Message from the Technical Program Chairs

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On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, it is our pleasure to address the overview of the technical program of the APCCAS 2004 to you. The technical program is the core of the Conference, which integrates many efforts of a large number of authors, reviewers, conference staffs, and all members of the Technical Program Committee. The APCCAS 2004 with excellent technical programs organizes many tutorial, regular, and special sessions as well as all the exciting events. The APCCAS 2004, embraced a full electronic web-based paper submission and review process, received over 405 papers from more than 24 countries from various parts of the world. Particularly many of these papers were submitted from countries outside of the Asia-Pacific region. Under the enthusiastic participation of active researchers with excellent technical papers, the APCCAS has established its recognition to be one of the important IEEE conferences. After collecting the reviews and scores for each submission paper from at least three reviewers, the Technical Program Committee evaluate and select the highest quality papers from the submissions in two days. We offer our congratulation to those excellent technical contributions. However we also regretted that we cannot include all the fine papers into the final technical program due to outnumbered submissions and limited space and facility of the conference venue. In this conference, we have included 297 papers for the presentation in six parallel tracks, five oral presentation ones and the other with four poster sessions. Overall there are 37 regular lecture sessions and a special session in “System LSI Design”. Approximately 35% of the accepted papers are presented in poster sessions, which offer the authors and attendees to share experiences by having in-depth discussions. After the opening ceremony, the conference program committee invited Professor David C. L. Liu to give a keynote speech on the theme of “The High Walls Have Crumpled” followed by Professor Rueywen Liu and Professor Bing Sheu to present two pioneering guidance speeches on the topics of “Can Shannon’s Channel Capacity Be Challenged?’ and “Strategies for High-Tech Academia Uprising in 21 st Century”, respectively. In the second day, we also invited four international distinguished speakers, Professor M.N.S. Swamy, Professor Yih-Fang Huang, Professor Robert W. Newcomb, and Professor Akinori Nishihara to share us their recent technical developments on issues of “Design of OTA-C Oscillators and Current-Mode Filters Using Network Transposition”, “A Location System Using Asynchronous Distributed Sensors”, “Ear-Type Systems”, and “The World of Flatness”, respectively. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the distinguished invited speakers, all authors, who submitted papers, the reviewers, the session chairs and co-chairs, conference staffs, and all members of Technical Program Committee, who all have greatly contributed to the success of the technical program of APCCAS 2004.