ADVANCED COMPUTING SOCIETY FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ADCOMP '97 Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing December 15 - 17, 1997 Chennai (Madras), India The goal of the fifth annual conference of the Advanced Computing Society is to provide a stimulating forum to industry professionals, researchers, and government policy planners to share ideas, report findings, discuss products and define future directions. Over the past four years this conference has become one of the premium forums for the growing technical community in India. Last year more than half of the 200 attendees were from industry with significant participation from academic communities in India and overseas. We commit to build on this success and increase its influence on the technical communities. The conference will have sessions with contributed papers, invited talks, practical experience reports, tutorials, panels, and vendor exhibitions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Advanced Computer Architecture * Dependable, Fault-tolerant, Secure, and Real-time systems * Parallel and Distributed Computing, Distributed Databases * VLSI Systems * Communication Networks for Advanced Computing: ATM, Gigabit, Wireless * Internet Computing, Communication Issues in Mobile Computing * Software Engineering: Applications, Tools, Testing, Formal methods * Advance Programming Environments and Tools * Scientific and Engineering Applications * Applications of Advanced Computing in Graphics, Vision, Image Processing PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of previously unpublished paper/experience-report to Program Co-Chairs before June 30, 1997. The length is limited to 5000 words (20 double spaced pages). Authors will be notified of acceptance by August 30, 1997. Camera ready papers would be required by October 1, 1997. A set of selected papers from the Proceedings of ADCOMP '97 will be published in a special issue of the Journal "Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices", NOVA Science Publishers. TUTORIALS: Half day/full day tutorials are proposed to be held on the first day of the conference. Tutorial proposals on topics of interest to Advanced Computing are welcome. Please submit your proposals to the Tutorial Chair by June 30, 1997. SPECIAL SESSIONS: Proposals for organizing special sessions in some particular topics consisting of invited talks from eminent persons in the field are also welcome. Persons interested in organizing such sessions are requested to contact the Program Co-Chairs before June 30, 1997. EXHIBITION: The conference provides an opportunity to the vendors of computing systems to display their products. In addition, few sessions on vendor presentation are planned. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission : 30th June 1997 Proposals for tutorials : 30th June 1997 Proposal for special sessions : 30th June 1997 Camera ready papers submission : 1st Oct 1997 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Prof. R. M. Vasagam Vice-Chancellor Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India Phone: +91-44-2351445 Fax : +91-44-2350397 Email: annavc@sirnetm.ernet.in Prof. Dharma P. Agrawal Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University Box 7911, 232 Daniels Hall Raleigh NC 27695-7911, USA Phone: 919-515-3984 Fax: 919-515-5523 Email: dpa@ncsu.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Prof. A. K. Somani Dept. of Electrical Engineering Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Box 352500, Seattle, Washington 98195-2500, USA Phone: 206-685-1602 Fax : 206-543-3842 Email: arun@ee.washington.edu Prof. K. M. Mehata Director School of Computer Science and Engineering Anna University, Madras Chennai- 600 025, India Phone: +91-44-2351126/2351723 Ext. 3341 Fax : +91-44-2350397 Email: annalib@sirnetm.ernet.in ORGANIZING CO-CHAIRS Mr. V. Chandrasekharan Pentafour Software I Main Road, United India Colony Chennai, 600 024, India Phone: +91-44-4840298 Fax: +91-44-4840362 Email: vchandra@pentafour.com Dr. Ravi Mittal Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai, 600 036, India Phone : 91-44-2351365 Extn. 3522 Fax : 91-44-2350509 Email : mittal@iitm.ernet.in TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Dr. C. N. Krishnan Madras Institute of Technology Anna University, Chromepet Chennai 600 044, India Phone: +91-44-2368850 Dr. Ram Chillarege Senior Manager Center for Software Engineering IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne New York, 10532, USA Phone: 914-784-7375 Email: ramchill@watson.ibm.com FINANCE CHAIR Prof. S. K. Sinha Centre for Electronics Design and Technolgy Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012, India Email:sksinha@cedt.iisc.ernet.in Phone : +91-80-3341880, 3340134, 3092516 Fax: +91-80-3314845 PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Mr. K. Muralidhar Koteshwar manager, Business Development Tata Elxi (India) Ltd Whitefield Road Mahadevapura Post, Hoody Bangalore - 560048, India Phone: +91-80-8452016 Email: kmurali@teil.soft.in Dr. J. Mohan Kumar School of Computing Curtin University of Technology Perth Western Australia GPO Box U 1987, Perth 6001 Western Australia Phone: 09-351-3014 Email: kumar@cs.curtin.edu.au -------------------------------------------------------------------- ADCOMP '97 In Co-operation With: IEEE Computer Society - TC for Computer Architecture Working Group on Dependable Computing, India Anna University, Chennai With Support From: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India Silicon Graphics Systems (India) Private Ltd Pentafour Software, Madras ADVANCED COMPUTING SOCIETY Chair: Dr. V. P. Bhatkar Vice-Chair: Prof. R. M. Vasagam Secretary: Mr. S. Sasi Kumar Secretariat C-DAC, 2/1 Brunton Road Bangalore 560 025, India Phone: +91-80-5584271/982/143 Fax: +91-80- 5584893 ---------------------------------------------------------------------