Interop Engineers Conference - Announcement

                           First Call for Papers
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                           Engineers Conference
                                    at
                         NetWorld+Interop 94 Paris
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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@localhost

** E-mail is preferred. **

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= Important Dates =
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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.