See http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icoin15/ or http://icoin-15.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/index.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPATION
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The 15th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-15)
Beppu Convention(B-Con) Plaza, Beppu City, Japan
January 31 - February 2, 2001
http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icoin15/
http://icoin-15.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/index.html
Theme:
"Navigating New Directions for Information Networking in the 21st Century"
Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
Communications Research Laboratory, MPT, Japan
In cooperation with
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Japan
Korea Information Science Society (KISS), Korea
The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) is to
provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, computer users,
and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and
research results about all aspects of communication networks and
distributed computing systems. This is the seventh conference with the new
name ICOIN, which succeeds the Joint Workshop on Computer Communications
(JWCC) starting from 1985. Aside from the regular presentations, the ICOIN-15
meeting will include regular keynote addresses with speakers from both
industry and academia.
Papers addressing the following topics of interest are solicited for
presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings
by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Communication Protocols and Architecture
* Security and Privacy
* Distributed Database Systems
* Mobile and Nomadic Computing
* Novel Applications of Internet
* Internetworking and WWW
* High-speed Communications
* Multimedia Communications and Systems
* Communication Software
* Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems
* Groupware
* Multi-agent systems
* Personal Communication Systems
* Network-based Computing Systems
* Quality of Services
* Network-based Computer Graphics System
* Distance Learning Systems
* Cluster Computing
* Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
* Parallel and Distributed Systems Architecture
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline August 1, 2000
Authors Notification November 1, 2000
Final Manuscript Due December 1, 2000
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
previously unpublish work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee.
Awards are planned for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Selected papers
will be invited for submission to an international journal after the
conference.
Submit a full paper of about 16 pages (one column, double spaced),
including figures and references, using 10 or 11 font size, and number each
page. The first page of the paper should contain the following: paper title,
authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address
of each author, and about 200-250 word abstract. Identify the contact author,
write the preferred subject areas and five keywords in order of relevance.
Prepare your paper in Postcript or PDF file (Adobe format), gzipped, and
send it electronically to our anonymous FTP site
. For multiple paper
submission, name your files as john1.ps, john2.ps, etc. Under any
circumstances, should you be unable to upload your file(s) to our FTP site,
send four hard copies to the PC Chair. After submitting your paper
electronically or in hard copies, send an e-mail to the PC Chair notifying
about your submission and include the information contents in the first page
of your paper (in ASCII format). All paper submissions will be acknowledged
upon successful receipt and print-out in our printer.
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least
one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference.
Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the
final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.
Send to: Bernady O. Apduhan
Program Committee Chair, ICOIN-15
Department of Artificial Intelligence
Kyushu Institute of Technology
680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka City, 820-8502 Japan
Tel: +81-948-29-7602, Fax: +81-948-29-7601
E-mail: bob@icoin-15.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp
CONFERENCE LOCATION
ICOIN-15 will be held at the Beppu Convention(B-Con) Plaza, Beppu City,
Japan. B-Con Plaza is new and uniquely designed high-tech building equipped
with state-of-the-art facilities, and a 125-meter Global Tower with a viewing
deck providing a 360 degrees panoramic view of Beppu area. Beppu is blessed
with natural beauty and hot springs (or "onsen" in Japanese), is one of the
famous hot spring resorts in the country, and affords an excellent opportunity
for you, family and friends to experience.
Beppu City is accessible by air through Oita or Fukuoka International
Airports, or by buses or trains from Fukuoka or Shimonoseki Cities.
So, come and participate in ICOIN-15. Beppu is steaming!..
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair
Shoichi Noguchi, Univ. of Aizu, Japan
International Advisory Committee
Itsujiro Arita, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan
Tadashi Iida, Communications Research Lab., MPT, Japan
Haruhisa Ishida, Tama Art Univ., Japan
Ming T. (Mike) Liu, The Ohio State Univ., USA
Koichi Utsumiya, Oita Univ., Japan
General Chair
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Pref. Univ., Japan
Steering Committee
Chair: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Sunshin An, Korea Univ., Korea
Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua Univ., ROC
Yanghee Choi, Seoul National Univ., Korea
Cheeha Kim, Postech, Korea
B. Paul Lin, Philips Innovation Center, ROC
Yongjin Park, Hanyang Univ., Korea
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku Univ., Japan
Jean-Lien C. Wu, NTUST, Taiwan, ROC
Program Committee Chair
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan
Program Vice Chairs
Chung-Ju Chang, National Chiao-Tung Univ., ROC
Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng-Kung Univ., Taiwan, ROC
Chung Kwangsue, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea
Bo Li, UST, Hongkong, China
Publication Co-Chairs
Takayuki Kushida, IBM, Japan
Masashi Saito, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
Publicity Co-Chairs
Ilyoung Chong, HUFS, Korea
Hiroshi Miyabe, NTT, Japan
Pradeep Ray, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
International Liaison Co-Chairs
Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ., Japan
Jaiyong Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea
Yi Mu, Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia
Awards Committee Co-Chairs
Cheeha Kim, Postech, Korea
Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan, ROC
Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka Univ., Japan
Social Events Co-Chairs
Koji Hashimoto, Iwate Pref. Univ., Japan
Norihiko Sakurai, NTT, Japan
Financial Chair
Michiaki Katsumoto, Communications Research Lab., MPT, Japan
Registration Chair
Katsuya Tanaka, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Local Arrangements Chair
Kazumi Korida, Oita PJC, Japan
Program Committee Members
(For the complete list, visit the conference web site.)
For further information, please visit the conference web site or contact
the ICOIN-15 PC Chair.
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