CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2004) Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan March 29 - March 31, 2004 http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/aina/2004/ Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TCDP Communications Research Lab. (CRL), Japan Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) SIGDPS, Japan In cooperation with Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan IEEE Taipei Section, Taiwan The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Service Network (ISN), China IEEE France, Computer Chapter, France IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter The International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2004) will be held in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan in March 29 - 31, 2004. It will include sessions on all aspects of theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed computing systems. Aside the regular presentation, the AINA meeting will include keynote addresses with speakers from both industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the following areas: - Communication Protocols and Architecture - Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems - Broadband Wireless Communications - Groupware - Security and Privacy - Multi-agent Systems - Distributed Database Systems - Personal Communication Systems - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - Network-based Computing Systems - Novel Applications of Internet - Quality of Services - Internetworking and WWW - Communication Software - High-speed Communications - Distance Learning Systems - Multimedia Communications and Systems - Grid and Cluster Computing - Network-based Computer Graphics System - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Parallel and Distributed Systems Architecture - Ad-Hoc Networks - Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: Sep. 30, 2003 Authors Notification: Nov. 15, 2003 Final Manuscript Due: Jan. 10, 2004 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page, URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Contact author must input the following information at the AINA 2004 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200-250 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your paper in Postscript or PDF file (Adobe format), and send it to our web site. [AINA 2004 Web site] http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/aina/2004/ Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. If you have any question to query, please send email to aina2004@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp: For further information on paper submission, please contact: Dr. Leonard Barolli Ph.D. AINA 2004 Program Chair Associate Professor Department of Information and Communications Engineering Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) 3-30-1, Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan Phone : +81-92-606-4970 Fax: +81-92-606-0758 E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp