CALL FOR PAPERS

ISFST-2004

International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2004

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		     Call for Papers

                       ISFST-2004

   International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2004

           October 20(Wed) - 22(Fri), 2004 in Xi'an

                     Co-sponsored by

            Software Engineers Association (Japan)
    UNU International Institute for Software Technology (Macau)
             Northwest University (Xi'an)
         Xi'an Software Engineering Institute

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ISFST-2004 is the 8th International Symposium on Future Software
Technology.

The previous seven symposia in this series were successfully held
in China since 1996.  The series have been  co-organized by SEA
(Software Engineers Association) of Japan, UNU/IIST (International
Institute of Software Technology of United Nations University),
and the local host academic organizations.

This year, Northwest University (NWU) in Xi'an will be our host.

The purpose of the Symposium is to review the recent progresses
in software technology, to exchange various technical and business
information, and to promote the sound industry-academia cooperation
for future. It will provide a unique opportunity for practitioners,
researchers and educators in software community to gather latest
information and discuss the advances and the trends in the field.
Program committee is looking forward to receive your submission of
research papers, experience reports, and tool demonstrations
related to the following topics.

Topics:
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Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Engineering:
  System/Software Development Paradigm (e.g.: OpenSource)
  System/Software Evolution and Maintenance
  Database/Knowledge/Data Mining, Discovery and Engineering
  Requirement, Product Line Engineering
  User-Interface, Archtecture, Testing
  Methodologies, Modeling, Framework
  Web-based System/Software Engineering
Internet:
  Security, Web-based system (e.g.: Web services)
  Mobile and Multi Agent system
Management:
  Process, Project, Testing and Quality Improvement/Management
  Human Resource Development/Management
  Distributed/Conccurrent/Cooperative Software Development/Management
Theory:
  Formal Methods, Algorithms, Logics, Fault Tolerance, Reliability
  Software Evaluation, Verification and Validation, Quality Assurance
  Communication, Multimedia, Graphics, Simulation, Languages
  Parallel/Distributed/Realtime computing
IT:
  Industry Experiences and Survey
  New Application Technologies and Domains (e.g.: eCommerce)
  Business Process Re-engineering, Cooperative Work Support, Education
  Object-Oriented Analysis/Design/Programming/Testing, Embedded Systems
Others:

The unique feature of the ISFST symposia is that the program
includes informal but intensive working group style discussion
sessions besides ordinary-style paper presentations.  Industry
people are encouraged to propose specific discussion topics,
demonstration of tools and/or report their experience instead of
submitting regular papers.

Xi'an is the one of the oldest cities and have unique historical
background and culture. As well as being an ancient walled city,
Xi'an is famous for the "terracotta warriors", created over 2000
years ago for the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. All the
attendees from other regions of China and visitors from outside
China can enjoy their stay at Xi'an during the symposium.

Paper Submission:
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Submissions for a full paper or an extended abstract should be
received no later than July 11, 2004 by the following address:

	Email_Only_to:isfst2004-paper@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Paper submissions should contain title, author names and their affiliation
and address, abstract, list of keywords and applying category of topics
followed by the text within 5000 words in 6 pages.

Experience report submissions should contain title, author names and
their affiliation and address, abstract, list of keywords and applying
category of topics followed by the text within 2000 words in 4 pages.

Discussion topic proposals for working group sessions should contain title,
proposer names, affiliation and address, list of issues to be discussed
followed by proposer's position statement within 2 pages.

Tool demo submission should contain the name of the tool, author names
and their affiliation and addresses, list of keywords, followed by the
text describe tool function within 2 pages.

Only electronic submission in PDF, portable Postscript, OpenOffice or
Word format via e-mail will be accepted.


Note: The paper should be written in english only.
	Helvetica (or Arial) and Time (New) Roman fonts only.

	Use local fonts free author's kit at:
	http://www.sea.jp/Events/isfst/ISFST2004/author-kit/index.html

Important Dates:
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	Extended Submission deadline:	July 11 (Sun), 2004 GMT+8 (*CLOSED*)
	Notification of acceptance:	August 22 (Sun), 2004 GMT+8
	Final paper due:		September 19 (Sun), 2004 GMT+8

Paper selection will be based on originality and contribution to the 
topics. Papers are reviewed formally by more than two PC members 
and will be judged at the PC meeting on early August.

SEA, Japan will publish the symposium proceedings with ISBN number in CDROM
after the symposium by compiling the papers accepted and presented 
at the symposium and the summary report of working group discussions, 
etc.

ISFST-2004 Staffs (alphabetical order by family name)
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General Co-Chairs:

    Kegang HAO (Northwest University)
    Akira KUMAGAI (TELST)

Program Co-Chairs:

     Zhi JIN (Chinese Academy of Science)
     SooYong PARK (Sogang University)
     Kazunori SHIOYA (SRA-KTL)

Program Committee Members:

	Keijiro ARAKI (Kyushu University)
	Heung Seok CHAE (Pusan National University)
	T. Y. CHEN (Swinburne University of Technology)
	Seiji FUJINO (Fujitsu Research Institute)
	Chris GEORGE (UNU-IIST)
	Yuqing GU (ASTI Beijing)
	Jiang GUO (California State University)
	Hoh Peter IN (Korea Unviversity)
	Masao ITO (Nil Software)
	Dehua JU (ASTI Shanghai)
	Kei KURAKAWA (NAIST)
	Kyo-Chul KANG (POSTECH)
	Robert YoungChul Kim (Hongik University)
	Danning LI (Guizhou Academy of Sciences)
	Minglu LI (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
	Yunsheng LIU (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
	Kwanwoo LEE (Hansung University)
	Tomoo MATSUBARA (Matsubara Consulting)
	Yoshitaka MATSUMURA (SRA-KTL)
	Hong MEI (Peking University)
	Hideo NAKANO (Osaka City University)
	Takamasa NARA (Hitachi Systems and Services)
	Sebastian Ng (Swinburne University of Technology)
	Koichiro OCHIMIZU (JAIST)
	Young B. PARK (Dankook University)
	Beijun SHEN (East China University of Science and Technology)
	Tetsuo TAMAI (University of Tokyo)
	Kazuo TANAKA (JFITS)
	Jiro TANAKA (University of Tsukuba)
	Ji WANG (Changsha Institute of Technology)
	Chenqing YE (Zhejiang University)
	Li ZHANG (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
	Zhizhuo ZHAO (Xiamen University)
	Youliang ZHONG (Hypersoft Shanghai)
	Mingquan ZHOU (Northwest University)

Web Publicity Chair and Mailing list manager:

     Hideo NAKANO (Osaka City University)

Advisory Staff:

     Keijiro ARAKI (Kyushu University)
     Dookwon BAIK (Korea University)
     Chris GEORGE (UNU-IIST)
     Dehua JU (ASTI Shanghai)
     Xichang ZHONG (SEC-CAS)

Local Arrangement:

     Wei GE (Northwest University)
     Xiaoqing GONG (Northwest University)

Treasurer:

     Kouichi KISHIDA (SEA)

Official Web Page:

	http://www.sea.jp/Events/isfst/ISFST2004/

Web Page inside China:

	http://www.nwu.edu.cn/page/xueshuyuandi/isfst/