***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

            "Compression and Complexity of SEQUENCES 1997"

              Positano (Amalfitan Coast) - Salerno, Italy

                            June 11-13 1997

This conference will  bring  together  european and  international researchers
to exchange ideas and results related to the theoretical and practical aspects
of Data Compression, Complexity, and Manipulation of Strings.
Topics  of  interest include but  are not  limited to: Lossless and lossy data
compression, source coding, string algorithms,  statistical classification and
pattern  recognition, information  retrieval, closest-match retrieval, minimal
length  encoding  and  applications  to  learning,  parallel   algorithms  for
pattern  recognition, information  retrieval, closest-match retrieval, minimal
length  encoding  and  applications  to  learning,  parallel   algorithms  for
compression and string manipulation, applications in molecular biology.
Papers  reporting  on  original  research  unpublished elsewhere are primarily
sought. Surveys of important results, especially recent ones, are also invited.

CHAIRS:
B. Carpentieri (U. di Salerno - Italy)
A. De Santis (U. di Salerno - Italy)
J. Storer (Brandeis U. - U.S.A.)
U. Vaccaro (U. di Salerno - Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
A. Apostolico (U. di Padova - Italy / Purdue U. - U.S.A.)
R. Arps (IBM Almaden - U.S.A.)
B. Carpentieri (U. di Salerno - Italy)
M. Cohn (Brandeis U. - U.S.A.)
M. Crochermore (U. de Marne-la-Vallee - France)
A. De Santis (U. di Salerno - Italy)
Z. Galil (Columbia U. - U.S.A.)
R. Gray (Stanford U. - U.S.A.)
J. C. Grossetie (CEE / JRC - Italy)
P. Howard (AT&T / U.S.A.)
A. Lempel (Technion / HP Israel Science Center - Israel)
M. Rabin (Harvard U. - U.S.A. / Hebrew U. - Israel)
J. Rissanen (IBM Almaden - U.S.A.)
D. Sheinwald (IBM Israel - Israel)
J. Storer (Brandeis U. - U.S.A.)
U. Vaccaro (U. di Salerno - Italy)
P. Vitanyi (CWI / U. of Amsterdam - The Netherlands)
J. Vitter (Duke U. - U.S.A.)
M. Weinberger (HP - U.S.A.)
I. Witten (Waikato U. - New Zealand)
J. Ziv (Technion - Israel)

LOCATION:
Positano is a cluster of  white and  pink small  houses clinging to the rocks,
set steeply over the transparent blue sea.  It is  the  perfect location for a
conference:  a small and wonderful village in the most beautiful corner of the
world. The  conference  will  be  held  at  the  Hotel  Covo  dei  Saraceni, a
former fisherman's house whose name  'Den of the Saracens'  is  a  reminder of
the marauding  pirates who once tormented  Italy's  Amalfi Coast.  Besides the
Covo, other Positano hotels  have special  rates  for  SEQUENCES97,  for  more
information check out our Web page.
* WARNING *: Positano is a celebrated touristic location. June is already high
season and the Hotels  are booked up even one year in advance. In our Web page
you will find a list of some of the  Hotels  available in  Positano, including
their room prices and their telephone and  fax  numbers. If you plan to attend
the conference do your hotel reservation in advance!

SUBMISSION:
Authors should send by surface mail (NOT fax or email: Air Courier is strongly
recommended)  four copies  of an extended abstract of 8 to 10 pages (including
affiliation, address, phone number and email address) by February 18, 1997 to:

     Dr. Bruno Carpentieri
     Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R. M. Capocelli"
     Universita' di Salerno
     84081 Baronissi (SA)
     ITALY

NOTIFICATION:
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection via email by March 20,1997.
A final camera-ready draft is due April 4, 1997.

PROCEEDINGS:
The hard-bound conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Press.
To encourage new  ideas and interactions between researchers as well as review
and  feedback  on  presentations, a preliminary soft-cover proceedings will be
distributed at the  conference.  After  the conference  the  final  hard-bound
proceedings  will  be  mailed  to  all  participants and made available to the
public by the IEEE.
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     *** In cooperation with the IEEE Data Compression Conference ***
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All future information about SEQUENCES97 will be sent by email!
To be added to the email list, send email to: sequences97@dia.unisa.it
For further info, see the web page: http://www.unisa.it/bc.dir/CCS97
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