CALL FOR PAPERS
			      IJFCS
     International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
            Special Issue on Interconnection Networks
	
Massively parallel computers and distributed computer networks are 
rapidly expanding technologies that are redefining the way we do 
computing.  Advances in packaging and VLSI now enable us to build 
massively parallel computers with hundreds to thousands of interconnected 
processors that collectively solve compute-intensive problems at very 
high speed.  Likewise, innovations in fiber optics and wireless 
communications now make it feasible to design large-scale distributed 
networks which interconnect tens of thousands of end-users and servers 
to provide distributed processing, resource sharing, information gathering 
and dissemination, and knowledge communication.

As new applications are developed and new markets are created through 
these technologies, the demand for higher communication bandwidths and 
processing speeds become even greater.  While there has been significant 
progress in high-speed processor design, high-performance interconnection 
network design has lagged.  This is due in part to the lack of interaction 
and collaboration between researchers in massively parallel architectures 
and researchers in distributed networks but who nonetheless study similar 
issues such as routing algorithms, communication protocols, and applications 
mapping.

Original papers are sought for this special issue which intends to 
present a systematic and coherent treatment of interconnection network 
design issues.  Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

(1)   Network Topologies
(2)   Network Routing and Communication Algorithms
(3)   Embedding and Mapping of Application and Algorithms
(4)   Reconfigurable Architectures
(5)   Parallel Algorithms on Processor Networks
(6)   Packaging and VLSI Layout Design
(7)   Optical Interconnections (Free-Space or Fiber)
(8)   Wide Area Network Backbone Design and Optimization
(9)   ATM Architecture and Network Protocols
(10)  Wireless and Mobile Interconnections
	
Please submit 5 copies of your complete manuscript (not exceeding 20 
single-spaced pages including figures, tables, etc.) to Dr. D. Frank Hsu 
(address indicated below) by November 1, 1995.  All papers should include 
a title page containing title, author(s) names and affiliations, regular 
postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and fax numbers.  
Please refer to IJFCS (V.5, No. 1, March 1994) or contact any editor 
listed below for submission requirements and typesetting instructions.

D. Frank Hsu	           Michael Palis	     David S.L.Wei
(Editor IJFCS)	           (Guest Editor IJFCS)	     (Guest Editor IJFCS)
Dept. of Computer and	   Dept. of Elec. and        School of Computer 
Information Sciences	   Computer Engineering	     Science & Engineering
John Mulcahy Hall 340	   New Jersey Institute      The Univ. of Aizu
Fordham University	   of Technology	     Aizu-Wakamatsu
Bronx, New York 10458	   Newark, NJ 07102          Fukushima 965-80
U.S.A.	                   U.S.A.                    Japan
HSU@MURRAY.FORDHAM.EDU     PALIS@SUNRISE.NJIT.EDU    D-WEI@U-AIZU.AC.JP