Paper Submission

Important Dates

Full Paper Submissions

Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a full paper.

There are no restrictions to length or format of your paper. Submissions must be original, previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscripts. All accepted papers will be published in the conference CD in their entirety. Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in a book or selected Journals. Moreover, the best student paper in terms of quality and/or suitability to the theme of the conference will be awarded the "Best Student Paper" Award during the conference.

Deadline: April 30, 2010 (JST)

NOTE:
In order to access "Online Submissions," Reference No. and password are required.
Reference No. and password are only noticed to the people who got acceptance e-mail.

[Conference Registration]
Presenting Author is required to complete registration prior to full paper submission.
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Please make sure to register before full paper submission.
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Call for Papers and Session Themes

Nearly 20 years have past since the Internet first entered our daily lives. Its transformative effects on society and the economy are now clear, and the reality of "the Information Society" is no longer in doubt. Not all issues are necessarily resolved, however, and new problems continue to arise.
This Conference will provide a multidisciplinary platform both to review the transformations that have shaped today’s telecommunications industry and to anticipate the developments to come over the next 5 to 10 years. The main theme of the Conference is "Culture, Communication, and the Cutting Edge of Technology."
Perhaps no other country has been as affected by these developments as widely and deeply as Japan, making Tokyo is a particularly suitable venue for this event. As of today, approximately 30 million Japanese people now access the Internet via broadband connections, including 15 million FTTH subscribers, and NGN services have already been launched. Mobile broadband such as 3.9G or 4G and WiMAX/LTE are now within close reach.
Traditional images of Japan are built around icons such as Mount Fuji Samurai, the tea ceremony, Sony and Toyota. Recently however, a new Japanese pop culture has established a place within global consciousness - called "Cool Japan." Some of the most popular elements of "Cool Japan" include Manga, Anime and gaming via mobile phones.
In addition to covering issues in telecommunications, the conference also offers the opportunity to get in touch with this new Japanese culture.

Proposals for sessions are welcomed. Session themes include but are not limited to the
following:

I. Culture and ICT

1. Mobile TV: one segment (one seg.) TV, mobile satellite TV, GPS
2. ICT in daily life: intelligent home appliances, robotics and artificial intelligence,
   man-machine interface, sensor networks, life-logs
3. New content and the content industry
4. Cool Japan: Akiba, gaming, animation, and other pop culture contents
5. Intellectual property rights
6. Safety and security for our society: the digital divide, ageing society

II. New Services over NGN and Broadband

1. IPTV and digital broadcasting: new ways of delivering content
2. IRU and broadband strategies in rural areas
3. ICT-enabled services: SaaS/PaaS, cloud computing
4. Open platforms and open interfaces
5. Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and digital convergence
6. Eco ICT: green ICT, smart grids, power-saving technology
7. iDC and outsourcing

III. Wireless Services

1. Spectrum allocation
2. Next generation mobile: LTE, WiMAX, 4G
3. Interconnection charges and unbundling of mobile phones
4. New services and new competition: MVNO, number and address portability
5. Handset businesses, call termination market
6. Mobile billing strategies
7. Open platform issues

IV. New Features of Communications

1. Internet governance: network neutrality and network management
2. P2P and P4P
3. New business models over the Internet
4. Cyber crime, security, and privacy
5. Traffic shaping, deep packet inspection, legal intercept, and Comstockery
6. Social Networking Service (SNS)
7. Postal reform: privatization, universal service, and narrow banking

V. Competition and Regulatory Paradigms in Transition

1. Regulatory framework of NGN
2. Competition in FTTx
3. Convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting
4. Competition in the platform business
5. Media concentration
6. Universal access, universal service, SMP regulation
7. Migration from legacy systems to new telecommunications networks
8. Vertical and horizontal integration
9. Evaluation of competition policy
10. International comparison of competition policy

VI. Telecommunications and Economic Development

1. Broadband penetration and migration
2. e-government, e-health, e-education
3. e-payment, e-commerce
4. Innovation in ICT industries and network development
5. Country studies
6. Development of ICT industries
7. Productivity growth and ICT
8. Privatization and deregulation in the telecommunications sector
9. Financing schemes for building telecommunications infrastructure
10. ICT technology transfer between north and south
11. Affordable access to all
12. Supporting grass root telecommunications businesses and networks
13. Role of ICT in economic empowerment

VII. Others

Abstract Submissions

Your abstract should be in one page in MS-Word, including the title, the name(s) of the author(s), the affiliation(s), the contact address(es) and the summary of the paper for review. It should be sent online through the Conference website.

Deadline: December 31, 2009

NOTE:
Each author is allowed to submit only one proposal as a presenter.

Notification of Acceptance:

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The authors who submitted abstracts by December 31, 2010 will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 10, 2010. The authors who submitted abstracts by January 31, 2010 will be notified of acceptance or rejection by March 10, 2010. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Congress Abstracts Book.

Session Proposals

If you wish to organize a session, send a proposal directly to Hitoshi Mitomo at mitomo@waseda.jp no later than December 20, 2009. Themes are not limited to those listed above. A proposal should include the theme and brief description of the session, and three or four presentations. The abstracts of all presentations should be attached.