First Call for Papers
    The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC'99

                   Sharm El Sheikh, Red Sea, Egypt
                           July 6 - 8, 1999

 Sponsored by* IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society**



Continuing the tradition of this very highly attended series of
symposia,
ISCC'99 will provide an international technical forum for experts from
industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing
research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on
the challenging issues related to the global reach of the Internet and
its applications, that include the creation, management, dissemination,
and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full
paper,
or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the
following topics:

  Internet Services and Applications
  Electronic Commerce
  Security, Privacy and Information Access
  Digital Libraries and Content Hosting
  Multimedia Information Management and Exchange
  Internet Telephony
  Distributed Systems Architecture and Management
  Fault Tolerance and Error Recovery
  Nomadic Computing
  Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications
  High Performance Networking and Protocols
  Intelligent Networks and Network Planning
  Network Design, Operation, and Management
  Control and Optimization of Communication Systems
  Network Reliability and Quality of Service
  Access Networks: xDSL, HFC, etc.
  Optical Systems and Networks
  Digital Satellite Communications
  Signal Processing in Communications and Networking
  Relevant Economic, Legal, and Social Issues

Please send four copies of your original unpublished paper
(not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages) to reach either Technical
Program Co-Chair at the addresses below by December 1, 1998.  A concise
and
representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly
indicate
the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the
phone a
and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

Prof.Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin                         Dr. Asser Tantawi
Tech Program Co-Chair, ISCC'99           Tech Program Co-Chair, ISCC'99
GMD Fokus                                                        IBM
Watson Research Center
Kaiserin Augusta Allee 31                                       P.O. Box
704
D-10589 Berlin, GERMANY                     Yorktown Hts, NY 10598, USA
Tel: +49 30 34 63 70 00                                       Tel: +1
(914) 784-7507
Fax: +49 30 34 63 80 00                                     Fax: +1
(914) 784-7455
zeletin@fokus.gmd.de
tantawi@us.ibm.com

Important Dates:
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  December 1, 1998         Paper submission deadline
  February 15, 1999        Notification of acceptance mailed to authors
  April 9, 1999            Final camera-ready manuscripts due


Web Site: http://www.rennes.enst-bretagne.fr/~afifi/iscc.html


General Chairs
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E. Gelenbe, Duke University, USA
A. Tantawy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr., USA

Steering Committee
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H. Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion Univ, USA
T. N. Saadawi, City Univ of N.Y., USA
M. H. Sherif, AT&T Labs, USA
A. Tantawy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr., USA

* Approval Pending
** Technical Committee on Simulation