============================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ISUC 2008 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication December 15-16, 2008 Osaka, Japan http://www.is-uc.org/2008/index.html ============================================= * On-line registration http://www.is-uc.org/2008/regist/index.html Registration due date: November 28, 2008 * Program http://www.is-uc.org/2008/program/index.html * Contact Email: isuc2008@khn.nict.go.jp TEL: +81-6-6372-3053 FAX: +81-6-6376-2362 The development of information network systems enables us to communicate with people in remote places "anytime and anywhere", enriching human knowledge, affection and sensibility. However, there are various barriers which stand in our way to using these systems freely and flexibly. In order to discuss how to overcome these barriers and create a more human-centered communication environment, in 2007 the first International Symposium on Universal Communication was held in Kyoto, Japan featuring discussions with well-known researchers from around the world. Following its success, the Second International Symposium on Universal Communication (ISUC 2008) will be held at the Osaka International Convention Center, 5-3-51, Nakanoshima Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005 Japan on December 15-16, 2008. Symposium highlights include the following. * Keynote Speech Dec. 15, 2008 1. Overcoming the Language Barrier Makoto Nagao (National Diet Library) 2. The UCSD/Calit2 GreenLight Project Thomas DeFanti (University of California, San Diego, USA) 3. Very Large Information Integration and Application Platform - CSTP Coordination Program of Science and Technology Projects - Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University) * Invited Talks Speech Processing in Support of Human-Human Communication Alex Waibel Carnegie Mellon University, USA and University of Karlsruhe, Germany Wave Field Synthesis: History, State-of-the-Art and Future Diemer de Vries Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands On Distributed Run-Time Software Evolution Driven by Stakeholders of Smart Home Development Carl K. Chang Iowa State University, USA The Maximum Entropy based Rule Selection Model for Statistical Machine Translation Qun Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Depth Estimation and Object Recognition using Integral Imaging Seokwon Yeom Daegu University, Korea DISG: A DIStributed Graph Repository for Web Infrastructure Aoying Zhou East China Normal University, China Compilation of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese in the KOTONOHA Initiative Kikuo Maekawa The National Institute for Japanese Language Perception of Depth, Motion, and Stability with Motion Parallax Hiroshi Ono York University, Canada Understanding Events Relationally and Temporally Related: Context Assessment Strategies for a Smart Home Fulvio Mastrogiovanni University of Genova, Italy Wireless Sensor Network and Sensor Fusion Technology for Ubiquitous Smart Living Space Applications Ming-Whei Feng Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan We are looking forward to your participation.