call for papers, IWANNT*97

[Alspector]

                           CALL FOR PAPERS


  International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks (and other
             intelligent systems) to Telecommunications
                           (IWANNT*97)

         Melbourne, Australia               June 9-11, 1997													

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Josh Alspector, U. of Colorado

Program Chair: Rod Goodman, Caltech

Publications Chair: Timothy X Brown, U. of Colorado

Treasurer: Anthony Jayakumar, Bellcore

Publicity:
	Atul Chhabra, NYNEX
	Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute

Local Arrangements:
	Adam Kowalczyk, Telstra, Chair
	Michael Dale, Telstra
	Andrew Jennings, RMIT
	Maributu Palaniswami, U. of Melbourne
	Robert Slaviero, Signal Proc. Ass. (& local IEEE liason)
	Jacek Szymanski, Telstra

Program Committee:
	Nader Azarmi, British Telecom
	Miklos Boda, Ericsson Radio Systems 
	Harald Brandt, Ericsson Telecommunications 
	Tzi-Dar Chiueh, National Taiwan U
        Bruce Denby, U of Versailles
	Simon Field, Nortel
	Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS
	Marwan A. Jabri, Sydney Univ.
	Thomas John, SBC
	S Y Kung, Princeton University
	Tadashi Sone, ATR
	Scott Toborg, SBC TRI

IEEE Liaison: Steve Weinstein, NEC 

Conference Administrator:

	Helen Alspector
	IWANNT Conference Administrator
	Univ. of Colorado at Col. Springs
	Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.
	P.O. Box 7150
	Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
	(719) 593-3351
	(719) 593-3589 (fax)
	neuranet at mail.uccs.edu

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to an international workshop on applications of neural 
networks and other intelligent systems to problems in telecommunica-
tions and information networking. This is the third workshop in a 
series that began in Princeton, New Jersey on October 18-20, 1993.
and continued in Stockholm, Sweden on May 22-24, 1995.

This conference will be at the University of Melbourne on the
Monday through Wednesday (June 9 - 11, 1997) just before the
Australian Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN) which will be at
the same location on June 11 - 13 (Wednesday - Friday).
There will be a hard cover proceedings available at the workshop.
There is further information on the IWANNT home page at:

http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~timxb/iwannt.html

Suggested topics include:

Internet Services
Intelligent Agents
Database Mining
Network Management
ATM Networking
Wireless Networks
Modulation and Coding Techniques
Congestion Control
Adaptive Equalization
Speech Recognition
Security Verification
Adaptive User Interfaces
Language ID/Translation
Multimedia Networking
Information Filtering
Dynamic Routing
Propagation Path Loss Modeling
Dynamic Frequency Allocation
Software Engineering
Telecom Market Prediction
Fault Identification and Prediction
Character Recognition
Adaptive Control
Data Compression
Credit Management
Customer Modeling


Submissions:

Please submit 6 copies of both a 50 word abstract and a 1000 word summary
of your paper to arrive in Colorado, USA by Oct. 15, 1996.  Mail papers
to the conference administrator.


Note the following dates:

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1996: Abstract, summary due.
Monday,  Nov. 25, 1996: Notification of acceptance
Monday,  Feb. 10, 1997: Camera Ready Copy Due

I hope to see you at the workshop.

Sincerely,



Josh Alspector,

General Chair


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REGISTRATION FORM
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   International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks (and other
             intelligent systems) to Telecommunications
                           (IWANNT*97)

         Melbourne, Australia               June 9-11, 1997


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Make check ($400; $500 after May 1, 1997; $200 students) out to IWANNT*97. 
Please make sure your name is on the check.

Registration includes breaks and proceedings available at the conference.

Mail to:

        Helen Alspector
        IWANNT Conference Administrator
        Univ. of Colorado at Col. Springs
        Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.
        P.O. Box 7150
        Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
        (719) 593-3351
        (719) 593-3589 (fax)
        neuranet at mail.uccs.edu



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The conference will be held at the University of Melbourne.
There are several good hotels within walking distance of the university.
More information will be sent to registrants or upon request.