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-----Original Message----- From: Soichiro Hidaka

NII SHONAN MEETINGS: CALL FOR PROPOSAL

(1) Objective

NII Shonan Meetings, following the well-known Dagstuhl Seminars, aim to promote informatics and informatics research at an international level, by providing yet another world's premier venue for world-class scientists, promising young researchers, and practitioners to come together in Asia to exchange their knowledge, discuss their research findings, and explore a cutting-edge informatics topics.

The meetings are held in Shonan Village Center (near Tokyo), which offers a combination of facilities for conferences, trainings, lodging in a resort-like setting. The friendly and open atmosphere is to promote a culture of communication and exchange among the meeting participants. The NII International Meetings are managed by National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan.

(2) Scope and Style

NII Shonan Meetings follow the style of the Dagstuhl Seminars. A meeting usually lasts for four days (Monday to Thursday) or shorter. It is initiated by at most three organizers (one from Asia), established leaders in their field, representing the different communities invited to the Seminar, preferably from different institutions. NII invites on their behalf about 25 to 35 researchers of international standing from academia and industry.

Like Dagstuhl Seminars, an NII Shonan Meeting typically does not come with a fixed program. Instead, the pace and the program are guided by topics and presentations that evolve through discussions. In particular, NII does not require participants to submit a paper for presentation, or to give a presentation at all. On the contrary, NII encourages to present new ideas and work in progress.

All administrate work of a meeting will be supported by the NII team in the preparation phase and during the seminars themselves, so that the organizers can focus on choosing research topics and selecting active researchers for the meeting.

(3) Proposal Submissions

NII invites international standing scientists to submit proposals for international meetings (with about 25-35 participants) on any topics of informatics. The proposal should clearly motivate the topic of your seminar and include the following items:

• Meeting Title
• Organizers (at most three, 1-page CV for each)
• Proposed Dates for the Meeting
• Description of the Meeting (1-2 pages, in English)
• Invitation list (Position/First Name/Middle Name/Last Name/Affiliation/Email/Gender/URL/research list)

The proposal should be submitted via the following EasyChair page:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nim1

The proposal will be reviewed by the Academic Committee. Once the proposal is approved, our staff will help to organize the seminar.

We welcome proposal submission anytime through a whole year, although submission is closed in June 15th, September 15th and December 15th. Notification of acceptance is only made after about 40 days of each closing day.

(4) Locations and Expenses

The meetings are held in Shonan Village Center (near Tokyo), whose nearest train station can be accessed by a direct train from Narita International Airport, and offers a combination of facilities for conferences, trainings, lodging in a resort-like setting.

http://www.shonan-village.co.jp/svc/

The following rates cover overnight accommodation (single room) and full board (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) per day:

• Meeting organizers: free
• Participants from academia: 8,000 Yen/day
• Participants from industry: 15,000 Yen/day
• Accompanied persons to participants: 7,500 Yen/day (Meal charge is not included.)

(5) Organization

Organization Committee:

Yoh'ichi Tohkura (NII): Chair Zhenjiang Hu (NII) Akiko Aizawa (NII) Hiroshi Hosobe (NII) Hiroyuki Kato (NII) Soichiro Hidaka (NII)

Academic Committee:

Zhenjiang Hu (NII): Chair Akiko Aizawa (NII) Ken'ichi Kawarabayashi (NII) Masaru Kitsuregawa (Univ. of Tokyo) Jeff Kramer (Imperial College London) Katsumi Inoue (NII) Kae Nemoto(NII) Bashar Nuesibeh (Lero/Open Univ.) Yoichi Sato (Univ. of Tokyo) Shin'ichi Satoh (NII) Satoshi Sekine (New York Univ./Rakuten Inst. of Tech.) Akihiko Takano (NII)

(6) Inquiry

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by sending an email to

shonan(a)nii.ac.jp

More information about NII Shonan Meetings is available at the following website:

http://www.nii.ac.jp/shonan/

============================================================ Soichiro Hidaka National Institute of Informatics E-mail: hidaka(a)nii.ac.jp URL : http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hidaka