This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2001, held in Cambridge, UK in July 2001.The 44 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The book offers topical sections on bagging and boosting, MCS design methodology, ensemble classifiers, feature spaces for MCS, MCS in remote sensing, one class MCS and clustering, and combination strategies.

This book is the outcome of the successful NATO Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications, held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, in April 1981., The aim of the meeting was to review the recent advances in the theory of pattern recognition and to assess its current and future practical potential. The theme of the Institute - the decision making aspects of pattern recognition with the emphasis on the novel hybrid approaches - and its scope - a high level tutorial coverage of pattern recognition methodologies counterpointed with contrib- uted papers on advanced...