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CALL FOR PAPER

In Japan and in other industrialized countries and regions of Asia had attained near 100% penetration of “Broad Band” internet infrastructure. On top of that, the coverage of mobile phone based internet with near broadband capacity present a truly “ubiquitous” internet infrastructure.

This is a dramatic change which has been rapidly spreading through this region and is creating a new frontier which had been in the imagination to be come reality. Technologies which are capable of bridging between “real” and “virtual”, such as QR code with mobile phone camera and free software and micro-RF-ID chips, have vast frontier to investigate. It is a frontier which may be explored by technological and engineering aspect as well as from the perspectives of business applications and regulations perspectives.

This workshop tries to focus on how we can best use the evolved internet and cope with this complex challenges.

Bridging “real” to “virtual” is easier than before. One can easily dive into the deep ocean of “virtual reality.” It open up a very attractive frontier for all of us including business sectors – a service sector which will succeed the industrial sector – in other words, ITeS (IT enabled Services).

We need to discuss various factors such as follows.

1. How easy it should be?
2. In what kind of technology should we depend?
3. How sophisticated the interface should be?
4. In what way the technology can be embedded into the business model?

We invite not only business persons or regulators but also engineers, all who are interested in open up the frontier of collaborative development of application of internet – the application in ITeS.

Proposals, reports on research, new technologies, business models dreams, analysis on regulations and so on, all are welcomed.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS

REGISTRATION

Workshop registration will be handled by the SAINT 2008 organization along with the main conference registration.

It is the IEEE policy that accepted papers can be published only when IEEE recognized that at least one author has registered for presentation. So, authors will be requested to register along with the final manuscript. SAINT Conference Registration fees include a copy of the Conference proceedings, a copy of the Workshop proceedings, admission to the Conference/Workshop sessions.

NOTE

The date and length (a full or half day) of the Workshop will be decided by SAINT 2008 Organizing Committee taking account of the number submitted of papers, and be notified on the SAINT 2008 web. Please also note that, according to the SAINT 2008 Organizing Committee, the Workshop is subject to cancellation when the number submitted of papers will not be enough.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should be sent to the Organizer no later than March 1, 2008 via e-mail. The e-mail address is okada@nii.ac.jp or uesugi@cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp. After a review process by Organizer and Program Committee of the Workshop, authors of accepted papers will be requested to send its final manuscript to IEEE-CS press no later than May 1, 2008. So, authors are kindly requested to submit papers as early as possible to facilitate a review process.

ORGANIZER

• Yue-shan CHANG, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan (Workshop Chair)
• Hitoshi OKADA, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Shiro UESUGI, Matsuyama University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Yu-Hui TAO, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• C. H. CHAO, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Takao OKUBO, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
• Kazuaki NARUSE, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
• Shigeichiro YAMASAKI, Kinki University, Japan
• Kanokwan ATCHARIYACHANVANICH, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Peter DELL, Curtin University of Technology, Australia