CALL FOR Contributions
SAINT-2002
The 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet
28 Jan - 1 Feb 2002
Nara city, Nara, Japan

Co-sponsored by the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS)

 

THEME: SHARING AN INTERNET VISION

The Internet has rapidly grown into being an integral element of the infrastructure of society.A wide variety of services and applications have been developed on the Internet that have propelled the human civilization into a new dimension. However, there are still abundant opportunities, driven by the market's demands, to create new applications and services. This conference focuses on Internet applications that are considered novel and timely. It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and the government to share their latest research results in Internet applications, and to present their underlying technologies. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Collaboration Technology [CO]
    Vice Chair: Keiichi Koyanagi, NTT, Japan
  • Internet Security [IS]
    Vice Chair: Hiroshi Maruyama, IBM, Japan
  • Mobile Computing [MB]
    Vice Chair: Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
  • Multimedia Computing [MM]
    Vice Chair: Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan
  • Operation Technologies and Performance [OP]
    Vice Chair: Hiroshi Esaki, Tokyo University, Japan
  • Agents on the Internet [AG]
    Vice Chair: Tim Finin, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, US
  • Software Engineering on the Internet [SE]
    Vice Chair: Hoh Inn, Texas A&M University, US
  • Internet Based Data Engineering [DE]
    Vice Chair: Erich Neuhold, Darmstadt University of Technolgy, Germany
  • Distributed/Parallel Computing [DP]
    Vice Chair: Gul Agha, University of Illinois, US  
  • Services for Information Society and e-Economy [EE]
    Vice Chair: Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of  Economics, Poland



IMPORTANT DATE

  • Tutorial Proposal deadline 
       April 22, 2001
  • Workshop Proposal deadline
       April 22, 2001
  • Acceptance of all proposals
       May 21, 2001
  • Paper Submission deadline
       May 31, 2001
  • Author Notification
       August 15, 2001
  • Manuscript deadline
       October 15, 2001

    TUTORIALS WORKSHOPS

    Tutorials and workshops related to Internet technologies  and  applications will be held during the conference.


    GENERAL CHAIRS

    Toshiharu Aoki, NTT Data

    Joseph Urban, Arizona State University



    PROGRAM CHAIRS

    Jun Murai, Keio University

    Carl Chang, University of Illinois-Chicago

  • PAPER SUBMISSION

  • AUTHORS OF SYMPOSIUM PAPERS:
    Submit original (not published or submitted elsewhere) papers not to exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11-inch pages (including figures, tables and references) in 10-12 point font. Include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, five to ten keywords, and the technical area(s) most relevant to your paper. Include also the name,address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence of the paper. All submissions will be done electronically.

  • WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
    A major feature of SAINT 2002 will be half- and full-day participative workshops to explore leading-edge issues in depth. Every participant will be expected to submit a short position paper for publication in the SAINT 2002 Workshop proceedings. Such papers should not exceed 10 double-spaced pages using the same guidelines for symposium papers. Organizers should submit in plain text via e-mail workshop proposals, including the title, workshop rationale, goals, how participants will be solicited and position papers handled, workshop activities, expected workshop output, complete contact information of the organizer,and past experience of operating workshops.

    Submit all manuscripts of SYMPOSIUM PAPERS via the Web in Postscript or PDF, and tutorial and workshop proposals via e-mail in plain text, to:


    Jun Murai, Program Chair
    Faculty of Environmental Information
    Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), KEIO University
    5322 Endo
    Fujisawa, Kanagawa 2528520, JAPAN
    E-Mail: junsec@wide.ad.jp

    or

    Carl K. Chang, Program Chair
    The International Center for Software Engineering
    Department of EECS (M/C 154)
    The University of Illinois at Chicago
    851 South Morgan Street
    Chicago, IL 60607, USA
    E-Mail: chang@uic.edu
    or c.chang@computer.org
    Work: 1-312-996-4860
    Fax: 1-312-413-0024

    URL for submission of SYMPOSIUM PAPERS: http://www.icse.eecs.uic.edu/saint2002/instruction.html






    CONTACT INFORMATION


    Takaya Ishida
    Corporate Research & Development, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Phone:+81-3-3218-2440
    Fax:+81-3-3218-2188
    E-mail: Takaya.Ishida@hq.melco.co.jp

    Joseph Urban
    Computer Science and Engineering Department
    Arizona State University
    Tempe, AZ 85287-5406, USA
    E-mail: urban@asu.edu
    Telephone: +1 / 480-965-3374
    Fax: +1 / 480-965-2751