CW2005 has the following parallel sessions:

• Full Conference Papers:

  - Shared and Collaborative Cyberworlds (SCC)

  - Distributed Cyberworlds (DCW)

  - Information Security (SEC)

  - Data Retrieval and Data Mining (DRDM)

  - HCI and Humanized Interfaces in Cyberworlds (HCI)

  - Cyber-education (EDU)

  - Cyber-business  (BUS)

• Short Conference Papers (SP)

• LUAR 2005 papers

• WCCW 2005 papers

• Industrial presentations (IP)

Each conference room is equipped with a personal computer running MS Windows XP and MS Office, a large screen projector, microphone and Internet access (wired and Wi-Fi). Please refer to the conference web page and click at the links there to see how the rooms look like. The presenters will be able to use their own notebooks should they decide to do so. Alternatively, please bring along your files in Ms PowerPoint format on
CD-ROM or USB drive. The files have to be copied to the computer before the respective session. Each conference room will be served by one of the student volunteers (speaking English and Chinese) who will assist you with this.

Please remember to send us the speaker's bio if you have not done it yet. Before the session, please identify yourself to your session chair.

Full Paper Speakers will have 25 min for presentation and 5 min for Q&A.

Short Paper Speakers will have 10 min for presentations and 3 min for max 2 questions only. Due to the time constrains, there will be no official poster session accompanying the Short Paper sessions however should the authors of short papers want to make demos running on your notebooks in the lobby after the session during the coffee breaks, they will be able to do so. Please let me know then so that we will make a space for you.

Wi-Fi Internet will be available at any place of NEC for those delegates who stay at NEC. For those who stay downtown, we will make available 2-3 PC connected to the Internet for checking emails. We will be also able to lend you a limited number of Wi-Fi logins.

Key-note Talk 3: Combining the Real and Cyber worlds using Mixed Reality and Human Centered Media
by Adrian David Cheok, Nanyang Technological University

This talk outlines new facilities within ubiquitous human media spaces supporting embodied interaction between humans and computation, both socially and physically, in both the real world and cyber world. The research has the aim of developing novel interactive computer work and entertainment. We believe that the current approach to developing electronic based entertainment environments is somewhat lacking with regard to support for multi-person multi-modal interactions. In this talk, we present an alternative ubiquitous computing environment based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. We discuss some different research prototype systems: the Virtual Kyoto Garden, Touchy Internet, Tilt-Pad, Magic Land, and the Human Pacman. The functional capabilities implemented in these systems include spatially-aware 3D navigation, tangible interaction, and ubiquitous human media spaces. Some of its details, benefits, and issues regarding design support are discussed.

Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Interaction and Entertainment Research Center at NTU. He is also Associate Professor in both the School of Computer Engineering and School of Art, Design, and Media. He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Osaka, Japan, and NUS. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interaction, wearable computers and smart spaces, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics, and multi-modal recognition. He leads a team of over 20 researchers and students. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President. He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship 2003, the
A-Star Young Scientist of the Year Award 2003, and the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award 2004. In 2004 he was invited to be the Singapore representative of the United Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing, and the founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing.

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SUN Microsystems Inc., Mr. T. Mohandoss
Changing Trends in Computing - Distributed Clusters & Horizontal Scaling

Computing is undergoing rapid changes. First the architecture changes in technical computing workloads. The need to build faster and cost effective infrastructure have pushed the technical computing architecture to 'shared nothing clusters'. How better the architectures of Opteron Processor and InfiniBand Interconnect are making impact as a case in point is suggested.
   In Business computing the shift from client/server to web centric computing model and the rise of J2EE and .NET are giving option to scale horizontally. Oracle, MS SQL server and IBM DB/2 are also pushing the architecture toward Grid databases or clustered DB.
    The third area is virtualization. In Technical computing workloads Grid has gained ground but now Virtualization is also making its presence felt in business computing workloads.

T.Mohandoss is Director - Volume Solutions, Asia South Sun Microsystems. He is with Sun for more than 10 years in Sales, Product Management,  and Industry Business Development.  Mohan has total of 19 years experience in IT and he is a mechanical engineer with an MBA degree.

Concepts from cyberspace have become an important factor in engineering today. The convergence of standardized 3D enabling technology in combination with audio and video streaming as well as internet technology is prevailing now with novel applications in industry and commerce. Real-time performance and interactivity of the 3D software technology enables the augmentation of existing products and concepts with 3D visualization. The presentation will cast some light on applications derived from R&D projects based on multi-media standards of the consortia Web3D and MPEG, e.g. VRML, X3D and MPEG-4, and their use in modern industry. Both the possibilities of the technology as well as concepts and examples of use in everyday production will be presented. Bitmanagment offers interactive and real-time 3D enabling technology based on the ISO Standards VRML, X3D and MPEG-4. Founded in 2002 by former employees of Blaxxun Interactive AG, Bitmanagement develops 3D visualization software that is used world-wide in products and concepts in the domains CAD, simulation and presentation. Bitmanagement supports with standardized interfaces to third^d party technology and project related work the integration of the 3D technology in customer projects. More information is available at www.bitmanagement.com

Peter Schickel is founder of Bitmanagement Software GmbH and leads the company since its foundation in 2002. Prior to that he was head of research at blaxxun interactive AG which was focused to the development of 3D internet software. At blaxxun he was directing the development of 3D viewer technology within 6 EC/BMBF R&D projects and built up a network of leading European Technology Companies. Focus of his work was on the transfer from R&D results into commercial products, e.g. leading to winning the Digiglobe-Award for E-Commerce of Deutsche Telecom and Focus. At the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Munich, Germany and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) in Milan, Italy, he was working from 1992 to 1998 at the development of graphical systems in the areas of Virtual Reality, Remote Sensing (GIS) and GPS. He is accredited by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) for Standardization of VRML and MPEG technologies and is member of the board of directors of the Web3D consortium. Mr. Schickel holds a degree in Information Science from the University of Technology Munich (TUM).

Through a gallery of videos and demos, this lab presentation will illustrate some of the cyberworlds-related research and industrial projects that are carried out by the HCI Lab of the University of Udine, Italy. Topics will include: 

1. Virtual prototyping of garments for the textile industry (a project carried out in cooperation with the Benetton Group) 

2. Immersive flight simulation based on low-cost solutions

3. 3D Web sites for learning and training

4. Tools for studying user's behavior in 3D environments, focusing in particular on users' flows in time and space 

5. Virtual manuals/training employing humanoid mentors and Web3D technologies

6. Location-aware 3D visualizations on PDAs, and 

7. Navigation aids in 3D virtual environments.

Luca Chittaro is a full professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Udine, Italy. He heads the HCI Lab at the University of Udine and is a chair of the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. His major research interests are in the area of human-computer interaction (particularly in information visualization, 3D and Web3D interfaces, mobile devices and services). He has authored more than 110 publications. He is a program co-chair of ACM Web3D 2004 and ACM Web3D 2005 (9th and 10th International Symposiums on 3D Web Technology), and a general chair of MOBILE HCI 2003 (5th International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal.

SCC1      Session Chair: Anton Nijholt

141: Agent Models for Dynamic 3D Virtual Worlds
Mary-Lou Maher and Kathryn Merrick
National ICT Australia and University of Sydney

157: Function-based Time-dependent Shape Modeling on the Web
Qi Liu and Alexei Sourin
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

186: Influence of Resolution Degradation on the Distance Estimation in Virtual Space Displaying Static and Dynamic Image
Jaeho Ryu, Naoki Hashimoto, and Makoto Sato
Tokyo Institute of Technology

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SCC2      Session Chair: Stanislav Klimenko

125: A Web-based Configure-to-Order Platform for Collaborative Development of Customized Products
Jianxin Jiao, Martin Helander, and L. Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

193: The Interactive 3D Breakaway Map: a Navigation and Examination Aid for Multi-Floor 3D Worlds
Luca Chittaro, Vijay Kumar Gatla, and Subramanian Venkataraman
University of Udine, Italy

198: Augmenting Existing Virtual Environments with Plausible Naturalistic Clutter
Russell Broughton and Toby Howard
Manchester University, UK

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SCC3      Session Chair: Adrian Cheok

169: Meetings in the Virtuality Continuum: Send Your Avatar
Anton Nijholt
University of Twente, Netherlands

235: HyperMem: A System to Store and Replay Experiences in Mixed Reality Worlds
Nuno Correia, Luis Alves, Ricardo Sá, Jorge Santiago, and Luis Romero
New University of Lisbon, Portugal

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SEC1      Session Chair: Tony Chan

104: An Extendable-Message-Passing Protocol with Signatures Based on Two Hard Problems and Its Applications
Chin-Chen Chang, Ya-Fen Chang, and Wen-Chuan Wu
Feng Chia University, Taiwan R.O.C.

167: A Capability-Based Transparent Cryptographic File System
Frank Graf and Stephen D. Wolthusen
Gjovik Unversity College and Fraunhofer-IGD, Norway

189: A Novel Watermarking Framework for Joint-Creatorship Protection
Yuquan Zhang and Sabu Emmanuel
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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SEC2      Session Chair: Sabu Emmanuel

129: Time-bounded Based Password Authentication Scheme
Chin-Chen Chang, Jui-Yi Kuo, and Jung-San Lee
Feng Chia University, Taiwan R.O.C.

197: A Secure User Authentication Method in Networked Intelligent Manufacturing System
Yuseung Sohn, Misung Cho, Giwon On, and Kijoon Chae
Institute for Graphic Interfaces, Korea

225: Constructing a Searchable Encrypted Log using Encrypted Inverted Indexes
Yasuhiro Ohtaki
Ibaraki University, Japan

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178: Two-Phase Support Vector Clustering for Multi-Relational Data Mining
Ling Ping, Wang Yan, Lu Nan, Wang JianYu, Liang Shuang, and
Zhou Chunguang
Jilin University, China

199: ComRank: Metasearch and Automatic Ranking of XML Retrieval System
Alan Woodley and Shlomo Geva
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

212: Finding Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Climate Data using Clustering
Mohd. Noor Md. Sap and A. Majid Awan
University Technology Malaysia

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HCI1      Session Chair: Shi Daming

121: Semantic Memory for Avatars in Cyberspace
Julian Szymański, Tomasz Sarnatowicz and Włodzisław Duch
NTU Singapore/NCU Torun, Poland

173: Designing Interfaces for Art Applications
Marissa Díaz Pier and Isaac Goldberg
ITESM-CEM, México

187: Automatic Extraction of Semantic Information for a Context Sensitive Multimodal Framework for VR
Giuseppe Conti, Giuliana Ucelli, and Raffaele de Amicis
Graphitech, Italy

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HCI2      Session Chair: Wlodzislaw Duch

196: A Cooperative Recognition of a Human Movement and a Related Object Guided by Functional Models of Objects
Tadahiro Kitahashi, Atsuhiro Kojima, Mirai Higuchi, and Kunio Fukunaga
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

210: Applying Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning to Structured Natural Language Queries
Alan Woodley and Shlomo Geva
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

245: Discerning Advisor: An Intelligent Advertising System for Clothes Considering Skin Color
Mohammad Ali Akbari, Hiroki Takahashi, and Masayuki Nakajima
Tokyo Institute of Technology

253: Reliable Protocol for Robot Communication on Web Services
Masahiko Narita, Makiko Shimamura, and Makoto Oya
Fujitsu Limited, Japan

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EDU1      Session Chair: Luca Chittaro

124: Place Metaphors in Educational Cyberworlds: a Virtual Campus Case Study
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Alexei Sourin, and Olga Sourina
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

159: An Evaluation of Web-Com: Web-Based Education System
Kazuki Hiraki, Tatsuhiro Yonekura, and Susumu Shibusawa
Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan

211: A framework for a Multi-sensory VR Effect System with Motional Display
Byounghyun Yoo, Moohyun Cha, and Soonhung Han
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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EDU2      Session Chair: Wolfgang Mϋeller-Wittig

194: Supporting Presentation Techniques based on Virtual Humans in Educational Virtual Worlds
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, and Sara Rigutti
University of Udine, Italy

166: AReViRoad: a Traffic Road Simulator to Learn How to Behave
David Herviou and Eric Maisel
CERV, France

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117: Using a Floating Origin to Improve Fidelity and Performance of Large, Distributed Virtual Worlds
Chris Thorne
University of Western Australia

154: On a Serverless Networked Virtual Ball Game for Multi-Player
Yoshihiro Kawano and Tatsuhiro Yonekura
Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan

158: On the Error Modeling of Dead Reckoned Data in a Distributed Virtual Environment
Dai Hanawa and Tatsuhiro Yonekura
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

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120: Fractional Model of Market Behavior: a New Modeling Approach
Vladimir V. Kulish and Weng-Kong Chan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

128: An ARIS-based Transformation Approach to Semantic Web Service Development
Cheng-Leong Ang, Gu Yuan, Olga Sourina, and Robert K L Gay
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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SHORT PAPERS (20 papers), SP

SP1      Session Chair: Alexei Sourin

108: An Efficient Deniable Authentication Protocol
Hui-Feng Huang and Chin-Chen Chang
Feng Chia University, Taiwan R.O.C.

113: An Adaptive Grouping Scheme in Collaborative Virtual Environment Systems
Zhai Zhengjun, Hu Xiaomei, and Cai Xiaobin
Computer College of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

123: Spam Detection Using Text Clustering
Minoru Sasaki and Hiroyuki Shinnou
Ibaraki University, Japan

139: The Nature of the Cyber Firm: Contextual Model of Business for Cyber World
Ravindra
SDM College of Engineering & Technology, India

145: Research on Association Rules Mining Algorithm with Item Constraints
Lu Nan, Wang Zhe, and Zhou Chun-Guang
Shenzhen University, China

147: Traffic Measurement and Analysis of TUNET
Jun Zhang, Jiahai Yang, Changqing An, and Jilong Wang
Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, China

152: A Grid-Based Mobile Agent Collaborative Virtual Environment
Hoon Kang Neo, Qingping Lin, Kim Meow Liew
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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SP2      Session Chair: Alexei Sourin

115: Password-authenticated 3PEKE with Round Efficiency without Server’s Public Key
Ya-Fen Chang and Chin-Chen Chang
Feng Chia University, Taiwan R.O.C.

155: Design of a Virtual Shopping Mall – Some Observations
Han Bei Bei, Cindy, Narendra S. Chaudhari, and Jagdish Patra
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

168: Fast Algorithm for Mining Item Profit in Retails Based on Microeconomic View
Xu Xiujuan, Jia Lifeng, Wang Zhe, Zhang Hongyan, Liang Shuang,  and
Zhou Chunguang
Jilin University, China

176: Real-time Lip Synchronization Using Wavelet Network
Fei Chen, Vladimir Spinko, and Daming Shi
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

220: Building an Adaptive Website Based on User Access Patterns
Gong Chibing and Mats Nordahl
Guangdong Technical College of Water Resource and Electrical Engineering, China

230: A Proposal of COMPASS (COMmunity Portrait Authentication SyStem)
Kanako Yokota and Tatsuhiro Yonekura
Ibaraki University, Japan

233: Fuzzy Cognitive Agents in Shared Virtual Worlds
Peter Leong and Miao Chunyan
Singapore Polytechnic

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SP3      Session Chair: Alexei Sourin

236: Enhancing Global and Synchronous Distance Learning and Teaching by Using Instant Transcript and Translation
Ivan Ho, Hajime Kiyohara, A.Sugimoto, and Kazuo Yana
Hosei University Research Institute, USA

240: Distributed Systems Software Architecture for Induced Virtual Environments
Valery Afanasiev, Dmitry Baigozin, Yuri Baturin, Sergey Burlakov, and Stanislav Klimenko
Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology, Russia

244: The Biotope Model. An Open-Source Cyberlearning Model and Its Impact on Social Evolution
Ginji Sawa, Masaya Osaki, Akira A. Onoma, and Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Hosei University, Japan

246: Using AICC to Create Reusable Adaptive Hypermedia E-learning Content
Miroslav Bures and Ivan Jelinek
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

247: Data Integration for Virtual Enterprise in Cyberworlds
Cheng Leong Ang, Robert Gay, and Olga Sourina
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

254: Massively Multiplayer Online Game - A Proposed Approach for Military Applications
Victor Tay
Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore

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Workshop LUAR 2005 (11 papers)

LUAR1      Session Chair: Keikichi Hirose

206: How do We Judge the Acceptability of the Spatial Terms?
Takatsugu Kojima and Takashi Kusumi
Kyoto University

183: Understanding Referring Expressions Involving Perceptual Grouping
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Takenobu Tokunaga and Naoko Kuriyama
Tokyo Institute of Technology

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LUAR2      Session Chair: Yoshiaki Shirai

148: A Statistical Classification Approach to Question Answering using Web Data
Edward Whittaker, Sadaoki Furui, and Dietrich Klakow
Tokyo Institute of Technology

149: Improved concept-to-speech generation in a dialogue system on road guidance
Yuji Yagi, Seiya Takada, Keikichi Hirose, and Nobuaki Minematsu
University of Tokyo

135: Smile and Laughter Recognition using Speech Processing and Face Recognition from Conversation Video
Akinori Ito, Xinyue Wang, Motoyuki Suzuki, and Shozo Makino
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

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LUAR3      Session Chair: Sadaoki Furui

209: Human Walking Motion Synthesis Based on Multiple Regression Hidden Semi-Markov Model
Takashi Yamazaki, Naotake Niwase, Junichi Yamagishi, and Takao Kobayashi
Tokyo Institute of Technology

184: Detection and Evaluation of Grasping Positions for Autonomous Agents
Fumihito Kyota, Tomoyuki Watabe, Suguru Saito, and Masayuki Nakajima
Tokyo Institute of Technology

142: Reactive Virtual Human System for Haptic Sensation and Adaptive Function
Seungzoo Jeong, Woong Choi, Naoki Hashimoto, and Makoto Sato
Tokyo Institute of Technology

LUAR4      Session Chair: Masayuki Nakajima

109: Strategy for Displaying the Recognition Result in Interactive Vision
Yasushi Makihara, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, and Nobutaka Shimada
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University

203: Personalized Cyber Face: A Novel Facial Modeling Approach using Multi-Level Radial Basis Function
Chen Chen and Edmond C. Prakash
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

150: Range of Motion Estimation from Mocap Data
Hiroshi Yasuda, Suguru Saito, and Masayuki Nakajima
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Workshop WCCW 2005 (11 papers)

WCCW1      Session Chair: Baowen Xu

127: Web-oriented Warfare Command Decision Support System Based on Agent and Data Warehouse
Wang Xiaofei, Chen Yunqiu, and Liu Yuliang
Wuhan Digital Engineering Institute, China

133: A Document Classification Approach By GA Feature Extraction Based Corner Classification Neural Network
Weifeng Zhang, Baowen Xu, and Z.Cui
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

151: A Unified Authorization Platform Based on RBAC4WAS Model For Web Application System Integration
Zhu Qiaoming, Li Peifeng, Zhang Su, and Qian Peide
Soochow University, China

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WCCW2      Session Chair: Baowen Xu

156: A WBEM Based Disk Array Management Provider
Tan Yu-an,  Lin Guo-ming,  Deng Hong,  and Zhang Xue-lan
Beijing Institute of Technology, China

160: Dynamic Selection of Composite Web Services Based on a Genetic Algorithm
Lei Yang, Yu Dai, Bin Zhang, Yan Gao
Northeastern University, China

134: A Flexible Function Menu Generator for Supporting Access Control in Web Applications
Kung Chen and Chih-Shang Chang
National Chengchi University, Taiwan

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WCCW3      Session Chair: Baowen Xu

185: Secure Email-based Peer to Peer Information Retrieval
Chengye Lu and Shlomo Geva
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

218: Approximate Information Retrieval for Heterogeneity Ontologies
Dazhou Kang, Baowen Xu, Jianjiang Lu, William Chu and H.Chen
Southeast University, China

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WCCW4      Session Chair: Baowen Xu

231: Fuzzy Co-clustering of Web Documents
William-Chandra Tjhi and Lihui Chen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

237: Automatic Classification of Web information Based on Site Structure
Gao Kening, Yang Leiming, Zhang Bin, Chai Qiaozi, and M.Anxiang
Northeastern University, China

250: Research on the Analysis and Measurement for Testing Results of Web Applications
Lei Xu, Baowen Xu, Yanxiang He, Hanwu Chen, and Qiaoming Zhu
Southeast University, China