Proposed SAINT2004 Workshop 6 : International Workshop on Cyberspace Technologies and Societies (IWCTS2004) SAINT2004 provides an international workshop for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of cyberspace systems from academia, business and industry. This workshop focuses on research in cyberspace technologies, governance, and their advanced applications. Over the past decade, we have seen the rapid evolution in information technology and its applications, especially in social aspects. The global transition of society demands new prospective technologies, and these technologies introduce new frameworks of the society as cyberspace applications. These cyberspace applications, such as e-commerce, e-government, e-learning or e-community, require new types of knowledge modeling and implementations. Such cyberspace knowledge provides capabilities to manage and compute various types of media resources. For constructing the cyberspace knowledge, further progress of cyberspace infrastructures, which includes the mobile, wearable and secure network technologies, are widely required. This workshop offers the opportunity for in-depth exploration of selected topics and for the presentation of the most recent research and development findings in these rapidly changing fields. Technical papers on the cyberspace infrastructure, the cyberspace knowledge and the cyberspace applications are solicited for oral presentation at IWCTS 2004. Papers reporting new developments in computing for society, community and governance, including but not limited to those listed below, are invited. Areas of particular interest include: - Cyber Infrastructure and Governance - Internet Governance - Network Societies and Communities - Security and Privacy - Network Technologies for Smart Spaces - Cyber Knowledge and Database - Knowledge Modeling and Design - Multimedia Databases - Spatial and Temporal Databases - Multidatabases - Cyber Application - Bio-informatics - Genome Mining - Location based service and applications - New Applications Full papers should be electrically sent to the organizers below by Oct. 7th. The workshop organizers will select papers based on a peer review of submitted position papers, taking into account scientific quality and relation to the workshop topics. However, the workshop will be canceled if a number of the collected papers is less than 5, according to the SAINT2004 Organizing Committee. Important Dates: - Submission of Abstracts: September 26, 2003 - Submission of Full Papers: October 7, 2003 - Final Version Due: November 1 2003 - Author Registration: November 1 2003 Workshop Chair: Nobuo Saito, Keio University, Japan address: Mita Campus, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, JAPAN phone: +81 3 3453 4511 e-mail: ns@sfc.keio.ac.jp Program Co-chairs: Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan address: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN phone: +81 466 47 5111 fax: +81 466 47 5041 e-mail: hxt@ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan address: Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN phone: +81 466 47 5111 fax: +81 466 47 5041 e-mail: kiyoki@mdbl.sfc.keio.ac.jp Jun Murai, Keio University, Japan address: Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN phone: +81 466 47 5111 fax: +81 466 47 5041 e-mail: jun@wide.ad.jp Organizers: Naoki Ishibashi (Keio University) Masaki Minami (Keio University) Naofumi Yoshida (Keio University) Jun'ichi Yura (Keio University) Program Committee for Paper Review(Tentative): Roy Campbell (University of Illinois) Xing Chen (Kanagawa Institute of Technology) Hiroaki Chiyokura (Keio University) Dave Farber (University of Pennsylvania) Tatsuya Hagino (Keio University) Masahiko Inakage (Keio University) Hannu Kangassalo (University of Tampere) Tomoyuki Kojima (Keio University) Kenji Kumasaka (Keio University) Naohito Okude (Keio University) Nicolas Spyratos (Universite de Paris-Sud) Jeffrey Xu Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Paper submission: Titles and Short Abstracts: Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract about 100 words before submitting their paper (see the important dates). Papers: Full papers should be electrically sent to the organizers by Oct. 7th. Submissions should be limited to 8 pages. Electronic Addresses: Naoki Ishibashi (Keio University) Masaki Minami (Keio University) Naofumi Yoshida (Keio University) Jun'ichi Yura (Keio University) postal address: Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN phone: +81 466 47 5111 fax: +81 466 47 5041