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NOTE: The submission deadline has been extended to April 16th!
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               Announcement and Call for Papers


                 THE FIRST ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON
             MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKING & COMPUTING

               in conjunction with Mobicom 2000

                        August 11, 2000
                  Boston, Massachusetts, USA

         http://www.ece.gatech.edu/~cktoh/workshop.html





SCOPE
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We are interested in work-in-progress, visionary papers, experimental
and systems-related papers. Papers should describe original, previously
unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference,
workshop, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 - Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
 - Ad Hoc Multicasting Protocols
 - Ad Hoc Transport Issues
 - Service Discovery Protocols
 - Media Access Techniques
 - Low Power Algorithms and Protocols
 - Ad Hoc Mobile Applications
 - Sensor & Data Fusion Ad Hoc Networks
 - Quality of Service Issues
 - Ad Hoc Mobile Computing Platforms
 - Secure Ad Hoc Services

Please consult the program chairs if you are uncertain whether your paper
falls within the theme of this workshop.


SUBMISSIONS
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Postscript copies of your submissions should be sent to
C.-K. Toh (cktoh@ece.gatech.edu) and Nitin Vaidya (vaidya@cs.tamu.edu).
All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Submissions should not
exceed 20 double-spaced pages (including text and figures).


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission due:                  April 16th, 2000
Notification of acceptance:            May 15th, 2000
Camera ready version due:              June 1st, 2000


SPONSORSHIP
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    ACM SIGMOBILE and IEEE Communications Society


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
    Charles E. Perkins (Nokia Research Center)

Technical Co-Chairs:
    C.-K. Toh (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Nitin H. Vaidya (Texas A&M University)

Advisory Committee:
    Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA/Nomadix)
    Victor O.K. Li (USC/Hong Kong University)

Local Arrangement Chair:
    Katia Obraczka (USC/ISI)

Publicity Chair:
    Sung-Ju Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)

Registration Chair:
    Elizabeth M. Royer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Publication Co-Chairs:
    Stefano Basagni (University of Texas, Dallas)
    Violet R. Syrotiuk (University of Texas, Dallas)

Treasurer:
    Bruce Worthman (IEEE)

Steering Committee:
    Charles E. Perkins (Nokia Research Center)
    C.-K. Toh (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Nitin H. Vaidya (Texas A&M University)

Technical Program Committee:
    Samir Das                     University of Cincinnati
    Deborah Estrin                USC/ISI
    J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves       University of California, Santa Cruz
    Mario Gerla                   University of California, Los Angeles
    Zygmunt Haas                  Cornell University
    Parviz Kermani                IBM Research
    Katia Obraczka                USC/ISI
    Stephen Pink                  University of Arizona
    Ram Ramanathan                BBN Technologies
    Adam Wolisz                   Technische Universitat Berlin