Nagasaki（长琦）, Japan, Dec. 2008, http://grid.hust.edu.cn/FCST2008

Introduction
The Japan-China Joint Workshop on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST) has been held in Wuhan, China, 1 - 3 Nov. 2007 and in Aizu, Japan, 17 - 18 Nov., 2006. This 2008 workshop will be held in Nagasaki, Japan. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an open forum for computer scientists and researchers to present, discuss and exchange state-of-the-art ideas, results and experiences in all areas of computer science and technology. The FCST-08 comes out of the successful holding of FCST-06 and FCST-07.

Scope and Interests
The FCST 2008 workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry to address all resulting profound challenges, and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work in progress and experience.

Submission Information
The accepted papers have to be presented orally at the workshop and will be published in proceedings of the FCST 2008 workshop by IEEE Computer Society. Each submission must not exceed 10 pages in the IEEE 8.5’’ x 11’’ two-column format with 10-12 point font, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order that the accepted paper can be put into digital library. The final version of an accepted paper will be limited to 10 pages in IEEE proceeding format. Submissions should be sent to Xiaofei Liao via hustliaoxf at gmail.com and Qianfu Zhao via qf-zhao at u-aizu.ac.jp.

Important Dates
Paper submission due: 15 August 2008
Acceptance notification: 22 August. 2008
Camera-ready due: 01 September 2008
Author registration: 01 September 2008
Conference: December 2008
General Chair
Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
Program Co-Chairs
Qianfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan
Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Wuhan. China