CFP: Special Issue: NRO Logistics on Networks and Computation

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Please disseminate the following call for papers to any list(s) you deem
appropriate.  Thank you very much.

Stephen Fenner
Computer Science and Engineering Dept.
University of South Carolina

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			CALL FOR PAPERS

    Special Issue of Naval Research Logistics on Networks and
Computation

  Guest Editors:  Michael Tortorella, Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies
				      mtortorella@lucent.com
		  Jerrold R. Griggs,  University of South Carolina
				      griggs@math.sc.edu

A major factor in the development of the "new economy" is the
hyper-rapid
growth in recent years of personal and business communication volumes
made
possible by new network infrastructures.  Operations research has
contributed
a great deal to the emergence of these new networks.

Papers are solicited for a "Networks and Computation" Special Issue of
Naval Research Logistics, devoted to the mathematical, computational,
and
operations research problems that have been solved to make new
telecommunication, transportation, supply chain, etc., networks a
reality.
Methodology and computation are to be stressed.  Areas of
interest include:

* Optimal network design satisfying capacity, reliability, or other
  constraints.

* Computation of network properties, e.g. latency, reliability, etc.

* Optimal design and/or evolution of converged telecommunications
  networks.

* Carrier and/or supplier strategies in capacity (e. g.,
  bandwidth) auction markets.

* Novel architectures and their associated computational issues for
multi-
  processor computers and/or networked single-processor computers.

* Quality of service assurance in multi-service packet
telecommunications
  networks.

* Traffic characterization, measurement, and modeling, especially global
  analysis of flows in networks with local and/or global controls.

* Channel assignments for wireless telecommunications networks.

* Special computational problems of wave-division-multiplexed optical
  networks optimization.

* Supply nets and networked logistics models.

* Games in networks.

* Models of distributed and linked combat.

Papers not falling within these topics but clearly related to networks
and
computation may also be considered.

Manuscripts (5 copies) should be submitted to

Susan Sanchez
Acting Editor-in-Chief, Naval Research Logistics
Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943-5000

to arrive by October 31, 2001.  Please indicate in your cover letter
that
the manuscript is to be considered for the special issue on "Networks
and
Computation".  Your cover letter should also state that the paper has
not
been published, that it is not being submitted for publication
elsewhere,
and that, if the work reported is officially sponsored, it has been
released for publication.  Authors should adhere to all other conditions
detailed in the Information for Contributors found on the inside back
cover of each issue.
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE research group on 
networks,  and the COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic 
simulation, at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Prof. Dr  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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