ConTEL 97

co-located with

2nd International Workshop on Applied Formal Methods in System Design

June 18-19, 1997, Zagreb, Croatia (URL http://www.hr/work97)

Organized by Croatian Telecommunications Society

In cooperation with:

HAZU - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
FER - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
IEEE Croatia Section

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the fourth international biennial Conference on Telecommunications ConTEL 97 to be held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. Original, yet unpublished papers addressing the following telecommunications topics are invited:

Information Theory
Switching Systems
Network Planning
Mobile Telecommunications
LAN/MAN/WAN
Multimedia
Logical Design and Automata
Broadband and Intelligent Networks
Network Operations and Management
Optical Communications
Performance Evaluation
Telecommunication Services

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS

The papers will be selected by the International Program Committee from full texts of 8 pages maximum (A4 format, minimal spacing, using Times 12-14 pt or equivalent). The manuscript should be organized in the usual scientific format including an 100 word abstract, keywords, references to previous work and state of the art in the field, aim of the work, methodology followed, results obtained and references. The language of the Conference is English.

All submissions should be accompanied by a cover sheet which contains paper's title and the full name(s), affiliation, complete return address, telephone, fax and e-mail address of the author to whom all correspondence will be sent.

Please submit four copies of your manuscript to the Program Committee Chairman. For electronic submission please consult the guidelines on the ConTEL 97 WWW site. Faxed submissions will not be accepted.

Program Committee Chairman:

Prof. Ignac Lovrek
FER Department of Telecommunications
Unska 3
HR - 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel: +385 1 612 98 02
Fax: +385 1 612 98 32
E-mail: ignac.lovrek@fer.hr

Program Committee:

Rudolf Albrecht, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Leo Budin, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Antun Caric, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
Bjarne Däcker, Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Denis Gracanin, University of Zagreb/University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Rolf B. Haugen, Telenor R & D, Kjeller, Norway
Branko Mikac, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Borivoj Modlic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Gábor Németh, Budapest Technical University, Hungary
Mike O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK
Ferdinand Pogacnik, HPT, Croatia
Reinhard Posch, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Nikola Rozic, University of Split, Croatia
Konstantin Samouylov, Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow, Russia
Vjekoslav Sinkovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Tkalic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Kimon Valavanis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Jernej Virant, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Michail Zharkov, CNIIS, Moscow, Russia

Schedule:

Late Papers (complete manuscripts) Due: December 20, 1996
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 1997
Camera-Ready Manuscript Due: April 15, 1997

Authors of accepted articles should be prepared to present their papers personally at the Conference. The Conference Proceedings will be published in ITA - Information, Telecommunications, Automata Journal, Vol.15, No.1-3. The Proceedings Editor will be Marijan Kunstic, University of Zagreb.