FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ISCIS'98 The 13th International Symposium on COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES October 26 - 28, 1998 organized by Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~iscis98/) sponsored by TUBITAK- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (*) (*) to be confirmed SCOPE: ISCIS XIII is the thirteenth of a series of meetings that have brought together computer scientists and engineers from many countries. This year's conference again will be held at a resort hotel close to the beautiful Mediterranean city of Antalya, in a region rich in natural as well as archaeological, architectural, and historical sites. Papers are sought in the following areas: * Artificial Intelligence * Computer Architecture and Systems * Computer Graphics * Computer Networks * Database Management Systems * Distributed Systems * Image Processing and Pattern Recognition * Information Retrieval * Neural Networks * Parallel Processing and Parallel Algorithms * Performance Evaluation * Software Engineering This year we especially welcome contributions in the areas of computer graphics, computer networks, distributed systems, parallel processing and parallel algorithms, and performance evaluation. Papers accepted to the symposium will be published in the ISCIS Proceedings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HONORARY CHAIR * Erol Gelenbe (Duke University, NC, USA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVISORY BOARD * Mehmet Baray (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Saban Eren (Ege University, Turkey) * Erol Gelenbe (Duke University, NC, USA) * Emre Harmanci (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) * Yahya Karsligil (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey) * Selahattin Kuru (Bogazici University, Turkey) * Esen Ozkarahan (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey) * Unal Yarimagan (Hacettepe University, Turkey) * Fatos Yarman-Vural (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Tugrul Dayar (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Ugur Gudukbay (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Attila Gursoy (Bilkent University, Turkey) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Ilker Cengiz (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Pinar Saygin (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Yucel Saygin (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Baris Uz (Bilkent University, Turkey) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Lale Akarun (Bogazici University, Turkey) * Varol Akman (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Ethem Alpaydin (Bogazici University, Turkey) * Erol Arkun (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Isik Aybay (Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus) * Cevdet Aykanat (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna, Italy) * Norman Badler (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) * Falko Bause (Universitat Dortmund, Germany) * Semih Bilgen (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Arndt Bode (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany) * Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) * Jerzy Brzezinski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) * M. Ufuk Caglayan (Bogazici University, Turkey) * Ilyas Cicekli (Bilkent University, Turkey) * David Davenport (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) * Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) * Pierre Flener (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Jean-Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles, France) * Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Ugur Halici (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Veysi Isler (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Laxmikant Kale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA) * Basil Maglaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) * Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Bulent Ozguc (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Yakup Paker (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK) * Nihal Pekergin (University of Versailles, France) * Faruk Polat (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Ramon Puigjaner (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain) * Patrice Quinton (IRISA, France) * Ari Rappoport (Hebrew University, Israel) * Michel Raynal (INRIA, France) * Ali Saatci (Hacettepe University, Turkey) * Giuseppe Serazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Andreas Stafylopatis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) * Abdullah Uz Tansel (Baruch College, NY, USA and Bilkent University, Turkey) * Hakki Toroslu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey) * Nese Yalabik (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) * Yelena Yesha (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA) * Nadir Yucel (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSIONS May 15, 1998 Papers Due Electronic submissions are encouraged. 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If you prefer hard copy submissions, and will be updated regularly. please send 4 copies of your manuscript to -------------------------------------- You may also want to check the other ISCIS XIII '98 scientific meetings organized in 1998 Department of Computer Engineering by Bilkent University CEIS Department and Information Science faculty members: FSMNLP'98, IADT'98, Bilkent University LOPSTR'98, TAINN'98. TR-06533 Bilkent, Ankara TURKEY -------------------------------------- OTHER ACTIVITIES In either case, please send a separate e-mail message to If there is sufficient interest, iscis98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr containing sightseeing trips to the title, abstract, keywords for Perge-Aspendos-Manavgat the paper and the relevant contact Waterfall-Side, Phaselis, 3 islands information, with the subject line boat tour, and a rafting river tour described above. may be organized before and/or after the Symposium.