CALL FOR PAPERS   
        The 12th International Conference on Information Networking
                                 (ICOIN--12)  
			     January 21-23, 1998   

Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications  
			    Koganei, Tokyo, Japan  

        Sponsored by Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Japan 
	  In Cooperation with IEEE Tokyo Section, IEEE Taipei Section,  
	 Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, R.O.C.,
		Korea Information Science Society (KISS), Korea

The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) is to
provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, computer
users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new
ideas, and research results about all aspects of communication
networks and distributed computing systems. This is the fourth
conference with the new name of ICOIN, which succeeds the Joint
Workshop on Computer Communications (JWCC) starting from 1985. Papers
addressing the following topics of interest are solicited for
presentation at the conference and publication in the conference
proceedings.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:  
  Communication Architecture
  Security and Privacy
  Distributed Database Systems
  Mobile and Nomadic Computing
  New Applications
  Communication Protocols
  Internetworking and WWW
  High-speed Communications
  Multimedia Systems
  Distributed Algorithms
  Communication Software
  Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems
  Groupware
  Distributed Artificial Intelligent Systems and Multi-agent systems
  Personal Communication Systems
    
Paper and Proposal Submission:  

Papers must be equal to or less than six IEEE double-column formatted
pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program
committee. Two kinds of papers, full papers and short papers will be
selected according to the technical quality and relevance. Submission
of a paper implies that it has not been published before. A few papers
will be selected for awards : best-paper, best-presentation, etc. The
proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  In
addition, several selected papers will be published in an
international journal after the conference.

Paper submissions should be sent to:   
  Prof. Yoshitaka Shibata 
  Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyo University 
  ICOIN 12 Program Co-Chair  
  2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan 350 
  Tel: +81 492 39 1023 or +81 492 39 1443    
  Fax: +81 492 33 9788 
  E-mail: shibata@sb.cs.toyo.ac.jp 
  (FIVE copies, a cover letter is required that identifies the paper
  title, authors, telephone/fax numbers, and e-mail addresses.)

or electronic submission to: icoin@sb.cs.toyo.ac.jp   
(uuencoded, postscript file, with separate cover letter.) 

In any case, author names should not appear in the paper itself.  
   
Important Dates:
  Paper submission deadline          August 1, 1997 
  Notification of paper acceptance   October 1, 1997 
  Camera ready paper due             November 1, 1997
The paper submission deadline is very strict. You are strongly recommended
to send the papers one week before the deadline.

Further Information:
  http://takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icoin12/
or please contact:
  Prof. Makoto Takizawa
  Dept. of Computers and Systems Engineering
  Tokyo Denki University
  Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Saitama 350 03, Japan
  Tel. +81 492 96 2911 ext. 2507  
  Fax. +81 492 96 6185  
  E-mKoganei and takes about 
15 minutes by bus. 
CRL: 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184, Japan 
( Dr. Michiaki Katsumoto, E-mail: katumoto@crl.go.jp )


General Co-Chairs    
  Norio Shiratori, Tohoku Univ., Japan
  Kuninobu Tanno, Yamagata Univ., Japan
  Takashi Iida, CRL, Japan
    
Steering Committee Chair   
  Jean-Lien C. Wu, National Taiwan Inst of Tech., Taiwan, R.O.C.

Steering Committee   
  Sunshin An, Korea Univ., Korea
  W. T. Chen, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Yanghee Choi, Seoul National Univ., Korea
  Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
  B. P. Lin, ITRI, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  M. T. Liu, Ohio State Univ., USA
  Yong-jin Park, Hanyang Univ., Korea
  Norio Shiratori, Tohoku Univ., Japan
  Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan

Advisory Committee Co-Chairs
  Tadashi Siomi, CRL, Japan
  Jae-Woo Yang, ETRI, Korea

Program Co-Chairs    
  Yoshitaka Shibata, Toyo Univ., Japan
  Masashi Saito, Mitsubishi Elec., Co., Japan

Program  Committee   
  Yanghee Choi, Seoul National Univ., Korea
  Woojik Chun, Chungnam National Univ., Korea
  Kwangsue Chung, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea
  Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
  Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ., Japan
  Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hwa Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Shun-ichi Iisaku, CRL, Japan
  Hiroyasu Ito, Fujitsu, Japan
  Michiaki Katsumoto, CRL, Japan
  Cheeha Kim, POSTECH, Korea
  Richard Lai, La Trobe Univ., Australia
  Jai-Yong Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea
  Jungtae Lee, Pusan National Univ., Korea
  Yeong-Sung Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Gin Kou Ma, ITRI, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Yuko Murayama, Hiroshima City Univ., Japan
  Young Duk Park, ETRI, Korea
  Tsang-Ling Sheu, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Masakazu Tamaki, NTT Data, Japan
  Chuan Yi Tang, National Tsing Hwa Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Zsehong Tsai, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Vijay Varadharajan, Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia
  Jean-Lien C. Wu, National Taiwan Inst. of Tech., Taiwan, R.O.C.

Publicity Chair   
  Yuko Murayama, Hiroshima City Univ., Japan

Publication Chair   
  Masataka Sugano, NTT Data, Japan
    
Registration Chair   
  Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki  Univ., Japan
    
International Liaison Co-chairs   
  Ifay F. Chang, Polytechnic Univ., USA
  Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
    
Local Arrangements Chair   
  Michiaki Katsumoto, CRL, Japan