DECEMBER 1976

Wharton Seminar on Database Administra-tion, December 9-10, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-nia. Contact Professor Richard Hackathorn,Dept. of Decision Sciences, Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19174.

International Symposium on New Trends inSystems Analysis, December 13-17, Rocquen-court, France. Contact Public Relations De-partment, IRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquen-court, B.P. 5-78150 Le Chesnay, France.

Computing and People '76, December 20-22, Leicester, England. Contact Judith Loakes,School of Mathematics, Computing and Sta-tistics, Leicester Polytechnic, P.O. Box 143,Leicester LE1 9BH; 0533 50181, x2621.

JANUARY 1977

Regional Conference on Computational Com-plexity, January 3-8, College Station, Texas.Contact Professor Dick Fairley, Computing Sci-ence Division, Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, Texas 77843; (713) 845-5531.

Hawaii International Conference on Sys-tem Sciences, January 5-7, Honolulu, Hawaii.Contact Rahul Chattergy, Electrical Engineer-ing Dept., University of Hawaii, 2540 Dole St.,Honolulu, Hi 96822.

OCR Users Association Winter Conference,January 10-12, Orlando, Florida. ContactOCRUA, 10 Banta Place, Hackensack, NJ 07601;(201) 343-4935.

Tutorial Conference on Semiconductor Mem-ories and Magnetic Bubble Devices, January12-13, Teaneck, New Jersey. Contact Prof.Martin Sablik, Fairleigh Dickinson University,Teaneck-Hackensack Campus, Teaneck, NJ07666; (201) 836-6300.

Fourth ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposiumon Principles of Programming Languages,January 17-19, Los Angeles, California. Con-tact Prof. Gerald J. Popek, Department of Com-puter Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Decision Support Systems, January 24-26,San Jose, California. Contact Eric Carlson, con-ference chairman, IBM Research Division, K54/282, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193;(408) 256-6431.

Fifth Annual ACM Computer Science Con-ference and SIGCSE Symposium, January31-February 3, Atlanta, Georgia. Contact Prof.Vladimir Slamecka or John Goda, School ofInformation and Computer Science, GeorgiaInstitute, of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.

FEBRUARY 1977

10th One-Day Technical Symposium, Feb-ruary 4, (date change) Los Angeles, California.Contact Los Angeles Chapter of ACM, P.O.Box 90698, Los Angeles, CA 90009.

Medcomp 77, February 7-9, Berlin, Germany.Contact Prof. J. Anderson, Dept. of Medicine,King's College Medical School, Denmark Hill,London SE5 8RX; 01-274 6222.

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Conferences in which the Computer Society isa sponsor or participant are indicated by theIEEE Computer Society logo; other conferencesof interest to our readers are also included. Forlisting in the Calendar Section, submit informa-tion by the first of the month preceding themonth of publication to Computer Magazine,5855 Naples Plaza, Suite 301, Long Beach,CA 90803.

1977 Winter Convention on Aerospace andElectronics (WINCON 77), February 7-9, NorthHollywood, California. Contact WINCON 77,5500 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91364.

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Con-ference, February 16-18, Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania. Contact Lewis Winner, 152 W. 42ndSt., New York, NY 10036.

Aj Microprocessors and Design Automa-W tion, February 24-25, San Francisco, Cali-fornia. Sponsored by the TC on Design Auto-mation of the Computer Society. Contact Dr.W. M. vanCleemput, Stanford University, DigitalSystems Labs., Stanford, CA 94305.

Simulation Technical Committee Work-shop, February 28, San Francisco, Cali-

fornia. Special workshop held in conjunctionwith COMPCON 77 Spring. Contact the IEEEComputer Society, P.O. Box 639, Silver Spring,MD 20901.

a COMPCON Spring 77, February 28-March3, San Francisco, California. Contact

COMPCON Spring 77, P.O. Box 639, SilverSpring, MD 20901.

MARCH 1977

g4The New Computer Science and En-gineering Curricula, March 4 (formerly

scheduled for February 28), San Francisco, Cali-fornia. Contact David Rine, general chairman,Computer Science Dept., University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78285.

s Southeastern Symposium on SystemTheory, March 7-8, Charlotte, North Caro-

lina. Contact Mike Allen, University of North Caro-lina, Engineering Analysis and Design Dept.,Charlotte, NC 28223.

A Tenth Annual Simulation Symposium,March 16-18, Tampa, Florida. For further

information write Ira Kay, P.O. Box 22573,Tampa, FL 33622; (813) 839-5201.

Industrial Applications of Microprocessors,March 21-23, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Con-tact S.J. Vahaviolos, Engr. Research Ctr., West-ern Electric Corp., POB 900, Princeton, NJ08540.

Medical Data Processing Symposium, March22-25, Toulouse, France. Contact IRIA Sym-posium Secretariat, External Relations Depart-ment, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt,B.P. 105, 78150 Le Chesnay, France.

g Fourth Annual Computer ArchitectureW Symposium, March 23-25, College Park,Maryland. Contact Dr. Bruce Wald, conferencechairperson, at the Communications ScienceDiv., Naval Research Lab, 4555 Overlook Ave.,Washington, D.C. 20390.

Interface '77, March 28-30, Georgia WorldCongress Center, Atlanta, Georgia. ContactSheldon G. Adelson or the Interface office,160 Speen St., Framingharn, MA 01701; (800)225-4620.

Computer Systems and Technology, March29-31, Sussex, England. Contact ConferenceDept., I.E.R.E., 8-9 Bedford Square, LondonWC1 B 3RG; 01-637 2771.

APRIL 1977

Developments in Semiconductor Micro-lithography 11, April 3-7, San Jose, California.Contact SPIE, Box 1146, Palos Verdes Estates,CA 90274.

A;j Microcomputer-77, April 6-8, LincolnPlaza Forum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Contact Dr. S. C. Lee, School of Electrical En-gineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman,OK 73019.

Symposium on High Speed Computerand Algorithm Organization, April 13-

15, Urbana, Illinois. Contact Prof. David Kuck,Department of Computer Science, Universityof Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801; (217) 333-3373.

10th Annual Interface of Computer Scienceand Statistics Symposium, April 13-15,Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact David Hogben,A338, Administration Building, NBS, Washing-ton, D.C. 20234; (301) 921-2315.

Interactive Design Systems 1977, April 13-15, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Contact theComputer Aided Design Centre, MadingleyRoad, Cambridge, England CB3 OHB; 022363125.

Law Enforcement/Data Processing Manage-ment, April 18-19, Washington, D.C. ContactWilliam D. Ellingsworth, public affairs officer,International Assoc. of Chiefs of Police, 11 First-field Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20760; (301)948-0922.

SCS Conference on Transportation, April18-20 (date change), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Con-

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Cambridge, MA 02138. Authors of seleipapers will be notified by May 1, 1977. Allcepted papers will be published in the corence proceedings.

20th Midwest Symposium on CircuitsSystems: August 15-16, 1977, Lubbock, TeResearch or tutorial papers on any aspeccircuit theory, communication, control systEor computer-aided design for presentation alsymposium and publication in proceedings,invited. Authors should submit, in duplicat300-word summary of their contributi4headed by title, name(s) of author(s), ancfiliation(s) prior to May 2, 1977, to ProfesscSaeks or Professor K.S. Chao, DepartmerElectrical Engineering, Texas Tech. Unisity, Lubbock, TX 79409. Notification wilsent by May 23, 1977. Accepted papers wirequested for submittal by June 17, 1977.

2nd International Symposium on the OperTheory of Networks and Systems: Augusl19, 1977, Lubbock, Texas. Papers are solion any aspect of mathematical network arsystem theory. Submittals should be addre

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5131.

rator Information Display International Symposium,17- April 19-21, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact

cited the Society for Information Display, 654 N. Se-

nd/or pulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049.~ssed

ELECTRO 77, April 19-21, New York City, NewYork. Contact Joseph Antonaccio, conventionmanager, Electro 77, c/o IEEE, 345 E. 47th St.,New York, NY 10017.

A Picture Data Description and Marnage-ment, April 21-22, Chicago, Illinois. Con-

tact K.S. Fu, Purdue University, School of EE,Lafayette, IN 47907.

Circuits and Systems International Sym-posium, April 25-27, Phoenix, Arizona. Con-tact W.G. Howard, Motorola Integrated Cir-cuits Center, MS/MR, P.O. Box 20906, Phoenix,AZ 85306.

15th Annual AEDS Convention, April 25-29,Fort Worth, Texas. Contact Don Offerman, P.O.Box 224, Austin, TX 78767.

MAY 1977

19771977 ACM/SIGACT Symposium of Theory of

February: Microcomputer Architecture Computing, May 2-4, Boulder, Colorado. Con-March: Hobby/Home Computers tact Emily P. Friedman, Symposium on TheoryApril: Simulation of Computing, 3532C Boelter Hall, ComputerMay: Stack Machines Science Department, UC Los Angeles, CA 90024.June: Computer Hardware Description Lan-

guagesJuly: Distributed Processing 1977 Offshore Technoiogy Conference, May

August: Image Processing 2-5, Houston, Texas. Contact Offshore Tech-September: Microprocessor Applications nology Conference, 6200 N. Central Express-October: Military Computers way, Dallas, TX 75206.November: Computer NetworkingDecember: System Programming Languages EUROCON 77, European Conference on Elec-

trotechnics, May 3-6, Venice, Italy. ContactTo be considered for a special issue, papers the EUROCON 77 Office, c/o AEI, Viale Monza

should be submitted not later than 5 months 259, 20126 Milan, Italy.prior to the date of the issue.

Besides theme-related papers, we're alsolooking for papers that survey recent important 1977 IEEE International Conference on Acous-developments across the breadth of the- field tics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May

describe particular developments from a tutor- 9-11, Sheraton-Hartford Hotel, Hartford, Con-

ial point of view, or explore application areas. necticut. Contact Ronald Crochiere, Bell Labora-

Submit all manuscrupts (four complete tories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974; (201) 582-4623.

copies including illustrations and referencesor bibliography) to our technical editor: Dr. 27th Electronic Components Conference,Jack D. Grimes, Tektronix, Inc., MS 60.456, May 16-18, Arlington, Virginia. Contact CharlesBeaverton, OR 97077. M. Tapp, Sandia Labs, Dept. 2150, Albuquerque,A format guide is available from the Com- NM 87115.

puter Society Publications Office. Circle 1219on the reader service card, p. 107, to obtain acopy. NMA 26th Annual Conference and Exposition,

May 17-20, Dallas, Texas. Address correspond-ence to Dynamics of Micrographics, National

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& Trends and Applications Symposium:Computer Security and Integrity, May

19, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact MarshallAbrams, B212, Technology Bldg., NationalBureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234;(301) 921-2601.

International Minicomputers-Microcom-puters-Microprocessors '77, May 24-26,Palais de Exhibitions, Geneva, Switzerland.Contact Joseph C. Maurer, Industrial and Scien-tific Conference Management, 222 W. AdamsSt., Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 263-4866.

& Seventh International Symposium onMultiple-Valued Logic, May 24-27, Char-

lotte, North Carolina. Contact Prof. C. MichaelAllen, EAD Dept., University of North Carolina,Charlotte, NC 28233; (704) 597-2302.

Power Industry Computer Applications(PICA), May 24-28, Royal York, Toronto, On-tario, Canada. Contact L.M. Gordon, 24 Wimble-ton Road, Islington, Ontario, M9A, 3R8, Can-ada.

Seventh International Symposium onMultiple-Valued Logic, May 25-27, Char-

lotte, North Carolina. Contact Mike Allen, En-gineering Analysis and Design Dept., Univer-sity of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223.

1977 Spring Meeting and Star Symposium-SNAME, May 25-27, San Francisco, Ca'l-fornia. Contact Arthur J. Haskell, c/o MatsonNavigational Co., 100 Mission St., San Fran-cisco, CA 94105; (415) 982-7700.

1977 Region Six Conference of IEEE, May25-27, Portland, Oregon. Contact Patrick P.Fasang, Multnomah School of Engineering,University of Portland, 5000 N. WilliametteBlvd., Portland, OR 97203.

Symposium on Minicomputers and Large-Scale Computations, May 29-June 2, JointConference of the American Chemical Societyand the Chemical Institute of Canada, Mont-real, Canada. Contact Prof. Peter Lykos, IllinoisInstitute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616; (312)567-3430.

JUNE 1977

Sixteenth Annual Technical Symposium,June 2, Gaithersburg, Maryland. ContactBryce L. Elkins, Computer Sciences Corp.,400 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.

Systems and Software: Operational Reli-ability and Performance Assurance, June2, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact Stewart Kat-zke, A265, Technology Bldg., National Bureau ofStandards, Washington, D.C. 20234; (301) 921-3861.

4, Pattern Recognition and Image Proc-essing, June 6-8, Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute, Troy, New York. Conference is spon-sored by the Machine Intelligence and PatternAnalysis Committee of the Computer Society.Contact Prof. Herbert Freeman, general chair-man, Dept. of Electrical Systems Engineering,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12181; (518) 270-6311.

International Co'nference on Communica-tions, June 13-15, Chicago, Illinois. Contact

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E.J. Glenner, Systems Research, GTE Auto-matic Elec. Labs., P.O. Box 17, Northlake, IL60164.

X NCC, June 13-16, Dallas, Texas. For in-formation on the 1977 National Computer

Conference, contact Dr. Portia lsaacson, Uni-versity of Texas, P.O. Box 688, Richardson, TX75080.

14th Design Automation Conference,June 20-22, New Orleans, Louisiana. Con-

tact Design Automation Conference, P.O. Box639, Silver Spring, MD 20901.

World Electrotechnical Congress, June 21-25, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Contact Joseph E. Casey,TAB Office, Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers, Inc., 345 E. 47th St., New York, NY10017.

Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 22-24, San. Francisco, California. Contact J.S. Me-ditch, University of Califomia, Irvine, CA 92717.

FTCS-7, Sevehth Annual InternationalSymposium on Fault-Tolarant Comput-

Sng,June 28-30, Los Angeles, Califoia. Forinformation on the symposium, sponsored eachyear by the IEEE Computer Society's TechnicalCommittee on Fault-Tolerant Computing, con-tact Prof. Arthur D. Friedman, Dept. of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science, USC, LosAngeles, CA 90007.

Fifth Symposium on the-Slmulatlon 6f Com-puter Systems, August 9-11, NBS, Gaithers-burg, Maryland. Contact Paul F. Roth, NBS,Room B250 Technology, Washington, D.C.20234; (301) 921-3545.

Midwest Symposium on Circults and Sis-tems, August 15-16, Lubbock, Texas. ContactMidwest Symposium, P.O. Box 4439, TexasTech University, Lubbock, TX 79409.

International Symposium on Computer Per-formance Modeling, Measurement, andEvaluation, August 16-18, Yorktown Heights,New York. Contact Dr. Hisashi Kobayashi, IBMResearch Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598;(914) 945-1105.

2nd International Symposium, on the Oper-ator Theory of Nietworks and Systems, August17-19, Lubbock, Texas. Contact 2nd Interna-tional Symposium, P.O. Box 4439, Texas TechUniversity, Lubbock, TX 79409.

International Conference on Computer Ap-plications In Developing Countries, August22-25, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact Dr. Fook LoyNg, secretary ICCA, Asian Institute of Tech-nology, P.O. Box 2754, Bangkok, Thailand.

SEPTEMBER 1977

A COMPCON Fall 77, September 6-9, Wash-ington, D.C. Contact COMPCON Fall 77,

P.O. Box 639, Silver Spring, MD 20901; (301)439-7007.

Symposium on Data Analysis and Informs-tics, September 7-9, Rocquencourt, France.Contact IRIA Symposium Secretariat, ExteinalRelations Department, Domaine de Voluceau,Rocquencouit, B.P. 5, 78150 Le Chesnay,France.

Wescon, September 20-23, San Francisco,California. Contact W.G. Weber Jr., Wescon,999 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245.

Fifth Data Communications Symposium,September 27-29, Snowbird, Utah. Con-

tact Joe Marchese, IBM Corp., 18100 FrederickPike, Gaithersburg, MD 20760.

OCTOBER 1977

DesIgn Automation Workshop, October 19-21, Michigan State University. Contact HarryM. Taxin, Computer-Aided Design Dept., HughesAircraft Company, Culver City, CA 90230; (213)391-0711 Ext. 2273 or 4186.

NOVEMBER 1977

Sixth Texas Conference on ComputingSystems, November 14-15, University of

Texas. Contact Prof. James Sneeringer, Dept.of Computer Science, Painter Hall 3.28, Uni-versity of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.

JULY 1977

Computer-Aided Design of Electronic andMicrowave Circuits and Systems, July 12-14, University of Hull, England. Contact theConference Secretariat, Department of Elec-tronic Engineering, University of Hull, Hull,England, HU6 7RX.

CAD ED: International Conference and Exhibi-tion on Computer Aided Design Education,July 13-15, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, Eng-land. Contact Conference Secretary, CAD ED,Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, Cleve-land, England; Middlesbrough 44176.

Summer Computer Simulation Confer-ence, July 18-20, Chicago, Illinois. Con-

tact Robert D. Brennan, Summer ComputerSimulation Conference, 10775 Willowbrook Way,Cupertino, CA 95014.

Fourth Annual Conference on ComputerGraphics and Interactive Techniques, July20-22, San Jose, California. Contact StephenLevine, Lawrance Livermore Laboratory, P.O.Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550; (415) 447-1100,X3360.

Institute of Management Science XXIII Inter-national Conference, July 25-27, Athens,Greece. Contact Prof. Z. S. Zannetos, MITSloan School, 50 Memorial Dr., Cambridge,MA 02139.

AUGUST 1977

IFIP Congress 77, August 8-12, Toronto,Canada. Contact IFIP Exhibition 77, CanadianInformation Processing Society, 212 King St.West, Suite 501, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5H 1K5.

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February 1977

Special Collection on Requirement Analysis"Guest Editorial," Douglas Ross"Structured Analysis for Requirements Definition," Douglas Ross and Kenneth Schoman"Structured Analysis: A Language for Communicating Ideas," Douglas Ross"Automated Software Engineering Through Structured Data Management," C. A. Irvine and J. W.

Brackett"PSUPSA A Computer-Aided Technique for Structured Documentation and Analysis of Information

Processing Systems," Daniel Teichroew and Ernest A. Hershey"An Extendable Approach to Computer Aided Software Requirements Engineering," T. E. Bell,

D. C. Bixier and M. E. Dyer"A Requirements Engineering Methodology for Real Time Processing Requirements," Mack Alford"The Software Development System," C. G. Davis and C. R. Vick

Analysis of Algorithms"Multiprocessor Scheduling with the Aid of Network Flow Algorithms," Harold Stone"Two Methods for the Efficient Approximate Analysis of Memory Address Trace Data," Alan JaySmith

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