[news.announce.conferences] CFP: Int'l Symposium on Interoperable Information Systems

kojima%etlcom.etl.junet@kddlabs.UUCP (Isao KOJIMA) (03/01/88)

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                               Call for Papers

                      Second International Symposium on
                 Interoperable Information Systems (ISIIS'88)

                                 Tokyo,Japan
                              November 10-11, 1988

   Symposium Summary: The 2nd ISIIS is an international symposium following on
the ISIIS'87. The symposium will forcus on the interoperability technology for
information processing. There will be technical sessions for presentation of 
refereed papers, including reports on the national R&D program "Interoperable
Database Systems". Also being planned is the demonstration of OSI-based 
information network systems.

   Scope: The goal of the symposium is to explore both theoretical and 
practical issues on interoperable information systems. Original papers 
addressing (but not limited to) the following areas with regards to
"interoperability technology" are solicited:

            * Open Information Systems Architecture
            * Open Software Architecture
            * Formal Description Technique
            * Protocol Verification and Conformance Testing
            * Open and/or Distributed Database Systems
            * Multimedia Information Technology
            * Reliability and Security

 Organization of the Symposium:

  Honorary Symposium Chairperson:
    Hiroshi Inose(National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan)

  Symposium Chairperson:                  Hideo Aiso(Keio Univ., Japan)

  Program Committee Co-Chairpersons:
     H. Tanaka(Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)      A. Tojo(ETL, Japan)

  Program Committee Members:
     G.V. Bochman (Canada)                 A. Iwamatsu (Japan) 
     K. Naemura (Japan)                    N. Naffah (France)
     R. Rosenthal (USA)                    T. Saito (Japan)
     S. Uemura (Japan)

  Secretariat:     H. Shoda(INTAP, Japan)

   Paper Submissions:

   Authors should submit 10 copies of an abstract not exceeding 1000 English 
   words to:

                        Akio Tojo
                        The 2nd ISIIS Program Co-Chairperson
                        INTAP
                        Sumitomo-Gaien Bldg.3F
                        24 Daikyo-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160, JAPAN

              e-mail:   isiis%etl.jp@relay.cs.net

   Abstracts for review must be received by April 15, 1988.

   Important Dates:
                    Abstracts due:         April 15, 1988
                    Notice of acceptance:  June 10, 1988
                    Camera ready copy due: August 31, 1988

   General Information:

    Symposium Date: November 10-11, 1988
    Symposium Site: Science Museum of Japan Science Foundation 
		           (Kagaku-Gijutsu-Kan), Tokyo, Japan
    Official Language:     English
    Sponsored by:   Interoperability Technology Association for 
                           Information Processing, Japan(INTAP)
    With the Support of:
                    Ministry of International Trade and Industry
    In Cooperation with :
                    Association for Computing Machinery
                    IEEE Computer Society
                    Information Processing Society of Japan
                    The Institute of Electronics, Information and 
                           Communication Engineers of Japan
                    Japan Electronic Industry Development Association
                    Japan Standards Association
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