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              S A I N T  2 0 0 7     Call For Participation

     The 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet

                            January 15-19, 2007

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

                         http://www.saintconference.org/
                                        and
                 http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint07/

  The SAINT2007 Organizing Committee welcomes you all to Hiroshima, JAPAN
with 18 symposium paper presentations selected from 56 submitted papers,
keynote speeches, 9 workshops on cutting-edge topics, 2 panel discussions,
covering a diverse range of applications and their enabling Internet
technologies.

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*** Advanced registration will close on December 4, 2006 at 17:00 JST ***
*** Make your registration and hotel reservation as soon as possible. ***
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For your Registration and Hotel Reservation:
   From SAINT Generic Page:
   http://www.saintconference.org/
     > SAINT2007 Homepage > Go to Registration Page
   or
   http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint07/registration/index.html


THEME : The Pervasive Internet
  Over the past few years, the Internet has been revolutionizing the way
we communicate and access information. As a result, today the Internet
accommodates a wide variety of information repositories, services, people,
communities, and cultures and supports a diverse range of communication
and interaction paradigms. The Internet is also becoming to be ubiquitous
and pervasive; accessible and usable from any device and through any
network, including wireless and mobile. SAINT focuses on emerging and
future Internet applications and their enabling technologies.
  The symposium provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from
the academic, industrial, public and governmental sectors, to share their
latest innovations on Internet technologies and applications. Areas of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Internet Application Areas:        
  - Content Management
  - Content Delivery
  - Web Services
  - E-Business
  - Collaboration
  - Internet communities
  - Wireless and Mobile Internet
  - Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
  
Enabling technologies for the Internet:
  - Software Architectures
  - Standards
  - Internet Security
  - Network and Protocol Architectures
  - Information Appliances


Keynotes :
  Dr. Jen-Yao Chung
    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  Dr. Jun Rekimoto
    Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

Workshops :
  SAINT2007 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
SAINT2007 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.Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2007)
 2.Networked RFID
 3.Middleware Architecture in the Internet
 4.Educational Challenges to Deploy the Internet
 5.Network Mobility (WONEMO)
 6.Ubiquitous Networking and Enablers to Context-Aware Services
 7.The Second International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable
   Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2007)
 8.Practical Applications of Sensor Networking
 9.Internet Measurement Technology and its Applications to Building
   Next Generation Internet


Panels :

  R&D Strategies in Each Regions
    Coordinator: Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan
  Discussion on direction of future SAINT
    Coordinator: Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto Uniersity, Japan


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chairs:
  Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
  Hiroshi Esaki, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Program Chairs:
  Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
  Hiroyuki Morikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Workshop Chairs:
  Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
  Atsuhiro Goto, NTT, Japan

Panel Chairs:
  Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
  Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto Uniersity, Japan

Publicity Chairs:
  Haruo Takemura, Osaka Univsersity, Japan
  Koji Okamura, Kyushu University, Japan

Local Arrangements Chairs:
  Ray Aibara, Hiroshima University, Japan
  Kaori Maeda, Hiroshima City University
  Asako Toyoda, NiCT, Japan

Registration Chairs:
  Kazutoshi Fujikawa, NAIST, Japan

Publication Chairs:
  David Buttler, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
  Shigeru Miyake, Hitachi, Japan

Industry Liaison Chairs:
  Hideki Sunahara, NAIST, Japan

Financial Chairs:
  Joachim Hammer, University of FLorida, USA
  Shigehiro Ano, KDDI Labs., Japan

Web Master:
  Yutaka Nakamura, Kyushu Institute of Tech., Japan

Designated Technical Committee Chair:
  Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  Ray Aibara, Hiroshima University, Japan

International Liaison Chairs:
  Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan Univ. Japan

Shepherd for Students (Ph.D Workshops):
  Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Tech., Japan

Awards Chairs:
  Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA
  Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan

Steering Committee Chair:
  Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA

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