Proceedings

Dear participant of the upcoming Japanese-German Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, March 9-10, 2012, there will be a joint proceedings volume of the German-Japanese symposium of 2010 in Karlsruhe (KA2010 for short) and the upcoming Japanese-German symposium in Kyoto (KY2012 for short). The contributions of KA2010 and KY2012 will jointly appear in “Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization”, Springer Verlag.

In order to have a timely publication of the proceedings volume the editors (in alphabetical order: Prof. Baba, Tokyo; Prof. Gaul and Prof. Geyer-Schulz, Karlsruhe; Prof. Okada, Tokyo) ask the participants of KY2012 to submit the papers on which their talks in Kyoto are based BEFORE KY2012 (Tuesday, February 29, 2012, as latest date) so that copies can be distributed to referees already during or immediately after the symposium. For submitting your manuscript, please, download the submission templates and information at

http://demo.em.uni-karlsruhe.de/ky2012

and follow the instructions given there. If you have further questions with respect to the preparation of your paper, please, use

ky2012@em.uni-karlsruhe.de

as e-mail address.

Participants of KA2010 have been contacted in an earlier letter and asked to submit their Karlsruhe papers before the end of 2011 so that the referee process for these contributions can start in January 2012 and can be finished before KY2012 which will help to publish the joint proceedings volume shortly after.

Thank you very much for your cooperation. Best regards

Y. Baba, W. Gaul, A. Geyer-Schulz, A. Okada