Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan December 20-22, 2011
Co-Sponsored by: SICE System Integration Division,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

WEB SITE: http://www.si-sice.org/SII2011/
EMAIL: sii2011(at)mechatronics.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp

The 20th century was the age of evolution of science and technology concerning artifacts. Fundamentals of mass production had been established by specialized technologies and surely had contributed our social life. In the 21st century, our societies expect methodologies for solving problems of complex systems consisting of society, human and technologies, which cannot be completed by single sectionalized technology. Under these circumstances, the system integration (SI) to look down the whole technologies is becoming a critical issue of engineering. 2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SI International 2011, SII2011) will be held as the fourth symposium on system integration. System integration is one of the key technologies and
the integration of hardware and software is especially important to solve the industrial or social system problems in new century. This symposium focuses to the new research and industrial application of system integration, and discusses the approach method to improve effectiveness of system integration.

The topics of this symposium include, but not limited to
1. System Integration
Control technology, Robotics technology, Network system control, Plant engineering, System hardware, System software, Integration platform,…
2. Artifacts
Mechatronics systems, Automation systems, Virtual reality systems, Entertainment systems, Micro-nano systems, ...
3. Human and Society
Welfare systems, Environment / Ecological systems, Bio systems, Disaster prevention, Disaster mitigation, Rescue systems, Security systems, Enterprise resource planning systems, Supply chain management systems,
Intelligent transportation systems, Logistics systems, Human, ...
4. Assistive Technologies
Large-scale system simulation, Software systems, Networking systems, Decision making systems, ...

Full Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Six camera-ready pages including figures are allowed for each paper. All accepted papers will be presented in oral sessions. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available on the conference website. All presented at the conference papers will be included in IEEE Xplore.

IMPORTANT DATES:
- September 23th, 2011 Full Papers Due
- October 30th, 2011 Notification of Acceptance
- November 15th, 2011 Final Papers Due

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
- Hang Chang Chieh, National Univ. Singapore, Singapore
- Myung Jin Chung, KAIST, Korea
- Li-Chen Fu, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
- Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya Univ., Japan
- Kazuhiro Kosuge, IEEE RAS President, Japan
- Ju Jang Lee, KAIST, Korea
- Tong Heng Lee, National Univ. Singapore, Singapore
- Ren C. Luo, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
- Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan
- Han Pang Huang, National, Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
- Chongkug Park, Kyung Hee Univ., Korea
- Suttichai Premrudeepreechacharn, Chiangmai Univ. TL
- Klaus Schilling, Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany
- Bruno Siciliano, IEEE RAS Former-President, Italy
- Sang Chul Won, POSTECH, Korea

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair:
-Fumitoshi Matsuno, Kyoto Univ., Japan

General Vice-Chairs:
- Kosin Chamnongthai, KMUTT, Thailand
- Shuzhi Sam Ge, National Univ. Singapore, Singapore
- Keum-Shik Hong, Pusan National Univ., Korea
- Tzuu-Hseng S. Li, National United Univ., Taiwan

Program Chair:
- Minoru Sasaki, Gifu Univ., Japan

Program Vice-Chairs:
- Martin Buss, Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany
- Qixin Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China
- Kang-Hyun Jo, Univ. of Ulsan, Korea
- Tetsuo Kotoku, AIST, Japan
- Yun Hui Liu, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, HK
- Nobuto Matsuhira, Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan
- Ching-Chih Tsai, National Chung Hsing Univ., TW

Regional Program Chairs:
- Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur Univ., India
- Chul-Goo Kang, Konkuk University, Korea
- Benjamas Panomruttanarug, KMUTT, Thailand
- Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Univ. Rome, Italy
- Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO, Viet Nam

International Relations Co-Chairs:
- Yasuaki Kuroe, Kyoto Inst. of Technology, Japan
- Jangmyung Lee, Pusan National Univ., Korea
- Bao-Liang Lu, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China
- Kazuhiko Terashima, Toyohashi Univ. of Tech., Japan

Advisory Co-Chairs:
- Koichi Hashimoto, Tohoku Univ., Japan
- Naoshi Kondo, Kyoto Univ. Japan
- Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kyoto Univ., Japan
- Tetsuo Sawaragi, Kyoto Univ. Japan
- Toshiharu Sugie, Kyoto Univ., Japan
- Yuichi Tsumaki, Yamagata Univ., Japan

Local Arrangement Chair:
- Hiroaki Fukushima, Kyoto Univ., Japan

Publication Chair:
- Hiroaki Nakanishi, Kyoto Univ., Japan

Publication Vice Chair:
- Katsuhiko Inagaki, Tokai Univ., Japan

Publicity Chair:
- Tetsuya Ogata, Kyoto Univ. Japan

Finance Chair:
- Noritaka Sato, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan

Registration Chair:
- Michinori Hatayama, Kyoto Univ. Japan

Exhibitions Chair:
- Masaharu Komori, Kyoto Univ. Japan

Secretary:
- Kazuyuki Kon, Kyoto Univ. Japan