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Computer is soliciting articles that cover
all aspects of computer science, technology, and applications. Computer is aimed
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not limited to narrow specialties; articles
are usually survey or tutorial in nature
and cover the state of the art or important
emerging developments. Submit six copies
of the manuscript, including illustrations,
references, and authors' biographies, to
the editor-in-chief:
to Se-June Hong, Room 31-206, IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; (914) 9452265.
* Design and Implementation of Parallel
Programming Languages: Submit by
October 15, 1985, to David Gelernter,
Yale University, Dept. of Computer
Science, PO Box 2158 Yale Station,
New Haven, CT 06520.
* Design and Test: Submit by October
15, 1985, to Gordon Padwick, Tera* Michael C. Mulder
dyne, Inc., 21255 Califa St., Woodland
Applied Research
Hills, CA 91367.
University of Portland
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bers are considered for publication;
In addition, special issues of Computer
submit to Michael Mulder.
are being organized. Submit six copies of An authors' information sheet can be obrelevant articles directly to the guest tained from Michael Mulder at the above
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plications: Submit by October 1, 1985, 821-8380.
CSC-86, 14th Annual ACM Computer
Science Conference: February 4-6, 1986, Cincinnati, Ohio. Send five copies of papers
(suitable for 20-minute presentations; 10
pages maximum) by September 15, 1985, to
Larry A. Crum, Wright State University,
Dept. of Computer Science, Dayton, OH
45435. Abstracts (500 words maximum) of
short reports (suitable for 12-minute presentations) are also sought.
44 Sixth International Conference on Dis-
tributed Computing Systems (ACM):
May 19-23, 1986, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Topics of interest include architectures, networks, operating systems, programming languages, distributed databases, communication protocols, fault tolerance, applications,
and performance evaluation. Submit five
copies of papers that include a 150-word
abstract by September 15, 1985, to William
C. McDonald, System Development Corp.,
4810 Bradford Blvd., Huntsville, AL 35805;
(205) 837-7610.
CHI-86, Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (ACM): April 13-17,
1986, Boston, Massachusetts. Submit five
copies of papers (3000 words maximum; include a 100-word abstract) and proposals for
panel sessions (two pages maximum) by
September 20, 1985, to Stuart K. Card, Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill
Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94304; (415) 494-4311
(papers), and Phyllis Reisner, IBM Research,
5600 Cottle Rd., K51 281, San Jose, CA
95193; (408) 996-0761 (proposals for panel
sessions). Proposals for interactive/poster
sessions, demonstrations, and videotape
presentations are also souglt.
Calls are listed according to submittal deadlines. Conferences that the Computer Society participates in or sponsors are indicated by the IEEE Computer Society logo; others of interest to
our readers are also included. For inclusion in "Callfor Papers, "submit information six weeks
before the month of publication (e.g., for the December 1985 issue, send information for
receipt by October 15, 1985) to COMPUTER, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA
90720.
September 1985
IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation: April 7-11, 1986, San Francisco, California. Submit four copies of a
paper (15 to 20 pages) by October 1, 1985, to
Rajan Suri, University of WisconsinMadison, Dept. of Industrial Engineering,
1513 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706.
FTCS-16, 16th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
(IFIP): July 1-3, 1986, Vienna, Austria. Submit abstracts (150 words maximum) that include five keywords by October 25, 1985, to
FTCS-16, Interconvention Hofburg, PO Box
80, A-1 107 Vienna, Austria; phone (43) (222)
52-02-93.
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4k NCC-86, National Computer Con-
ference (AFIPS): June 16-19, 1986, Las
Vegas, Nevada. The conference theme is
"Dynamic Dimensions of Computing: Implications for Management, Professionals,
and Users." Submit proposals for papers and
sessions by October 31, 1985, to Mimi W.
Halo, NCC-86 Program Office, PO Box
8807, Newport Beach, CA 92658-8807.
IEEE Computer Society Second International Conference on Ada Applications and Environments: April 7-10, 1986,
Miami Beach, Florida. Submit papers (20 to
30 pages; include a 200-to-300-word abstract)
by November 1, 1985, to Derek S. Morris,
Stevens Institute of Technology, Computer
Science Dept., Castle Point Station,
Hoboken, NJ 07030.
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, NECC-86, Seventh National Educational Computing Conference (ACM,
SCS): June 4-6, 1986, San Diego, California.
Submit four copies of a paper (15 pages maximum), and proposals for sessions, workshops and projects by November 1, 1985, to
NECC-86, University of San Diego, School
of Education, Alcala Park, San Diego, CA
92110.
Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers (ACM): June 5-6, 1986,
Washington DC. Submit six copies of papers
(15 to 25 pages) by November 1, 1985, to
Sitharama lyengar, Dept. of Computer
Science, Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, LA 70803-4020.
a
13th International Symposium on
Computer Architecture (ACM, IPSJ):
June 3-5, 1986, Tokyo, Japan. Send five
copies of the manuscript (20 pages maximum)
by November 11, 1985, to Douglas Clark,
Digital Equipment Corp., 295 Foster St., Littleton, MA 01460 (North American authors),
or Phillip Treleaven, Dept. of Computer
Science, University of Reading, PO Box 220,
Whiteknights Park, Reading RG2 6AX, UK
(European authors), or Shunichi Uchida,
ICOT, Mita Kokusai Bldg. 21F, 4-28 Mita 1
Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan (other
authors).
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23rd ACM/IEEFE Design Automation
Conferenice: June 29-July 2, 1986, Las
Vegas, Nevada. Submit five copies of papers
(5000 words maximunm; include an abstract)
bs November 15, 1985, and proposals for
pancl discussioni and mini-workshops by December 13, 1985, to Donald E. Thomas, IB\1
T..l. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218,
Yorktos\n Heights, NY 10598.
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Third International Conference on
l ogic Programming (ACM, BCS): July
14-18, 1986, Londoa, England. Short (200(
sords maximum) and long (6000 words maximumLi) papers are sought. Submit eight copies
ot the complete paper and two copies of the
abstract bv D)ecember 1, 1985, to Ehud
Shapiro, The eizmannii In.stitute of Science,
Rehosot 76100, Israel.
Medinfo 86, Lifth World Congress on
Medical Informatics (AtFIPS, IFIP,
AXIS): October 26-30. 1986, Washingtoni
DC. Research paper-s (suitable taor 20-to-30malinuLte presentations); descriptions of inII (oVtsI
S temlls (suitable tor 10-to-15minIute Presentations); opinionr, rev iew, orpapers
anals tical
(suitable
tOr
10-to-15-
piPesentat iots); and abstracts ot scien1t i'lc denmonistrations (hal -page summary in
proceedines) are soueht. Submit sev copies
bs January 15. 1986, to Medinfo 86, Oreanisminlute
en
Committee, George Washington UniverMedical Center, Office of Continuing
Medical Education, 2300 K St., NW,
Washii)eton DC 20037; (202) 676-8929.
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ILLF Transactions on .',oftware Engitneering: Papers are sought for two
special issues. The first, which is planned for
publication in December 1986, wvill be
desotecd to distributed systems. Suggested
topics include distributed algorithms,
distributed operating svstems, programming
env ironments and languages, reliable communication, data/object replication, specification and serification, fault tolerance, and
distributed real-time control. Submit six
copies of a paper by January 31, 1986, to
Flaviu Cristian or Dale Skeen, K55/801, IBMf
Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Rd.,
Sani Jose, CA 95120-6099. The second issue
s'ill coaer adsances in software engineering
for Ada technology. Topics of interest include front-end software life-cycle techniques
and tools, language processors, reliabilits,
models and metrics, testing and serification
methods, database support, and project managemenit. Submit six copies of the manuscript
bs March 1, 1986, to Joseph E. Urban, Univcrsits of Southwestern Louisiana, Center
tor Adsanced Computer Studies, PO Box
44330, Lafasette, I A 70504. (Guidelines for
sLubmittinig manuscripts appear on page 315
of the March 1985 issue ot IEkL
tions on Soafi ware Engineeling.)
Trnsacc-
IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation: August 27-29, 1986, Kent
Ridge, Singapore. Papers on the conterence
theme, "Languages for Computer and Information Systems Design," are sought. Submit
manuscripts (20 pages maximum) with
200-word abstracts by March 1, 1986, to
Christos A. Papachristou, Case Western
Reserve Unisersity, Dept.. of Computer
Engineering and Science, Cleveland, OH
44106; authors from Asia are asked to submit
their manuscripts to Juzar Motiwalla, Institute of Ssstems Science, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511.
IFJCC.-86, ACM/t1EE-CS F'all Joint
Computer Conference: Noa ember 2-6,
1986, Dallas, Texas. Technical and sursev
papers, and proposals for panel discussioIns,
tutorials, professional deevelopimienit seimiinarS,
short
are
workshops,
and
poster
presentations
sou2ht. Scibmit tfive copies ot papers aind
proposals for painel discussioins by March 15,
1986, to Halrold H. Stoine, IBM T.J. \NVatson
RcscarIch C(enter, PO Box 218, Yorktown
Heihts, NiY 10598. SLibmllit fiVe Copies ot
otther proposals to Toni Shetler, TRWX
\N 1/4454, 760() Colshire Dr., MLcLeanr, V A
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