Contributed by: Sean Meyn (allerton@tornado.csl.uiuc.edu)


                   Call for Papers

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

               OCTOBER 2 -- 4, 1996


The Thirty-fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control,
and Computing will be held October 2 - 4, 1996 at Allerton house, the
conference center of the University of Illinois. Allerton House is
located twenty-six miles south-west 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.

Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of
communication systems, information theory and coding, detection and
estimation, communication networks, mobile radio, vector quantization,
source coding, image coding and data compression, 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, learning theory, neural networks,
numerical methods for signals and systems, multiple-access
communications, digital radio, high-speed packet switches for
telecommunications, queueing networks, and automatic highway systems.

The plenary speaker this year will be Dave Forney of Motorola, Inc. His
talk is tentatively entitled

         The Viterbi Algorithm: Twenty-Five Years Later


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:  Regular papers, suitable for presentation in
twenty minutes, and 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
81/2" 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 thousand-word 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.

Two copies of the manuscript should be mailed to 34th Annual Allerton
Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated
Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307,
USA in time to be received by June 29, 1996.

Multiple-authored papers should specify the name and address of the
author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by August 9, 1996, at which time they will also
receive detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for
the Conference Proceedings.

Conference Co-Chairs: Ken Jenkins and Sean Meyn
email: allerton@tornado.csl.uiuc.ellu
url: http://tesla.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton/

COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN