From: keller@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:01:25 GMT
Expires: Fri, 1 May 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711


			       Call For Papers
	Fourth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
		     Sponsored by: IEEE-Computer Society
  			           IEEE-Dallas Section
		      Dallas, Texas-December 1-4, 1992

The symposium  will provide a forum  for  the  presentation  and exchange  of
current  work  on various  topics  in  parallel  and  distributed  processing
including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Computer Architecture   Programming Languages    Operating Systems
Neural Networks         Interconnection Networks Data- & Knowledge-base Systems
Artificial Intelligence Parallel Algorithms      VLSI Systems Design
Distributed Computing   Image Processing         Simulation & Perf. Modeling

Authors are invited to submit complete, original, and previously  unpublished
papers reflecting their current research results.  Any paper submitted to the
Symposium  should not be submitted to any  other  conference.  All  submitted
papers  will be referred for quality  and originality.  The program committee
reserves  the right  to  accept  a submission  as  a long,  short, or  poster
presentation paper.   All accepted papers will be published in the  symposium
proceedings.

Manuscripts should be doubled spaced, should include an abstract,  and should
be limited to 5000 words (about 20 pages).  The contact authors are requested
to  list  e-mail  addresses if  available.  Please submit  10  copies of  the
complete paper  to a program  chair in  your  geographical area listed below.
Papers should reach a program chair  no later than May 1, 1992.  Authors will
be  notified  of acceptance/rejection  of their  papers  by August 10,  1992.
Final camera-ready papers are due September 10, 1992.

Tutorials and  Panels:  Please  submit  proposals  including title, abstract,
biography,  and  list  of panel  participants by May 1,  1992  to the general
chair.

North and South America Co-Program Chairs:

Systems Track                           Algorithms and Theoretical Track
Robert M. Keller                        Mikhail Atallah
Computer Science Department             Department of Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College                     Purdue University
Claremont, CA  91711                    West Lafayette, IN  47907
E-mail: keller@jarthur.claremont.edu    E-mail: mja@cs.purdue.edu
Phone: (714) 621-8225 or -8483          Phone:(317)494-3653

Europe and Africa Co-Program Chair:     Fair East Co-Program Chair:
Burkhard Monien                         Francis Chin
Fachbereich Mathematik-Informatik       Computer Science Dept.
Universitaet Paderborn                  University of Hong Kong
4790 Paderborn                          Hong Kong
Germany

General Chair:
Kai Hwang
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA  90089-0781 USA
e-mail: kaihwang@panda.usc.edu
phone: (213)740-4470

Chair, Steering Committee:
Hal Sudborough, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

Steering Committee:
Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu Univ., Japan
Said Bettayeb, LSU, USA
Prasenjit Biswas, TI, USA
A. R. Hurson, Penn State Univ., USA
Oscar Ibarra, U.C., Santa Barbara, USA
Krishna Kavi, Univ. of Texas-Arlington, USA
Vijaya Ramachandran, Univ. of Texas-Austin, USA
Sartaj Sahni, Univ. of Florida, USA
Behrooz Shirazi, Univ. of Texas-Arlington, USA
Ioannis Tollis, Univ. of Texas-Dallas, USA
Ian Watson, Univ. of Manchester, UK

The technical program committee will be announced in a subsequent posting.