Statistica Sinica will publish a special issue in honor of George Tiao's retirement titled "Bayesian inference, environment statistics, time series analysis, and their applications".

• The deadline for submission is November 15, 2003 (about one month after the conference).
• All submissions should be sent to the Statistica Sinica editorial office as the regular manuscript, but with a cover letter mentioning the special issue in George's honor. 
• Interested authors are encouraged to submit electronically at http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/
• Submission for special issue is not limited to conference participants.
• The issue is targeted to be published at the end of 2004. 
• All submissions will undergo the usual refereeing process.