craig@bbn.com (Craig Partridge) (10/22/88)
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGCOMM '89 SYMPOSIUM* Communications Architectures and Protocols Austin, Texas September 1989 The symposium provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of communication network appli- cations and technologies, as well as recent advances and proposals on communication architectures, protocols, algo- rithms, and performance models. Authors are invited to sub- mit 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, distri- buted operating systems and databases, protocol specifica- tion, 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 selected papers will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. The Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium and pub- lished 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 Dept., Univer- sity of Wisconsin, 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706; Tel: (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. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: March 20, 1989 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 1989 Camera-ready manuscript due: June 19, 1989 SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE General Chair: L.H. Landweber, University of Wisconsin, USA Program Chair: M. Gouda, University of Texas, USA Local Arrangements: M. Gouda, University of Texas, USA *Pending ACM approval.