Steering Board Goichi Matsui, Kinki University (Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba), (Japan) Manabu Iguchi, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Takashi Yokoyama, Okayama University of Science, (Japan) Organizing Committee Chairperson Tomomasa Uemura, Kansai University, (Japan) Members Daqiang Cang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, (China) Goichi Matsui, Kinki University, (Japan) Jiun-Jih Miau, National Cheng Kung University, (Taiwan) Kazuyoshi Nishihara, Osaka Electro-Communication University, (Japan) Manabu Iguchi, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Par Jonsson, Royal Institute of Technology, (Sweden) Sakamon Devahastin, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, (Thailand) Tateo Usui, Osaka University, (Japan) Toshitsugu Tanaka, Osaka University, (Japan) Woei-Shyan Lee, National Cheng Kung University, (Taiwan) Yasushi Sasaki, Tohoku University, (Japan) Scientific Committee Chairperson Takashi Yokoyama, Okayama University of Science, (Japan) Members Akira Kato, Chubu University, (Japan) David Syh-Tsang Jenq, National Cheng Kung University, (Taiwan) Eisaku Umezaki, Nippon Institute of Technology, (Japan) Genta Kawahara, Osaka University, (Japan) Hae-Man Choi, KRISS, (Korea) Hideaki Monji, University of Tsukuba, (Japan) Hideki Nakazato, Osaka University, (Japan) Hideyuki Yasuda, Osaka University, (Japan) Kazuo Arakawa, Kyushu University, (Japan) Kazuo Ohmi, Osaka Sangyo University, (Japan) Kazuyoshi Nakabe, Kyoto University, (Japan) Keh Chin Chang, National Cheng Kung University, (Taiwan) Kenji Kato, Osaka City University, (Japan) Kiyomi Mori, Takushoku University, (Japan) Koji Mori, Osaka Electro-Communication University, (Japan) Kuniomi Asakura, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Masaru Ishizuka, Toyama Prefecture University, (Japan) Masayoshi Kikuchi, Tohoku University, (Japan) Mirei Chiba, Tohoku University, (Japan) Motoharu Fujigaki, Wakayama University, (Japan) Satoru Yoneyama, Osaka Prefecture University, (Japan) Seiichi Sudo, Akita Prefecture University, (Japan) Seiji Miura, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Shigeo Fujikawa, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Shinzabro Umeda, Fukuyama University, (Japan) Shuichi Torii, Kumamoto University, (Japan) Tadashi Narabayashi, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Tatsuya Ohmi, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Toru Sawai, Kinki University, (Japan) Toshihiko Shakouchi, Mie University, (Japan) Toshio Ishii, JFE R&D, (Japan) Advisory Board Hugh MacGillivray, Imperial Collage, University of London, (UK) Igor Emri, University of Ljubljane, (Slovenia) Janice M. Barton, University of Southampton, (UK) Katsunori Futase, Taisei Lamick Co. Ltd., (Japan) Masahisa Takashi, Aoyama Gakuin University, (Japan) Michael Sutton, University of South Carolina, (USA) Robert Mines, University of Liverpool, (UK) Satoru Toyooka, Saitama University, (Japan) Tetsuo Mohri, Hokkaido University, (Japan) Tuneo Azuma, Osaka City University, (Japan) Yutaka Tsuji, Osaka University, (Japan) Yoshiharu Morimoto, Wakayama University, (Japan) Local Executive Committee Chairperson Tomomasa Uemura, Kansai University, (Japan) Members Ei Yamamoto, Kinki University, (Japan) Hideki Nakazato, Osaka University, (Japan) Hirotoshi Kawabata, Osaka University, (Japan) Kenji Kato, Osaka City University, (Japan) Kenji Nakai, Okayama University of Science, (Japan) Motoharu Fujigaki, Wakayama University, (Japan) Satoru Yoneyama, Osaka Prefecture University, (Japan) Yasufumi Yamamoto, Kansai University, (Japan)