Contributed by:  Tamer Basar (allerton@csl.uiuc.edu)

                    Call for Papers

                   THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL
                   ALLERTON CONFERENCE
             ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING

                September 29 - October 1, 1997
                      Monday - Wednesday


The Thirty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control,
and Computing will be held from Monday, September 29, through
Wednesday, October 1, 1997 at the Allerton House, the conference
center of the University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twenty-six
miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University, in
a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred
acre Robert Allerton Park, near Monticello, Illinois. A two-day workshop
on "Future directions in systems and control," starting on September 28,
and open to all Allerton Conference participants, will be a new feature
this year.

For the Allerton Conference, papers presenting original research are
solicited in the areas of communication systems, information theory and
error-correcting codes, communication and computer networks, detection
and estimation, source coding and data compression, multiple-access
communications, queueing networks, control systems, robust and nonlinear
control, adaptive control, optimization, dynamic games, large scale systems,
robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event systems,
intelligent control, multivariable control, adaptive signal processing,
numerical methods for signals and systems, learning theory, neural networks,
combinatorial and geometric algorithms, parallel and distributed computation,
computational complexity, VLSI design algorithms, VLSI architectures for
communications and signal processing, and automated highway systems.
Also solicited are organized sessions for the Conference; prospective
organizers should discuss their plans with the Conference co-chairmen
before sending a formal proposal.

The plenary lecture at this year's Conference will be delivered by
Professor Graham Goodwin of the University of Newcastle, Australia,
on the topic:
              Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control

To celebrate this thirty-fifth anniversary of the Allerton Conference, a
time-capsule will be buried on site, to be opened in thirty-five years.
Conference participants will be encouraged to contribute to the time-capsule
to help anticipate developments in technology, and related theory and social
issues, over the next thirty-five years.

Information for authors: Regular papers, suitable for presen-tation in
twenty minutes, as well as short papers, suitable for presentation in
ten minutes, are solicited. The purpose of the short paper category is
to encourage authors to present preliminary results of their work.
Regular papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of
ten 8.5" x 11" pages) in the Conference Proceedings, while short papers
will be limited to two-page summaries in the Proceedings.

For regular papers, a title and a five-to-ten page extended abstract,
including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing,
are required.
For short papers, a title and a three-to-five page summary are required.
Manuscripts that are submitted as regular papers but cannot be accommodated
in that category will be considered in the short paper category, unless the
authors indicate otherwise.

Three copies of the manuscript should be mailed to:

            35-th Annual Allerton Conference
             Coordinated Science Laboratory
                University of Illinois
                1308 West Main Street
             Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307, USA

in time to be received by JULY 18, 1997.

Submissions by e-mail or fax will not be accepted.

Submissions should specify the name, e-mail address, and postal address
of the author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence. Authors
will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 18, 1997, at which
time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation
of their papers for the Proceedings. Full camera-ready versions of
accepted papers will be due the last day of the Conference.
Only the papers presented at the Conference will be included in the
Proceedings. Further information on the Conference and the workshop
preceding it can be found on the Conference Web site whose url address
is given below:
               url:  http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton
                         email: allerton@csl.uiuc.edu

Conference Co-Chairmen: Tamer Basar and Alexander Vardy