CIARP'2008 is the 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition and as it is already a tradition this conference will be a forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increase of the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas

CIARP'2008 (http://wwww.ciarp.org) will be held in Havana, Cuba, from September 9th to 12th, 2008. This conference is organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Advanced Technologies Applications Center (CENATAV) of Cuba; and will be sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), and the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AchiRP).