Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Lau Leng Fong Subject: Sicon'98 Call For Papers Organization: National University of Singapore Date: 11 Jul 1997 01:14:20 GMT Message-ID: <5q41dc$83@nuscc.nus.sg> [ Unreserved apologies for duplicates. Please forward to interested parties. Thank you very much. ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION SICON'98 6th IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks July, 1 - 4, 1998 Singapore The National University of Singapore and IEEE Singapore Section are pleased to announce the 6th IEEE Singapore International Conference On Networks (SICON'98) in Singapore. The conference will start with two days of tutorials, and will continue with two days of technical presentations. As with the previous conferences, SICON'98 will provide a forum to bring together International and regional researchers, who are actively involved in research in computer networks and communications area. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Contributions describing original unpublished research, surveys and applications including but not restricted to the following areas are solicited: - high speed networking - ATM and Gigabit ethernet - next generation internet protocols - implementation and migration issues - multimedia networking - systems and protocols - wireless and mobile networks - satellite networks - routing, addressing, flow and congestion controls - resource sharing, quality of service and applications - network traffic modeling and performance analysis - network signaling and connection management - testbeds and measurements - network architecture and protocols - network security, privacy and firewalls - active networks - advances in network management - intranetworking - web architectures and applications - internet 2 and other research and educational networks - advanced network services and applications - campus network services, multimedia services, education and training Information on SICON'98 is also available at http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~sicon. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions should have a cover page containing the title, author name(s), complete address (telephone, fax, email) for all authors, indication of the corresponding author, and an abstract (100-150 words), followed by keywords and one or more areas of interest from the list above. Authors are requested to submit five copies of manuscript (in English) of no more than 6,000 words to: Prof Ananda A L Department of Information Systems & Computer Science National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260. Email: sicon@iscs.nus.edu.sg Phone: +65 772 2733 Fax: +65 779 4580 Authors are also encouraged to submit the manuscript electronically in compressed postscript and be FTPed to ftp.iscs.nus.edu.sg and put under /pub/tmp/sicon/manuscript. Authors should separately email the cover page in plain text to the Technical Program Chair. All manuscripts will be reviewed and authors will be advised as per the dates given below. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference with the presenting author registering as a delegate in order for the papers to be included in the proceedings. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals for tutorial topics including but not restricted to these areas are solicited: multimedia networking, high speed networks, mobile/wireless computing, network security and internet. Each proposal should be about 1000 words and should include a synopsis, tutorial outline and brief speaker's biography. Please submit a copy of your proposal to the Tutorial Chair via email at cheecl@iscs.nus.edu.sg before 19 December 1997. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due (5 copies) 19 December 1997 Proposal for tutorials due 19 December 1997 Notification of acceptance 15 March 1998 Camera-ready paper due 15 April 1998 Pre-Conference Tutorials 1-2 July 1998 Conference 3-4 July 1998 EXHIBITION The conference provides an opportunity to the participants and vendors to dispaly/demonstrate their network related products. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Please send mail to sicon@iscs.nus.edu.sg to register interest in the conference. For more information contact the Conference chair at sicon@iscs.nus.edu.sg. Information about the conference and venue is available at http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~sicon. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair : Pung, Hung-Keng Technical Program : Ananda, A L; Wang, Wei-Guo Tutorial Chair : Chee, Chye Lin Finance Chair : Tham, Chen-Khong Local Arrangements Chair : Wynne Hsu Project Demonstration : Ngoh, Lek Heng Special Projects : Tan, Tin-Wee; Lam, Kwok-Yan Publicity Chair : Tan, Tin Wee Audio/Visual : Shum, Kam Hong Conference Secretary : Shum, Kam Hong Webmaster & mail co-ordinator : Lau Leng Fong, Lee Boon Peng SICON'98 SECRETARIAT SICON Secretariat Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260. Tel: +65 7727944 Fax: +65 779 4580 Email: sicon@iscs.nus.edu.sg