Message From the TC Chair
May 20, 2003.
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ISMVL-2003 was very successful. There were 105 attendees and 54 papers.
This annual the symposium was held at the Liberty Tower of Meiji University,
Tokyo Japan.
The multiple-valued community is indebted to the
Organization Committee of ISMVL-2003 chaired by Professor Masao Mukaidono.
During the banquet, the Outstanding Contribution Award for ISMVL-2002 was given to
H. Machida, I. G. Rosenberg, and M. Miyakawa, for
"Some Results on Centralizers of Monoids in Clone Theory."
Two Paper Awards for ISMVL-2003 were also announced. They are
T. Sasao," A Cascade Realization of Two-Valued Input Multiple-Valued Output
Functions Using Decomposition of Group Functions," and
H. Inokawa and Y. Takahashi, "Experimental and Simulation Studies of
Single-Electron-Transistor-Based Multiple-Valued Logic."
Professor Tatsuo Higuchi of Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan received
the Certificate of Appreciation of the
IEEE Computer Society for the continued contributions to ISMVL.
In conjunction with this symposium, the International Workshop on Post-Binary
ULSI Systems was held on May 16.
We will elect a new TC Chair for 2003/2004. All MVL-TC members of Computer Society
are entitled to one vote. Please watch for the announcement of the election.
The minutes of the executive and symposium committee meetings and the plenary session
are in the WEB. They contain information about the election of TC Chair and future symposia.
I thank all the contributors, especially those that participated directly
in the symposium.
These include Professors M. Mukaidono, T. Waho, D. M. Miller, R.S. Stankovic,
Y. Yuminaka and the organizers of ISMVL-2003. I also appreciate the contribution
of the authors and the referees.
SMVL-2004 will be held in Toronto on May 19-22, 2004.
Please read the call for papers at http://www.ismvl.org
The due date for the paper is Nov. 1, 2003.
Regards,
Tsutomu Sasao
The following pictures are taken by Jon T. Butler and myself.
