XVI Conferencia Internacional XVI International Conference de la Sociedad Chilena de of the Chilean Computer Ciencia de la Computacion Science Society CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE The XVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC Conference), will be held in Valdivia, Chile, from November 13 to 15, 1996, organized by the Computer Science Dept. of the Catholic University of Chile. THEMES The conference is a forum for presenting a wide range of original research in computer science. Typical, but not exclusive, topics include: Algorithms Data Communications Object Orientation Artificial Intelligence Data Structures Office Automation Collaborative Systems Databases Operating Systems Computer Algebra Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation Computer Architecture Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages Computer Graphics Logic Software Engineering PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Marvin V. Zelkowitz. Members (partial list): Ricardo Baeza-Yates (U. de Chile, Chile) Lionel Briand (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) Alfonso Cardenas (U. of California, Los Angeles, USA) Ariadne R. Carvalho (Unicamp, Brazil) Michael Evangelist (Florida International U., USA) Hector Geffner (U. Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) Michael Gelfond (U. of Texas, El Paso, USA) Ralf Kutsche (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Tomas Lang (U. of California, Irvine, USA) Jacques Lemordant (IMAG, Grenoble, France) Zohar Manna (Stanford University, USA) Walcelio L. Melo (CRIM, Canada) Luis Moniz Pereira (U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Jaime Moreno (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA) Ioanis Nikolaidis (ECRC, Germany) Javier Pinto (U. Catolica de Chile, Chile) Terrence Pratt (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) Jacques Stern (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) Jeff Tian (Southern Methodist University, USA) June Verner (City University of Hong Kong) Ross Whitaker (U. Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) Marvin Zelkowitz (U. of Maryland, College Park, USA) PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers of at most 10 typed pages (11-point type or larger). Papers must include an abstract and a list of relevant key words. Electronic submission is preferred. Send an e-mail message to sccc96@ing.puc.cl including the following: title of the paper, name of contact author with e-mail address and fax number, abstract and list of key words in plain ASCII text, and full paper in PostScript format. Alternative submission: Alternatively, you can mail 5 copies of your paper to the program committee chair: Dr. Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: mvz@cs.umd.edu. Include a cover letter (or send an e-mail message) stating the title of the paper and name, e-mail address, and fax number of contact author. IMPORTANT DATES Papers must arrive either to sccc96@ing.puc.cl or to the program chair no later than FRIDAY, 17 MAY 1996 (extended deadline). Authors will be notified by 7 August 1996, and final versions are due by 16 September 1996. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION can be obtained from the WWW at the URL http://dcc.ing.puc.cl/sccc96, by e-mail from sccc96@ing.puc.cl, or from the Conference Chair: Pablo A. Straub, Depto. de Ciencia de la Computacion, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Vicuna Mackenna 4860 (143), Santiago 22, Chile. E-mail: straub@ing.puc.cl. Fax: +56(2) 686-4444.