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Welcome to the website of IIP/ISPS Joint MIPE2015 !
In JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers), the IIP (Information, Intelligence and Precision Equipment) Division is the major division working on information storage systems, intelligent machines, precision machines, bio-medical equipments, etc. IIP has its annual conference held in Japan. In ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), the ISPS (Information Storage and Processing Systems) Division is devoted to disk drives, tape drives, optical drives, etc. Similarly, ISPS has its annual conference held at San Jose. IIP and ISPS agree to hold the joint MIPE conference every 3 years alternating between Japan and US. Both IIP and ISPS merged their own annual conferences into MIPE so that most people can attend. Thus far, the joint MIPE conferences were held at Yokohama, Japan in 2003, at San Jose, USA in 2006, at Tsukuba, Japan in 2009 and at San Jose again, USA in 2012, respectively.
This time, this exciting and interesting conference will be held at Kobe, Japan in 2015. Kobe is a beautiful city in 'Kansai Region' and Japan's premier tourism area for overseas visitors making Kobe an ideal base city for visiting world heritage sites, both to the east and to the west. Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit the paper and attend this conference. We are also looking forward to seeing you in Kobe.
Presentations are solicited for presentation at MIPE 2015. Relevant technologies include (i) storage devices and relating technologies such as head/disk interface and tribology, mechanism and control, (ii) flexible media feeding and handling machines, (iii) image processing and printing technologies, (iv) intelligent machines, (v) bio-medical equipments, (vi) precision equipments and (vii) micro/nanosystem science and technology. Furthermore, a workshop "Frontier technologies leading advanced information society" is to be held during the conference.
Potential presenters should submit an abstract for review. Please submit the abstract via the MIPE 2015 website. Once the paper is accepted for presentation, the authors shall prepare a three-page extended abstract to be included in conference proceedings. Presenters could also submit a full paper to be published in a Special Issue of JSME online journal Mechanical Engineering Journal. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed before publication. Sessions and organizers as well as detailed information will appear on the MIPE2015 website.