CALL FOR PAPERS

The 9th International Workshop on Networking, Computing, Systems, and Software (NCSS-9)

https://is-candar.org/mini/ncss9

to be held in conjunction with miniCANDAR2019, Tamachi, Tokyo, Japan, June 4, 2019

The main goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and research in the field of networking, computing, systems, and software. We accept original and unpublished work. We also accept: position papers, undergoing work, preliminary version of a paper, and extended version of previously published paper. In particular, we welcome presentation of preliminary papers to be submitted to CANDAR 2019 symposium (Nagasaki, Japan, November 2019). This workshop is non-refereed, so all submitted papers will be accepted for publication and presentation as long as they are well-formatted technical papers in the area of computing and networking. The authors are responsible for the originality, significance, clarity, and quality of the papers.

[Submission Instruction]
Abstract must be registered though EasyChair by May 6, 2019. After that, the PDF must be uploaded by May 13, 2019. You may upload the new version anytime until the submission due date. For paper submission, you need to login EasyChair as an “author”, choose “new submission” menu. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. You should select Oral presentation or Poster Presentation when you submit the paper. Submitted papers will be published as they are.
Presentation at the workshop site must be made in English or Japanese.

[Paper format]
Submitted papers must be the PDF using IEEE standard US-letter two-column format. Please see Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings for the details. Title, Authors, Affiliation, Address, Abstract, Keywords must be written in English. The body of the paper can be written in any language including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc. If you want to include the non-English version of Title, Authors, etc, they must be written in the footnote of the first page. The length of the paper must be 2-10 pages. The PDF file should not have page numbers. The PDF file should not be protected for copying, editing and printing.
Papers that do not follow these guidelines will not be accepted.
[Publication]
Proceedings including all papers will be published and distributed at the miniCANDAR symposium site. All papers presented at the workshop site will also be published in The Bulletin of Networking, Computing, Systems, and Software (http://bncss.org/, ISSN 2186-5140).

[Registration]
NCSS workshop speaker registration fee: 5,000 JPY
Non-speaker registration: free
NCSS9 paper authors (including non-speaker author who does not pay 5,000JPY) will be offered a 5,000 JPY discount for registration of CANDAR 2019 symposium (https://is-candar.org/candar19) held in Nagasaki, Japan, November 26-29, 2019.

[Yakatabune Banquet]
We are planning Yakatabune Banquet after the Symposium.

[Important Dates]
*Abstract registration due: May 6, 2019
* NCSS9 Speaker registration payment due: May 6, 2019
* Paper submission due: May 13, 2019
* Symposium: June 4, 2019.