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The 2004 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA2004) will be held at the Conference Center of StarHotel Du Parc, Parma, Italy, from Sunday, October 10, through Wednesday, October 13, 2004.

Notes to Participants:
The proceedings of ISITA2004 will be published as a CD-ROM although the final program will be published by bookbinding. Please note that you need a computer to read papers published in the CD-ROM proceedings. Please see the General Information for details.

Notes to Speakers:
Each speaker has 20 minutes for his/her presentation, which includes speaker transition, the setting of your computer, and question-and-answers. Please see the General Information for details.

Tours from Japan (in Japanese)
Urgent information! A part of bus schedule from Milan airport to Parma and Parma to Milan airport has changed.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Error Control Coding Coding Theory and Practice
Coded Modulation Data Compression and Source Coding
Communication Systems Optical Communications
Detection and Estimation Mobile Communications
Spread Spectrum Systems Pattern Recognition and Learning
Signal Processing Speech/Image Coding
Rate-distortion Theory Shannon Theory
Stochastic Processes Cryptology and Data Security
Data Networks Applications of Information Theory
Multiuser Information Theory Quantum Information Processing

Plenary speakersF
Prof. Johannes B.Huber, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
"Information Combining: Models, Bounds, and Applications"
Prof. Shunsuke Ihara, Nagoya University, Japan
"Stochastic Processes and Coding Theorems"
Dr. Andrew Viterbi, President, The Viterbi Group, U.S.A.
"Spread Spectrum and Satellite: A Symbiosis"

Inquiries on matters related to the Symposium should be addressed as follows:

General matters: Technical program matters:

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ISITA2004 is organized by the Society of Information Theory and Its Applications (SITA).

ISITA2004 will be held with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Information Theory Society and the Institution of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

The URL of ISITA 2004 is "http://www.sita.gr.jp/ISITA2004/".