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[Taieb Znati <[e-mail]>]

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The Committee.

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*                            Call for Papers                              *
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*             Communication Networks and Distributed Systems              *
*                   Modeling and Simulation Conference                    *
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*               Sheraton  Crescent  Hotel,  Phoenix, Arizona              * 
*                          January 12-15, 1997                            * 
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*       In conjunction with Western Simulation Multiconference (WMC)      *
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*                           Sponsored by:                                 * 
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*               The Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)                 *
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*                        In cooperation with:                             *
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*                     The IEEE Computer Society**                         *
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*               ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)**               *
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  In the last few years, the world of computer communications and 
distributed systems has undergone dramatic changes which led to the  
development of innovative computer networks and distributed systems 
architectures, and created opportunities for new classes of multimedia 
applications. This conference grew out of the urgent need to understand 
these systems as they became more complex.

  The purpose of this conference is to serve as a forum for the exchange 
of ideas among researchers from around the world, as well as highlight 
current activities in performance analysis and evaluation of high speed 
communication networks and distributed multimedia technologies. 

  The paper sessions are designed to promote discussion of concepts,
methodology, and results between authors and the audience. The structure
of the conference also provides for a degree of collegiality and continuity 
in the discussions of the various topics presented during the week.  In 
addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations, the 
conference, in conjunction with the Western Simulation Multiconference (WMC), 
will offer invited presentations, vendor presentations, and  exhibits.

  Original technical papers, addressing all aspects of analysis, design, 
modeling, and performance evaluation of communication networks and 
distributed systems, are solicited for presentation at the conference 
and publication in the conference proceedings. Topics of interest include:

	o Communication networks         o High speed networks, ATM  
	o Interconnection networks       o Wireless Networks
	o Distributed systems            o Mobile Computing
	o Multimedia systems             o Real-time systems
	o Database systems               o Fault-tolerant systems  
	o Computer architecture          o Memory systems                 
	o Operating systems              o File and I/O systems           


 Authors are requested to submit five copies (in English) of their 
manuscript by June 30, 1996 to:

  			Taieb Znati  
  		Department of Computer Science 
                      226, Alumni Hall              
                  University of Pittsburgh     
                    Pittsburgh, PA 15260

  Papers can also be submitted electronically to [e-mail] or 
directly deposited by anonymous ftp at: 

            ftp.cs.pitt.edu:/pub/WMC_Conf/Paper-Deposit

  Submitted files must be either in dvi or PostScript format  with  all  
figures  and  tables included, as created on Unix systems by:

          cat paper.ps | compress | uuencode paper.ps.Z > paper.uue

or in most other environments by the `print to file'  command  with the 
PostScript output format option.  Only papers  which  have  not  been  
previously  published  or presented  should  be  submitted.   

  All submissions will be fully refereed for accuracy, technical content, and
relevance.  Papers should be limited to 20 double-spaced pages (at most 6
single-spaced pages for the camera-ready version).
The authors should prepare a single page which includes authors names,
title, affiliation, abstract, and a contact person information (complete
address, email, phone, and fax) Accepted papers will appear in
the Conference's Proceedings to be published by the Society for Computer
Simulation.  An award will be presented to the best paper presented at
WMC'97. Authors of top papers will also be encouraged to submit a 
follow-on paper to the International Journal in Computer Simulation.  
Authors must obtain employer, client, or government releases prior to 
submittal of the final manuscript.


The conference timetable is as follows:

          Paper Submission Deadline : June    30, 1996
          Acceptance Notification   : August  20, 1996
          Camera-Ready Paper        : October  1, 1996
          Conference                : January 12, 1997




    Conference General Chair                   Conference Program Chair
    Prof. Lionel Ni                                   Prof. Taieb Znati
    Department of Computer Scinece          Computer Science Department
    Michigan State University                  University of Pittsburgh
    East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1207              Pittsburgh, PA 15260
    Tel.: [phone]                           Tel.: [phone]
    [e-mail]                                    [e-mail]


    Program Committee Members:

	Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA, [e-mail]
	Mary L. Bailey, University of Arizona, [e-mail]
	Simonetta Balsamo, University of Udine, [e-mail]
	Kalyani Bogineni, Bellcore, [e-mail]
	Tien-Fu Chen, National Chung Cheng University, [e-mail]
        Wai Chen, Bellcore, [e-mail]
	Samir R. Das, UTSA, [e-mail]
	Patrick W. Dowd, SUNY Buffalo, [e-mail]
        Giambiasi, University of Marseille, France
        Sumit Ghosh, Arizona State University, [e-mail]
	Martin Hitz, University of Vienna, [e-mail]
	Pavlos Konas, Silicon Graphics, [e-mail]
	Jasna Kuljis, Roehampton Institute UK, [e-mail]
	Jason Yi-Bing Lin, NCTU, Hsinchu, Taiwan, [e-mail]
	Darrell D.E. Long, UCSC, [e-mail]
	Robert.Macredie, Brunel University, UK, [e-mail]
	Brian Malloy, Clemson University, [e-mail]
	Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh, [e-mail]
	Jon M. Peha, Carnegie Mellon University, [e-mail]
	Vernon Rego, Purdue University, [e-mail]
	Jerzy Rozenbilt, University of Arizona, [e-mail]
	Herbert D. Schwetman, Mesquite Software, Inc., [e-mail]
	Sourav Bhattacharya, [e-mail]
	Gary S. H. Tan, National University of Singapore, [e-mail]
	David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, [e-mail]
	Anand R. Tripathi, [e-mail]     
	Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, [e-mail]
	George Zobrist, Univ. of Misouri-Rolla, [e-mail]
	Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittburgh, [e-mail]


    Further Information:

  For additional information, please send mail to: [e-mail]  
or  contact Taieb Znati by phone: [phone], email: [e-mail], 
or fax:  (412)  624-8854. Updated conference announcement and information are 
accessible by anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.pitt.edu:/pub/WMC_Conf or by 
directly accessing the conference home page at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/WMC_Conf.

** Pending Approval