April 1997 € Volume 24 € Number 2

Call for Papers

Fourth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference

The Fourth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held in Boca Raton, Fla., March 8-11, 1998. The conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging networks.

Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: IP Networks & Performance; World Wide Web Applications; ATM Networks; Pricing and QoS; Congestion Control; Wireless Networks (Architecture, Design, Protocols, Network Interconnection); Routing and Scheduling; Measurements and Traffic Characterization; Teletraffic Theory; Polling Models; Simulation; Reliability; and Optimization.

Three kinds of submissions are invited: proposals for (1) an organized session with multiple presentations, (2) a single presentation and (3) a tutorial presentation. A submission for an organized session should include a one-page abstract for each presentation proposed and a cover letter from the session organizer that outlines the theme of the session.

A submission for a single presentation should include a one-page abstract of the presentation. A submission for a tutorial presentation should include a one-page abstract that indicates that it is a tutorial, plus a cover letter.

All proposals and abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. PostScript, LaTex or ASCII format sent via e-mail will be accepted (and preferred); or mail three hard-copies of the submission. Send all submissions, electronic or hard-copy, to Suvrajeet Sen, Program Chair; Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering; University of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721; Phone: (520) 621-6551; Fax: (520) 621-6555; E-mail: aor@sie.arizona.edu

The deadline for proposals and abstracts for organized sessions is Aug. 1, 1997; the deadline for abstracts for contributed sessions is Sept. 1, 1997.

Full papers of accepted presentations may be submitted for publication in the select proceedings of the Fourth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, to be published by Baltzer Science Publishers. The editors of the Select Proceedings are L. D. Servi (GTE Laboratories) and D. Medhi (University of Missouri-KC). These papers must materially reflect the talks given at the Conference, will be refereed, and are due to the editors by March 11, 1998 (they may be submitted at the Conference itself). The Select Proceedings will be mailed to all attendees of the Conference (included in the registration fee). The paper should adhere to the format guidelines of the journal Telecommunications Systems. Electronic submission is preferred.

Send submissions to L.D. Servi, GTE Laboratories Inc., 20 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA. 02254; Phone: (617) 466-2970; Fax: (617) 890-9320; E-mail: lds0@gte.com; or Deepankar Medhi, Department of Computer Networking, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499; Phone (816) 235-2006; Fax: (816) 235-5159; E-mail: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu. For more information, go to: http://www.nl.net/~baltzer.

An International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Mini-Seminar is planned to be "piggy-backed" on March 12, 1998, the day after the conference, at the same hotel. Details on the ITC Mini-Seminar will be provided in a separate call.

International Conference on Industrial Logistics

The third ICIL will take place at California State University in Chico, Calif., on June 16-19, 1997.

Previous conferences in France and Brazil established strong international and interdisciplinary flavors at ICIL. Operations researchers, computer scientists, economists, industrial logisticians and other practitioners will gather from Belgium, Brazil, France, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, the United States and other countries.

Papers are encouraged in three major aspects of industrial logistics:

Product Support or Engineering Logistics (reliability, life-cycle costs, post-sale customer support, maintenance planning, logistics support, military logistics).
Production Support or Business Logistics (purchasing, supply chain management, distribution, vehicle routing, loading models, warehousing, inventory control).
Industrial Sector Support (transportation policy, services support, plant location, infrastructure planning, public sector support, input-output analysis, international trade, globalization).

Send abstracts and complete papers by May 15, 1997 to: Dr. Gerardo Rubino, ENST-Bretagne, Rue de la Chataigneraie, BP 78, 35512 Cesson Sevigne Cedex, France; Phone: +33 2 99 12 70 29; Fax: +33 2 99 38 38 32; E-mail: rubino@irisa.fr

International Workshop on Decision Analysis Applications

The "Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales", the "Real Academia de Ciencias Politicas y Morales" and the "Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugia", under the support of the "Instituto de Espana," will hold a two-day workshop on "Decision Analysis Applications" July 11-12, 1997 in Spain.

All application areas will be considered, with preference to medicine, energy, environment, defense, politics, socioeconomics and the law. All decision analytic schools are welcomed.

There will be one plenary lecture, together with invited and contributed lectures. Contributed papers may be either read at sessions or displayed at a poster session.

Invited papers and a selection of contributed papers, after a refereeing process by the Scientific Committee, will be published in the Proceedings.

Authors willing to participate should sent an abstract, via e-mail, mail or fax to Professor F. J. Giron before April 25.

The abstract should include title, authors, affiliation with e-mail and fax, and a description of the problem studied and the methodology used. Send abstracts to Professor. F. J. Giron, Departamento de Estadistica e I.O., Facultad de Ciencias (U. de Málaga), Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga (SPAIN); Fax: 34 5 2 13 18 94; E-mail: fj_giron@ccuma.uma.es

Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 10, 1997.

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