CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPIC AREAS
See AIMS & SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE.

CONTRIBUTIONS
Extended abstracts of papers and posters are solicited. Abstracts should be ca. 1000 words and include the most important references. The relevance and originality of the contribution must be stated. Please indicate:

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION (preferred)
Send a postscript file or your extended abstract to the conference office, Email: parco97@gmd.de

Subject: postscript for uncompressed postscript
Subject: postscript.gz.uu for gzip, then uuencoded postscript
Subject: postscript.Z.uu for compress, then uuencoded postscript
Subject: author.gz for gzip-ed postscript as attached file
Subject: author.Z for compressed postscript as attached file
(attachments as MIME-documents)

Precede the postscript file with - in plain ascii -

  1. TITLE
  2. AUTHOR(S)
  3. AFFILIATION
  4. EMAIL-address
  5. TOPIC (applications, algorithms, system software, architecture)
  6. TYPE (paper or poster)
For any questions regarding electronic submission, please mail to parco97@gmd.de with Subject: "submission assistance"

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS/POSTERS
Papers and/or posters should be submitted to the conference office before the respective closing dates.

DEADLINES
Papers (abstracts only): Closing date 31 January 1997 (electronic submission: 15 February 1997)
Posters: Closing date 30 June 1997
Full Papers/Posters (for reviewers): Closing date 29 August 1997

POSTERS
A list of already accepted posters is included in this preliminary program. Contributions for the poster session can be submitted until 30 June 1997. Authors are invited to send extended abstracts of not more than 1000 words and at most 5 keywords to the Conference Office. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their posters as soon as possible, but not later than 31 July 1997.

ACCEPTANCE
Authors of papers will be notified of acceptance by 15 April 1997.
Authors of posters will be informed as soon as possible, but not later than 31 July 1997.

EXHIBITION AND INDUSTRIAL SESSION
Several companies will participate in an industrial session which will form part of the scientific programme. There will also be an exhibition of new products by vendors.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the conference will be published after the conference in the series Advances in Parallel Computing by North-Holland, Amsterdam. All contributions will be refereed. Acceptance of a paper/poster for presentation at the conference does not automatically imply acceptance for publication in the proceedings. Papers/posters can only be considered for inclusion in the proceedings if the paper/poster is presented by at least one of the authors, who has also registered as a delegate.

In addition to the proceedings a selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be published as a Special Issue of Parallel Computing Journal.

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