DPlan for the Cooperative Project (with clear description of research activities on both sides as well as of the elements of cooperation and exchange)

  1. Making the Home Page and/or Blog on this project for sharing information among members and advertizing this project towards outside members.
  2. Visiting India and/or inviting researchers from India: Project Co-leaders would introduce members to each others with short presentation of their current/future research interests. Espscially, japanese Project Co-leader would visit ISI of India before/after attending a major crypto-conference, INDOCRYPT 2008 to be held in Kharagpur in Winter 2008 and INDOCRYPT 2009 to be held in India sometime in Winter 2009.
  3. Major Workshops would be held in one or two times per year. The host should be done by each Project Co-leaders.
  4. Each japanese member will have (at least) one or two research partners from Indian Side, and shall present the results of joint-research not only in project-workshops but also in international conferences and/or academic journal.
  5. The japanese leader and sub-leader plan to launch joint-workshop on some major area, including cryptography and network/software security between Japan and India, as an extension of the local workshop of this project, which shall be mainly supported by academic (sub) society such as IEICE or IPSJ.
  1. Disseminating information about this project to members as well as others with a view to gain insights from researchers even if they are not directly engaged in this project.
  2. Visiting Japan and/or inviting researchers from Japan.
  3. Major Workshops to be held once or twice every year.
  4. The results of joint-research of the researchers from the two countries to be presented in project-workshops as well as in international conferences and/or academic journal.
  5. There will be efforts to launch joint-workshops on some area, including cryptography and network/software security.