayesian ModelsGaussian ProcessesModel SelectionGraphical and Graph-based ModelsMissing DataEnsemble MethodsKernel MethodsLarge Margin MethodsClassificationRegressionSparsityFeature Selection and ExtractionSpectral MethodsEmbedding and Manifold LearningSimilarity and Distance LearningMatrix FactorizationClusteringICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear ModelsFuzzy LogicActive LearningCost-sensitive LearningIncremental LearningOn-line LearningStructured LearningMulti-agent LearningMulti-instance LearningReinforcement LearningInstance-based LearningKnowledge Acquisition and RepresentationMeta LearningMulti-strategy LearningInductive LearningComputational Learning TheoryCooperative LearningEvolutionary ComputationInformation Retrieval and LearningHybrid Learning AlgorithmsPlanning and LearningConvex OptimizationStochastic MethodsCombinatorial OptimizationAREA 2: APPLICATIONS Motion and TrackingVideo AnalysisInformation retrievalNatural language processingAudio and Speech ProcessingRankingWeb ApplicationsEconomics, Business and Forecasting ApplicationsBioinformatics and Systems BiologySignal ProcessingImage UnderstandingSensors and Early VisionImage-based ModellingShape RepresentationObject RecognitionMedical ImagingLearning and Adaptive ControlPerceptionLearning in Process AutomationLearning of Action PatternsVirtual EnvironmentsRoboticsConference Chair:Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, PortugalProgram Chair:Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, ItalyImportant Dates:Regular Paper Submission: September 25, 2013 Regular Paper Authors Notification: December 13, 2013 Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: December 27, 2013ICPRAM SecretariatAddress: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033