From: BARNEV@BGEARN.BITNET
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Subject: 18th Int Conf IT&P Call for Papers
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:00:12 GMT
Expires: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU


  	FIRST  ANNOUNCMENT  AND  CALL  FOR  PAPERS

     EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WITH SUMMER SCHOOL

	I N F O R M A T I O N   T E C H N O L O G I E S   A N D
			P R O G R A M M I N G

	- Information systems and telecommunications in business and
	  public administration

	- Hypertext and multimedia systems

	- Graphicsl methods for scientific and technical computing

			27 June - 4 July 1993
			   Sofia, Bulgaria

Address:
		Conference IT&P
		Institute of Mathematics
		Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl.8
		1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

		Phone: (+359) 2 - 713-3813
				      3818
				      3808
		Fax:   (+359) 2 - 752078
		E-mail: BARNEV@BGEARN.BITNET

AIM AND SCOPE:

The overall goal of the Conference is the gather people from Western and
Eastern countries, from industry and universities, to promote contacts
between specialists from different organizations with different profiles,
to set up links between different  fields of informatics.
TOPICS:

Traditionally the programme of the conference focusses on three main topics
but generally is not limited to them. For this year, the following topics
are emphasized:

A) Information systems and telecommunications in business and public
administration
	- methods and systems
	- legal aspects
	- organizational, social and ethical impacts
	- education
	- standards
	- information management

B) Hypertext and multimedia systems
	- models and methods
	- cognitive aspects
	- personal computing
	- cooperative work
	- software
	- object-oriented environment
	- application in training and documentation

C) Graphical methods for scientific and technical computing
	- computer geometry
	- scientific visualization
	- CAD, robotics, and VLSI

The programme will consist of lectures of 90 minutes duration, short papers
of 30 minutes duration, discussions, poster session and demonstrations. The
texts of the lectures and the short papers will be published in the
proceedings of the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Those with appropriate scientific and technical experience are invited to
submit papers to the conference. The text (in English) up to 8 pages
should include the title, author's names and correspondence addresses, a
brief abstract, an exposition where the essence and the specific results
are given, and a bibliography. Type the manuscript on white A4 paper, keeping
the text within a frame of 240 mm long and 170 mm wide. Use 1 1/2 spacing.
Avoid using dot-matrix printers in draft mode. The papers in camera-ready
form must be received at the contact address in triplicate not later than
January 30, 1993. The papers will be reviewed by at least two members of
the International Programme Committee and those accepted will be published
in the proceedings. Accepted papers will be included into the programme of
the conference either for oral presentation or for a poster session.

DEADLINES:

Today       Send the intention card
30 January  Contributions received by the secretariat
15 April    Notification of acceptance/rejection and financial conditions
15 May	    Paying early registration fee
27 June	    Conference begins

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

L. Aiello (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
M. Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
P. Barnev (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Chairman
J. Hoffer (School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
S. Kerpedjiev (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Secretary
B. Kokinov (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Secretary
V. Kotov (Insitute of Information Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia)
N. Spyratos (Universite de Paris-Sud, France)
N. Streitz (Geselschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt,
	Germany)
C. Thanos (Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, Pisa, Italy)
T. Vamosh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

IT&P INTENTION CARD (send it by mail or email to the following address:

		Conference IT&P
		Institute of Mathematics
		Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl.8
		1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

		E-mail: BARNEV@BGEARN.BITNET

Name .................................................
Organization .........................................
Mail Address .........................................
Phone ................... Fax ........................
E-mail ...............................................

I intent to submit a paper:
Title ................................................

Date ...............      Signature ..................
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