Message from General Chair

On behalf of ISCIT 2004 organizing committee, I would like to sincerely welcome all of participations to the symposium. The 2004 symposium is held in the Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan. The first ISCIT was held in Chiangmai, Thailand, 4 years ago. We have the honor of supporting the first ISCIT symposium held in Japan. The city of Sapporo is quite famous for snow festival in winter season and beautiful tinted autumnal leaves in October. You can see a lot of nice spectacles. The ISCIT 2004 has many scopes in Communications and Information Technology. In particular, we are introducing a new approach in these research fields, i.e., Smart /i!fit-;lfdiu .Sivwis. In this scope, intelligent systems and advanced systems are discussed and studied. Over 350 papers are submitted in this year. Among them, 255 novel papers are carefully selected by our committee. Accordingly, we have scheduled six parallel sessions during three days. As keynote speakers in our symposium, Prof. B. H. Juang, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Prof. Gilbert Strang, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are invited. Prof. Juang presents “Interactive Multimedia & Intelligent Broadband - Key to Telecom Revival”. Prof. Strang presents “Mathematics in Signal Processing, Meshing for CAD, and Circuit Simulation”. These are truly key research topics in the field of smart info-media systems. I really expect all of participations are discussing about the topics of ISCIT in all sessions.