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                                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                         The Second International Conference on
         Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
               January 29-30, 2004, Keihanna-Plaza, Kyoto, Japan
                              http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/c5-04

                21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program:
         Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, Kyoto 
University
                                     Viewpoints Research Institute
                            Communications Research Laboratory
                                   Kyoto Software Applications, Inc.


 Together with network technologies, computer application area is 
expanding rapidly.
In the coming knowledge-based society use of computers for creation and
connection/collaboration among people is essential. This conference 
provides
an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, 
developers and
users of object-oriented computing (especially, Small Talk, Squeak and 
Croquet),
collaboration technologies and learning environments.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
  Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited.
  The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

              (1) Development and applications of Squeak and Croquet
              (2) Technologies for creating learning environments
              (3) Viewing, creating and manipulating multimedia,
                    3D and animation objects
              (4) Collaboration among users in distributed space/time

TYPES OF PAPERS
  We accept both English and Japanese papers. There are the following 
types
  in the both cases.
               (1) Keynote and Invited papers
               (2) Regular papers (up to 5000 words)
               (3) Short papers (up to 2000 words)
               (4)Poster papers (1 page in the proceedings)


PAPER SUBMISSION
  Papers will be accepted as regular, short or poster papers. 
Submission of poster papers
  is not allowed. Poster papers are selected among those submitted in 
regular or short paper
  form.  Papers should be submitted by the following submission 
deadline.

    ENGLISH SESSION PAPERS     Papers (English, PDF, IEEE CS format) 
should be sent
    electronically to Program Chair Assistant,Hitomi Takada 
(takada [at] db.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) .

    JAPANESE SESSION PAPERS     Papers written in Japanese (or English) 
should be sent
    electronically to Japanese Session Chair: Tsuneo Jozen 
(jozen [at] mac.com).

IMPORTANT DATES

            Invited Papers
               Abstract Submission December 15, 2003
               Camera-ready copies January 10, 2004

            Regular and Short Papers
                Paper submission November 30, 2003
                Notification of acceptance December 15, 2003
                Camera-ready copies January 10, 2004

PUBLICATION
  Preliminary version of the proceedings (for both English and Japanese 
sessions) will be
  distributed during the conference. The formal version of the 
proceedings will be published
  by IEEE Computer Society Press after the conference. Invited papers, 
regular papers and
  short papers will be included in the formal proceedings. Selected 
poster papers and
  abstracts of selected papers presented at the Japanese session papers 
will be also
  included in the formal proceedings.

  The proceedings of the first conference is available from the same 
publisher
  ( ISBN 0-7695-1975-X, order number : PR01975) .

TUTORIAL   Tutorial on Croquet is being planned during the conference.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  Honorary Chair: Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute, HP)
 General Chair: Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University)
 Program Co-Chairs: Kim Rose (Viewpoints Research Institute),
                                       Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)
 Japanese Session Chair: Tsuneo Jozen (ASTEM/Kyoto University)  
jozen [at] mac.com
 Program Chair Assistance: Hitomi Takada (Kyoto University)  
takada [at] db.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 Publicity Chair : Yutaka Kidawara (Communications Research Laboratory)
 Publications Chair : Chigusa Kita (Kyoto University)
 Local Arrangements Chair: Akiyo Nadamoto (Communications Research 
Laboratory

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木俵　豊　(e-mail:kidawara [at] crl.go.jp)
CRL Internet Application Grp.
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