Dear Friends:

I believe that CIS 2004 is a successful event, with most speakers
having presented their work. I would like to especially thank several
speakers who were struggling to present their papers due to their
difficulty in spoken English. The emphasis on "participation" over
"publication" was upheld at CIS 2004 by almost 200 attendees. The 
only disappointing thing of the conference was that several session 
chairs did not show up to "chair" their sessions. This is a real 
shame, compared to the students who overcame various difficulties 
to attend and present their research work at CIS 2004.

We have arranged four journal special issues for accommodating 
excellent papers from CIS 2004 authors and attendees. Please note 
that these journal special issues accept and publish FULL length
articles. The papers can be full version papers of your CIS 2004 proceedings
papers or any other papers, but NOT the exact version of the
proceedings papers. Please submit your papers to the appropriate
guest editors directly. (The editors will NOT choose papers from 
the CIS 2004 proceedings automatically, you must submit your papers).

1.) International Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, special issue on
Nonlinear Science, Numerical Modeling and Simulations, guest editor, 
Dr. Ji-Huan He (jhhe@dhu.edu.cn).

2.) IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, special issue on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology, guest editors, Dr. Huiru Zheng, 
(h.zheng@ulster.ac.uk) et al. see the Call-For-Paper at 
www.cs.uky.edu/~jzhang/cis.html.

3.) Communications in Information and Systems, special issue on Data
Mining and Information Retrieval, guest editors, Dr. Ruisong Ye, 
(rsye@stu.edu.cn), Dr. Wai Lam, (wlam@se.cuhk.edu.hk) et al. see the 
Call-For-Paper at www.cs.uky.edu/~jzhang/cis.html.

4.) Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms, special issue on
Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, etc. 
guest editor, Dr. George Gravvanis (ggravvan@ee.duth.gr).

For more details on the special issue topics, please contact the guest
editors directly.

I wish you have a successful new year and hope to see you at the next
CIS conference.

Sincerely,

Jun Zhang
CIS'04 Co-Chair
December 30, 2004
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