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8th International Workshop on
Advances in Networking and Computing (WANC)
http://is-candar.org/wanc17
to be held in conjunction with CANDAR 2017
Aomori, Japan, November 19-22, 2017
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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.

[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

[Special Session on Practical Aspects on Networking and Computing]

This special session is organized for the practitioners, who
would like to present the experiences and findings in new
system development. Unlike the regular session which pursues
theories and principles, this special session prefers to
share the problems and experiences in practical projects and
developments of hardware/software/systems.

Authors of a paper should check button $B!H(BSpecial Session on
Practical Aspects on Networking and Computing$B!I(B in EasyChair
submission system if it is intended to submit to this
special section.

[Publication]

The accepted papers will be published as a part of the
proceedings of CANDAR 2017. The past proceedins 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 1, 2017
Workshop paper submission due: August 6, 2017
Workshop author notification: September 10, 2017

[Organizers]

(Workshop co-chairs)

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

(Program Committee)

Urska Cvek (Louisiana State University in Shreveport)
Naoki Fujieda (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Masahiro Fujii (Utsunomiya University)
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)
Yasuyuki Miura (Shonan Institute of Technology)
Yuichi Miyaji (Toyohashi university of technology)
Masato Oguchi (Ochanomizu University)
Takeshi Ohkawa (Utsunomiya University)
Ren Ohmura (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Kanemitsu Ootsu (Utsunomiya University)
Takahiro Sasaki (Mie University)
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)
Marjan Trutschl (Louisiana State University)
Tomoaki Tsumura (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Minoru Uehara (Toyo University)
Tomoaki Ukezono (Fukuoka University)
Saneyasu Yamaguchi (Kogakuin University)
Masato Yoshimi (University of Electro-Communications)

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

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