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IFIP TC6 WG6.4A
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LAN MANAGEMENT
HMI, West Berlin
July 2nd - 3rd, 1987
Call for Papers
The organising committee of the IFIP TC6 WG6.4A International
Workshop on LAN Management, which will be held at the Hahn-Meitner
Institute in West Berlin on July 2nd and 3rd, 1987, invites you to take
part in the workshop.
TOPICS
The workshop will cover the wider aspects of network management,
concentrating on LANs, but also including WANs. Specific topics to be
covered will include:
* Interconnection issues, LAN-LAN, LAN-WAN and WAN-WAN.
* Security (including encryption).
* Naming.
* Access controls.
* Network evolution and growth.
* Pragmatic issues.
* Implementation and experience.
* PABX issues.
* Standards, including gaps in standards activities.
* Distributed systems.
The list is not exhaustive, and papers in other relevant areas will be
welcomed.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language will be English.
GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit unpublished original papers covering
any of the above topics.
There will be no restriction on the length of the submitted papers.
In the first instance however, authors should submit an abstract of not
more than 2 A4 format pages. In addition, there should be a single page
giving the title of the paper, the full name of the author(s), affilia-
tion, address, telephone, telex, and where appropriate, electronic mail
address.
4 copies of the abstract, written in English should be sent to:
Mr Ian Dallas,
Secretary, Organising Committee,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
UK,
CT2 7NF.
Telephone: +44 227 66822, extension 3633.
Telex: 965449 UKCLIB G
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All papers will be reviewed by international experts in the field
of LAN Management.
The Workshop proceedings will be published by the North Holland
Publishing Company in English.
DEADLINES
The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 30th, 1987. Success-
ful authors will be notified by mid May. They will then receive typing
kits from North Holland on which to submit the camera-ready versions of
their paper. Details of where to send the camera-ready version will be
received with the kit, the deadline for submission being June 26th,
1987.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Brian Spratt University of Kent, UK. (Chairman, IFIP
WG6.4A).
Berthold Butscher Hahn-Meitner Institute, West Berlin, West Ger-
many.
Jean-Pierre Cabanel Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Andre Danthine Universite de Liege, Liege, Belgium.
Kim Kappel DCA Inc, Alpharetta, Georgia, USA. (Chairper-
son, IFIP WG6.6).
Brigitta Karlson * Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Piercalo Ravasio Italtelematica, Milan, Italy.
Otto Spaniol Technical University, Aachen, West Germany.
Liba Svobodova IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Ruschlikon,
Switzerland.
Reigo Yatsuboshi Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Kawasaki, Japan.
This list is not yet complete, and further names may be added.
(* = To be confirmed.)