2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop

2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
October 22 - October 26, 2006, Chengdu, China

Call for Papers

The 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop will be held at the Chengdu International Exhibition and Convention Center, Chengdu China, October 22 (Sunday) through October 26 (Thursday) 2006. Detailed information including submission guidelines, contact links, technical program, registration, travel, accommodation, getting around, and social events will be available at the workshop website: http://sist.swjtu.edu.cn/imc/itw06/.

Topics

The workshop aims to explore current topics in the areas of coding and information theory. The workshop has a three and half-day technical program featuring plenary talks, as well as invited and contributed paper presentations. Possible topics include, but are not necessarily limited to:

error control codes
iterative decoding and detection techniques
data compression
joint source and channel coding
quantum-theoretical aspects of coding
network coding
space-time codes, multi-user and MIMO systems

Paper Submission

Papers presenting new results in the above areas are hereby solicited. Only electronic submissions via website http://sist.swjtu.edu.cn/imc/itw06/ in PDF or PS formats are accepted. Each submission must be at most 5 pages in length conforming to the double-column IEEE conference proceedings format (style file and templates can be downloaded from above website). Submissions that cannot be accommodated in contributed paper sessions may be considered for poster sessions.

Authors may submit their manuscript in one of two formats: Adobe Postscript (.ps) or Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf), preferred PDF format. The submitted paper must not exceed 5 pages (in double column format) according to the style files which can be downloaded below,
Example manuscript (PDF)
LaTeX style file (STY)
Example manuscript (TEX)
Example manuscript (MS Word)

Conference Proceedings

All papers accepted for oral and poster presentation will be published in the Workshop Proceedings by IEEE Press (in both printing and CDROM forms). All the accepted papers will be included in the IEEEXplore online database and be indexed by Engineering Index (Ei).

Important dates

Submission deadline:	June 1, 2006 (extended to June 16, 2006)
Notification of acceptance:	August 1, 2006 (extended to August 15, 2006)
Camera-ready deadline:	September 1, 2006 (extended to September 10, 2006)

ITW'06 Secretariat, School of Information Science & Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031, PR of China, Fax:+86 28 87600743, Email: p.fan@ieee.org, w.mow@ieee.org, http://sist.swjtu.edu.cn/imc/itw06/
ITW'06 info enquiry: Dr Qingchun CHEN, Email: qcchen@home.swjtu.edu.cn
Webmaster: Ms Liu YANG, Email:dadahoo@home.swjtu.edu.cn