Subject: N-1-4-100.06 CONFERENCES - SIGCOMM A. Lyman Chapin Chairman, SIGCOMM The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM) is a professional society of people throughout the world who share an interest in computer communication networks. For information about ACM and SIGCOMM, contact Patrick McCarren at ACM headquarters (Bitnet: mccarren@acmvm; Internet: mccarren%acmvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu). The annual SIGCOMM conference will be held in San Francisco, California (USA) during the week of 13-17 September 1993. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of communication network applications and technologies, and reports of recent technical work and proposals in the areas of communication architectures, protocols, algorithms, and applications. Three all-day tutorials will be offered on Monday and Tuesday (13-14 September), followed by the conference itself on Wednesday through Friday (15-17 September). For further information about the conference, to which all interested parties are invited (whether SIGCOMM members or not), send an electronic mail message to sigcomm93@cse.ucsc.edu. The conference is single-track, and the number of sessions and papers varies with the number of accepted submissions. In the past the conference has accepted about 25 papers from well over 100 submissions. Successful submissions typically report results that are firmly substantiated by experiment, implementation, simulation, or mathematical analysis. Authors are invited to submit full papers concerned with both theory and practice. The areas of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Analysis and design of computer network architectures and algorithms; innovative results in local area networks; mixed-media networks; high- speed networks; routing and addressing; support for mobile hosts; resource sharing in distributed systems; network management; distributed operating systems and databases; and protocol specification, verification,and analysis. All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of all of the authors, giving in each case the author's name, affiliation, telephone number, electronic mail address, and facsimile telephone number (all information about authors must be placed on a separate cover page, so that this information can be removed before the paper is sent to reviewers). Papers must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages in length, and should be accompanied by an abstract of 100-150 words. All submitted papers will be reviewed, and will be judged with respect to quality and relevance. To be considered for the 1993 SIGCOMM Conference, papers must be submitted by February 22, 1993. The authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 7, and must submit camera-ready copy by June 11. Submit five paper copies (by postal mail) or one PostScript(tm) file (by electronic mail) of each paper to the program chairman before 22 February 1993: Dr. Deepinder Sidhu Department of Computer Science University of Maryland-Baltimore Campus Baltimore MD 21228 USA dsidhu@umbc3.umbc.edu Phone: +1 410 455 3028 Fax: +1 410 455 3969 Authors considering submitting a paper for inclusion in the SIGCOMM '93 conference are encouraged to obtain more information about the topical areas and characteristics of past selected papers by sending an electronic mail message to sigcomm93-author- info@umbc3.umbc.edu. The authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. The Proceedings of the conference, which will contain all selected papers, will be distributed at the conference and published as a special issue of the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. The program committee may also select a few papers for possible publication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Papers submitted by students may be entered in the student-paper award contest. Among the accepted papers, a maximum of four outstanding student papers will be awarded full conference registration and a travel grant of US$500. To be eligible for this competition, the student must be the sole author of the paper, or the first author and primary contributor to the paper. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition. Proposals for pre-conference tutorials should be submitted to the Tutorial Chair by 22 February 1993: Ian F. Akyildiz School of Electrical Engineering Georgia Tech Atlanta GA 30332 USA ian@cc.gatech.edu Phone: +1 404 894 5141 Fax: +1 404 894 3188