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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 GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit unpublished original papers covering any of the above topics.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 Electronic Mail: ..... !mcvax!ukc!ind (USENET) ind@UK.AC.UKC (JANET) 74:SKK008 (Telecom Gold/Dialcom) 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.)