Contributed by: David A. Schoenwald (schoenwaldda@ornl.gov)


        Call for Papers -- 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

       Hyatt Regency Westshore, Tampa, Florida, USA, December 16-18, 1998

The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Conference on Decision and Control (CDC
is the annual meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society, conducted in
cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Th
thirty-seventh CDC will be held December 16-18, 1998, with tutorial workshops
preceding the conference on Monday and Tuesday, December 14-15. The Conference
General Chairman is J. Douglas Birdwell of the University of Tennessee (e-mail
birdwell@utk.edu), and the program chairman is David Castaon of Boston
University (e-mail: dac@bu.edu). The venue is the Hyatt Regency Westshore Tamp
Florida.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS

The IEEE CDC will include both contributed and invited sessions, and a full
Proceedings will be published. Contributed papers are solicited in all
aspects of the theory and applications of systems, including
decision-making, control, adaptation, optimization, industrial automation,
and manufacturing. Invited sessions are also solicited in new developments
in these and related areas. All submissions are due 3 MARCH 1998.

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: The Program Committee is soliciting both Regular and
Short contributed papers for presentation at the conference and publication
in the Proceedings. Regular papers describe completed work in some detail.
Short papers describe important recent or preliminary results that require
limited length.  Short papers may be submitted for review as a 4-6 page
detailed summary, with references.

INVITED SESSIONS: The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for invited
sessions. Cohesive sessions focusing on new or emerging topics in the
above-listed areas are particularly encouraged, and will have priority over
those of a classical or mainstream flavor. Session organizers should submit
five (5) copies of proposals for invited sessions for review to the Program
Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions at the address on the opposite side. All
invited session proposals must be accompanied by all the information for all
the proposed papers and mailed together as a group. Organizers must contact
the Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions by 3 FEBRUARY 1998 stating their intent
to submit a proposal and the accompanying papers.

Proposals for invited sessions should contain the names, affiliations, and
complete mailing addresses of the session organizer(s), chairperson,
co-chairperson, and all authors (with corresponding authors identified)
along with a list of paper titles. The organizers must include in the
proposal: (1) a clear statement of the topic and purpose of the session and
(2) a description of how the papers form a cohesive, well-integrated
exploration of the session topic. Detailed extended summaries, following the
submission guidelines below and consisting of a minimum of 2000 words,
covering all contributions of the paper in sufficient depth to permit an
informed review, must be included for each paper. The initial paper may be a
tutorial or survey that can be allotted twice the usual time for
presentation. The usual number of papers in a session is six.  Organizers
will be contacted near 1 June 1998 concerning the tentative disposition of
their session.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION

Each submitted regular paper, short paper extended summary, or invited
session proposal must be accompanied by the Manuscript Submission Form. This
form is on the reverse side of the Call for Papers form and can also be
obtained by e-mail request to the publicity chairman, David A. Schoenwald of
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (e-mail: schoenwaldda@ornl.gov).  Addresses,
deadlines, and other submission requirements may be found on that form.
Incomplete submissions or submissions by fax or electronic mail cannot be
accepted.  A web site for the 1998 CDC is now up at the address,
http://www.lit.net/ieee/cdc98, which will contain the submission form as
well as other information about the conference.

Final selection of papers and invited sessions will be announced in July
1998.  Authors of all accepted papers will be provided instructions for
preparation of manuscripts for the Proceedings. Authors should limit their
manuscripts to six Proceedings pages (approx. 6000 words) for regular papers
or two proceedings pages (approx. 2000 words) for short papers.  There will
be a mandatory page charge for each additional page.  Manuscripts must
arrive at the Printer by 18 AUGUST 1998.  Authors of accepted papers are
expected to attend the CDC to present their work.