ISITA2002 held at Xi'an International Conference Center, Xi'an, People's Republic of China on October 7-11, 2002.
This symposium is organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Its Applications and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

The objective of ISITA is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions related to information theory and its applications.
The topics are follows:
Error Control Coding, Coded Modulation, Detection and Estimation, Mobile Communications, Communication Systems, Optical Communications, Spread Spectrum Systems, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Speech/Image Processing, Source Coding, Shannon Theory, Neural Networks, Distributed Information Networks, Data Networks, Stochastic Processes, Data Security, Cryptography, Chaos and Fractals, VLSI Communications.