1. Invitation to 15th CSWS
Towards the information society, innovation of broadband technology has started to be spread as a service. We could hold the substantial workshop last year, which theme was "Opening of broadband IT services". We will add a keyword, "Ubiquitous" to the coming workshop, and we would like to discuss the future direction of our information society from various aspects such as technology, service, business, and creation of society.

In the session of "Broadband service", we would like to introduce the trend of optical access business overseas and various verifications based on the above theme. In the session of "Public information system and its subject to be studied", we will introduce substantial examples towards information society, and in the session of "Realization of Ubiquitous network", we will become more aware of the subjects to be examined regarding factor technology and creation of new society. Also as a special lecture, we have scheduled the lecture of "Repair and Restoration of Kanazawa Castle" by Mr. Atsushi Kimura of Ishikawa-prefecture, Public Works Department.

In this lecture, Mr. Kimura will tell us what he feels about the caslte and his efforts in his situation that he took an initiative in overall maintenance of the castle last July. These buildings are constructed by a traditional way of constraction using woods, and they are the biggest wooden castle since Meiji era. Many tourists visited Kaga one million koku fare, which was held at the same timing of broadcasting of NHK TV roman drama, and it offers us a romance beyond millions of era.

We have chosen Wakura hot spring in Nanao-shi, Noto as the location of Workshop and social gathering, where is one of the roots of the Maeda-han of Kaga.

The coming workshop will be the 15th anniversary, and we would like to offer you an opportunity of more heating discussion. We are sincerely looking forward to seeing many participants.

2. Date
November 28, 2002 (Thursday) 14:30 - 19:00
November 29, 2002 (Friday) 8:30 - 12:45

3. Location
Kagaya Inn, Nanao-shi, Ishikawa
Tel: (0767) 62 - 1111
Address: 80 Yobu Wakurachou Nanao-shi, Ishikawa, 926-0192, Japan
WWW: http://www.kagaya.co.jp/kagaya/kagaya.html

4. Workshop Program (as of November 27th)

(Notice on Language)

Lecture 1 in Session 1 is in English. Other lectures are given in Japanese.

November 28th (Thursday)

Opening speech (14:30 pm -14:40 pm)

Hideo Hashimoto, Executive Committee Chief (Kanazawa University)

Session 1. "Broadband service"

Chairman: Yoichi Maeda (NTT), Katsuhiro Yamaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Lecture 1. B-PON optical access business overseas and its future development (14:40 pm - 15:20 pm)

Dr. Donald Stalter (Lecture by English)

Chief Operating Officer, Terawave Communication (California, U.S.A)

Lecture 2. Current condition of streaming video distribution protocol and the subject to be studied

(16:30 pm - 17:00 pm)

Masayuki Ito

NTT Server Solution Laboratories

Multimedia Terminal Project Group Leader

Lecture 3. Current condition of IP Multicast and its development by broadband (15:50 pm - 16:20 pm)

Koji Okamura

Associate Professor, Computing and Communications Center, Kyushu University

Break  (16:20 pm - 16:30 pm)

Lecture 4. Current condition of optical commerce basic protocol and the subject to be studied. (15:20 pm - 15:50 pm)

Yutaka Hirakawa

NTT Service Integration Laboratories

Optical Commerce Service Project Group Leader

Lecture 5. Security Service provided by providers

(17:00 pm - 17:30 pm)

Kenichi Fukamachi

IIJ Sapporo Branch

Chief, Internet Technology

Session 2. Special lecture (17:45 pm- 18:30 pm)

Chairman: Kazunori Fukushima (The Ministry of Public Management, Home affairs, Posts and Telecommunications), Hideo Hashimoto (Kanazawa University)

"Repair and Restoration of Kanazawa Castle" - From the site of maintenance of a castle -

Atsushi Kimura

Vice-chief and manager of park and green belt

Ishikawa-prefecture, Public Works Department,

November 29th (Friday)

Session 3: "Public information system and the subject to be studied"

Chairman: Masayuki Tanimoto (Nagoya University)

Lecture 1. Information system for Electronic government

(8:30 am - 9:00 am)

Speaker: Takuya Yoshida

Ministry of Public Management, Home Affaires, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT)

Lecture 2. Current status and issues on Electronic Voting

(9:00 am - 9:30 am)

Masashi Yagou

NTT Data, Public Business Division

Senior Manager, National Securities Business Division　

Lecture 3. Digital Information System for protection against disasters

(9:30 am - 10:00 am)

Shigeki Yokoi

Professor, Human Informatics, Nagoya University

Session 4. "Realization of Ubiquitous Network"

Chairman: Tomohiro Ishihara (Fujitsu Limited)

Lecture 1. Process of the establishment of Ubiquitous Network society and the subject to be studied.

(10:45 am - 11:15 am)

Hiroyuki Morikawa

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Department of Frontier Informatics, Advanced Information Network

Lecture 2. Network Middle Wear towards realization of Ubiquitous Network (11:15 am - 11:45 am)

Mitsuaki Kakemizu, Fujitsu Laboratories, Network system laboratories

Senior Research Engineer, Network Architecture Research Department

Lecture 3. Fundamental technology required to Ubiquitous service and application.

Tatsuo Itabashi

Sony Corporation, Broadband Application Laboratories

Group Leader, MDS Group

5. Registration

Fill in the REGISTRATION FORM, and send it to csws_m@onw.nec.co.jp

Regitration due date: October 31, 2002

6. Participation fee

Participation fee

IEICE Member: 22,000 yen

  (Including copy of draft, social gathering)

Non-member: 27,000 yen

  (Including copy of draft, social gathering)

Student: 4,000 yen

Accommodation charge: 10,000 yen

[NOTE]

+ The room is Japanese style one and will be shared by several participants.

+ Place to stay : Kagaya Inn

7. How to get by train

• Direct train: One direct train per day is available. (Both up train and down train)
• The meeting will be held at 14:30 pm. (Depart from Tokyo station at 8:56 am, and arrive at Wakura Hot Spring Station ("Wakura-Onn-Senn") at 14:07 pm.) (Earlier arrival: depart from Tokyo station at 7:12 am, and arrive at Wakura Hot Spring Station at 12:09 pm.)
• Bus will be arranged between Wakura Hot Spring Station (Wakura-Onn-Senn) and the Kagaya Inn (About 10 minutes ride)
• Participants will be dismissed at 12:45 pm. Direct access to Tokyo Station is: depart from Wakura Hot Spring Station at 14:27 pm, and arrive at Tokyo Station at 19:44 pm.