-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: UCS2004 -- Paper submission due May 31, 2004 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:23:50 +0900 From: Hiroyuki Morikawa mori@mlab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS2004) Keio University Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan November 8-9, 2004

Sponsored by Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) SIG-UBI In cooperation with Ubiquitous Networking Forum, IPSJ SIG-MBL, IPSJ HI, Human Interface Society and Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

http://www.mkg.sfc.keio.ac.jp/UBI/ucs2004/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PURPOSE & SCOPE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We invite researchers, practitioners, educators and students, and others interested in ubiquitous computing to participate in the second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2004) held in Tokyo, Japan on 8-9th of November, 2004. The aim of the symposium is to stimulate interactions between participants through them. UCS 2004 focuses on the emerging area of ubiquitous computing. This emergence is an outcome of the rapid evolution in smart appliances and devices, as well as tremendous advances in wireless networks and mobile computing. The symposium offers the opportunity for in-depth exploration of the most recent research and development findings in the field of ubiquitous computing.

TOPICS ~~~~~~ We encourage contributions describing innovative work on ubiquitous computing systems. Areas of interest include, but not limited to:

- Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing - Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing - Home and Office Appliances - Portable Devices and Wearable Computers - Wireless Networks, Home Network and Ubiquitous Networks - Mobile Ad-hoc Networking and Computing - Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks - Passive, Active, and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing - Social Solutions for Ubiquitous Computing - Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances - Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing - Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing - Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Modeling and Inference - Domestic Environments and Health Care

IMPORTANT DATES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission deadline: May 31, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2004 Camera-ready papers: September 15, 2004

Paper Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Technical papers for UCS2004 must not exceed 8 pages and must include an abstract of 100-150 words. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically with PDF format. For more information about paper submission, check the conference Web site. http://www.mkg.sfc.keio.ac.jp/UBI/ucs2004/

Poster and Demonstration Sessions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions are invited to present recent results in posters and demonstrations. Further information will be available from the conference website or by contacting the posters/demonstration chair (yasuto@cc.tuat.ac.jp).

CONTACT ~~~~~~~ For general information: ucs2004-info@ubi.sfc.keio.ac.jp For submission ucs2004-submission@ubi.sfc.keio.ac.jp For registration ucs2004-info@ubi.sfc.keio.ac.jp

=================================================== General Co-chairs Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio Univ., Japan Hitomi Murakami, KDDI, Japan

Program Co-chairs Hideyuki Nakashima, Future Univ. - Hakodate, Japan Michiaki Yasumura, Keio Univ., Japan

Program Committee Members Michael Beigl, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Miwako Doi, Toshiba Corp., Japan Masaaki Fukumoto, NTT DoCoMo, Japan Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan Hans-Werner Gellersen, Lancaster Univ., UK Koiti Hasida, AIST, Japan Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden Hiroki Horiuchi, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan Antonio Krueger, DFKI, Germany Koichi Kurumatani, AIST, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH, Switzerland Toshiyuki Masui, AIST, Japan Hiroyuki Morikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda Univ., Japan Kumiyo Nakakoji, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Jin Nakazawa, Keio Univ., Japan Masayoshi Ohashi, KDDI, Japan Jun Rekimoto, Sony C.S. Labs, Japan Ichiro Satoh, NII, Japan Bernt Schiele, ETH, Switzerland Itiro Siio, Tamagawa Univ., Japan Frank Stajano, Univ. of Cambridge, UK Kazunori Takashio, Keio Univ., Japan Youichi Takebayashi, Shizuoka Univ., Japan Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

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