International Conference on Worldwide Computing & Its Applications '98
--- WWCA'98 ---
Emerging Technologies for Network Computing and Their Social Impact
March 4-5, 1998
Tsukuba, JAPAN
ORGANIZED BY
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* Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL)
* Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)(tentative)
IN COOPERATION WITH
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* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(tentative)
* Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
VENUE
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* March 4(Tue.) -5(Wed.) Tsukuba Dai-ichi Hotel, Tsukuba, Japan
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full Papers Due October 31, 1997
* Notification of Acceptance November 25, 1997
* Camera-ready Papers Due December 15, 1997
SESSION TOPICS AND KEY WORDS
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* distributed objects
-CORBA, Java, agent systems
* distributed systems platform
-distributed OS, distributed micro kernel, distributed middle ware
* distributed component ware
-distributed software development environment, CASE
* collaboration support
-groupware, virtual work environments, multi-user interfaces
* collaborative media
-multimedia, database, virtual reality, multi-modal systems
* information discovery and retrieval
-search engine, WWW, heterogeneous information resource integration
* mobile computing
-personal communication, portable computer, wireless communication
* internet technology
-QoS, routing, protocols
* inter-culture technology
-multilingual, censorship, security & privacy
* novel network applications
-education, commerce, entertainment, etc..
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
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To advance the science and technology in distributed programming and its
applications by:
-providing outstanding presentations of collaborated R&D from academia
to industry
-providing practitioners opportunities to review and evaluate new methods
and tools, and providing researchers exposure to practical problems
-providing a forum for the discussion of new research results and their
social impacts
The two-day technical program will encompass 10 sessions covering 30 papers
on the areas listed above, as well as 3 keynote addresses by distinguished
speakers.
The first WWCA International Conference -WWCA'97 was held in Tsukuba
in March 1997 and the Proceedings was published as LNCS 1274 by Springer.
SUBMISSIONS
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To submit papers, please send four copies of the full paper with a maximum
length of 16 pages to the WWCA'98 Secretariat by October 31, 1997. Papers
should be written in English and must include title, authors, affiliations,
attached with a submission form. Please complete the submission forms,
and indicate which session the paper is being submitted to. One or two
papers are being called for in each session. Reviewers nominated by the
chairs of each session will be responsible for selecting outstanding papers
for presentation. Authors will be notified of acceptance by November 25.
The revised camera-ready full paper should be submitted by December 15.
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer, as one of
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Therefore, the papers should
be written according to the style file of LNCS. For more detailed
information, please refer to our conference homepage
(http://ci.etl.go.jp/wwca98/).
Please note that submitted papers should be presented at the conference.
RELATED CONFERENCE
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Internet Workshop '98 (STA, IEICE)
Venue: Tsukuba Dai-ichi Hotel, Tsukuba Science-City, Japan
Date: March 3(Tue.) - 4(Wed.), 1998
http://ci.etl.go.jp/iws98/
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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General Chair:
Hideo Aiso, Keio University
Advisory and Organizing Chair:
Michiharu Tsukamoto, ETL
Program Co-Chairs:
Yoshifumi Masunaga, University of Library and Information Science
Takuya Katayama, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Executive Co-Chairs:
Shuichi Tashiro, ETL
Yoichi Hamazaki, ETL
Program Committee (tentative):
Mikio Aoyama, Niigata Institute of Technology
Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell University
Kilnam Chon, KAIST
Shigeki Goto, Waseda University
Jonathan Grudin, University of California, Irvine
Masayuki Ida, Aoyama Gakuin University
Kazuhiko Kato, University of Tsukuba
Isao Kojima, ETL
Robert J. Kummerfeld, University of Sydney
Wen-Syan Li, NEC USA
Eric Manning, University of Victoria
Jun Murai, Keio University
Kenichi Okada, Keio University
Yutaka Sato, ETL
Robin Stanton, Australian National University
Jiro Tanaka, University of Tsukuba
Fumio Teraoka, Sony CSL
Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University
Michiharu Tsukamoto, ETL
Tan Tin Wee, National University of Singapore
FURTHER INFORMATION
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WWCA'98 Secretariat
c/o Cultio Corporation
4-1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
TEL/FAX: +81-298-55-5907
E-MAIL: wwca98-sec@etl.go.jp
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