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CALL FOR PAPERS
2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW CHALLENGES (IS2000)
The University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan
November 5-8, 2000
In Cooperation with
Information Processing Society of Japan
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
IEEE Japan Council
IEEE Education Society Japan Chapter
THEME AND SCOPE
Throughout society the explosion of information technologies is changing
how people work and live. This conference will focus on emerging
technologies and their impact on people and organizations as we enter
the new century. It serves as one of the major forums for researchers
from academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas and opinions,
envision the information society of the future, and assess the
benefits and challenges it presents.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Advanced Database Systems
- Applied Mathematics
- CSCW, Groupware, and Knowledge Management
- Electronic Commerce
- Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface
- Information and Network Security
- Intelligent Robots
- Internet Computing
- IT Venture Business
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Knowledge Economy and Economic Modeling
- Multimedia and Applications
- Parallel/Distributed and Mobile Computing
- Computers/Networks in Education and Virtual Universities
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
IS2000 solicits papers for presentation at the conference. Please
send your original manuscript of up to 5000 words, which has not
been submitted or published elsewhere, to the address below by
July 1, 2000.
Jie Li
Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics,
The University of Tsukuba,
Tsukuba, 305-8573 JAPAN
Email: lijie@is.tsukuba.ac.jp
Phone: +81-298-535521 Fax: +81-298-535206
All submissions must be written in English and printed using at least
11-point type and 1 1/2 line spacing. Regular papers may not exceed 20
double-spaced pages (approx. 5000 words) and be at least 2000 words.
Each paper should have a cover page, on a separate sheet, which
includes the title, author(s) and affiliation(s), a half-page
abstract, and a list of keywords (up to six).
Although printed copies are acceptable, electronic submission in
PostScript/PDF/MS-Word format is encouraged. Please also send the
cover page in text form by email to the above address. Additional
details on camera-ready manuscript submission guidelines will be
posted at http://is2000.u-aizu.ac.jp/ and accompany with the
Notification of Acceptance.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Eleven special sessions that are related to the conference theme,
focusing on a specific hot topic, have been proposed and accepted by
IS2000 as follows.
- Advances in Biomedical Informatics
- Auditory Interface for Mobile Robots and Interactive Computer
Systems
- Computing Neuron Science
- Eonomic Modelling
- Ideal Models to Establish the Rules of Software Structures in
an Axiomatical Manner
- Intelligent Control of Robot and Mutual Application of
Biomechanics/Robotics Technology
- Knowledge Discovery in Multimedia Databases
- Nonlinear Random Mechanics and its Application in Engineering
- Quantum Computation and Nano-Technology
- Research Directions and Challenge Problems on Information
Society in the 21st Century
- Virtual Universities and Distance Education
For detailed information or paper submission to a special session,
please contact the address below.
Qun Jin
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
The University of Aizu,
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, 965-8580 JAPAN
Email: jinqun@u-aizu.ac.jp
Phone: +81-242-372642 Fax: +81-242-372750
All papers will be reviewed by up to three referees for technical merit
and content. Papers accepted for presentation will appear in the
conference proceedings, which will be available to delegates at the
conference site. Papers presented at the conference will be selected and
edited by the conference organizers and published in book form by an
international publisher after the conference.
Best papers and best student papers (a student should be the principal
author and presenter of the submitted paper) will be selected based on
both the quality of the written paper and its presentation.
IMPORTANT DATES
Contributed Paper Submission Due July 1, 2000
Special Session Paper Submission Due July 15, 2000
Notification of Acceptance August 15, 2000
Final Manuscript and Early Registration Due September 15, 2000
FOR UPDATED INFORMATION
Web Site: http://is2000.u-aizu.ac.jp
CONFERENCE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Shoichi Noguchi (University of Aizu, Japan)
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Fengqi Cao (Peking University, China)
Ke Gong (Tsinghua University, China)
Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hisao Kameda (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Takamitsu Sawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Makoto Takizawa (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Kazuo Ushijima (Kyushu University, Japan)
Benjamin Wah (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Jingde Cheng (Saitama University, Japan)
Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
Pramod Chandra P．BHATT (Kochi University of Technology, Japan)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Bernard Goossens (University of Paris 7, France)
Qianping Gu (University of Aizu, Japan)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Rolf Hoffmann (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Kien A. Hua (University of Central Florida, USA)
Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Qun Jin (University of Aizu, Japan)
Chong-Gun Kim (Yeungnam University, Korea)
Keqin Li (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA)
Chengwen Liu (DePaul University, USA)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Jianhua Ma (Hosei University, Japan)
Shugen Ma (Ibaraki University, Japan)
Victor Malyshkin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Erich Neuhold (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Yi Pan (University of Dayton, USA)
Simon Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Kyuseok Shim (KAIST, Korea)
Yoshio Sugasawa (Nihon University, Japan)
Chengzheng Sun (Griffith University, Australia)
Carl Vilbrandt (University of Aizu, Japan)
Ke Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wallapak Tavanapong (Iowa State University, USA)
Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Yoneo Yano (Tokushima University, Japan)
Hongbin Zha (Kyushu University, Japan)
Nan Zhang (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan)
Shaoliang Zhang (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Weiping Zhao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Nan Zhang (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan)
Qun Jin (University of Aizu, Japan)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jingde Cheng (Saitama University, Japan)
Zixue Cheng (University of Aizu, Japan)
Yuan Feng (Boston University, USA)
Edward Fox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Georges Gardarin (University of Versailles, France)
Susantha Herath (University of Aizu, Japan)
Xiangen Hu (University of Memphis, USA)
Jie Huang (University of Aizu, Japan)
Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Wen-Syan Li (NEC USA, USA)
Witold Litwin (University of Paris Dauphine, France)
Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan)
Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Weiyi Meng (State University of New York at Binghampton, USA)
Hiroshi Ohnishi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, USA)
Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA)
Masahide Sugiyama (University of Aizu, Japan)
Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Jinfang Wang (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Liyan Wang (Peking University, China)
Rubin Wang (Nagoya University, Japan)
Daming Wei (University of Aizu, Japan)
Nanjian Wu (University of Aizu, Japan)
Dongfeng Yuan (Shandong University, China)
Yanchun Zhang (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Neng-Fa Zhou (City University of New York, USA)
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration fee covers a copy of the conference proceedings, the
welcome reception (on Nov. 5), and the banquet (on Nov. 7).
- Early registration fee before September 15, 2000, 30000JPY (5000JPY
for students)
- Late or on-site registration fee, 35000JPY (20000JPY for students)
LOCATION
The University of Aizu is in the scenic vicinity of the Bandai-Asahi
National Park, and is located in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, the historical
capital of the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture, famous for Tsurugajo
Castle, museums, spa and skiing resorts and sake (Japanese rice wine).
It is about two and a half hours from Tokyo by train.
ACCOMMODATION
Western Style Hotel, which rates from about 6500JPY (single) to 13000JPY
(twin) per night and Japanese Style Hotel (Ryokan) with Hot Spring,
which rates from 10000JPY (two persons/one Japanese style room, with
breakfast) to 17000JPY (two persons/one room, with breakfast and dinner)
per night will be reserved.
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