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                        CALL for PAPERS
                            ASIAN'00 

               Asian Computing Science Conference
             Penang, Malaysia, November 25-27, 2000

     Conference Web Page:        http://www.sato.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~asian00
     Paper submission deadline:  July 31, 2000

BACKGROUND:
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The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was
initiated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for 
researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote 
interaction with researchers from other regions.  The first five 
conferences have been held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, 
Kathmandu, Manila and Phuket. In addition to support from the host countries, 
they have also been sponsored by INRIA, France, UNU/IIST, Macau and 
NUS, Singapore.  The proceedings have been published as Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.

SCOPE:
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The scope of the conferences has been a broad coverage of Computer Science,
but with a focus on a few chosen specific themes concerning the formal 
aspects of algorithms, programming, concurrency and parallelism, networking 
and security.  The 2000 conference will continue to emphasize the conceptual 
areas of Computer Science, though papers in all areas will be considered.  
The following themes represent the areas of focus for this year:

  * Logics in Computer Science

  * Data Mining

  * Networks and Performance

INVITED SPEAKERS:
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The  keynote  speaker at ASIAN'00 will be Jean Vuillemin (Ecole Normale
Superieure, France).  We have Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of 
Melbourne, Australia) as an invited speaker in Data Minings.

SUBMISSIONS:
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We invite submissions on original research not published or submitted for
publication elsewhere.  Submission procedure is described below.

The proceedings are to be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series.  In addition to regular papers, we hope to accept posters,
which will appear as two-page abstracts in the proceedings.  Papers
and posters must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.


STEERING COMMITTEE:
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 Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan)       Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand)
 Stephane Grumbach(INRIA, France)      R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR Bombay, India)
 Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore)         Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan)
 Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France)	       Zhou Chaochen (UNU/IIST, Macau)

Program Co-Chairs:
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 He Jifeng				Masahiko Sato
 United Nations University		Graduate School of Informatics
 International Institute	        Kyoto University
 for Software Technology		Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
 Macau                     		Japan

 Email: jifeng@iist.unu.edu		E-Mail: masahiko@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 Telephone: +853-712930 		Telephone: +81-75-753-5868

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (Partial List)
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Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China)
Ian Graham (U. of Waikato, New Zealand)
Alain Jean-Marie (LIRMM, France)
He Jifeng (co-chair) (UNU, Macau)
Kazunori Konishi (KDD, Japan)
Bing Liu (NUS, Singapore)
Zhen Liu (INRIA, France)
Ian Mason (U. of New England, Australia)
Yasuhito Morimoto (IBM Tokyo, Japan)
Mitsu Okada (Keio U., Japan)
Luke Ong (Oxford U., UK)
Masahiko Sato (co-chair) (Kyoto U., Japan)
Kyuseok Shim (KAIST, Korea)

GENERAL CHAIR:
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Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore, Singapore

LOCAL CHAIR:
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To be announced.  Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang will provide
local arrangements.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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  Paper submission deadline:    July 31, 2000
  Acceptance decisions:         September 10, 2000
  Camera-ready copy due:        September 25, 2000

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by e-mail in a self-contained
PostScript file (gzipped and uuencoded) to asian00@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
This is to be complemented by one hard copy sent to the
program co-chair, Masahiko Sato, at the above address. 

Submissions should be formatted in the LNCS style
(see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages.
More details can be found on the conference webpage. In addition, 
a separate e-mail message should be sent containing the paper title and 
an abstract (at most 150 words), authors, keywords, postal address, 
e-mail address and fax number. 

If e-mail is not available, five hard copies each and the above coversheet
information should be sent by paper mail to both PC chairs at the above
addresses.

POST CONFERENCE ASIAN SCHOOL:
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To be announced.

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