S A I N T ' 2 0 0 4     Call For Participation

              The IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet

                                January 26-30, 2004

                                    Tokyo, Japan
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           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/

The SAINT2004 Organizing Committee welcomes you all to Tokyo, Japan with 
excellent symposium paper presentations as well as keynote speeches, 9 
workshops on cutting-edge topics, 2 tutorials for improved understanding, 2
panel discussions, all covering a diverse range of applications and their 
enabling Internet technologies.

Make your registration no later than 6 Jan. 2004.

For your Registration and Hotel Reservation:

        http://www.saint2004.org/ > Go to Registration Page

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.

Session Titles :

        Mobile Communication & Application
        Internet operation & performance
        Web services
        Collabrative system
        Protocol I
        Protocol II
        Internet security
        Internet applications I
        Internet applications II
        Broadband services

Keynotes :

        (to be informed on the web)

Workshops :

SAINT2004 will feature workshops to provide forums for researchers and 
practitioners to share knowledge and exchange ideas on cutting-edge topics in 
Internet and applications. Papers selected by SAINT workshops will be published 
in a separate volume as an integral part of the SAINT2004 proceedings.  There 
is only one registration fee for both the main conference and workshop 
participants who can attend any conference sessions. The following 9 workshops 
are anticipated:

        1 : E-Business 
        2 : IPv6 : Technology and Deployment 
        3 : Internet to Support Social Welfare 
        4 : Metadata Applications on the Broadband Network 
        5 : Service Oriented Computing 
        6 : Cyberspace Technologies and Societies 
        7 : Peer-to-Peer Internetworking 
        8 : High Performance Grid Computing and Networking 
        9 : Ubiquitous Services and Networking

Tutorials :

        1. IP-Oriented QoS in the Next Generation Networks: 
           application to wireless networks (English)
                Pascal Lorenz
                Professor. the University of Haute-Alsace

        2. 802.11 Security -- Past, Today, and the Future
           (Japanese)
                Motonori Shindo
                Sr. Systems Engineer,  Proxim Corporation

Panels :

        1. The future of the Internet architecture
                Chair : Jun-Ichiro "Itojun" Hagino
                        IIJ lab


        2. Ubiquitous Services and Networking
                Chair : Hiroyuki Morikawa
                        University of Tokyo

Publications :

The Proceedings of the symposium and the workshops will be published by the 
IEEE Computer Society Press.

Organizing Committee :

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