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9th International Workshop on
Advances in Networking and Computing (WANC)
http://is-candar.org/wanc18
to be held in conjunction with CANDAR 2018,
Hida Takayama, Japan, November 27-30, 2018
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The main goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum
for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques
and research in all fields of networking and computing. In
particular, we expect submissions based on research done by
students.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Algorithms, Applications, Architecture, Computer Systems,
Networking, Grid, Software Engineering, Intelligent Systems,
and Information/Computer Security.

[Submission Instruction]

WANC workshop accepts two types of submissions (Short and
Poster). Short papers and Poster papers must be 4-5 pages
and 2-3 pages using IEEE two-column format,
respectively. Papers submitted as short papers may be
accepted as poster papers.

For more details, please refer to the following URL.
http://is-candar.org/workshop_submission

[Publication]

The accepted papers will be published as a part of the
proceedings of CANDAR 2018. The past proceedings of
CANDAR were published by IEEE Conference Publishing
Service, which were submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital
libraries. Also they were submitted for indexing through
INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing
services.

[Special Issues]

We plan to publish the extended versions of selected papers
from CANDAR main conference and workshops. Please see the
following URL for the details.
http://is-candar.org/special_issue

[Important Dates]

Workshop abstract submission due: August 10, 2018
Workshop paper submission due: August 15, 2018
Workshop paper notification: October 1, 2018

[Organizers]

(Workshop co-chairs)

Shuichi Ichikawa (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Takashi Yokota (Utsunomiya University)

(Program Committee)

Naoki Fujieda (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Hiroshi Fujiwara (Shinshu University)
Michihiro Horie (IBM Research - Tokyo)
Keisuke Iwai (National Defense Academy)
Yoshiaki Katayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Aki Kobayashi (Kogakuin University)
Ryotaro Kobayashi (Kogakuin University)
Michihiro Koibuchi (National Institute of Informatics)
Takuya Kusaka (Okayama University)
Yasuyuki Miura (Shonan Institute of Technology)
Yuichi Miyaji (Toyohashi university of technology)
Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Takeshi Ohkawa (Utsunomiya University)
Ren Ohmura (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Kanemitsu Ootsu (Utsunomiya University)
Takahiro Sasaki (Aichi Prefecture University)
Yukinori Sato (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Tokyo) [1]
Hiroyuki Sato (Iwate Prefectural University) [2]
Shimpei Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Ryota Shioya (Nagoya University)
Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki (Hokkaido University)
Keigo Takeuchi (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Tomoaki Tsumura (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Minoru Uehara (Toyo University)
Tomoaki Ukezono (Fukuoka University)
Yoshiki Yamaguchi (University of Tsukuba)
Saneyasu Yamaguchi (Kogakuin University)

[1],[2] Different persons of the same spelling

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