Announcements

July

Parallel Computation: Second IMA Conference, Oxford, UK, 13-15 July

Contact: Pamela Eve,Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Stress, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, UK. Tel: (01702) 354020; Fax:(01702) 354111; E-mail: conference@ima.org.uk. World Wide Web: http://www.ima.org.uk

SIGGRAPH 98 ­ 25th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Orlando, Florida, USA Conference 19-24 July; Exhibition 21-23 July

Contact: Conference:SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Management, Smith, Bucklin & Associates Inc. Tel: +1 312 321 6830; Fax: +1 312 321 6876; E-mail: siggraph98@siggraph.org. Exhibition:SIGGRAPH 98, Exhibition Management, Hall-Erickson Inc. Tel: +1 630 850 7779;Fax: +1 630 850 7843; E-mail: halleric@siggraph.org. Further details: http://www.siggraph.org/s98/

IEEE-IFIPS '98; MASCOT '98: 6th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 July

Contact: MASCOT '98 Azzedine Boukerchen. E-mail: azedine@opus.cs.mcgill.ca and Sajal K. Das, e-mail das@c.s.unit.edu, or Philip Wilsey,Computer Architecture Design Lab., PO Box 210030, University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030/ E-mail: philip.wilsey@uc.edu. See: URL: http:/cs.mcgill.ca//azedine

6th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems '98, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 21-23 July

Contact: See http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/SIRS98/ and E-mail: sirs98@dai.ed.ac.uk

GP-98: Genetic Programming Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 22-25 July

Contact: John R. Koza,GP-98 Conference, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Tel: 415 328 3123; Fax: 415 321 4457; E-mail:. See also: URL: http://www.generic-programming.org.

August

*15th International Congress on Cybernetics, University of Namur, Belgium, 24-28 August

Contact: Secretariat,International Association for Cybernetics, Palais des Exposition, avenue Sergent Vrithoff 2, B-5000, Namur, Belgium. Tel: +32-81-71-71-71; Fax: +32-81-71-71-00

*3rd International Conference on Systems Science and Systems Engineering ­ ICSSSE '98, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 24-28 August

Contact: Professor Jian Chen, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing,China. Tel: (8610) 62785536 and (8610) 62770331; Fax: (8610) 62785876; E-mail: jchen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

*XV IFIP world Computer Congress '98

The global information society on the way to the next millennium

Includes: SEC '98 ­ 14th International Information Security Conference.TELECOOPERATION ­ The Global Office, Teleworking and Communication Tools. ICCHP '98 ­ 6th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs. KNOWRIGHT '98 ­ 2nd International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Free Flow of Information. FUNDAMENTALS ­ Foundations of Computer Science. IT & KNOWS ­ Information Technology and Knowledge Systems. TELETEACHING '98 ­ Distance Learning, Training and Education, Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, 31 August-4 September

Contacts: Vienna: Austrian Computer Soc., Wollzeile i-3.A 1010. Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1512 02 35; Fax:+43 1 512 02 35 9; E-mail: ifip98@ocg.or.at Budapest: John V. Neumann, Computer Society, Bathori u.l6, H-1054,Budapest, Hungary. Tel: +36 1 332 93 49; Fax: +36 1 13 181 40; E-mail: ifip98@neumann.hu Further information about the World Congress is on: http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html

September

*HCI '98 ­ Human-Computer Interaction. Organised by the British HCI Group, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, 1-4 September

Contact/further information: HCI '98, Tel: +44 (0) 114 225 5334; E-mail: hci98@shu.ac.uk; web: http://www.shu.ac.uk/hci96/

*VL '98: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1-4 September

Contact: Trevor Smedley,Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science, PO Box 1000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2X4. Fax: 1 902 492 1517; E-mail: Trevor.Smedley@dal.ca

*COMPRAIL 98 ­ Computer Aided Design, manufacture and operation in the Railway and Other Advanced Mass Transit' Systems. Lisbon, Portugal, 2-4 September

Contact: COMPRAIL Secretariat: Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1703 293223; Fax: +44 (0) 1703 292853; E-mail: hfisher@wessex.ac.uk: Web: http://www.wessex.ac.uk /

*Modelling and Measurement ­ Cardiovascular Flow ­ with Applications in Clinical Medicine. Organised by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Salford University, Salford, UK,7-9 September

Contact: Mrs Pamela Bye,Conference Officer, IMA, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street,Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354020; Fax: +44 (0) 1702 354111; E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk Web: http://www.ima.org.uk

*Multimedia '98 ­ 6th Annual International Multimedia Conference (ACM/BCS), Bristol University, Bristol, UK, 12-16 September

Contact/further information: dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk­ Poster Section; doree@bell-labs.com ­ Art demos; dns@hplb.hpl.hp.com ­ Cross-discipline demos

*XV. IFIP World Computer Congress'98 ­ "The Global information society on the way to the next millennium", Vienna and Budapest, August/September ­ see August Announcements.

*British Machine Vision Association Conference, Southampton, UK, 14-17 September

Contact/further details:see http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/bmvc98/

*Smart Structures 98 ­ Computational Methods for Smart Structures and Materials ­ 1st Conference: Organised by National Technical University of Athens, Athens and Wessex Institute of Technology, UK. Rome, Italy, 21-23 September

Contact: Paula Doughty-Young, Conference Secretariat, SMART STRUCTURES '98, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1703 293223; Fax: +44 (0) 1703 292853; E-mail: Paula@wessex.ac.uk

*2nd IMA Conference on: Image Processing ­ Mathematical Methods, Algorithms and Applications, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 22-25 September

Contact: Mrs Pamela Bye,Conference Officer, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF. Tel: +44 (0)1702 354020; Fax: +44 (0) 702 354111; E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk. Web: http://www.ima.org.uk /