(Fwd)Int'l Conference on CogSci-'99 deadline Jan 31

[Chungmin Lee]

This is for your info, abstract submission and participation. ---Chungmin Lee

>HASIDA Koiti, organizing committee chair of ICCS '99.
>Machine Understanding Division,
>Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL)
>1-1-4 Umezono, Tukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
>Tel: +81-298-54-5928, Fax: +81-298-54-5930
>http://www.etl.go.jp/~hasida
>

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>*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
>
>Second International Conference on Cognitive Science
>
><< Sponsored by The Japanese Cognitive Science Society >>
>
>Dates: July 27-30, 1999
>Location: International Convention Center at Waseda University
>          Tokyo, Japan
>
>The Second International Conference on Cognitive Science Program
>Committee invites abstracts for papers presenting research in broadly
>defined studies of cognition.  Pieces of work are welcome from, but
>not limited to cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence,
>linguistics, philosophy, cognitive anthropology, social cognition,
>neuroscience, brain studies and comparative cognition.  Specific
>encouragement is given to, but not limited to, interdisciplinary
>topics such as studies on emotion, computer human interaction,
>computer-supported collaborative work and learning, AI and games,
>language acquisition, communication, connectionist models of
>cognitive development, natural language processing and neural studies
>on memory and higher-order cognition.  We welcome international
>viewpoints, in hope of bringing yet newer challenges to this growing
>interdisciplinary research field.
>
>The conference will be held at the International Convention Center at
>Waseda University, Tokyo.  For reservation, contact the local
>arrangement person.  Registration details will be announced soon.
>
>SESSIONS AND LANGUAGES
>
>There will be oral and poster sessions at this conference.  Oral
>presentations will be given in English, with English manuscripts for
>the proceedings.  Poster presentations will be given either in English
>or Japanese, with English or Japanese manuscripts.  We will also
>consider chances for poster presentations to be given in yet other
>languages: If you are considering presenting your work in some other
>language than either English or Japanese, please contact us at
>ICCS99 at sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp.
>
>Some plenary talks will be arranged to cover cutting-edge research
>topics from various cognitive science research groups representing
>Asia, Australia, Europe, the U.S., and other places where there has
>been strong tradition of cognitive science research.
>
>We are also in the process of organizing workshops and symposia to
>highlight the international-interdisciplinary approach to this second
>conference on studies of cognition.  Comments and suggestions are
>welcome at ICCS99 at sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp and iccs99org at etl.go.jp.
>
>GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
>
>Abstracts of 2000 words (or 6,000 characters in case of Japanese) or
>less for original work are invited on topics broadly related to
>studies on cognition.
>
>For oral presentations, please submit English abstract.  If you
>already have a full paper, we encourage you to submit it with the
>abstract (URLs are fine).  This full version can either be in English
>or Japanese, though the abstract should be in English.  This full
>version is encouraged for securing high quality review. This does not
>guarantee, even after acceptance, that the originally submitted full
>version would automatically appear in the proceedings because of the
>space availability.
>
>For posters, please submit abstracts either in English or in Japanese.
>The poster presentation, as well as the poster itself, can be given in
>any language if you prefer, though the abstract and the proceedings
>manuscript should be written either in English or in Japanese.  Please
>indicate in which language you prefer to present the work.  We will
>encourage attaching English captions to the posters when you choose to
>give it in non-English languages.
>
>Please send us four (4) anonymous copies of the abstract with a cover
>sheet including author(s)'s name(s) and affiliations(s), contact
>person's name and address, and the e-mail address (please add the fax
>number if you have one).  Also please identify the preferred
>presentation style (we may need to ask you to present the work in
>other format than your proposal).  A template is provided below.
>
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>Sample Cover Sheet:
>
>Author's name and affiliation:
>(repeat this line in case of multiple authors)
>Contact person's name and address (if not the same as above):
>Contact person's e-mail address:
>Contact person's fax number:
>
>Presentation title:
>Genre of work:
>
>Preferred presentation style (talk or poster):
>Preferred language for presentation:
>
>Other comments for reviewers:
>
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>
>The deadline for the abstract submission is January 31, 1999. E-mail
>submission is welcome at submission-ICCS99 at sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp.  We
>will also prepare a webpage to accept abstract submissions.
>
>The review results will be announced by the end of March.  The
>accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, where 6 to 8
>pages are allocated for each presentation.  For the accepted papers,
>the camera-ready, hard copy manuscripts for the proceedings should be
>sent by June 1, 1999 to :
>
>ICCS99
>SCCS,  Chukyo University,  Toyota, 470-0393,  JAPAN
>(The postal-code is essential.)
>
>Sorry, we do NOT plan to provide any editorial or printing help for
>the manuscripts, and no e-mail submissions would be handled for the
>camera-ready manuscripts.
>
>TIMETABLE
>Abstract submissions due: January 31, 1999.
>Notification of acceptance: March 31, 1999.
>Camera ready manuscripts due: June 1, 1999.
>
>We are looking forward to receiving high-quality, inspiring reports.
>If you have any questions and/or suggestions feel free to contact us
>at ICCS99 at sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp and/or iccs99org at etl.go.jp.
>
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>
>CONFERENCE CHAIR:
>Yutaka Sayeki (U. of Tokyo)
>
><ADVISORY COMMITTEE>
>CHAIR: Shun Ishizaki (Keio U)
>CO-CHAIR: Yukio Otsu (Keio U)
>CO-CHIAR: Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U)
>
><PROGRAM COMMITTEE>
>CHAIR: Naomi Miyake (Chukyo U)
>
><ORGANIZING COMMITTEE>
>CHAIR: Koiti Hasida (ETL)
>CO-CHAIR: Hiroaki Suzuki (Aoyama Gakuin U)
>
><OVERSEAS ADVISORS>
>Jin-Hyung Kim (KAIST)
>Razali Arof (U Malaysia Sarawak)
>Charles Ling (U of Western Ontario)
>Dedre Gentner (Northwestern U)
>Ken Forbus (Northwestern U)
>Marvin Minsky (MIT)
>Allan Collins (Boston College)
>
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>
>Inquiries regarding presentations and abstract submission should be
>addressed to:
>Naomi Miyake (Chukyo University)
>at inquiry-ICCS99 at sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp
>or FAX: 81-565-46-1296
>
>Inquiries regarding organization should be addressed to:
>Koiti Hasida(ETL)
>at iccs99org at etl.go.jp
>
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>   We invite you to visit our web site (in preparation) at
>          http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/
>     to find additional information on the conference.
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