FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE
ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING

Wednesday, September 24 - Friday, September 26, 2008

The Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will be held from Wednesday, September 24 through Friday, September 26, 2008, at Allerton House, the conference center of the University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University in a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a National natural landmark. Allerton Park has twenty miles of well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with sculptures collected from around the world.

Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of communication systems, communication and computer networks, detection and estimation theory, information theory, error control coding, source coding and data compression, queueing networks, networked control systems, distributed control, robust and nonlinear control, optimization, dynamic games, large-scale systems, robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, multivariable control, computer vision-based control, learning theory, VLSI architectures for communications and signal processing, highway and air traffic systems, and applications in systems biology.

Plenary lecture: Professor Stephen Smale of the Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, will deliver this year’s plenary lecture. It is entitled “Geometry of Data.” It is scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2008.

Information for authors: Regular papers, suitable for presentation in thirty minutes, as well as short papers, suitable for presentation in fifteen minutes, are solicited. The purpose of the short paper category is to encourage authors to present preliminary results of their work. Both Regular and Short papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of eight 8.5” x 11” pages) in the Conference Proceedings.

For reviewing purposes of regular papers, a title and a five to ten page extended abstract, including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing, are required. For short papers, a title and a three to five page summary are required. Manuscripts that are submitted as regular papers but cannot be accommodated in that category will be considered in the short paper category, unless the authors indicate otherwise.

Manuscripts must be submitted by Monday, July 1, 2008 following the instructions at the Conference website: http://www.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton.

Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 4, 2008, at which time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for the Proceedings.

A final version of presented papers must be submitted electronically prior to the end of the Conference.

Conference Co-Chairs: Pierre Moulin and Carolyn Beck

Email: allerton@csl.uiuc.edu

http://www.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton/

COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN