Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:13:54 -0500
Message-Id: <199411151713.MAA11323@lysithea.lcs.mit.edu>
From: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>
To: uri@bunyip.com, iiir@vinca.cnidr.org
Subject: Consider writing a paper for this...
SIGCOMM is the "flagship" conference of the ACM SIG on Communications.
For next year's program we are hoping to extend upward the scope of
the conference as the call for papers suggests. I hope you will
consider writing papers for it.
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Call for Papers
ACM SIGCOMM'95 CONFERENCE
Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols
for Computer Communication
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
August 30 to September 1, 1995
(Tutorials and Workshop, August 28 and 29)
An international forum on computer communication network
applications and technologies, architectures,
protocols, and algorithms.
SIGCOMM'95 seeks papers about significant contributions to the
broad field of computer and data communication networks.
Authors are invited to submit full papers concerned with both
theory and practice. Papers specifically focused on "higher-
layer" issues of network infrastructure, management, and
distributed application services are particularly encouraged.
The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Distributed application infrastructure paradigms;
* Distributed common application services, middleware
protocols;
* Resource sharing, quality of service, multi-media
networks;
* Heterogeneous interworking, large scale networks;
* Network management;
* Important experimental results from operational networks;
* High-speed networks, routing and addressing;
* Wireless networking, support for mobile hosts;
* Analysis and design of computer network architectures and
algorithms; and
* Protocol specification, verification, and analysis.
SIGCOMM'95 is a single-track, highly selective conference where
successful submissions typically report results firmly
substantiated by experiment, implementation, simulation, or
mathematical analysis.
The SIGCOMM'95 committee is planning both an excellent
technical program and related activities. In addition to the
presentation of papers and results, SIGCOMM'95 will offer
tutorials by noted instructors and a workshop on middleware
infrastructure on the two days preceding the actual conference.
We also plan an evening session where speculative results and
outrageous opinions can be presented and discussed.
Papers must be less than 20 double-spaced pages long (formatted
for printing in the Proceedings, papers may not be longer than
12 pages), have an abstract of 100-150 words, and be original
material that has not been previously published nor is
currently under review by another conference or journal.
Important Dates:
Paper submissions: 30 January 1995
Tutorial proposals: 30 January 1995
Workshop position papers: 15 March 1995
Notification of paper accept: 17 April 1995
Camera ready papers due: 22 May 1995
All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and
relevance through double-blind reviewing where the identities
of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors names
should not appear on the paper or in the postscript file for
electronic submissions. A cover letter is required that
identifies the paper title and lists the name, affiliation,
telephone/fax numbers, and e-mail address of all authors.
Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an ACM copyright
release form. The Proceedings of the conference will be
published as a special issue of ACM SIGCOMM Computer
Communication Review. The program committee may also select a
few papers for possible publication in the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking.
Paper submissions should be sent to:
David Clark/Karen Sollins, Program Co-Chairs OR
electronic submissions to: sc95@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Five copies are required for printed submissions. Electronic
submissions (preferred) should be uuencoded, compressed
postscript. Authors should separately e-mail the title, author
names and abstract of their paper to the program chairs and
identify any special equipment that will be required during its
presentation. Due to the high number of anticipated
submissions, authors are encouraged to strictly adhere to the
submission date.
SIGCOMM'95 will begin with two days of tutorials, each of which
is intended to cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are
solicited from individuals interested in presenting a tutorial,
which may be either a half day (4 hours) or a full day in
length and cover topics at an introductory or advanced level.
Tutorial submissions should be made to the Tutorial Chair and
include an extended abstract and outline (2-4 pages), and an
indication of length, objectives, and intended audience.
SIGCOMM'95 will include a one and one-half day workshop on the
topic of middleware infrastructure. Invitation to the workshop
will be based on submitting a strong technical position paper.
The workshop will focus on exciting and controversial
discussions following short presentations. Interested
individuals should contact the Workshop Chair for further
details on topics and submission requirements.
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 full
conference registration and a travel grant of $500 US dollars.
To be eligible the student must be the sole author of the
paper, or the first author and primary contributor. A cover
letter must identify the paper as a candidate for this
competition.
General Chair:
Stuart Wecker
Symmetrix, Inc.
One Cranberry Hill
Lexington, MA 02173 U.S.A.
Ph: +1 617 862 3200
E-mail: wecker@symmetrix.com
Program Co-Chairs:
David Clark and Karen Sollins
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.
David Clark: +1 617 253 6003
Karen Sollins: +1 617 253 6006
Fax: +1 617 253 2673
E-mail: sc95pc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Treasurer:
Julio Escobar, BBN
Ph: +1 617 873 4579
jescobar@bbn.com
Publicity Chair:
S. Keshav, Bell Labs
Ph: +1 908 582 3384
E-mail: keshav@research.att.com
Tutorial Chair:
William Hawe, DEC
Ph: +1 508 486 7666
E-mail: hawe@lkg.dec.com
Workshop Chair:
Barry Leiner, ARPA
Ph: +1 703 696 2227
E-mail: bleiner@arpa.mil
Registration Chair:
Liann DiMare, Mitre Corp.
Ph: +1 617 271 2567
E-mail: ldimare@mitre.org
Publications Chair:
Abhaya Asthana, Bell Labs
Ph: +1 908 582 6687
E-mail: abhaya@research.att.com
Program Committee:
Ian Akyildiz Georgia Inst of Tech, USA
Ernst Biersack Institut EURECOM, France
Jean-Chrysostome Bolot INRIA, France
Lillian Cassel Villanova Univ, USA
Lyman Chapin BBN, USA
Jon Crowcroft Univ College London, UK
Peter Danzig USC, USA
Bruce Davie Bellcore, USA
Stephen Deering Xerox, USA
Gary Delp IBM, USA
Deborah Estrin USC, USA
Sally Floyd LBL, USA
Paul Francis NTT, Japan
Inder Gopal IBM, USA
David Greaves U of Cambridge, UK
Hemant Kanakia AT&T, USA
Jim Kurose U of Massachusetts, USA
Lawrence Landweber U of Wisconsin, USA
Will Leland Bellcore, USA
Larry Masinter Xerox, USA
Derek McAuley U of Cambridge, UK
David Mills U of Delaware, USA
Jeffrey Mogul DEC, USA
Gerald Neufeld U of British Columbia, Can
Craig Partridge BBN, USA
Joseph Pasquale U of Cal, San Diego, USA
Krzystztof Pawlikowski U of Canterbury, New Zealand
Larry Peterson U of Arizona, USA
Stephen Pink SICS, Sweden
Bernhard Plattner ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Schwartz U of Colorado, USA
Scott Shenker Xerox, USA
Ellen Siegel Xerox, USA
Jonathan Smith U of Penn, USA
Martha Steenstrup BBN, USA
James Sterbenz GTE, USA
Jonathan Turner Washington U, St. Louis, USA
Greg Watson Hewlett Packard, USA
Lixia Zhang Xerox, USA