CALL FOR PAPERS : SAINT2004

The IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet

January 26-30, 2004 Tokyo, JAPAN

--------------------------------------------------------------- Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). In cooperation with Japan's Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO), and Communications Society (CS) and Information and Systems Society (ISS) of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

http://www.saint2004.org/

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Paper Submission: July 1, 2003 Author Notification: Sep. 15, 2003 Final Manuscript: Oct. 7, 2003 Workshop Proposals: July 1, 2003 Workshop Notification&CFP: Aug. 1, 2003 Workshop Paper Submission: Oct. 7, 2003 Workshop Final Manuscript: Nov. 1, 2003 Panel Proposals: July 1, 2003 Tutorial Proposals: July 1, 2003

THEME : The Evolving Internet:

The utility of the Internet is expanding beyond what one could imagine a few years ago. Today, the Internet accommodates a wide variety of information, services, people, communities, and cultures. The Internet is also becoming the engine and the platform of choice for a diverse range of applications and businesses. Additionally, driven by market demands, the

Internet is required to be ubiquitous and pervasive; accessible and usable from any device and through any network, including wireless and mobile. The Symposium on Applications and the Internet focuses on emerging and future Internet applications and their enabling technologies. The symposium provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from the academic, industrial, and public sectors, to share their latest innovations on Internet technologies and applications. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

§ Internet Agents. § Collaboration Technology: groupware & telepresence, Internet communities. § Internet Content Management Systems: XML and semi-structured data, information fusion, web-based databases, data mining, metadata. § Internet Content Delivery: web caching, multimedia, media asset management, adaptations, QoS. § E-business: infrastructure for e-services, brokering, negotiation, B2B, Internet workflow, virtual enterprise. § Wireless and Mobile Internet: content adaptation, e-services, mobile commerce. § Standards for Internet Applications: XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, WSFL,

ebXML, Java, .NET, Sun One, others. § GRID Computing. § Internet Appliances: smart phones, PDAs, sensor networks, smart home. § Novel Internet Applications: emergency and lifeline support, others. § Internet Security. § Network and Protocol Architecture. § Internet Operation and Performance: measument, IPv6 operation.

Paper Submission:

Paper submission and review will be done electronically. Information

for prospective authors, including paper format and instruc- tions can be found in the web page.

Workshops, Panels and Tutorials:

Full- and half-day workshop, panels and tutorial proposals related to SAINT 2004 theme are solicited. Workshop proposals should be submitted directly to Workshops Chairs (yoshida@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp & hossam@cs.queensu.ca). The Workshops Call For Papers will be announced accordingly. Panel proposals should be submitted directly to Panels Chairs (imai@netlab.nttdocomo.co.jp & Henry.Tirri@cs.helsinki.fi). Tutorial proposals should be submitted directly to Tutorials Chairs (hiroshi@wide.ad.jp & cellary@kti.ae.poznan.pl).

Publications:

The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. There are plans to invite several authors to provide paper revisions for special issues of IEEE-CS or IPSJ magazines and journals.

Best Paper Award:

A best paper will be selected and recognized by the Program Committee and the Awards Chairs.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

General Chairs: Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Tech., Japan Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Program Chairs: Shinji Shimojo, Osaka Univ., Japan Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany Workshops Chairs: Kenichi Yoshida, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan Hossam Hassanein, Queen's U., Canada Panels Chairs: Kazuo Imai, NTT DoCoMo Labs., Japan Henry Tirri, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Tutorials Chairs: Hiroshi Esaki, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Wojciech Cellary, Poznan U., Poland Registration Chair: Tadanobu Okada, NTT Labs., Japan Local Arrangements Chairs: Junichi Shimada, CRL, Japan Kazuo Asakawa, Fujitsu Labs., Japan Awards Chairs: Hideo Miyahara, Osaka Univ., Japan Gul Agha, U. of Illinois, Champain, USA Publication Chairs: Kenichi Baba, Osaka Univ., Japan Nayeem Islam, DoCoMo Labs., USA Designated Technical Comm. Chairs: Hideki Sunahara, NAIST, Japan Javed Khan, Kent State U., USA Financial Chairs: Shinya Amano, Toshiba, Japan Kai Chang, Auburn University, USA International Liaison Chairs: Akira Yamamoto, Hitachi, Japan Mostafa Bassiouni, U. C. Florida, USA Industry Liaison Chairs: Shingo Ichii, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Peter In, Texas A&M U., USA Publicity Chairs: Katsuyuki Yamazaki, KDDI Labs., Japan Allan Zhang, Microsoft, USA Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg U.,The Netherlands Web Master: Takeshi Ikenaga, Kyushu Institute of T., Japan Steering Committee Chair: Jun Murai, Keio Univ., Japan