Asian & Pacific Committee (APC), IEEE Communications Society
APC Chair, Tomonori Aoyama
No. 10, November 1996
Editor-in-Chief, T.K Tan
1) APC Chairman's Message by Tomonori Aoyama
GLOBECOM'96 is to be held in London on November 18-22, 1996, and we will
have the regular APC meeting at the conference site. I would like to
encourage you to join the meeting to be held in the evening on November 19,
and to meet your friends again or to get new friends there.
The first topic that I have to report you here is that we will open our
APC home page by the time of GLOBECOM'96. The information on how to access
it will be announced at the APC meeting at the latest. I would like to ask
you to click our home page and also to contribute your contents to the home
page so that we, ComSoc members in the AP region, can obtain the latest
information on ComSoc activities in AP region, and can link to various
related information sources through WWW. This AP Newsletter will be
delivered to you through the home page in addition to a conventional printed
form and an e-mail form.
The second topic is also concerned with an Internet technology. During
GLOBECOM'96, some technical sessions will be multicasted by two different
approaches. The one is the well-known M Bone network. This service will be
provided on worldwide basis. The other approach will be offered in some
areas of AP region. In these areas, after you download a software, named
"Software Vision", to your personal computer, you can obtain real time image
multicasted from the session room using your PC on your desk. If you want
to have information on these Internet-based multicast of technical sessions
in GLOBECOM, please contact the APC secretary, Mr. Koichi Hagishima
(hagi@magnet.netlab.ntt.jp). I appreciate that several key members in APC
are now heavily involved in preparing these events.
The third topic in a good news from IAC(International Affairs Council).
Three motions proposed by IAC(Chairman in Professor Lin-shan Lee, the past
APC Chairman) were approved in the last BOG meeting at ICC'96. They are (1)
Election and International Representation (2) International Student
Membership Award, and (3) Student Travel Grants within the same region. All
of them are beneficial for members in AP region. Professor Lin-shan Lee
distributed the detailed information on the motions through the APC e-mail
network (apc_member@hornbill.ee.nus.sg), so members in the e-mail network
have received it. If you need more information, please contact Professor
Lin-shan Lee.(lsl@iis.sinica.edu.tw)
ComSoc is now trying to change its organizational structure, the form
of ComSoc sponsored major conferences, its relationship to other academic
societies/institutes(e.g. sister society), and to seek for on-line publications
(e.g. Communications Magazine Interactive). The objectives of the above
self reformation is to survive in 21st Century as one of the academic
leaders to advance information technologies and to proliferate them in our
social life. ComSoc has established several ad-hoc teams (e.g. Strategic
Planning Committee, Electronic Processing Study Group, etc.) to make draft
plans for the reformation. ComSoc/APC needs your knowledge, idea and
contributions to proceed with the reform. Let's participate ComSoc/APC
activities more.
Tomonori Aoyama
APC Chair
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2) Invited Article-APCC, The Major Vehicle for Future Collboration of
Asia-Pacific Communications Community
by Byeong Gi Lee, APC Vice Chair
In recent years we have seen dynamic evolutions going on in the
communications community of thAsia-Pacific region. Communications industry
and technical developments have been advancing more actively in this region
than in any other regions of theworld. In step with this advancement the
domestic communication institutes or societies in the AP region have been
growing, taking the major technical supporting role of each individual country.
The dynamic growth of AP regional activities is well demonstrated in the
participation of the ComSoc activities. According to the APC statistics, the
ComSoc membership increase in the AP region was 51 percent during the 4 year
period from 1991 to 1995, and the ICC/Globecom paper increase was 35 percent
during the 6 year period from 1989 to 1995. AP members' participation to APC
itself has been increasing accordingly.
The domestic institutes(or societies) in each country(or area) correspond
to the national counterpart of the IEEE or ComSoc. Coorperative relation
among the domestic institutes and ComSoc is mutually beneficial to each
party as it can help enhance technical exchanges and human relations. In
fact, APC can play the pivotal role for this inter-institutional
collaborations in the AP region.
As a globalization policy of ComSoc, ComSoc has signed a Sister Society
relation with some of domestic institutes last year, including CIC(china),
CIE(China), CIEE(Taiwan), IEICE(Japan) and KICS(Korea) in the AP region. The
Sister Society realtion is a mutual relation closely tying each domestic
institute to ComSoc on individual basis. It establishes a star-like network
connecting the domestic institutes and ComSoc.
There is another network that has been established since 1993 among AP
regional institutes and ComSoc APC. It is the Asia-Pacific Conference on
Communications (APCC). It was first held in Daejon, Korea, in 1993, and then
in Osaka, Japan, in 1995, and is going to be held in Sidney in 1997. The
international steering committee of APCC, which consists of representatives
of AP regional domestic institutes and ComSoc APC, has agreed to promote
APCC as the major vehicle for AP regional collaborations in exchanging
communication technologies and people. This traveling type of AP regional
conference has thus formed a ring topology connecting AP regional domestic
institutes and ComSoc.
As such, APCC is the very platform for future AP regional collaborations. It
can provide us an opportunity to travel and learn about our neighbour
countries, exchanging technical findings. It can also provide us
opportunities to have APC meetings as we usually do in ICC and Globecom
conferences. So it is worth paying attention to APCC, actively participating
in and hosting future APCCs to each country.
In order to aid those who would like to learn more about APCC I attach a
more detailed introduction to APCC in the following.
Introduction to ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (APCC)
0. BACKGROUND
The IEEE COMSOC Asian Pacific Commitee(APC) proposed a new technical
conference on communications, named APCOM (Asian Pacific Communication
Symposium), after two years discussion, to encourage technical activities
and more effective information exchange among Asia Pacific countries. Its
basic idea was approved by most APC members and the first conference has
been proposed for 1995.
Independently of the COMSOC's activities, Korea Institute of Communication
Science(KICS) started an Asia-Pacific(AP) regional conference under the name
of Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications(APCC) in 1993 in Taejon in
commemoration of EXPO'93. The conference was held successfully with more
than 200 papers presented and with more 500 participations from 24
countries/areas mostly in the AP region.
On August 26, 1993, representatives of IEEE COMSOC and representatives from
major institute in the AP region held a meeting in Taejon for the future
collaboration of the proposed APCOM and the APCC. Through discussions in
the meeting the representatives realized that the objectives of the two
conferences are very close, so they came up with the agreement to merge the
two conferences under the name of APCC.
As of June 13, 1995, the Japan-Korea Joint Conference on Communications,
Networks and Switching Systems(JC-CNSS) was merged to the APCC. The JC-CNSS
had been held annually in Japan and Korea, alternately, for the past eight
years, and had played an important role toward the birth and evolution of
the APCC.
1. OBJECTIVES OF APCC (agreed by the Initial Steering Committee on August
26, 1993)
The main purpose of the expanded APCC conference is to provide researchers
and engineers in the AP region with an opportunity to discuss topics related
to advanced telecommunication technologies and services, while opening the
door to the world. It is expected that the conferences will become a major
regular international conference and stimulate research and development
activities in AP countries/areas.
2. FEATURES OF APCC (agreed by the Initial Steering Committee on August 26,
1993)
(1) Steering Committee: The conference will be controlled by a standing
international steering commitee consisting of representatives from
institute/societies of AP countries/areas and IEEE COMSOC. The main policy
and strategy of APCC will be discussed and decided at the APCC Steering
Committee(ASC). The steering commitee will consist of one to three
representatives from all participating countries/areas in the AP region
and IEEE COMSOC, but each country/area will have only one vote.
(2) Contribution to Local Activities : There have been a number of
international conferences on communication technologies periodically held
by the AP countries/areas themselves to encourage their own academic
activities. (For example, ICCT in China, ISCOM in Taiwan, and ICCS in
Singapore.) APCC will support the internationalization of those activities
by increasing the chance to hold APCC jointly with such conferences. Also
APCC can provide seminar/tutorials by inviting experts from the world so
that AP people can get access to the latest topics in telecommunications.
(3) Sponsorship : Sponsorship will be jointly taken by the
institutes/societies of the participating countries/areas in the AP region
and IEEE COMSOC. APCC is an international conference sponsored by the
Asia-Pacific region. Accordingly, this conference will be open to
participants from all over the world.
(4) Topics : The conference will cover telecommunication technologies,
systems, services and related areas. Special topics will be planned for
each conference to address areas of interest. These topics could be
selected or added within this scope depending on the regional interest.
(5) Finance : Each conference should be financially self-supporting.
(6) Site and Period : The initial APCC conference was held in Korea in
1993. The next expanded APCC conference will be held in Japan in 1995. From
then on it will be held once in every one or two years in the Asia-Pacific
countries/areas in rotation.
3. CONFERENCE GUIDELINES (decided at the 2nd ASC meeting on July 18, 1994)
(1) Year and Site for Future APCCs
- Future APCC will be held annually, and September is recommended as the
target month.
- Conference Site will be decided in the ASC meeting based on the
proposals submitted to the ASC. Guideline for the decision will be later
prepared based on that of the ISCAS, the ICC or other major conferences.
- Call for Proposals will be sent to all candidate countries/areas.
Proposals should be submitted to the ASC chair at least two years and three
months ahead of the desired APCC date.
(2) Joint Conference with Other Local/International Conferences
- APCC can be held jointly with any local/international conferences in
the AP region. In this case it is desirable to hold the local/international
conferences under the umbrella of the APCC.
- Some sessions can be organized jointly with other local/international
conferences. APCC Organizing Committee will make relevant decisions on
session organizations.
(3) "China/Taiwan" Issue: omitted.
(4) Regarding the ASC Functions
-ASC will decide the site and date of APCCs and keep the records (such
as final reports, programs, proceedings, etc.) of all APCCs.
-Regular ASC meeting will be held annually on the eve of the APCC.
-The general chair of each APCC is responsible to submit a written final
report of the corresponding APCC to the ASC.
-Fundamental issues to be discussed in the regular ASC meeting are:
1) Final report of the previous year's APCC
2) Status report of the current year's APCC
3) Progress report of the next year's APCC
4) Decision of the site and date for future APCCs.
4. ELECION OF OFFICERS AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE
(decided at the 3rd ASC meeting on June 13, 1995)
(1) ASC Officers
-The officers including one chairman, three vice-chairmen and one
secretary, shall be elected or approved by ASC. The terms of officers as
well as ASC members are two years as agreed at the initial ASC meeting.
(2) Nomination Committee
-The nomination committee members shall be appointed by the current
chairman. The committee shall submit candidates for next ASC chairman and
vice-chairmen. The ASC shall elect the officers among the candidates.
5. ASC DOCUMENTS TO BE KEPT AND PASSED ON BY ASC CHAIR/SECRETARY
(decided at the 3rd ASC meeting on June 13, 1995)
(1) ASC Meeting Minutes
(2) Major correspondences of ASC Chairman
(3) Final Reports of each APCC
(4) Final Program of each APCC
(5) Final Call for Papers of each APCC
(6) Proposals for hosting APCC
(7) Other major items
-Proceedings of each APCC shall be kept by the chairman of each APCC
organizing committee.
6. NOMINATION and ELECTION PROCEDURES
(decided at the 4th ASC meeting on June 27, 1996)
(1) Nomination Procedure for ASC Officers
-The nomination committee collects candidate names for the ASC Chair and
the ASC Vice Chairs from the ASC members.
-The nomination commitee selects one or two names for the Chair and three
to five names for the Vice Chairs from among the candidate names proposed
by the ASC members. The selection is performed by the nomination committee
taking into account the previous contribution to APCC activities,
capability to participate the AOCC conferences and the ASC meetings, and
regional balance.
(2) Election of ASC Officers
-The election of the ASC chair and vice chairs shall follow the majority
voting rule in the ASC meeting with each ASC member having one vote. (Note
: This rule is decided according to the ASC voting guidelines set at the
initial ASC meeting) -At the ASC meeting one chair and three vice chairs
are elected by the ASC members' voting from among the candidate names
selected by the nomination committee. In case of a vote of confidence,
election is decided by majority.
-The secretary of the ASC is approved by the ASC members at the ASC
meeting taking into account the nomination by the elected chair.
7. RECORDS OF APCC AND ASC
(1) APCC Conferences
1st APCC : August 25-27, 1993, Taejon, Korea, (J. K. Kim)
2nd APCC : June 14-16, 1995, Osaka, Japan (H. Tominaga)
3rd APCC : November 1997, Sidney, Australia (J. L. Hullett)
(2) ASC Meetings
1st ASC : August 25-26, 1993, Teajon, Korea
2nd ASC : July 18, 1994, Kobe, Japan
3rd ASC : June 13, 1995, Osaka, Japan
4th ASC : June 26, 1996, Dallas, U.S.A.
8. APCC STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
(1) Chairman Hideyoshi TOMINAGA(Japan) (1997)
(2) Vice-Chairs Byeong Gi LEE(Korea) (1997)
John L. HULLETT(Australia) (1997)
Tomonori AOYAMA(Japan) (1997)
(3) Members Jaafar H. M. Abu BAKAR(Malaysia) (1998)
Dennis N. COOPER(Australia) (1998)
Zhenyin DENG(China) (1997)
A. J. GIBBS(Australia) (1998)
Jae-kyoon KIM(Korea) (1997)
Chi-Chung KO(Singapore) (1998)
Lin-shan LEE(Taiwan, China) (1997)
M. L. LIOU(HongKong) (1998)
Tetsuya MIKI(Japan) (1997)
Hideo MIYAHARA(Japan) (1997)
Han Kyu PARK(Korea) (1997)
Pairash THAJCHAYAPONG(Thailand) (1998)
Che-Ho WEI(Taiwan, China) (1997)
Jiongpan ZHOU(China) (1997)
(4) Secretary Naohisa OHTA(Japan)
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3) APC meeting minutes at ICC'96" by Hyeong Ho Lee, APC Secretary
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY ASIA PACIFIC COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES at ICC'96
Dallas U.S.A, June 24, 1996
1. APC Chairman's Message
APC Chair Dr. Aoyama : At the start of my two-year term as APC Chair, I
feel strong responsibility to take a leadership in APC and to promote the
global and regional activities through APC. To accomplish them, I need your
collaboration and voluntary involvement in APC.
2. Message from VP-International
Prof. Lin-Shan Lee, VP-International made a remark.
3. APC Officers for 1996-1997
APC Chair Dr. Aoyama introduced the APC officers for 1996-1997. There were
still vacancies at some positions. Dr. Aoyama requested to nominate some
people. It was agreed that Prof. D. P. Taylor should be in the list of the
APC Advisory Board.
4. Self- Introduction
Every attendee introduced himself/herself. 23 attendees are listed in the
attachment.
5. Approval of Meeting Minutes
The last APC meeting was held in Singapore on Nov. 13,1995. The meeting
minutes was approved as it was.
6. Report from Chairman
- APC Charter
APC Charter defines scope and objectives, Officers, Operations,
Subcommittees such as Technical(APTC), Regional Activities(APRAC), and
Meetings and Conferences(APM&CC). APC Chair has been nominated by the
nomination committee consisting of past and current chairpersons, and 3
additional APC members.
- APC Office
In July 1995, the IEEE Comsoc established a permanent office in
Singapore(within the IEEE Asia Pacific Customer Service Centre premises) to
better serve its members in the Asia Pacific Region. The address and phone
number are as follows;
Address: The Fleming, Singapore Science Park,
#59E Science Park Drive, Singapore 118244, Singapore,
Tel: (65)778-2873, (65)872-1955,
Fax: (65) 778-9732,
Email: ieeeapo@pacific.net.sg, memservice-asia@ieee.org, f_su@ieee.org
In Nov. 1995, discussions were initiated by the APC Officers for Singapore
Office to take up several APC important functions. Further considerations
are needed.
- Sister Society Agreement
The IEEE Comsoc has exchanged cooperative agreements with seven "Sister"
Societies around the world. Among them five Sister Societies(CIC, CIE, CIEE,
IEICE, KICS) are based in the Asia and Pacific region. Through this, Comsoc
will further seek for Globalization.
- Nomination of ComSoc Career and Service Awards
On behalf of Dr. T. Hattori, APC Award Liason, Dr. Aoyuama requested
Nominations for the following Comsoc Career and Service Awards: Edwin Howard
Armstrong Achievement Award, Donald W. Mclellan Meritorious Service Award,
and the ComSoc Award for Public Services in the field of telecommunications.
Please Contact Dr. T. Hattori if you nominate someone.
- APC Reviewers' List
At the last APC meeting at Globecom'95 in Singapore, the APC Reviewer's List
was approved as the basis for the future expansion. The list would be
maintained and upgraded by AP Technical Subcommittee(Chair: Prof. Sasae;
sasase@mori.elec.keio.ac.jp). Currently total number of the reviewers are 69
in 23 technical areas.
- Student Travel Grant
"Student Travel Grant" is awarded to those who will present a paper at one
of the following Conferences: ICC, GLOBECOM, INFOCOM, ICUPC, NOMS, or ISINM.
19 out of 35 applicants(slightly exceeds 50%) were selected at ICC'96. Among
them 10 (out of 18 applicants) were from the AP region. The Grants is a
Check of US$800 plus the Conference Record. Prof. Lin-Shan Lee,
VP-International proposed new student travel grant proposal such that some
students can apply for travel grants to attend conferences held within their
region at special conditions.
- Complementary(Free) Subscription of Comsoc Trans. for 3 years
"Free Subscription" was granted to Ms Tran Thi Hong and Mr. Le Taun Anh in
Vietnam.
- Statistics on the APC Activities
ComSoc Membership statistics(as of Dec. 1995) in Asia Pacific region was
presented. ComSoc Membership Increase in AP region from Dec. 1991 to Dec.
1995 was also presented. AP region contributions to ICC/Globecom from 1988
to 1996 was presented. In ICC'96, 99 papers out of total 352 papers were
from AP region, but only 9 sessions out of total 59 sessions were chaired by
the members from AP region.
- Others
7. News from ComSoc
- Prof. Lin-Shan Lee, VP-International
Please made and update the contents of technical committee activities in the
IEEE WWW home page.
- Prof. Tesyuya Miki, Director-Chapters Department
Prof. T Miki reports Internet mini-conference would take place during
Globecom'96. The organizing committee is planning to broadcast the
mini-conference to other countries by Internet.
- Other ComSoc officers
Prof. B. G. Lee reports Korea submitted the plan to take ICC 2001 in Seoul,
Korea. But, In this ICC'96, The representatives of Finland also presented
their plan to take the ICC 2001 in their Country. So, strong support from
Asia Pacific region is needed to take ICC 2001 in Seoul, Korea.
8. Technical Subcommittee
- Reviewers
- Session Organization
- Hot Topics
- Others
9. Regional Affairs Subcommittee
- APC Mailing List
There are currently 2 E-mailing lists for active APC members. The E-mailing
list at apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg comprises addresses of Comsoc members
who have participated in at least one APC meetings in the last 3 years. The
other E-mailing list is apc_key_member@hornbill.ee.nus.sg, which comprises
addresses of key office bearers of the APC, including APC Chair,
Vice-Chairs, Subcommittee Chairs, etc. Contact Person: Dr. KC Chua(Chair,
APC Regional Affairs Subcommittee, eleckc@nus.sg)
- APC Office(in detail)
Ms. Fanny Su, an AP Office manager has contributed to editing AP Newsletter.
- Distinguished Lecture Tour
Distinguished Lecture Tours(DLTs) are a service provided by Comsoc to the
local Chapters and their members. Lecture tours can be arranged in response
to a request form one or more Chapter Chairs, or by the VP Member Affairs
when a Distinguished Lecturer will be available to speak in a certain local
areas. DLTs will be funded in accordance with specified guidelines, as a
service to existing members and Chapters, or as a means of generating new
members or promoting new Chapter formation. Currently there are 18
Distinguished Lecturers in Comsoc.
Dr. Israel Korn was nominated to a Distinguished Lecturer by Prof. Vucetic.
His information is the following:
Dr. Israel Korn
BSc, MSc, DSc Technion Israel IT
Visiting Professor, School of Electrical Engineering
The University of New South Wales, Australia
email: I.Korn@unsw.edu.au
fax: +61-2-385-5994
tel: +61-2-385-4039
10. Meeting & Conference Subcommittee
Naohisa Ohta presented Goals , Officers, and Action Plans of AP Meeting and
Conference Subcommittee for 1996. Also, he introduced Future Conferences in
the AP region and Call for Participation
11. Newsletter Board
- AP Newsletter
the first AP Newsletter for the year 1996 was published in June, 1996. It is
distributed in this meeting and ICC'96.
- WWW Home page
Let's make WWW Home page of the APC and ask by E-mail each Chapter in AP
region to make it's own page in the APC Home page.
- others
12. APC Secretary
- APC Member List
13. Free Discussion
- Election and International Representation
Prof. Lin-shan Lee, VP-international initiated discussions on the election
and international representation with the retreat group of the top officers
of ComSoc. The current system to elect the members-at-large in the Board of
Governors of ComSoc is not good enough to create reasonable international
representation of world-wide members of Comsoc. It is extremely difficult
for AP candidates to be elected to the Board of Governors of ComSoc. This is
why he initiated this discussion.
14. Other Businesses
ComSoc members can subscribe to IEICE Transactions on Communications,
English Transactions from Japan, at reduced "sister-society" rates.
Closing: Chair Dr. Aoyama closes the meeting.
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4) Report from ComSoc Singapore office by Fanny Su(Manager)
1) The activity level coming through the dedicated telephone no.
(65-8721955) set -up for ComSoc members to call into the Communications
Office was minimal if not non-existent. ComSoc members preferred to call in
and make enquiries on the regular Asia Pacific Customer Service Centre tel.
no. at (65-7782873), email (ieeeapo@pacific.net.sg) and fax (65-7789723).
Efforts will be made to promote the ComSoc Singapore office tel no. through
the various Sections and ComSoc Chapters in the Asia Pacific.
2) The On-Line Connectivity for the Asia Pacific Customer Service Centre
hook-upto IEEE New Jersey Oracle database has been approved but
re-scheduled for 1st quarter 1997 for implementation.
Phase I - Inquiry Access only for:
a. membership application status
b. society & subscription status/back issue replacements
c. payments
d. renewal status
e. correspondence status
Phase II - Interactive in-puts for:
a. initial processing of new applications and reinstatements
b. address changes/name corrections
It has been noted that the European Operations centre(in Brussels) has had
successful implementation and encouraging member feedbacks for the last 6
months.
3) Contact information on the ComSoc chapter chairpersons in the Asia
Pacific are maintained in this office. Members who would like to reach
their respective chapter chairpersons can contact us for the information.
4) We welcome the formation of a new Communications chapter for the
Western Australia Section. Set-up for New Zealand South and Vietnam are
still in the works.
5) Contact information for the National societies in the Asia Pacific with
which ComSoc has sister society agreements with are maintained in this
office. These National Societies are:
China Institute of Electronics(CIC),China
The Chinese Institute of Electronics(CIE), China
Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering(CIEE), Taipei(Taiwan)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers(IEICE), Japan
The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences(KICS), Korea
6) ComSoc Chapter chairs are welcomed to provide us listing of
telecommunication companies in their respective countries if they wish this
office to send promotional membership mailers to these companies to
encourage their employees to join the IEEE ComSoc Society.
7) This office is currently coordinating a Distinguished Lecture Tour of
Australia in early 1997 for Prof. David Goodman which was initiated by Dr.
Roberto Boisson de Marca.
8) Due to last minute requests and arrangements, we were unable to
participate in more overseas ComSoc sponsored conferences and exhibitions
held in the Asia Pacific countries this year. Planning is underway to make
our participation felt more widely in the Asia Pacific in 1997.
Volunteers and members who wish to have more information regarding the
above, please contact us at:
IEEE Asia Pacific Customer Service Centre/
IEEE Communications Society Office
#59E Science Park Drive
The Fleming
Singapore Science Park
Singapore 118244
Tel no: (65) 778-2873
Fax no: (65) 778-9723
email: ieeeapo@pacific.net.sg
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5) Nominate yourself to Comsoc Asia Pacific Reviewers' List by Iwao Sasase
In order for the papers in ComSoc conferences/publications to reflect the
interests of members outside of North America, ComSoc set up a rule that
each submitted paper should be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, in which at
least one should be from outside of North America. As one of the main
activities of ComSoc Asia Pacific Committee(APC), Dr. K. Hagishima (NTT,
Japan), the Secretary of APC, has made great efforts to create a ComSoc Asia
Pacific Reviewers' List. This list now includes more than 60 outstanding
reviewers from 11 countries in AP region, and their technical interests
cover all the technical committees.
As a technical subcommittee chairman of ComSoc APC, I would like to invite
you to nominate yourself to the updated ComSoc Asia Pacific Reviewers' List.
If you are an editor, technical program committee member or
session organizer of ComSoc conferences/publications, I believe that this
reviewers' list will help you to find appropriate reviewers and lighten your
load.
Anyone who wishes yourself to be included in the updated ComSoc Asia
Pacific Reviewers' List, please send me by e-mail or fax, your short resume
(300-500 words) including information such as affiliation, mailing address,
phone, fax, e-mail, technical committees (or technical interests).
Finally, I expect all of you to be more involved in many activities
ComSoc conferences/publications.
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6) Travel Grants of IEEE Communications Society by Lin-Shan Lee (Vice
President for International Affairs) and Koichi Hagishima (Secretary of APC)
The travel grant program has been a very important and very successful
program of IEEE Communications Society. It provides limited number of travel
grants to help its worldwide members with traveling difficulties attend major
conferences of the society. A total of five major conferences are currently
covered by this program: ICC, GLOBECOM, INFOCOM, ICUPC, NOMS or ISINM. In
this program, the whole world is divided into four major regions: (1) North
America (Regions 1-6 for USA and Region 7 for Canada as defined by IEEE),
(2) Europe,
Africa and Middle East (Region 8), (3) Latin America (Region 9) and (4) Asia
Pacific (Region 10). The basic principle is that the recipients of the
grants have to stay in a major region other than the major region in which
the
conference is held.
There are two types of travel grants: (1) student travel grants and (2)
professional travel grants. In 1996 up to September the student travel
grants have been given to 39 students all over the world, in which 6 to
attend INFOCOM'96, 2 to attend NOMS'96, 20 to attend ICC'96 and 11 to attend
ICUPC'96. They are from 20
countries including 11 in region 8, 1 in region 9, 7 in region 10, plus USA.
The Board of Governors meeting of the society held in ICC'96 June 96 has
approved a 25% increase of the budget for student travel grants in 1997 as
compared to 1996, although this budget has been increased significantly in
the last several years. In
1996 up to September professional travel grants have been given to 2
researchers, 1 in Greece to attend NOMS'96, 1 in Turkey to attend ICC'96.
The details of the program are given below for your reference.
(1) Student Travel Grants
Student Travel Grant is awarded to those who will present a paper at
one of the following Conferences: ICC, GLOBECOM, INFOCOM, ICUPC, NOMS, or
ISINM.
1. Grants: A check of US$800 plus the Conference Record.
2. Qualifications:
1) A member of IEEE (or have applied for membership in conjunction with
the application to this Grant);
2) Living outside the Region where the Conference will take place;
3) An author who will present an accepted paper at the Conference;
4) Not having received a similar grant in the past 24 months.
3. Procedures:
1) 90 days before the Conference
Deadline for the applications to be received by the regional
chairman (APC chairman).
2) 83 days before the Conference
The regional chairman (APC chairman) should send the applications to
VP-International via business mail (e.g. DHL) no later than this date.
3) 78 days before the Conference
Deadline for all applications to arrive at VP-International.
4) 65 days before the Conference
Decision is made by VP-International and students are notified no
later than this date.
4. The Results at Globecom'96
36 out of 79 applicants (very close to 50%) were selected at Globecom96.
Among them 13 (out of 27 applicants) were from the AP region. The number of
the total applicants increased by more than twice compared with that at ICC'96
in Dallas (35 applicants). Prof. Lin-Shan Lee, IAC Chair made a great effort
to increase the number of grants by about double (only 19 at ICC'96).
The awarded students are the followings:
S. Fong (Australia)
T. Wada (Japan)
M. Asano (Japan)
C.W. Sung (Hong Kong)
J. Xu (China)
W.Y. Tseng (Taiwan)
O.W. Ata (Australia)
H. Ohsaki (Japan)
H. Okada (Japan)
S.J. Lee (Korea)
B.H. Kim (Korea)
K.S. Chen (Taiwan)
J.C. Jiau (Taiwan)
5. The results at ICUPC'96 (Sep./Oct. 1996, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
There were total of 26 applicants at ICUPC96. 11 students were awarded for
the grant. From the AP region, those were included in the recipients:
F. Yang (China)
R. Berangi (Australia)
T. Sato (Japan)
J.Y. Kim (Korea) (4 out of 10 applications)
At the last APC meeting at ICC96 in Dallas, Prof. Lin-Shan Lee,
IAC Chair proposed a new student travel grant category: "Travel Grants
within Region" It was discussed and supported by APC members. He proposed
it at the Board of Governers meeting and achieved its approval. The details
are the followings:
Starting Globecom'96 special exceptional cases with very restricted
conditions are also allowed for students to receive the grants to attend
major conferences held within the same major region. In this case the grant is
US$500 plus a complimentary copy of the record. Example special conditions
to be considered are:
(i) With very high paper review score or recommended by the Technical
Program Committee chair, or authored more than one papers.
(ii) The minimum air fare to attend the conference is very high (for
example, the air fare Turkey to London, Australia to Tokyo, etc.), as
verified by the regional representative.
(iii) A letter signed by the advisor or another officer of the university
indicating that there is really no way for students to obtain travel support
locally.
(iv) The cost of this part not exceeding 15% of the total student travel
grant budget allocated to each specific conference.
(2) Professional Travel Grants
A very limited number of professional travel grants are also available for
those with practical difficulties to attend the conferences. The grant
includes $1,000 plus a complimentary registration for the conference
(including a copy of the conference record). The candidate may be an author
of a paper accepted for the conference, a panelist of a panel session, a
chair of a session, or a chair of a chapter of the society.
The candidate must be a member of IEEE or must have applied for the
membership of IEEE. All other requirements and processes for this grant are
the same as the student grant, except that no application forms are needed,
and no special exceptional cases for attending conferences within the same
major region are allowed.
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7) Broadcasting over the Internet for Global Internet 1996 at Globecom'96
by Koichi Hagishima, APC Secretary
During Globecom'96, IEEE Global Internet 1996, a mini-conference,
(http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/tccc/internet96/) will be organized at the same
location. It is planned by a voluntary group in the ComSoc to broadcast the
technical sessions of the mini-conference between 20th and 21st of November
1996 via the Internet.
** quoted from the conference information **
The mini-conference will provide an open forum for the participants to
review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving
Global Internet. It will also provide an opportunity to highlight solutions
to pressing issues, establish a vision for the future, and challenge the
participants to press forward in their research and engineering efforts to
meet business and industry needs for global internetworking.
The mini-conference will include keynote speeches, tutorial and panel
discussions by leaders in these areas, and contributed papers by active
researchers in the field. The conference will put special emphasis on
hands-on experiences with actual implementations and widespread applications.
**************** end of the quotation ******
Mbone and SoftwareVision (http://www.hil.ntt.jp/SoftwareVision/) will be
used as broadcasting methods. Prof. Jon Crowcroft, Chair of Technical
Program Committee of the Mini-conference will be the leader for the project,
and will be in charge of creating an Mbone session. As far as SoftwareVision
is concerned, IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers; its secretariat is located in Tokyo, Japan) will be
the main contributor for the broadcasting. This is the first trial of the
"Sister Society" cooperation in this kind.
In order to succeed this broadcasting project, a reliable Internet backbone
network is mandatory. In addition, it must be globally connected. The
Internet 1996 World Exposition (IWE) is the best fit to the project.
Accordingly, this broadcasting will be supported by the Expo. (http://park.org/
)
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8) International Student Membership Award by Lin-shan Lee, Vice President
for International Affairs
In order to help young, outstanding engineering students worldwide to
develop their interest in communications technology as well as their
knowledge regarding IEEE Communications Society, the Board of Governors of
the society has approved a new program of "International Student Membership
Award" in its meeting in ICC'96, which will be started in Jan 1997.
In this program, a formula was developed such that each country outside of
North America (or outside of United States, if Canada is to be included)
with at least one chapter and memberships exceeding a minimum threshold can
have some quota for "student membership awards", and the quota increases for
countries with more memberships. All chapters in each country should submit
a common set of approaches, guidelines and criteria to select the
recipient students in that country, to be approved first by the regional
committee (the Europe, Africa and Middle East Committee for Region 8, the
Latin America Committee for Region 9, and the Asia Pacific Committee for
Region 10), then by IAC (the International Activities Council of the
Society). Right now many countries/sections/chapters have their local or
national"student paper contests", "engineering student award" or similar
programs. These programs can also be merged with the basic guideline for
selection of student recipients discussed here. But only those countries
with their approaches, guidelines and criteria approved can use the quota.
Each selected student recipient is then awarded the student membership of
the society free for one year, but each student can be the recipient only
once. Such a mechanism design is based on the considerations that in far
away regions each country has her own culture and institution systems.
Therefore the actual selection can only be performed by the local chapters.
When a country has more than one chapters, these chapters should join
together to have uniform rules. The regional committees and IAC are then to
ensure the selection criteria for different countries reasonable so as to be
fair to students in different countries.
The initial formula currently accepted to count the quota for each country
is as follows:
(i) 1 recipient for membership exceeding 10
(ii) 1 extra recipient for every 20 extra members with membership 11-50
(iii) 1 extra recipient for every 50 extra members with membership 51-200
(iv) 1 extra recipient for every 100 extra members with membership 201-400
(v) 1 extra recipient for every 200 extra membership with membership 401-800
(vi) 1 extra recipient for every 400 extra membership with membership 801-1600
(vii) 1 extra recipient for every 200 extra membership with membership 1601-
This is the way to allocate more funds and give more awards to countries
with more needs or less members. With this formula, based on the membership
statistics up to July 31 '96, the numbers of recipient students who can
receive the award are listed in the following Tables. I would like to
encourage the chapter chairs of each country to consider this program, come
up with a good proposal to select the student recipients, and submit it to
me at:
Lin-shan Lee
Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan 115
Tel: +88 6 2 783 8642
Fax: +88 6 2 782 4814
E-mail: lsl@iis.sinica.edu.tw
and please feel free to give me your comments/suggestions, if any. Thanks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Membership Number of Student Recipients
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Region 8
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Austria 125 4
Belgium/Netherlands 418 8
Bulgaria 9 0
Croatia 39 2
Cyprus 29 1
Czechoslovakia 18 1
Denmark 65 3
Egypt 70 3
Finland 154 5
France 349 7
Germany 703 9
Greece 243 6
Hungary 36 2
Iran 18 1
Israel 203 6
Italy 570 8
Kenya 10 0
Kuwait 7 0
Nigeria 7 0
Norway 140 4
Poland 29 1
Portugal 139 4
Romania 21 1
Russia 12 1
Saudi Arabia 138 4
Slovenia 30 1
South Africa 84 3
Spain 553 8
Sweden 271 6
Switzerland 471 8
Turkey 116 4
UK & Rep. of Ireland 877 10
Ukraine 7 0
United Arab Emirates 27 1
Yugoslavia 89 3
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Region 9
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Argentina 422 8
Brazil 195 5
Chile 96 3
Colombia 141 4
Costa Rica 28 1
Ecuador 25 1
El Salvador 11 1
Guatemala 10 0
Honduras 3 0
Mexico 223 6
Nicaragua 6 0
Panama 17 1
Peru 66 3
Puerto Rico & Caribbean 99 3
Uruguay 45 2
Venezuela 47 2
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Region 10
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Australia 1037 10
Bangladesh 14 1
China 137 4
Hong Kong 487 8
India 415 8
Indonesia 93 3
Japan 1561 11
Korea 905 10
Malaysia 127 4
New Zealand 140 4
Pakistan 38 2
Philippines 29 1
Singapore 347 7
Taiwan 359 7
Thailand 78
3
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9) Email List by K.C Chua
New E-Mailing Lists for Active APC Members
-------------------------------------------------------------
There are currently 2 e-mailing lists for active APC members. The previous
e-mailing list apc@ee.nthu.edu.tw has now been moved to
apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg This list is now being maintained in
Singapore and comprises addresses of ComSoc members who have participated in
at least one APC meeting in the last 3 years. This list is useful for the
dissemination of information such as new ComSoc policies affecting member
privileges and benefits, conference call for paper/participation, etc. The
other e-mailing list is apc_key_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg, which comprises
addresses of key office bearers of teh APC, including the APC Chair,
Vice-Chairs, Subcommittee XChairs, etc. This list is used for discussions
between these key members on APC issues and policies. Please refrain from
using this list to broadcast information that should rightfully be
transmitted using the first e-mailing list. The addresses in the second
list are also contained in the first list.
Contact person: Dr. KC Chua (Chair, APC Regional Affairs Subcommittee)
eleckc@nus.sg
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10) AP Statistics by Diane Demarzo
Statistics are as of 31 July 1996
Region 10 Total Membership (include students) Students
-------------------------------------------------------------
Australia 1037
139
Bangladesh 14
0
China 137
32
Hong Kong 487
73
India 415
60
Indonesia 93
12
Japan 1561
40
Korea 905
302
Malaysia 127
12
New Zealand 140
41
Pakistan 38
6
Philippines 29
3
Singapore 347
34
Taiwan 359
77
Thailand 78
13
APO/FPO addresses 19
1
Countries outside Sections 26
1
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11) Meeting & Coneference Calendar at AP region by Naohisa Ohta, Chair of AP
Meeting & Conference Committee
-------- 1996--------
---NOVEMBER---
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 1996 ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VLSI -3-6 Nov.
Sheraton Sand Key Resort Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA *Info:N.
Ranganathan Center For Microelectr. Research, Dept of CSE, UniVersity of
South Florida, ENB 118, Tampa, FL 33620 USA; Tel:+1-813-974-4760;
Fax:+1-813-974-3610; E-mail:ranganat@csee.usf.edu
1996 IEEE INTERNATIONAL ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM & SHORT COURSES -3-6 Nov.
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt River Walk, San Antonio, Texas, USA *Info:Dr.
B. T. (Pierre) Khuri-Yakub E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, rm. 11, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 USA; Tel:+1-415-723-0718;
Fax:+1-415-725-7509; E-mail:khuri-ya@ee.stanford.edu or
pierre@macro.stanford.edu
30th ASILOMAR CONFERENCE ON SIGNALS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTERS -3-6 Nov.
ASILOMAR HOTEL AND CONFERENCE GROUNDS PACIFIC GROVE, CA USA *Info: Dr. Earl
E. Swartzlander, UT-Austin, USA; Tel:+1-512-471-5923; Fax:+1-512-471-5907;
E-mail:e.swartzlander@compmail.com
9th International Symposium on System Synthesis - 6-8 Nov.
Sheraton Grande Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California USA *Info:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/isss96/ ;E-mail:ISSS-requests@ics.uci.edu.
MobiCom '96 Second ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking 1996 - 10-12 Nov.
Rye Hilton, Rye, New York, USA *Info: Imrich Chlamtac, ECS Dept., Boston
University, 44 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215, USA; Tel:+1-617-332-1101;
fax: +1-617-244-6285; E-mail:chlamtac@bcn.bu.edu
GLOBECOM'96 - 18-22 Nov.
Westminster, London, UK. *Info: Bob G. Blake BT Laboratories, Martlesham
Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk 1P5 7RE, England; Tel:+44-473-644855;
Fax:+44-473-647438;
E-mail:blake_r_g@bt-web.bt.co.uk
Fifth Communication Theory Mini-Conference A Mini-Conference during GLOBECOM'96
- 18-22 Nov.
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, Westminster, London, UK *Info:
F.Marvasti, King's College, London, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, Strand, London WC2R 2 LS, UK; Tel:+44-171-8732858; Fax:
+44-171-8732664; E-mail:fam@orion.eee.kcl.ac.uk
IEEE Global Internet 1996 - 20-21 Nov.
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, Westminster, London, UK *Info:
Henning Schulzrinne, GMD-Fokus, Hardenbergplatz 2, Berlin, D-10623 Germany;
Tel:+49-30-25499-182; Fax:+49-30-25499202; E-mail:hgs@fokus.gmd.de
CONVERGENCEof NETWORKS and SERVICES: The Integration of Telephony,
Television and Computers A Workshop at GLOBECOM'96 - 21 Nov.
New York, New York, USA *Info: Jim Barbera; Tel:+1-718-816-5222; Fax:
+1-212-465-8877; E-mail:j.p.barbera@ieee.org
IEEE Globecom '96 Workshop Transport Protocols for High Speed Broadband
Networks - 22 Nov.
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, Westminster, London, UK *Info:
Patrick Dowd, Department of Defense, 9800 Savage Road, MS R53, Ft. Meade,
MD 20755 USA Tel:+1-301-688-0347; Fax:+1-301-688-0588; E-mail:
p.dowd@ieee.org
EDMO'96 4th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Devices for
Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications -25-26 Nov.
Weetwood Hall, The University of Leeds, UK *Info:Dr Stavros Iezekiel
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom; Tel:+44-113-233 2000; Fax:+44-113-233 2032;
E-mail:s.iezekiel@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk
ICIN '96 International Conference on Intelligence in Networks - 25-28 Nov.
Palais des Congres, Bordeaux, France *Info: Secretariat du ICIN, ADERA,
B.P. 196, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France; Tel:+33-5615-1151; Fax:+33-5615-1160;
E-mail:icin@ixl.u-bordeaux.fr
#IEEE ISPACS'96 4th IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal
Processing and Communications Systems - 25-29 Nov.
The Westin Stamford & Westin Plaza Hotels, Singapore *Info: Prof. Swee-Ping
Yeo, Electrical Engineering Department, National University of Singapore,
Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511; Tel:+65-773-1141; Fax:+65-779-1103;
E-mail:eleyosp@leonis.nus.sg
#TENCON'96 IEEE Region Ten Conference Tencon - Digital Signal Processing
Applications - 27-29 Nov.
Perth, Western Australia *Info: TENCON'96 Conference Secretariat, C/-Dept.
of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Western
Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia; Tel:+61-9-380-1969;
Fax:+61-9-380-1101; E-mail:tencon96@ee.uwa.edu.au
---DECEMBER---
#ICPMSC'96 2nd International Conference on Personal, Mobile and
Spread-Spectrum Communication -10-12 Dec.
Hong Kong *Info: IEE Hong Kong Centre, Rm. G6500, City University of Hong
Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong; Tel:+852-2788-1611; Fax:+852-2778-1711
#PHOTONICS '96 - 10-14 Dec.
I. I. T. Madras India *Info:J.P. Raina Department of Electrical
Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras 600 036 India;
Fax:+91-44-235-1405; E-mail:eedpt1@iitm.ernet.in
-------1997--------
---JANUARY---
IEEE BROADBAND'97 Workshop - 19-23 Jan.
Loew's Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona, USA *Info: Andrea Erickson,
Broadband `97, c/o ICM 4701 Montgomery Lane, First Floor, Bethesda, MD
20814 USA; Tel: +1-800-535-5684 or +1-301-913-9338; Fax: +1-301-913-5452;
E-mail:aerickson@conference.com
#ASP-DAC '97-Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1997 with
EDA TechnoFair '97 - 28-31 Jan.
Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan *Info: ASP-DAC'97 Secretariat, c/o CONVEX
Inc., Ichijoji Bldg., 2-3-22 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 Japan;
Tel:+81-3-3589-3355; Fax:+81-3-3589-3974; E-mail:convex@po.iijnet.or.jp
---FEBRUARY---
Third International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
-1-5 Feb.
San Antonio, Texas USA *Info: Prof. Lionel M. Ni Dept. of Computer Science,
A714 Wells Hall Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA;
Tel:+1-517-353-4386; Fax:+1-517-432-1061; E-mail:ni@cps.msu.edu
COMNET '97 - 3-6 Feb.
Washington, D.C., USA
1997 IEEE Intl. Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference
IPCCC'97 - 5-7 Feb.
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA *Info: Prof. Roy Jenevein Dept. of Computer
Science The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, 78712 USA; Tel:
+1-512-471-9722; Fax: +1-512-346-6459; E-mail: jenevein@cs.utexas.edu
IEEE - ISSCC International Solid State Circuits Conference -6-8 Feb.
San Francisco Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, CA USA
*Info:http://WWW_sscc.eecg.toronto.edu/isscc/
Wireless Symposium & Exhibition '97 - 10-14 Feb.
Santa Clara, CA, USA
OFC'97 - 16-21 Feb.
Dallas, TX, USA
---MARCH---
VRAIS '97 IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium -1-5 Mar.
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM USA *Info: Larry F. Hodges Graphics,
Visualization & Usability Center, College of Computing, 801 Atlantic Drive,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280;
Tel:+1-404-894-8787; E-mail:hodges@cc.gatech.edu
CTIA Wireless'97 - 3-5 Mar.
San Francisco, CA, USA
First International Conference on AUDIO- AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON
AUTHENTICATION - 12-14 Mar.
Crans-Montana, Switzerland *Info: http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/IMAGES/AVBPA
for most recent infor-mation
#ADVANCES IN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING -19-21 Mar.
Shanghai, PR China *Info: Prof. Wolfgang K. Giloi GMD-FIRST, Rudower
Chaussee 5, 12489 Berlin, Germany; Tel:+49-30-6392-1800;
Fax:+49-30-6392-1805; E-mail:w.giloi@computer.org
---APPRIL---
WOCS-2nd Workshop on Optics and Computer Science - 1 Apr.
Geneva, Switzerland *Info: Philippe J. Marchand University of California,
San Diego, ECE Department, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093-0407, USA;
E-mail:pmarchand@ucsd.edu / Pascal Berthome Universite de Paris Sud, LRI,
Bat. 490, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. E-mail: berthome@lri.fr /
http://soliton.ucsd.edu/geneva
#IEEE INFOCOM'97-The Conference on Computer Communications - 7-11 Apr.
Kobe, Japan *Info: Professor Tatsuya Suda, Dept. of Information & Computer
Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92717-3425, USA;
Tel:+1-714-856-5474; Fax:+1-714-856-4056; E-mail:suda@ics.uci.edu or
jpgs@ieee.org; http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/;
http://arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html
#IEEE SICON'97-The IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks -
14-17 Apr.
Singapore *Info. Ms Veronica Ho Department of Information Systems &
Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260; Tel:
+65-772-2730; Fax: +65-779-4580; Email:hosf@iscs.nus.sg or
sicon97@iscs.nus.sg
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP On Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications -16-18 Apr.
La Bastille, Paris, France *Info: http://sig.enst.fr/~spawc/index.html
Communications Theory Workshop - 27-30 Apr.
Tucson, AZ, USA
---MAY---
IN'97-Intelligent Network Workshop -4-7 May
Colorado Springs, CO, USA *Info: Sami Syed; Tel:+1-719-535-1461;
Fax:+1-719-534-2034; E-mail:2912712@mcimail.com
NetWorld+Interop Spring '97 and IEEE Communications Society - Engineers
Conference on Broadband Access: Technologies, Systems and Services -5-9 May
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA *Info: Dr. William
Stephens, David Sarnoff Research Center, CN5300, Princeton, NJ 08540-5300,
USA; Tel:+1-609-734-3020; Fax: +1-609-734-2049;
E-mail:wstephens@sarnoff.com
IHSDS'97 8th International Workshop on Interconnections within High-Speed
Digital Systems -11-14 May
Santa Fe, NM, USA *Info: Philippe Marchand, University of California San
Deigo, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0407, USA;
Tel:+1-619-534-4943; Fax: +1-619-534-1225; E-mail: philippe@ece.ucsd.edu
IM '97 (formerly called "ISINM") The Fifth IFIP/IEEE International
Symposium on Integrated Network Management -12-16 May
San Diego, CA, USA *Info: Ann Marie Lambert, BBN Systems and Technologies,
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; Tel:+1-617-873-3819;
Fax:+1-617-873-3776; E-mail:isinm97@bbn.com
NATRAD '97 IEEE National Radar Conference -13-15 May
Sheraton University Hotel & Conference Center, Syracuse, New York, USA
*Info: John Spina Kaman Sciences; Tel:+1-315-732-1955;
E-mail:jspina@utica.kaman.com
ATM '97 IEEE 1997 ATM Workshop -26-28 May
Lisboa, Portugal *Info: Jim Roberts, CNET/PAA/ATR, 38, rue du
General-Leclerc, 92131 Issy les Moulineuax, France; Tel:+33-1-4529-5701;
Fax: +33-1-4529 6069; E-mail:james.roberts@issy.cnet.fr or Augusto Casaca,
INESC, Rua Alves Redol, 9,1000 Lisboa, Portugal; Tel:+351-1-3100233;
Fax:+351-1-3145843; E-mail:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt
---JUNE---
SUPERCOMM '97 - 1-5 Jun.
New Orleans, LA, USA *Info: info@super-comm.com
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems '97 -2-6 Jun.
Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada *Info: Nicolas D. Georganas,
Multimedia Communications Research Lab (MCRLab), Dept. of Electrical
Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada; E-mail:
georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca
ICC'97 -International Conference On Communications- 8-12 Jun.
Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Canada *Info: Celia Desmond,
Stentor,Floor 6b,33 City Center Drive, Mississauga.Ontario L5B 2N5, Canada;
Tel:905-615-6507; Fax:905-615-8421.
#1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Circuits and
Systems in the Information Age -9-12 Jun.
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong *Info: ISCAS'97
Conference Secretariat c/o Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong;
Tel:+852-28592710; Fax:+852-25598738; E-mail:iscas97@hkueee.hku.hk
#IWANNT*97 International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to
Telecommunications -9-11 Jun.
Melbourne, Australia *Info: C. Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute, 4
Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA; +1-609-951-2642;
Fax:+1-609-951-2482; giles@research.nj.nec.com
DCSVII 1997 IEEE Digital Cross-Connect Systems Workshop VII -9-12 Jun.
Chateau Whistler, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada *Info: Richard Hamley,
Stentor Resource Centre, Inc., Room 540, 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario,
K1G 3J4, Canada; Tel:+1-613-781-7969; Fax:+1-613-781-2023;
E-mail:hamleyrd@stentor.ca
A Wireless Mini Conference to be held in conjunction with ICC'97 -10 Jun.
Montreal, Canada *Info: Mr. Vino Vinodrai, Bell Mobility; Tel:
+1-416-798-5039; Fax:+1-416-675-0740; E-mail: cvinodra@mobility.com
ENM'97 The first IEEE Enterprise Networking Mini-Conference to be held in
conjunction with ICC'97 -11-12 Jun.
Montreal, Canada *Info: Dr. Vijay Bhagavath, bhagath@bell-labs.com
NOC 97 Conference on Networks and Optical Communications -17-19 Jun.
Antwerp Conference Centre, Belgium *Info: http://www.dtrd.de/noc.html BT
Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK; Tel: +44-1473-642085,
Fax:+44-1473-646445; E-mail:faulkndw@boat.bt.com
HPCS'97 1997 4th IEEE Workshop on the Architecture & Implementation of High
Performance Communications Subsystems -23-25 Jun.
Thessaloniki, Greece *Info: Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Watson Research Center
USA; Tel:+1-914-784-7439; Fax: +1-914-784 6219;
E-mail:bisdik@watson.ibm.com
ITC15 15th International Teletraffic Congress -23-27 Jun.
Washington, D.C., USA *Info: Marlene Mandelberg, ITC 15 Program Committee,
P.O. Box 250, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA; E-mail: marm@attmail.com
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory -29 Jun.-4 Jul.
Maritim Hotel, Ulm, Germany *Info: Prof. Han Vinck, University of Essen,
Ellernstr. 29, 45326 Essen, Germany; Tel:+49-201-3206450; Fax:
+49-201-3206425; E-mail:vinck@exp-math.uni-essen.de
---JULY---
ISCC'97 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications -1-3 Jul.
Alexandria, Egypt *Info: Tarek Saadawi, Dept of EE, CCNY, New York New York
10031, USA; Tel:+1-212-650-7263: Fax:+1-212-650-8249;
E-mail:eetns@ee-mail.engr.ccny.cuny.edu or Professor Henk C.A. van Tilborg
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of
Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Tel:
+31-40247-2739; Fax:+31 40243-5810 (not for submission of papers); E-mail:
ISIT-97@win.tue.nl (also for submission of papers)
The 1997 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'97) -6-12 Jul.
Svalbard Polar Hotel,Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway *Info:Prof.Tor Hellseth
Department of Informatics University of Bergen HIB, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Tel: +47-55-58-41-60; Fax:+47-55-58-41-99; E-mail:torh@ii.uib.no
IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics -21-23 Jul.
Banff, Alberta, Canada *Info:hos97@comm.toronto.edu or Dimitrios Hatzinakos
Department of Electrical & Computer, Engineering, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 ;Tel:+1-416-978-1613; Fax:+1-416-978-4425;
E-mail:dimitris@comm.toronto.edu
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#First International Conference on Information,Communications & Signal
Processing -9-12 Sep.
Singapore *Info: ICICS '97 Secretariat c/o Research Lab III, School of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore 639798; Tel:+65-799-1287; Fax:+65-792-0145;
E-mail:icics@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg; Home
Page:http://www.ntu.ac.sg/~hw/icics97.html
#NR'97 Workshop The Third IEEE Workshop on Networked Realities -9-13 Sep.
Linz, Austria *Info: Chris Stary; Tel:+43-732-2468-7102;
Fax:+43-732-2468-7111; E-mail:office@ce.uni-linz.ac.at
#ISIC'97-SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IC TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS &
APPLICATIONS - 10-12 Sep.
Hyatt Regency, Singapore *Info: The ISIC-97 Secretariat Center for
Continuing Education Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798 Republic of Singapore; Tel: +65-799-4723; Fax:
+65-793-0997; E-mail:isic97@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
ISS'97 International Switching Symposium -21-26 Sep.
Toronto, Canada
---OCTOBER---
NetWorld+Interop Fall '97 -6-10 Oct.
Atlanta, GA, USA
ICUPC'97 6th IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal
Communications -13-15 Oct.
San Diego, CA, USA *Info: Tony Acampora, 6473 Avenida Cresta, La Jolla, CA
92037, USA; Tel:+1-619-534-5438; Fax:+1-619-534-2486;
E-mail:acampora@ece.ucsd.edu
IEEE Symposium on Planning and Design of Broadband Networks -17-20 Oct.
Montebello, Qubec, Canada *Info: Ihor Gawdan, Nortel Technology, P.O. Box
3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7; Tel:+1-613-763-9926;
Fax:+1-613-763-2976; E-mail:igawdan@bnr.ca
#INTELEC'97 -19-23 Oct.
Melbourne, Australia
---NOVEMBER---
MILCOM'97 IEEE Military Communications Conference -2-4 Nov.
Monterey, CA, USA *Info: Kathy Lukens, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space,
1111 Lockheed Way Orgn/M0-01, Bldg/158, Sunnyvale, California 94089, USA;
Tel:+1-408-756-6196; Fax:+1-408-756-6139; E-mail:k_lukens@lmsc.lockheed.com
GLOBECOM `97 1997 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference -4-8 Nov.
Phoenix, AZ USA *Info: Paul Narula, AG Communication Systems; tel: +1 602
581 GC97 (4297)
ITSC'97 IEEE 1997 Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference -10-12 Nov.
Boston, MA, USA *Info: Richard Sparks, 8 Richard Rd., Bedford, MA 01730,
USA; Tel: +1-617-862 3000; Fax:+1-617-863-0586; E-mail: r.sparks@ieee.org
#MICC97/ISPAC97- 13-15 Nov.
Venue, Damai Resort, Kuching Sarawak. Malaysia *Info: MICC'97/ISPAC97
Secretariat, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300
Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia; Tel:+60-82-671000; Fax:+60-82-672317;
Email: kadim@tualang.unimas.my
---DECEMBER---
#1997 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
-17-20 Dec.
Bombay, India *Info: Vijay K. Bhargava, Conference Co-founder, University
of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; Fax: +1-604-721-6048;
E-mail:v.bhargava@ieee.org
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---FEBRUARY---
NOMS '98 IEEE/IFIP 1998 Network Operations and Management Symposium -14-18 Feb.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA *Info: NOMS '98, IEEE Communications Society,
345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017-2394, USA; Tel:+1-212-705-7018;
Fax:+1-212-705-7865; E-mail:g.weisman@ieee.org
---MARCH---
ISSLS'98 International Symposium on Subscriber Loops and Services -22-27 Mar.
Venice, Italy *Info: Mike Schwartz, Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane, 5J-108,
Piscataway, New Jersey, USA 08854, USA; Tel:+1-908-699-4307;
Fax:+1-908-36-2233; E-mail:mas85@cc.bellcore.com
---MAY---
ICC '98 IEEE International Conference on Communications -17-21 May
Atlanta, Georgia USA *Info: Gordon L. Stuber, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
30332-0250, USA; +1-404-894-2923; stuber@ece.gatech.edu
---SEPTEMBER---
International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and
Applications(ISSSTA) -1-4 Sep.
South Africa *Info:Dr. Pieter van Rooyen, Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, University of Pretoria
0002, Pretoria, South Africa, Tel: +27-12-420-2291
Fax: +27-12-43-3254
email:vroo-pg@fanella.ee.up.ac.za
---NOVEMBER---
#GLOBECOM '98 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference -8-12 Nov.
Sydney, Australia *Info: GLOBECOM '98 Secretariat, c/o Ollencio D'Souza,149
Milton Street,Ashfield N.S.W. 2131, Australia; Tel:+612-9304213 (DID) or
+612-9304222 (via operator); Fax:+65-9304406;
E-mail:globecom@elec.uow.edu.au
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Editors in this Edition
T.K Tan, Editor-in-Chief
Ye Lei, Secretary of Editorial Board
Koichi Hagishima, Secretary of APC
Fanny Su, Regional manager or AP Office
Jenny Long, Assistant of AP Office