See: http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton/allerton00/

                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                                      
                  THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE
                  ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING
               Wednesday, October 4 - Friday, October 6, 2000
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   The Thirty-Eighth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
   Control, and Computing will be held from Wednesday, October 4 through
   Friday, October 6, 2000 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, 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 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 Robert J.
   McEliece of the California Institute of Technology. It is scheduled
   for Friday, October 6, and is entitled "Achieving The Shannon Limit: A
   Progress Report."
   
   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 in. 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 38th 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
   Friday, July 7, 2000. 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 by August 11, 2000, at which
   time they will also receive 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
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    Conference Co-Chairmen: [1]R.S. Sreenivas and [2]Doug Jones
    
   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

References

   1. http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/Sreenivas.html
   2. http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/fachtml/jones.html