IWAC 2009 Aizu-Wakamatsu

Welcome to IWAC 2009

Workshop Date

Sept. 17 (Thu.) and Sept. 18 (Fri.), 2009

Workshop Site

The University of Aizu
Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima-ken 965-8580 Japan

Sponsor

Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics

Co-Sponsor

The University of Aizu

Supporting Societies

• IEEE SMC Japan Chapter
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ)
• The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
• Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
• The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
• Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE)
• The Japan Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (JSAEM)

Scope

Awareness is the ability to be conscious of, feel or perceive (Wikipedia). It implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences (Merriam-Webster). The ultimate goal of aware computing is to create a computing machine/system that is able to be aware. Application examples include context awareness, situation/background awareness, power awareness, location/position awareness, weakness/risk/danger awareness, safety/security awareness, chance/opportunity awareness, etc. An aware system may not be as intelligent as a human, but it will certainly be more autonomous and more human-like than conventional systems. This workshop provides a forum for engineers, researchers, and scientists to exchange the latest results in this emerging new field. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Context/situation/background aware computing
• Intention/emotion/preference aware computing
• Location/position aware computing
• Power/capability aware computing
• Weakness/risk/danger aware computing
• Safety/security aware computing
• Chance/opportunity aware computing

Important Dates

• May 29, 2009 (Fri):
  Deadline for submission of 1,000 word extended summary
• June 19, 2009 (Fri):
  Notification of acceptance
• July 31, 2009 (Fri): (Extented!)
  Submission of final camera-ready papers

Paper Submission and Publication

Acceptance of papers will be decided based on a 1,000 word extended summary. The final camera-ready papers should not exceed 6 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the proceeding of the FAN09 symposium. Well presented papers at IWAC09 will be asked to be revised, and recommended to be published in a special issue of International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (http://www.ijicic.org, indexed by SCI) on Aware Computing.

Paper Submission System of IWAC09

Registration

The registration policy will be the same as the FAN09 Symposium. See the web page of FAN09 for detail.

Important Information

• Call for papers
• Style Files
  
• Paper Submission
• Keynote Speeches(updated!)
• One-day-tour(updated!)
• Final Program(New!)
• On-line registration (New!)
• Visa Application (New!)
• Registration Policy
• Time Table of City Bus (New!)

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Advisory Chairs

- Takeshi Yamakawa (KIT,Japan)
- Norio Baba (Osaka-KU,Japan)
- Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN,Japan)

General Chairs

- Takeshi Furuhashi (Nagoya-U,Japan)
- Robert Kozma (U-Memphis,USA)
- Qiangfu Zhao (U-Aizu,Japan)

Program Chairs

- Tadahiko Murata (Kansai-U,Japan)
- Shuxue Ding (U-Aizu,Japan)
- Yong Liu (U-Aizu,Japan)

Program Committee

- Hernan Aguirre (Shinshu-U,Japan)
- Adrian G.Bors (U-York,UK)
- Zhaoshui He (Riken,Japan)
- Tomoyuki Hiroyasu (Doshisha-U,Japan)
- Eckhard M.S.Hitzer (Fukui-U,Japan)
- Tetsuya Hoya (Nihon-U,Japan)
- Young-Hoon Joo (Kunsan-U,Korea)
- Chia-Feng Juang (NCH-U,Taiwan)
- Hiroharu Kawanaka (Mie-U,Japan)
- Naoyuki Kubota (Metro-U,Japan)
- Sam T.Kwong (City-U,Hong Kong)
- Beatrice Lazzerirni(U-Pisa,Italy)
- Chang-Yong Lee (Kongju-U,Korea)
- Chin-Teng Lin (NCTU,Taiwan)
- Wenlong Liu (DUT,China)
- Chuanfeng Lv (BIT,China)
- Hiroshi Nakajima (OMURON,Japan)
- Tomoharu Nakashima (Osakafu-U,Japan)
- Hiroaki Nishino (Oita-U,Japan)
- Takehisa Onisawa (Tsukuba-U,Japan)
- Shigeaki Sakurai (Toshiba,Japan)
- Jung-pil Shin (U-Aizu,Japan)
- Kanta Tachibana (Kogakuin-U,Japan)
- Kay Chen Tan (NUS,Singapore)
- Kit-Sang Tang (City-U,Hong Kong)
- Pin Tao (Tsinghua-U,China)
- Arthur Tay (NUS,Singapore)
- Junzo Watada (Waseda-U,Japan)
- Toshihiko Watanabe (OECU,Japan)
- Simon X. Yang (U-Guelph,Canada)
- Zhiwen Yu (Kyoto-U,Japan)

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Contact

Yong Liu
System Intelligence Laboratory,
Faculty of Computer Science and Engigeering,
The University of Aizu,
Tsuruga, Ikkimachi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City,
Fukushima-ken, Japan 965-8580
TEL: +81-242-37-2730
FAX: +81-242-37-2743
Email: iwac09@u-aizu.ac.jp