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                               CALL FOR PAPERS


   The Eighth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences

                                ISCIS VIII
                  November 3 - 5, 1993, Antalya, Turkey


                               Organized by

                                   EHEI
            Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique, Paris, France

                                   METU
              Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey


                            in cooperation with
                  IEEE Computer Society Turkey Chapter,
                            IEEE Turkey Section
                       and the following universities:
             Bogazici, Ege, Hacettepe, Istanbul Teknik, Yildiz.

                            ISCIS Advisory Board:
             E.Arkun, E.Gelenbe, U.Halici, E.Harmanci, K.Inan,
          Y.Karsligil, S.Kuru, N.Yalabik, U. Yarimagan, S.Yilmaz


 Conference Chair        Program Co-Chairs           Publicity Chair
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 Erol Gelenbe,           L. Gun, IBM, USA            Ugur Halici, METU
 Duke University, USA    R. Onvural,IBM, USA         halici@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
 erol@egr.duke.edu       P. Quinton,IRISA, France    halici@trmetu.bitnet


                            Program Committee
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V. Akman, Turkey, E. Alpaydin, Turkey, E. Arkun, Turkey, I. Aybay, Turkey,
S. Bilgen, Turkey, A. Dogac, Turkey, A. Dogramaci, Turkey, S. Fdida, France,
J.M. Fourneau, France, E. Gelenbe, USA,  G. Gonenc, Turkey, U. Halici, Turkey,
E. Harmanci, Turkey, K. Inan, Turkey, S. Jaehnischen,Germany, S. Kuru, Turkey,
M. Nivat, France, V. Paschos, France, N.Pekergin, France, J.F. Perrot, France,
M. Raynal,France, A. Stafylopatis, Greece, G. Stamon,France, G. Ucoluk, Turkey,
N. Yalabik, Turkey


                            Publicity Committee
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    Isik Aybay, Osman Basbugoglu, Semih Bilgen, Emin Germen, Mert Sungur


ISCIS VIII is the eighth of a series of meetings which have brought together
computer scientists and engineers from about twenty countries. This year's
conference will be held in the beautiful Mediterranean resort city of
Antalya, in a region rich in natural as well as historical sites.


           RESEARCH PAPERS ARE SOUGHT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
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        Theory of Computer Science   -   Computer Architecture & Systems
           Artificial Intelligence   -   Neural Networks
     Graphics and Image Processing   -   Computational Mathematics
  Operations Research Applications   -   Databases
            Performance Evaluation   -   Software Engineering
                 Computer Networks   -   Parallelism

Paper Submission:  Full papers are limited to 8 pages and short
communications are limited  to 4 pages. Submit five camera ready copies
(one original and four copies) of the paper and an accompanying letter by
postal mail only, so as to arrive by  June 30, 1993 to:

            ISCIS VIII, Attn Drs Levent Gun and Raif Onvural,
   IBM E95/B 673, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA

Selected papers from ISCIS VIII will be published in the journal Information
Sciences (Elsevier - North Holland).

Poster Submission: Submit five camera ready copies of 1 page extended
abstract with an accompanying letter by July 30, 1993 to the address given
above.

Information: For required writing format, further information and
announcements, contact: