Subspace, Latent Structure and Feature Selection: Statistical and Optimization Perspectives Workshop, SLSFS 2005 Bohinj, Slovenia, February 23-25, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

The inspiration for this volume was a workshop held under the auspices of the PASCAL Network of Excellence. Details of the event and more information about the Network can be found under the heading ‘Workshop Organization.’The aim of this preface is to provide an overview of the contributions to this volume, placing this research in its wider context. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers working on subspace and latent variable techniques in different research communities in order to create bridges and enable cross-fertilization of ideas. For this reason we deliberately sought invited refereed contributions that would survey a broader field of research giving a common notation and entry point into the individual papers. The five invited contributions are (in alphabetical order of first author) Avrim