A contest for the Best Paper Award will be held and an award will be given. Papers are invited in the following topics: · Signal Processing Theory and Methods · Signal Processing for Communications · DSP architectures and Implementation · DSP for Space Applications/Highly Available Architectures · Multimedia Signal Processing · Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing · Audio and Electro Acoustics · Sensor Array and Multi-channel · Speech Processing · Radar Signal Processing · Neural Networks · Internet Software Architectures · Multimedia and Image-based Systems · Mobile Computing and Applications · E-Commerce and Pricing · Bioinformatics. · Information Processing · Geographical Information Systems · Object-based Software Engineering · Speech Processing · Parallel and Distributed Computing · Computer Networks