SICE 2004 TOP

NEWS

SICE2004 ended. Thank you very much for your interest and participation.
Next SICE 2005 will be held on August 8-10, 2005 at Okayama.
Detail announcement will be shown at http://www.sice.or.jp/org/sice2005/

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR AUTHORS

For oral sessions, presentations must be only in English unlike SICE2003.
For poster sessions, oral discussion must be in either English or Japanese.

LANGUAGES in SICE2004
Session	manuscript	presentation material	oral communication
Oral	English	English	English
Poster	English	English	English/Japanese

FROM CALL FOR PAPERS

The SICE Annual Conference (SICE2004) will be held at Hokkaido Institute of Technology, Sapporo, Japan on August 4-6, 2004. More than 1000 researchers have participated in recent SICE Annual Conferences. Activities of the SICE are wide-ranging: from measurement and control to a variety of systems analyses and designs, from theory to application, from software to hardware. Newly developed interdisciplinary ideas and concepts transferable from one field to another are especially welcome.

Relevant topics include:

Sensors and Transducers
Signal and/or Image Processing
Identification and Estimation
Opto-Electronic Measurement
Remote Sensing
Mass and Force Measurement
Temperature Measurement
Ultra-High Precision Measurement
Analytical Measurement
Standard of Measurement
Flow Measurement and Control
Multivariable Control
Nonlinear Control
Robust Control
Adaptive and Optimal Control
Intelligent Control
Computer Aided Design
Modeling, System Identification and Estimation
Process Control
Mechanical Systems Control
Guidance and Flight Control
Power Systems Control
System Theory and Engineering
Human-Machine Systems
Biological and Physiological Engineering

Intelligent Systems
Neural Networks
Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Discrete Event Systems
Mechatronics Systems
Robotic and Automation Systems
Virtual Reality Systems
Entertainment Systems
Micro and Nano Systems
Medical and Welfare Systems
Safety, Environmental and Eco-Systems
Agricultural and Bio-Systems
Rescue Systems
Simulation of Large Systems
Network System Integration
Process Automation
Factory Automation
Laboratory Automation
Information Management Systems
Information Technology Applications
SCADA and Network Systems
Manufacturing Systems
Transportation Systems
Components and Devices
Emergent Technologies

Authors should submit an extended abstract of 800-1000 words in English or 2000-3000 characters in Japanese, including paper title, author names, addresses, affiliations, name of the presenter, postal mail and E-mail addresses of the corresponding author and telephone/facsimile numbers. The extended abstract should clearly describe the salient concepts and novel features of their work, including purpose and results, for a meaningful review by the Technical Program Committee. Submitting instructions will be published on the SICE 2004 website.

All accepted papers and posters must be written in English. For oral sessions, presentations must be in English. For poster sessions, oral presentations must be in either English or Japanese. Papers should be prepared according to the guidelines to be published on the SICE 2004 website. All conference participants, including authors and session chairpersons, are expected to pay conference registration fees and their own travel expenses. For selected young foreign researchers who have shown a potential to contribute to the field of Instrument and Control Engineering SICE International Scholarships will be granted for the purpose of defraying some of the cost of travel to Japan to present their papers.

**Important Dates:**
Deadline for Proposal of Organized Session	[Extended!!] February 27, 2004
Deadline for Submission of Extended Abstract	[Extended!!] March 5, 2004
Notification of Acceptance	April 17, 2004
Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscript	[Extended!!] May 28, 18:00 JST, 2004