General Information

Date and Location

The 40th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications will be held on November 14-15, 2008, at

Kyodai Kaikan
15-9 Yoshida Kawaracho, Kyoto 606-8305, Japan.
http://www.kyodaikaikan.jp

Sunahara Memorial Lectures will be delivered by Prof. Bijoy Kumar Ghosh (Texas Tech University, Vision) and Professor John Oommen (Carleton University, Ottawa, Learning automata).

Language

The official Languages of the Symposium are both English and Japanese, but all the documents for the Abstract, Proceedings and presentation should be prepared only in English. Each presentation in technical sessions is allotted 25 minutes including discussions.

Public Transportation

See the page "Access" for details.

Symposium Preprints

A copy of the collection of extended abstracts will be provided to each symposium registrant. Additional copies of the preprints may be purchased at the symposium for 3,000 JPY/copy.

Banquet

All registrants are encouraged to participate in the banquet.

Date: November 14 (two hours in the evening: exact time to be announced by the end of August).

Place: Kyodai Kaikan

Full registration fee includes the banquet fee. Full-registrants will be invited to the banquet. Student registrants and Spouses of registrants are requested to pay 2,000 JPY and 3,000 JPY, respectively. Although the banquet tickets are available at the registration desk, it is recommended to purchase the banquet tickets in advance together with advanced payment of registration fees.

Proceedings

The printed Proceedings will be published after the Symposium. Authors of accepted papers for presentation are requested to submit their manuscripts for the proceedings electronically by November 10, 2008. For the preparation and submission of the manuscripts, see the page "Proceedings".

In order to assure high-quality proceedings, all manuscripts will be reviewed and only accepted ones will appear in the proceedings. Accepted papers more than six (6) pages will be charged for 5,000 JPY per each exceeded two (2) pages.

Presentation tools

Each session room is equipped with LCD projector for Power Point presentations. Please bring the your own computer for presentatio and make sure in advance that it works under the provided electronic environments (Oversea-purchased laptop-PCs are not guaranteed to work with our projectors Please confirm by yourself if your own computer works in Japan).

Also an OHP is available for presentations.