CFP: Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems

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Call for Papers

The Third International Workshop on
Network-Based Information Systems
NBIS'2000
http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/dexa2000/nbis/

in conjunction with the
11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA'2000
to be held in Greenwich, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2000
http://www.dexa.org

Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

THEME

Current information systems are composed of various kinds of objects like
systems which are interconnected by communication networks. The communication
networks have supported high-speed data transmission and standard infrastructure
to realize advanced multimedia applications like virtual society. Especially,
the Internet has given drastic influence and impact to not only the information
technologies but also social environments. The new computation paradigm, e.g.
nomadic computing is proposed based on the mobile communication. The standard
object-based framework of the distributed applications is developed by CORBA
and DCOM in order to realize the interoperability of the applications by taking
advantage of the communication and platform infrastructure. It is now critical
and significant to discuss the network systems to realize the interoperable,
cooperative information systems.

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both
network systems and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange
of ideas and experience between these two communities. It will represent an
international forum to give an overview of the most recent trend.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Communication Networks and Protocols
* Internet Applications
* Web-based database systems
* Distributed Cooperating Information Systems
* Groupware
* Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
* Multimedia Computing and Communication Systems
* Mobile Computing Systems
* Distributed Object-Oriented Systems
* Interoperable Systems
* Electronic Commerce
* Security and Privacy
* Distributed Fault-Tolerant Systems

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: Feb. 9, 2000
* Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2000
* Camera-ready copies: May 1, 2000

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program
committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
as proceedings of the DEXA'2000 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted
according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and
MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The author guidelines can be found
at http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/dexa/nbis2000

Electronic Submission

Please submit your paper electronically to our ftp site. Please prepare your
paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or
encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use
bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines for
generating and submitting PostScript files are available at
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File Name

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be
smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them:
smith1.ps, smith2.ps, etc.

Transferring to FTP Site

When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most
of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.

Our FTP site: ftp.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp
Log on as: anonymous
Place files in subdirectory: incoming/nbis2000

Notification

When you have put your file(s) in the FTP subdirectory, please send an
email to taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp with the following information:
Your name, address, phone, fax, URL (your Web address, if you have one),
your email address, the title of your paper, keywords, abstract, and the
filename(s) you used. (Do NOT send a copy of your postscript file via
email.)

Hard Copy Paper

If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on our ftp site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the
following address:

Prof. Makoto Takizawa
Dept. of Computers and Systems Eng.
Tokyo Denki Univ.
Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
Email: taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp

Please send also an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format and
including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and
affiliations, to taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp

WORKSHOP CHAIR
* Makoto Takziawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Leonard Barolli, Yamagata Univ., Japan
* Misbah Deen, Keele Univ., England
* Alex Delis, Polytechnic Univ., USA
* Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
* Rieko Kadobayashi, ATR, Japan
* Michiaki Katsumoto, CRL, Japan
* Sanjay Kumar Madria, Purdue Univ., USA
* Michel Raynal, IRISA-INRIA, France
* Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural Univ., Japan
* Chu-Sing Yang, National Su Yut-Sen Univ., Taiwan

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

Prof. Makoto Takizawa
Dept. of Computers and Systems Engineering
Tokyo Denki University
Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
Tel. +81-492-96-2911 ext.2507 Fax. +81-492-96-6185 (or 0501)
e-mail taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp
URL http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/