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



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

September 23-25, 1998


The Thirty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and
Computing will be held from Wednesday, September 23 through Friday,
September 25, 1998, 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, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a
National natural landmark. The Allerton Park has twenty miles of
well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with
sculptures collected from around the world.

Papers presenting original research are solicited for the conference in the
areas of communication systems, communication and computer networks,
detection and estimation, information theory and error-correcting codes,
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.

This year the plenary lecture will be delivered by Professor Gilles
Brassard of the University of Montreal, Canada. It is scheduled for Friday,
September 25, and is entitled Quantum Information Processing.

Information for authors: Regular papers, suitable for presentation 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 in their letter of
submission.

Three copies of the manuscript should be mailed to 36th 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 14, 1998. Submissions by email or fax will not be accepted.

Submissions should specify the name, email address, and postal address of
the author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence. Authors will be
notified of acceptance via email by August 14, 1998, 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 can be found on the Conference Web
site whose URL address is given below.

Conference Co-Chairmen: Tamer Basar and Bruce Hajek
Email: allerton@csl.uiuc.edu
URL:  http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton
COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign