ITRE '05 - deadline extended to JANUARY 31th, 2005
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 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and
			      Education

	      Sponsored by National Tsing Hua University
	Technical co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society

		 http://wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw/itre2005/

			   June 27-30, 2005
			   Hsinchu, Taiwan

Information  Technology  (IT)  is  enabling enormous  developments  in
various  application areas  which are  playing vital  role  in today's
global economy. Use  of IT in financial and  industrial sectors in the
past  decade  has  to  be  assessed  and  reflected  for  the  further
development of the landscape  of research and education. The education
process  for the  production  of the  "modern  age Engineer"  requires
involvement of research in advanced telecommunications, networking and
computing.   Thus, innovative  Knowledge  Management tools,  efficient
Network   and    Systems   Simulation   platforms,    and   analytical
instrumentation  tools are  those which  are enabling  exploration and
enhancement  of  experimental  and  existing  methodologies.   It  was
declared in  the past and  we are observing  it now that  education is
changing  with   the  advent  of  new   interactive  on-line  learning
technologies,   multimedia  electronic  libraries   and  collaborative
workspaces, improving knowledge sharing and education practices.

ITRE 2005  invites submissions of  original papers, proposals  for the
panels,  special  sessions,  tutorials, demonstrations  and  workshops
dedicated to  Information Technology  with specific focus  on research
and education. The  mission of ITRE 2005 is to provide  a forum for IT
professionals,  theoretical researchers,  and  practical educators  in
which   to   share   insights   and   experiences   of   the   current
state-of-the-art     information     technologies,    pedagogy     and
academic-industry collaborations, and to contribute to a vision of the
future of IT  that will shape the emerging  high-tech workforce. Areas
of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Research/Education Methodology
    o Impacts of on-line learning to education
    o Practical and new models of on-line learning
    o Web-based SW Eng. for on-line learning
    o Simulation tools to support virtual lab
    o CSCW to support joint research activities
    o Open tech. for collaborative participant design

Information Networking
    o Network management and measurement
    o Quality of service and network protocols
    o Information and network security
    o Wireless communication systems
    o Internet and Intranet
    o Peer-to-peer technology and networking
    o Optical switches and WDM networks

Systems and Applications
    o Tutoring and learning systems
    o Collaborative systems

Multimedia Technology
    o Multimedia sever and proxy design
    o Real-time multimedia signal processing
    o Multimedia indexing and retrieval
    o Multimedia application system infrastructure
    o Multimedia security

Human-Computer Interface
    o Multimodal interface
    o Mobile collaboration
    o Usability interface and designs
    o Augmented virtual reality
    o Interactive video conferencing

Information Management
    o Intelligent agents and mobile agents
    o Parallel and mobile computing
    o Monitoring information and data flow
    o Information retrieval and visualization
    o Data mining and data warehouse
    o Knowledge acquisition and representation

Important Dates:
  o January 31, 2005 5pm EST: Original, full-length, unpublished paper
    due.
  o January 31, 2005 5pm EST: Special session/Workshop/Panel/Tutorial
    proposal due.
  o February 1, 2005 5pm EST: Demo/Exhibition proposal due.
  o March 31, 2005: Notification of acceptance.
  o April 23, 2005: Final camera-ready manuscript due.

For more information, please visit conference web site at:
http://wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw/itre2005/

Committee

General Chair 
        Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Technical Program Chairs
        Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
        Dongming Zhao, University of Michigan, USA
 
Plenary/Panel Chairs 	
        Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
        Kato Nei, Tohoku University, Japan
 
Tutorial/Workshop Chair
        Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
 
Demo/Exhibition Chairs
        Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
        Chun-Yao Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Technical Track Chairs
        Grid and Peer-to-peer Computing
        Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  	
        4G Wireless Systems
        Huaping Liu, Oregon State University, USA

        Multimedia Technology
        Shang-Hong Lai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

        Learning Technology in Education
        Chih-Yung Chang and Kuei-Ping Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

        Compression and Security
        Qibin Sun, A*STAR, Singapore
 
Finance Chair/Treasurer
        Ching-Te Chiu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Publicity Chairs
        Bernard Fong, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
        Jenq-Kuen Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Publication Chairs
        Chiou-Ting Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Shun-Ren Yang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Local Arrangements Chairs
        Tai-Yi Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Ming-Jer Tsai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Award Committee Chair
        Susanto Rahardja, A*STAR, Singapore
 
Registration Chair
        Duan-Shin Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
Australia Liaison
        Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
 
Europe Liaison
        Utz Roedig, University College Cork, Ireland
 
North America Liaison
        Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
 
South America Liaison
        Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil
 
Middle East Liaison
        Ofer Hadar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
 
Advisory/Steering Committee
        Nirwan Ansari, NJIT, USA
        Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
        Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA
        Algirdas Pakstas, London Metropolitan University, UK
        Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
        Biing-Feng Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Jia-Shung Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Heather Yu, Panasonic Technologies, USA
 
Technical Program Committee
        Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Tech, USA
        Tom Boyle, London Metropolitan University, UK
        Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
        Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Timothy Chang, NJIT, USA
        Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
        Chaur-Chin Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Subir Das, Telcordia Technologies, USA
        Manuel Duque-Anton, FH Kaiserslautern, Germany
        Ashutosh Dutta, Telcordia Technologies, USA
        Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
        Eric Garcia, University of Franche-Comte, France
        Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
        Edwin Hou, NJIT, USA
        Iztok Humar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  	
        Aleksandar Kolarov, NEC Laboratories America, USA
        Stan Kurkovsky, Columbus State University, USA
        Jean-Christophe Lapayre, University of Franche-Comte, France
        Haniph Latchman, University of Florida, USA
        Chul-Hwan Lee, Inchon National University of Education, Korea
        Xiaoou Li, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico        
        Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan        
        Hwa-Chun Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Chun-Shien Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan  	
        Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University, USA
        Romas Mikusauskas, London Metropolitan University, UK
        Archan Misra, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
        Eiji Oki, NTT, Japan
        Roberto Rojas-Cessa, NJIT, USA
        Venkatesh Sarangan, Oklahoma State University, USA
        Andreas Schrader, University of Luebeck, Germany
        Wei-Kuan Shih, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Benhard Sitohang, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
        Aleksandra Smiljanic, AT&T Labs, USA
        Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA
        Daby Sow, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
        Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
        Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
        Ufuk Tureli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
        Jason Wang, NJIT, USA
        Xudong Wang, Kiyon Inc., USA
        Dong Wei, SIEMENS Corporate Research, USA
        Edward Wong, Polytechnic University, USA
        Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, HK
        Christopher Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
        Mei Yang, Columbus State University, USA
        Jingdi Zeng, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
        Hongbin Zha, Peking University, China
        Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA