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The 2004 International Conference on Computer and  Information Technology (CIT2004) 
Wuhan, China, 
14-16 September 2004,  
http://smlsvr01.u-aizu.ac.jp/~cit2004/  

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Information technology has been widely considered as one of the most
important emerging technologies for the 21st century, which has already made
great impact on people and society.  In the recent years, throughout
society, the explosion of computer network and information technology has
been changing the way people work and live.

This conference serves as one of the major forums for researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas and
opinions, and envision the future of computer and information technology. 
In 2004, it will specially focus on graphics, multimedia, web services, and
wireless/ mobile/ pervasive computing in the related research, development
and application fields. Topics of particular interest include, but are not
limited to:

Graphics and Multimedia 
Graphics systems, shape abstraction modeling, geometric modeling, rendering algorithms, 
virtual reality techniques, volume visualization, animation techniques, pattern recognition, image 
understanding, interactive multimedia systems, networked multimedia, human-computer 
interaction 

Web-based Services  
Web data management, web mining, semantic web, web services performance and modeling, e-
learning, XML structures, grid-based services, grid middleware and tools, distributed algorithms, 
peer-to-peer networks, next generation internet technologies 

Wireless/ Mobile/ Pervasive Computing 
Wireless computing systems, ad hoc networking service discovery, wireless-phone computing, 
mobile communication, portable devices and smart sensors, wearable computers and PDAs, 
pervasive system concepts and architectures, pervasive applications, infrastructure and 
networks of ubiquitous computing 

Applications  
Intelligent health care system, information retrieval, knowledge management, information design, 
medical information systems, database and application systems, software agents, software 
engineering, natural language processing 

 
IMPORTANT DATES 
Paper submission due:        20 April 2004 
Acceptance notification:        5 June 2004 
Camera-ready due:             25 June 2004 
Author registration:              20 July 2004 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
The accepted papers have to be presented orally within 25 minutes included
discussion at the conference and will be published in proceedings of CIT2004
by IEEE Computer Society Press. The selected best papers will be published
in special issues of International Journals.
 
BEST PAPER AWARDS 
The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all
regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award
(only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are
eligible). Each winner will be presented with a certification and a cheque.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

Submissions should include an abstract, 5-7 keywords, the e-mail address of
the corresponding author, and must not exceed 8 pages (IEEE format),
including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format. 
Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the
paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to
present the work. Submissions to CIT2004 will be conducted electronically on
the CIT2004 website. Authors unable to access e-mail may send 4 hard copies
of their papers to:
PC Co-Chair, Dr. Hui Wang 
School of Computer Science  
and Engineering, University of Aizu, 
Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, 
Fukushima 965-8580, Japan 
Email: hwang@u-aizu.ac.jp  
Tel: +81-242-37-2666 
Fax: +81-242-37-2728 

CONFERENCE WEB SITE:  
       http://smlsvr01.u-aizu.ac.jp/~cit2004/ 

HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS 
Jingnan Liu, Wuhan U, China 
Tetsuhiko Ikegami, U of Aizu, Japan 
 
GENERAL CHAIRS 
Daming Wei, U of Aizu, Japan 
Yanxiang He, Wuhan U, China 
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Saeid Belkasim, Georgia State U, USA 
Subhash Bhalla, U of Aizu, Japan 
Wenxi Chen, U of Aizu, Japan  
Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo U, Japan 
Zixue Cheng, U of Aizu, Japan   
Michael Cohen, U of Aizu, Japan 
Brian d'Auriol, U of Texas at EP, USA 
Youdong Ding, Shanghai U, China     
Zuxiang Fang, Fudan U, China    
Jihong Guan, Wuhan U, China 
Guoqing Gu, East China NU, China 
Ning Gu, Fudan U, China   
Minyi Guo, U of Aizu, Japan   
Khairuddin Hashim, TARU, Malaysia     
Toshihiro Hayashi, Saga U, Japan     
Aiguo He, U of Aizu, Japan 
Tingting He, Huazhong NU, China    
Susantha Herath, St. Cloud SU, USA 
Hai Jin, Huazhong UST, China 
Hua Hu, Hangzhou Inst of Commerce 
Jicheng Hu, Wuhan U, China 
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel U, USA    
Jie Huang, U of Aizu, Japan 
Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State U, USA 
Keqin Li, State U of New York, USA 
Minglu Li, Shanghai JTU. China  
Vitaliy Kluev, U of Aizu, Japan 
Yiwen Liang, Wuhan U, China   
Yong Liu, U of Aizu, Japan   
Zhen Liu, NIAS, Japan   
Jianhua Ma, Hosei U, Japan    
William L. Martens, McGill U, Canada 
Geyong Min, U of Bradford, UK 
Nikolay N. Mirenkov, U of Aizu, Japan 
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Res Lab,  
Shoji Nishimura, Waseda U, Japan    
Fumio Okuyama, Suzuka U MS, Japan 
Incheon Paik, U of Aizu, Japan 
Yi Pan, Georgia State U, USA 
Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang TU, Singapore   
Sibabrata Ray, U of Alabama, USA 
Kazuyuki Saito, U of Aizu, Japan 
Stanislav G. Sedukhin, U of Aizu, Japan 
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang U, Taiwan   
Jung-Pil Shin, U of Aizu, Japan 
Masahide Sugiyama, U of Aizu, Japan 
Xinmin Tian, Intel Corp, USA  
Jari Veijalainen, U of Jyvaskyla, Finland 
Lina Wang, Wuhan U, China    
Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang U, Taiwan   
Werner Winiwarter, U of Vienna, Austria 
Bing Wu, Dublin IT, Ireland    
Yang Xiao, U of Memphis, USA 
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier U, 
Canada 
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese U of Hong Kong 
Qiangfu Zhao, U of Aizu, Japan 
Liang Zhang, Fudan U, China    
Shensheng Zhang,Shanghai JTU,China   
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan U, China   
Xiaofang Zhou, U Queensland,Australia   
 
 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Chin-Chen Chang, NCCU, Taiwan 
Huowang Chen, Changsha Inst of Tech, China 
Keqing He, Wuhan U, China 
Chris Constantinou,Stanford U, USA 
Lishan Kang, Wuhan U, China 
 Kae Dal Kwack, Hanyang U, Korea 
Deyi Li, Inst of China Electronic System Eng. 
Sanli Li, Tsinghua U, China 
Bole Shi, Fudan U, China 
Gengfeng Wu, Shanghai U, China 
Guoqing Wu, Wuhan U, China 
Fumio Okuyama, Suzuka UMS, Japan 
Yoneo Yano, Tokushima U, Japan 
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS 
Hui Wang, U of Aizu, Japan     
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan U, China  
Atsushi Kara, U of Aizu, Japan 
 
PUBLICITY CHAIRS 
Qun Jin, Waseda U, Japan 
Qing Li, City U of Hong Kong, China 
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U, Australia     
 
LOCAL ORGANISATION  COMMITTEE 
Shi Ying, Xusheng Yang, Huaibei Zhou,         
Jiaheng Cao, Xuhui Li, Wuhan U, China