Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: zxu@diana.usc.edu (Zhiwei Xu)
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS     I-SPAN '96
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:16:07 GMT
Message-ID: <48t8hn$bgb@diana.usc.edu>

                        CALL FOR PAPERS     I-SPAN '96
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES, ALGORITHMS, AND NETWORKS
                  June 12-14, 1996, Beijing, China

SCOPE OF SYMPOSIUM:

The International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks
(I-SPAN) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the
world to exchange ideas and research results related to the design, use,
analysis, and application of parallel architectures, algorithms, and networks.
The first symposium was held in Kanazawa, Japan, on December 14-16, 1994.
The second symposium will be held on June 12-14, 1996, in Beijing, China. 
The latest information will be available at http://www.cs.umass.edu/~ispan96.

I-SPAN '96 will include keynote addresses, invited/contributed papers, and
presentations by designers of on-going projects on high performance
computing and communication systems. 
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

  - Parallel Architectures
  - Parallel Algorithms
  - Interconnection Networks
  - VLSI Network Design
  - Network Routing and Communication Algorithms
  - Mapping and Scheduling Parallel Computation
  - Fault Tolerance Issues and Systems
  - Optical Interconnections and Computing
  - Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization
  - ATM Architectures and Network Protocols
  - Wireless and Mobile Interconnection and Networks
  - Massively Parallel Processing Systems

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authors are invited to submit five copies of their complete papers in English
to one of the following:

For Authors in China                    For Architecture Related Papers
Professor Guo-Jie Li                    Professor Susumu Horiguchi
National Research Center for            Graduate School of
 Intelligent Computing Systems (NCIC)    Information Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences             Japan Advanced Institute of
P.O. Box 2704                            Science and Technology
Beijing 100080, PR China                Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-12 Japan
Tel: +86-1-2541343                      Tel: +81-761-51-1265
Fax: +86-1-2541342                      Fax: +81-761-51-1149
e-mail: lig@waltz.ncic.ac.cn            e-mail: hori@jaist.ac.jp

For Algorithm Related Papers         For Network Related Papers & Other Areas
Professor Bruce Maggs                Professor D. Frank Hsu
School of Computer Science           Graduate Program in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University           Fordham University,  LL813
5000 Forbes Avenue                   113 West 60th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA            New York, NY 10023, USA
Tel: +1-412-268-7654                 Tel: +1-212-636-7191
Fax: +1-412-268-5576                 Fax: +1-617-237-2310
e-mail: bmm@cs.cmu.edu               e-mail: hsu@murray.fordham.edu

Submissions should be typed double-spaced and no longer than twenty A4
(or 8.5" x 11") pages. Manuscripts should include an abstract,
a list of at least five keywords, and a cover page indicating the title,
author(s) and their affiliations, and the name, address, phone and fax numbers,
and e-mail address of one author who is responsible for all correspondence.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS:
Deadline for Submission of Papers   December 1, 1995
Notification of Acceptance          February 1, 1996
Camera Ready Manuscript Due         March 1, 1996
Advance Registration                March 15, 1996

Symposium Co-Chairs:    H.J. Siegel; Purdue University, USA
                        Xiao Xiang Zhang; Chinese Computer Federation and
                           Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Program Co-Chairs:      D. Frank Hsu; Fordham University and
                           The New York Academy of Sciences, USA
                        Guo-Jie Li; NCIC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Program Vice-Chairs:    Susumu Horiguchi; JAIST, Japan
                        Bruce Maggs; CMU, USA

I-SPAN '96 is sponsored by the Chinese National Research Center for Intelligent
Computing Systems, in cooperation with The Chinese Computer Federation,
the Steering Committee of the Chinese National Hi-Tech Programme, IPSJ 
(Information Processing Society of Japan), and the IEEE Computer 
Society (pending).


