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IEEE SICON'97


The IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks
April 14-17, 1997, Singapore
c/o Dept of ISCS, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260
Fax: +(65)-7794580, email: sicon97@iscs.nus.sg, 






                                                  CALL FOR PAPERS


The National University of Singapore and IEEE Singapore Section are pleased
to announce the 5th IEEE Singapore International Conference On Networks
(SICON'97) 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'97 will provide a forum to discuss the
recent advances in computer networks and communications, and distributed
systems. Professor David Farber from University of Pennsylvania, USA will
deliver the plenary lecture at SICON'97.


SICON'97 will be held the week following INFOCOM'97.


Contributions describing original research, surveys and applications
including but not restricted to the following areas are solicited:


high speed networks, ATM, optical networks    routing, addressing, flow and
and multimedia networking                     congestion controls
PCS,wireless networks and mobile computing    internetworking
network, traffic modeling and                 network architecture and protocols
performance analysis                          network signaling and connection
                                              management
network security and privacy                  network management
networks design, resource sharing, quality    distributed systems and network
of service and applications                   operating systems
testbeds and measurements                     object oriented design of
                                              communication software








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:


Dr Hung-Keng Pung
Department of Information Systems & Computer Science
National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260.
Email: sicon97@iscs.nus.sg Phone: +(65)-7722808 Fax: +(65)-779-4580


Electronic submissions (preferred) of manuscript should be in compressed
postscript and be FTPed to ftp.iscs.nus.sg and put under
/pub/tmp/sicon97/manuscript. Authors should
separately email the cover plain text page to the Technical Program chair.






Tutorial Proposals


Proposals for tutorial topics including but not restricted to these areas
are solicited: multimedia networking, mobile/wireless computing, network
management 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 chairman via email at
lhn@iss.nus.sg before 1st August 1996.






Important Dates


Full paper due (5 copies)                  1 Aug  1996
Proposal for tutorials due                 1 Aug  1996
Notice of acceptance                       15 Nov 1996
Camera-ready paper due                     15 Jan  1997
Pre-Conference Tutorials                   14-15 April 1997
Conference                                 16-17 April 1997






Organizing Committee


                 Conference Chair  :  Chua, Kee-Chaing (NUS, Singapore)
                 Technical Program :  Pung, Hung-Keng (Chair) (NUS, Singapore)
                                      Ngoh, Lek-Heng and Biswas Jit (ISS,
Singapore)
                    Tutorial Chair :  Ngoh, Lek-Heng (ISS, Singapore)
                   Publicity Chair :  Garg, Hari Krishna (NUS, Singapore)
                     Finance Chair :  Tham, Chen-Khong (NUS, Singapore)
          Local Arrangements Chair :  Chee, Chye-Lin (NUS, Singapore)
                Publications Chair :  Lee, Kwee-Hiong (NUS, Singapore)
              Conference Secretary :  Ho, Veronica (NUS, Singapore)






International Program Committee


Gordon Blair (Lancaster Univ, UK); Kwang-Cheng Chen (NTHU, Taiwan); Jon
Crowcroft (Univ College,UK); M Diaz (LAAS, France); David Farber (Univ of
Pennsylvania,
USA); Andrzej M Goscinski (Deakin Univ, Australia); Chi Chung Ko (NUS,
Singapore); Hisashi Kobayashi (Princeton Univ, USA); Tosiyasu L Kunii (Univ
of Aizu, Japan); Aurel
Lazar (Univ Columbia, USA); K M Lye (NUS, Singapore); Jon W Mark (Univ of
Waterloo, Canada); Biswanath Mukherjee (Univ of California at Davis, USA);
Steve Pink
(SICS, Sweden); G S Poo (NUS, Singapore); Atul Prakash (Univ of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, USA); S V Raghavan (IITM, India); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (NEC USA, C&C
Research Lab., USA); Frank Reichert (Ericsson, Sweden); Huzur Saran (IIT,
India); K R Subramaniam (NTU, Singapore); Bharghavan Vaduvur (Univ of
Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign,USA); Bart Voeten (Information Technology Institute,
Singapore); Lawrence Wong (NUS, Singapore); T S Yum (Chinese Univ. of
Hongkong, Hongkong).






Organized and sponsored by:
National University of Singapore
IEEE Singapore Section


In cooperation with:
IEE Singapore Centre
Singapore Computer Society






SICON'97 Secretariat
Ms Veronica Ho
Department of Information Systems & Computer Science,
National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260.
Tel: +(65)-772-2730 Fax: +(65)-779-4580 Email: hosf@iscs.nus.sg