The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have full control on the call for papers, forming of program committees, review and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. The chairs must state in the workshop CFP as "Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. For no-show authors, their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference and their affiliations will receive a notification." The registration fees for workshops will be determined by the conference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and the conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, the meeting room, coffee break, lunch, proceedings and etc. Any further expense of the workshop same to the main conference or one help month later such as the financial aid to the invited speakers MUST be provided by the workshop itself upon getting some sponsors for their own workshops. The money from workshop sponsors will be received by the workshop itself.


The proceedings of the PDCAT 2010 workshops will be published by Conference Publishing Services. Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to PDCAT 2010 Workshop Chairs. 

Full name and acronym of the workshop
URL of the workshop web site
A short description (about 100 words) of the workshop
Objectives, scope, and topics of the workshop
One page CFP of the workshop
Names and contacts of key organizers


Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Due: April 30, 2010
Workshop Notification: May 08, 2010
Release of Workshop Call for Paper: May 20, 2010
Workshop Submission Deadline: August 10, 2010
Workshop Author Notification: Sept. 05, 2010
Workshop Camera-ready and Registration Due: Sept. 20, 2010

We encourage researches to submit their workshop proposals (according to the guidelines available at PDCAT 2010 web site to Prof. Koji Nakano (nakano@hiroshima-u.ac.jp), Prof. Guojun Wang (csgjwang@gmail.com) and Prof. Deqing Zou (deqingzou@hust.edu.cn)) with the subject "PDCAT-2010 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".