Dear GIS-IDEAS 2004 Participants,

Final deadline for submission of full-paper in camera-ready format has been extended 16 August 2004 (Mon). We would like to request all authors to submit their camera ready manuscripts using the conference web-site (http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas04).

Several camera-ready manuscripts are already available online at the URL mentioned below

http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas04/papers.php

Authors who have already submitted their camera-ready manuscripts are requested to check the above line to verify that their papers have been uploaded.

If you have difficulty in uploading the PDF files from the conference website, please send a electronic version by e-mail to the following addresses.

1) jvgc_office@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp and CC to 2) gisideas2004@pmail.vnn.vn

Authors are requested to *strictly* follow the instructions provided in the author guidelines. If you have not *strictly* followed the author guidlines, please re-format and resubmit your manuscripts before 16th August 2004. Author Guidlines are available below

http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas04/author_guide.html

Papers submitted to GIS-IDEAS 2004 will published as hardcopy proceedings in Black&White. Online PDF version can include color pages which will be converted to Black&White for harcopy printing. Authors are requested to submit high quality PDF files so as to ensure good quality of hardcopy reproduction.

Look forward for your cooperation in bringing out the GIS-IDEAS 2004 Proceedings in a timely and well-formatted manner.

Kind regards.

Raghavan -------------- Dr. Venkatesh Raghavan Co-Coordinator GIS-IDEAS 2004 and JVGC