First Call for Papers ------------------- Engineers Conference at NetWorld+Interop 94 Paris --------------------------------------------------------------------- Interop Company is soliciting technical papers for an Engineers Conference to be held as part of the upcoming NetWorld+Interop 94 Paris event, October 24 - 28, 1994, in Paris. The Engineers Conference, which will be held on Thursday/Friday October 27 - 28, is a two-day focused event offering approaches and solutions to practical systems and software design for networking. All participants in the conference will be able to attend the NetWorld+Interop 94, Paris exhibition, which will run from October 26 - 28. FORMAT The conference will feature the presentation of original papers which will have been selected by a review committee. All accepted papers will be published in Conference Proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented by original authors during the 2-day conference. Conference sessions typically will be 90 minutes long and will present three papers of 20 to 30 minutes duration. The Engineer's Conference will concentrate on engineering design problems in three areas: High Speed Networking, Internetworking, and Multimedia. This conference seeks to bring together research scholars, engineers, and vendors to address pragmatic engineering issues in the field of networking and distributed systems interoperability. It is an excellent forum for Engineers and Researchers to publish papers and to be brought up to date on solutions to today's engineering related problems. Papers are solicited in the following areas: * High Speed Networking: ATM, Fast Ethernet, SDH, FDDI-II, HIPPI, SMDS, Frame Relay, Broadband ISDN, etc. * Internetworking: Addressing Schemes, Routing Protocols, Support of Mobility, Design of Bridges, Routers, and Multiprotocol Brouters, Application Gateways etc. * Multimedia Networking: Multimedia technologies, Multimedia inteoperability, Packet Video and voice, Multimedia Mail and Conferencing, Tele-Presence, Virtual Reality, etc. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract (up to 600 words) clearly describing the problem and the solution offered. All abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified for acceptance or rejection of the abstract. Authors of accepted abstracts must submit the paper before the last date. These papers are reviewed by a technical committee for technical merit of the paper before final acceptance. Please note the important dates for abstract and paper submission. All abstracts must contain the authors name, address, telephone number, Fax number and e-mail address (if available). Please send your abstract to: Interop Europe 14 Place Marie-Jeanne Bassot, 92593 Levallois Peret Cedex, Paris, France Attention: Engineer's Conference or e-mail it (in ASCII or PostScript) to: Paris_Engineer@interop.com ** E-mail is preferred. ** =================== = Important Dates = =================== Abstracts due: 3 Jun, 1994 Notification to authors: 24 Jun, 1994 Draft paper due: 22 Jul, 1994 Feedback to authors: 5 Aug, 1994 Camera ready copy due: 9 Sep, 1994 Final camera reader papers must not exceed 10 A4 pages.