As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide: Amsterdam, Helsinki, Paris, Shanghai, and Kyoto, to name only some well-known examples. It is interesting to note that digital cities have different goals: to explore a vertical market, a public communication space, a next generation metropolitan network, and a social information infrastructure for the 21st century. Their different services, system architectures, and organizations result from these different goals, and from the different social contexts in which the digital cities emerged. It is expected that digital cities will change together with the advance of computer and network technologies, and also with changes in the (market) environment, in which the digital cities operate. No digital city can remain at its current status, as already experienced by some of the earlier experiments. This second Kyoto meeting aims at improving our understanding of the current status and future of those classes of systems that are covered by the concept of digital city. What are feasible models? What do experiments teach us? What new technologies emerge?

The aim of this meeting is to encourage the activity in this field, and to bring together both computer science and social science people concerned with digital cities. The meeting is composed of a one-day symposium followed by a two-day workshop. The symposium consists invited talks and panels. The symposium is open to public. The workshop participation is by invitation only and is limited to professionals who have made significant contributions to the topic of the meeting. The number of workshop attendees will be around 50. All invitees are requested to attend both symposium and workshop and are requested to submit papers to the workshop. All papers will be published as a volume from Springer-Verlag. You can find the post-proceedings of the first Kyoto meeting as follows:

Toru Ishida and Katherine Isbister (Eds.), Digital Cities: Experiences, Technologies and Future Perspectives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1765, Springer-Verlag, 2000.


TOPICS:

Design and Analysis Perspectives Digital City Experiments Community
Network Experiments Application of Digital Cities User studies Visualization
Technologies Mobile Technologies Social Interaction and Communityware
User Involvement in Digital Cities and Community Networks Organizational
Models and Business Models for Digital Cities

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for abstract: May 1, 2001 [passed]
Deadline for full paper: June 1, 2001 [passed]
Author notification: Aug 1, 2001 [passed]
Deadline for camera ready paper: Sept 1, 2001 [passed]
Meeting: Oct 18-20, 2001 [passed]
Deadline for post-proceedings: Nov 15, 2001


WORKSHOP PROGRAM

October 19, 2001 09:00-09:10 Opening of the workshop - Peter van den Besselaar and Makoto Tanabe 09:10-10:50 Oral Presentation I (Evaluation of Digital Cities) - Chair: Peter Mambrey Kaoru Hiramatsu (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) - Log Analysis of Map-based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto Els Rommes (Twente University, Netherlands) - `De-scribing' a Digital City: Exclusion-processes in DDS Peter Day (University of Brighton, UK) - Designing Democratic Community Networks: Participating in an Inter-Disciplinary Approach Lili Cheng (Microsoft Research, USA) Shelly Farnham (Microsoft Research, USA) Linda Stone (Microsoft Research, USA) - Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments 11:15-13:00 Oral Presentation II (Concepts & Theory) - Chair: Peter van den Besselaar Victor Kryssanov (Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan) Masayuki Okabe (Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan) Koh Kakusho (Kyoto University, Kyoto) Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Kyoto) - Communication of Social Agents and the Digital City - A Semiotic Perspective Gary Gumpert (Communication Landscapers, USA) Susan Drucker (Communication Landscapers, USA) - Privacy, Predictability or Serendipity and Digital Cities Stelios Lelis (FORTH-ICS, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece) Petros Kavassalis (FORTH-ICS, Foundation of Research and Technology/University of Crete, Atlantis Group, Greece) Jakka Sairamesh (IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA) Antonis Hatzistamatiou (FORTH-ICS, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece) Seif Haridi (SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Fredrik Holmgren (SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Mahmoud Rafea (SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) - Regularities in the Formation and Evolution of Information Cities Katy Borner (Indiana University, USA) - Using Twin Worlds to Research Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities 13:00-17:00 Excursion 17:30-18:30 Poster Presentations Ileana Hamburg (Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein Westfalen Gelsenkir, Germany) Dieter Rehfeld (Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein Westfalen Gelsenkir, Germany) - Digital Experiments to Improve Knowledge Based Economical Development - Strengthening Local Nodes Hiroshi Tsuji (Hitachi, Japan) Masato Terada (Hitachi, Japan) Yuki Kadowaki (Hitachi, Japan) Masaaki Tanizaki (Hitachi, Japan) Shigeru Shimada (Hitachi, Japan) - Spatial Information Sharing for PC and KEITAI Ituki Noda (AIST & PRESTO, Japan) Tomoichi Takahashi (Chubu University, Japan) Shuji Morita (Kobe University, Japan) Tetsuhiko Koto (University of Ellectro-Communications, Japan) Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe University, Japan) -Language Design for Rescue Agents Junichi Akahani (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Kaoru Hiramatsu (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Yoshikazu Furukawa (NTT Comware Corporation, Japan) Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) - Agent-based Coordination of Regional Information Services Masaya Okada (Kyoto University, Japan) Hiroyuki Tarumi (Kagawa Univerisity, Japan) Tetsuhiko Yoshimura (Kyoto University, Japan) Kazuyuki Moriya (Kyoto University, Japan) Tetsuro Sakai (Kyoto University, Japan) - Realization of Digital Environmental Education - A Future Style of Environmental Education in Dynamically Changing Virtual Environment Satoshi Koizumi (Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan) Guiming Dai (Wakayama University, Japan) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Wakayama University, Japan) - Town digitizing for building an image-based cyber space Tomohioro Fukuhara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) MATSUMURA Ken'ichi (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) AZECHI Shintaro (Hokkaido Tokai University, Japan) FUJIHARA Nobuhiko (Naruto University of Education, Japan) TERADA Kazunori (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) YAMASHITA Koji (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) NISHIDA Toyoaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Creating City Community Consanguinity: Application of Public Opinion Channel to Digital Cities Murali Venkatesh (Syracuse University, USA) Dong Shin (Syracuse University, USA) - Out of the Loop: Problems in the Development of Next Generation Community Networks Karrie J. Hanson (AT&T Research, USA) Gerald M. Karam (AT&T Research, USA) - Community Websites as a Local Communication Network: "Directory Westfiels", An Experience Report 18:30-20:00 Posters and dinner October 20, 2001 09:00-09:10 Announcement 09:10-10:50 Oral Presentation III: (Experiments) - Chair: Katherine Isbister Helen Mc.Quillan (Ireland eircom Ennis Information Age Town, Ireland) - Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality rooted in Reality Kikuko Harada (Center for Entrepreneurship Education, Japan) Hiroshi Hoshino (ASTEM RI, Japan) - Feasibility study of digital community through virtual enterprise network Agneta Ranerup (Goteborg University, Sweden) - The Complexity of Using Commercial Forces to Counteract the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the TUC of Sweden Randal Pinkett (MIT Media Laboratory, USA) - The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low-to Moderate-Incom Community 11:15-12:30 Oral Presentation IV: (Technologies for Digital Cities) - Chair: Makoto Tanabe Hiroya Tanaka (Tokyo University, Japan) Masatoshi Arikawa (Tokyo University, Japan) Ryosuke Shibasaki (Tokyo University, Japan) - A 3D photo collage system for spatial navigations Koichi Goto (Railway Techinical Research Institute, Japan) Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) - Study on Mobile Passenger Support Systems for Public Transportation using Multi-Channel Data Dissemination Aradhana Goel (MIT, USA) - URBAN PILOT: A Dynamic Mapping Tool to Personalize the City through Collective Memory 12:30-13:00 Summarizing the Results - Peter van den Besselaar and Makoto Tanabe 14:00-17:00 Collaboration in Building Future Digital Cities -- NTT Communication Science Laboratories The 10th anniversary panel discussions -Introduction by Dr. Kogure -Presentation - Spatial Information Science by Prof. Shibasaki - Next generation Web technologies by Prof. Hendler - Presentation on virtual world technologies by Prof. Borner - Presentation on agent technologies by Dr. Burg -Discussion 17:00 Closing

TRAVEL SUPPORT

Among the accepted papers, a few papers are planned to be invited for NTT panels. The travel expenses of the panel speakers and a few more workshop speakers from overseas will be fully/partially supported. For detailed information, please contact our meeting secretariat.


COMMITTEE

Symposium Chair:
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)

Workshop Chairs:
Peter van den Besselaar (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Makoto Tanabe (JST Digital City Research Center, Japan)
Panel chair:
Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Secretariat:
Shoko Toda (JST Digital City Research Center, Japan)


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Shintaro Azechi	Hokkaido Tokai University
Hiroshi Ishiguro	Wakayama University (Japan)
Hideyuki Nakanishi	Kyoto University (Japan)
Kiyoshi Kogure	NTT Communication Science Laboratories (Japan)
Fusako Kusunoki	Tama School of Art (Japan)
Takao Terano	Tsukuba University (Japan)
Ei-Ichi Osawa	Hakodate Mirai University (Japan)
Hideo Shimazu	NEC (Japan)
Atsuya Yoshida	The University of Tokushima (Japan)
Noshir Sarosh Contractor	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Katherine Currie Isbister	NetStage (USA)
Hans Schlichter	Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany)
Yasuyuki Sumi	ATR (Japan)
Artur Serra	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Huanye Sheng	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Hiroshi Tsuji	Hitachi (Japan)
Peter Mambrey	GMD-German National Research Center for Information Technology (Germany)
Kyoung Jun Lee	Korea University (Korea)
Nobuaki Arai	Kyoto University (Japan)
Alberto Bianchi	University of Siena (Italy)
Patrizia Marti	University of Siena (Italy)
Brian Donald Loader	University of Teesside (United Kingdom)
Mike Gurstein	New Media Innovation Centre (Canada)
Lili Cheng	Microsoft (USA)
Yoshio Nakatani	Mitsubishi (Japan)
Shinzi Shimojo	Osaka University (Japan)
Masahiko Tsukamoto	Osaka University (Japan)
Keiichi Nakata	Tokyo University (Japan)
Itsuki Noda	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
Paul Resnic	University of Michigan (USA)
Koichi Matsuda	Sony (Japan)
Karrie Hanson	AT&T Research (USA)
Paul Luff	King's College (United Kingdom)
Kari Kuutti	University of Oulu (Finland)
Alan Cardon	Paris VI University (France)
Jean-Pierre Briot	Paris 6 (France)
Liam Bannon	University of Limerick (Ireland)
Geoffrey Charles Bowker	University of California, SanDiego (USA)
Hitoshi Isahara	Communication Linguistics Group (Japan)
Maria Antonietta	Grasso XRCE (France)

For further information, please send email to: workshop@digitalcity.jst.go.jp