9th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis: Volume 12 Palermo (Italy), May 14-16, 2003

The 9th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis was held between 14 and 16 May, 2003 in Palermo (Italy). meetings took place in Paris (France, 1991), Ube (Japan, 1992), Washington DC (USA, 1994), Lyon (France, 1995), ima (Japan, 1997), Madras (India, 1999), Caen (France, 2000) and Philadelphia (USA, 2001). rkshop focused on digital topology, discrete tomography, array, graph and parallel grammars, cellular automata, tilings and patterns, combinatorial methods in image analysis, combinatorial problems in the discrete plane, integer-only algorithms for image analysis, and non-conventional computing for image analysis, like genetic algorithms and global optimization. very pleased that P. Grirtzmann (Technische Universitنt München), Gabor T. Herman (City University of New York) and Reinhard Klette (The University of Auckland) accepted our invitations to speak at the Workshop. proceedings contain thirty-one papers and they provide an exciting cross-section of current research in our field. itors would like to thank the valuable work to the members of the program committee: M. Bruckstein, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel arc Chassery, TIMC-IMAG, France hi Inoue, Yamaguchi University, Japan ong, City University of New York, USA i Morita, Hiroshima University, Japan e Nivat, LIAFA, FranceMike Reed, Oxford University, UK iromoney, Madras Christian College, India k S.P. Wang, Northeastern University, USA d Woeginger, University of Twente, The Netherlands itors thank also for the technical help given by Cesare Valenti, University of Palermo, Italy Frosini, University of Siena, Italy Nyْl, University of Szeged, Hungary y, we would like to thank Peter Hammer for inviting us to publish the Workshopʹs proceedings online as a volume of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, and for agreeing to devote a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics to IWCIAʹ2003. The DAM special issue will contain a refereed selection of papers submitted by Workshop presenters after the meeting.