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------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGCOMM '89 SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------ COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS ------------------------------------------ September 20-22, 1989 (Tutorials September 19th) Austin, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The symposium provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of communication network applications and technologies, as well as recent advances and proposals on communication architectures, protocols, algorithms, and performance models. Authors are invited to submit full papers concerned with both theory and practice. The areas of interest for the symposium include, but are not limited to the following: * analysis and design of computer network architectures and algorithms, * innovative results in local area networks, * computer-supported collaborative work, * network interconnection and mixed-media networks, * high-speed networks, * resource sharing in distributed systems, * distributed operating systems and databases, * protocol specification, verification, and analysis. Papers should be about 20 double-spaced pages long and should have an abstract of 100-150 words. All submitted papers will be reviewed and will be judged with respect to their quality and relevance. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. The Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium and published as a special issue of SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. A few of the submitted papers will be selected for publication in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. Submit 5 copies of each paper to the program chairman: Dr. Mohamed Gouda Computer Sciences Department University of Texas at Austin Austin TX 78712, USA Telephone: (512) 471-9532 Email: gouda@cs.utexas.edu For more information about the symposium, contact: Dr. L. H. Landweber, General Chair Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin 1210 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: (608) 262-1204 EMAIL: landweber@cs.wisc.edu. _______________________ STUDENT PAPER AWARD Papers submitted by students will enter a student-paper award contest. Among the accepted papers, a maximum of four outstanding papers will be awarded (1) full conference registration and (2) a travel grant of $500 US dollars. _____________________ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Geoffrey Brown Cornell University Vinton Cerf Corp. for National Research Initiative Douglas Comer Purdue University David Farber University of Pennsylvania Paul Green IBM Corporation Leonard Kleinrock University of California, Los Angeles Simon Lam University of Texas at Austin Nick Maxemchuk AT&T Bell Laboratories Craig Partridge BBN Systems & Technologies Corp. Radia Perlman Digital Equipment Corporation Larry Peterson University of Arizona Harry Rudin IBM Corporation Krishan Sabnani AT&T Bell Laboratories Udaya Shankar University of Maryland Fouad Tobagi Stanford University _____________________ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission March 20, 1989 Notification of acceptance May 19, 1989 Camera-ready manuscript due June 19, 1989