The 1999 International Conference on ATM (ICATM'99) is sponsored by the French chapters of IEEE/Comsoc IEEE/Computer, by IEE and by WSES. ICATM'99 is organized by academic, research and industrial societies will be held at the Technical Institute, Colmar, part of the University of Haute Alsace, France, from Monday June 21, 1999 to Wednesday June 23, 1999. The city of Colmar is ideally situated in the eastern part of France, near the German and Swiss borders. The city of Colmar has been working on its own Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) project, called OASICE, including LAN interconnection, PBX interconnection and interactive video. An exhibition illustrating these topics will be organized for industrial companies and development research institutes.
In order to encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial ATM research communities, we solicit both academic research papers and industrial contributions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, performance, security and confidentiality, traffic management, running experiments, QoS (Quality of Service) and applications.

Mail four papers versions of a 2000-word extended abstract summarizing an original work. All the manuscripts must be written in English. The top of the first page of each paper should include the title of the paper, authors' name, position, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. The deadline for submission of all extended abstracts is December 10, 1998 with notification of acceptance by February 20, 1999. Submission of camera-ready paper is by March 30, 1999.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings.
All submitted papers should be sent to the following address:

Pascal LORENZ
University of Haute Alsace
IUT - Department GTR
34 rue du Grillenbreit
68008 Colmar, France
Phone: 33 (0)389202366 Fax: 33 (0)389202359 Mobile: 33 (0)603658042
E-mail: lorenz@colmar.uha.fr

Check our Web page at http://iutsun1.colmar.uha.fr/ICATM99.html for the latest information concerning the conference.
Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of the journal Telecommunication Systems published by Baltzer Science Publishers.

Tutorials and workshops provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by December 10, 1998.

R. Addie (Australia) - University of Southern Queensland
K. Begain (Jordan) - Mu'tah University
A. Benslimane (France) - University of Belfort
B. Bing (Singapore) - Ngee Ann Polytechnic
D. Bonjour (France) - CNET
A. Brandwajn (USA) - University of California Santa Cruz
J.P. Coudreuse (France) – Mitsubishi
J. Crowcroft (UK) – University College London
B. Gavish (USA) - Vanderbilt University
J. Halpern (USA) – Newbridge
Z. Hulicki (Poland) – University of Cracow
R. Israel (France) - IEEE
S. Komandur (USA) - Ascend Communications
D. Kouvatsos (UK) - University of Bradford
S. Kumar (USA) – Ericsson
G.S. Kuo (Taiwan) – National Central University
F. Le Faucheur (France) - Cisco
M. Lee (Korea) – Dongshin University
P. Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace
J.J. Pansiot (France) - University of Strasbourg
M. Potts (Switzerland) - Martel
Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse
N. Mastorakis (Greece) - Military Institutions of University Education
S. Moyer (USA) - Bellcore
R. Muraine (France) - Newbridge
G. Pujolle (France) - University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin
S. Rao (Switzerland) - Ascom
A. Reid (UK) - British Telecom
S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Newbridge
P. Rolin (France) - ENST Bretagne
R. Saracco (Italy) - CSELT
G. Swallow (USA) - Cisco
H. Tobiet (France) – Clemessy
V.A. Villagra (Spain) – University of Madrid
E. Vazquez Gallo (Spain) – University of Madrid

Extended Abstract due: December 10, 1998
Notification of acceptance: February 20, 1999
Deadline for full-length camera-ready manuscript: March 30, 1999