IFIP/ACM Latin America 
Networking Conference 2003
2nd Call for Papers

Towards a Latin American Agenda for Network Research

IFIP - TC6 and ACM SIGCOMM
La Paz, Bolivia
		October 3 – 5, 2003

Sponsored and Organized by
IFIP TC6, ACM SIGCOMM

General Chair
Julio Escobar

Steering Committee

Julio Escobar, Centauri Technologies Corp. (Panama)
Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (España)
Ricardo Baeza Yates, U. de Chile (Chile)
Lyman Chapin,  Interisle Consulting  (USA)
Fatima Dolz, UMSA (Bolivia)

For Organizing Committee and Program Committee, please see next page.

Conference goals

The Latin America Networking Conference 2003 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia everywhere in the world, but especially from the Latin American countries, to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in networking, with an emphasis on Latin American networking problems.

Some desirable topics

Topics include but are not restricted to:
•	Low cost access networks  
•	Sensor networks
•	Low rate communications
•	National/Regional communication infrastructures 
•	Wireless and Mobile Networking
•	PC Cluster computation
•	Applications for productivity

Besides papers covering general network solutions, we want to especially encourage papers that cover solutions oriented to the specific network problems of this region of the world.   
KEY DATES 

* Deadline for Tutorial proposals  	Jun 30
* Deadline for papers		Jun 13

* Notification of acceptance		Jul 18
* Camera ready papers received	Aug 15
* Tutorials		Oct 3
* Conference		Oct 4 -5

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers should be uploaded electronically to the conference website: 
lanc03.uib.es
preferably in .pdf format. For any questions, contact lanc03@centauritech.com.

Papers are invited on the conference theme, related topics and general topics. Authors must state that their paper has not been published before and is not being submitted elsewhere.  Full papers should be no more than 15 pages, 12pt, including figures, and should follow the style indicated at the conference website.

The first page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s), as well as the lead author’s postal address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail.   

Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and distributed to the attendees at the conference.

The conference accepts papers in English or Spanish.   

TUTORIALS 
We solicit proposals for half/full day tutorial courses outlining the subject area, describing the level, goal and orientation, and a short biography of the speaker(s).  

IFIP/ACM Latin America 
Networking Conference 2003
2nd Call for Papers

Towards a Latin American Agenda for Network Research

IFIP - TC6 and ACM SIGCOMM
La Paz, Bolivia
October 3 – 5, 2003

Organizing Committee

Julio Escobar, Centauri Technologies Corp. (PA)		Chair
Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)		PC Chair
Lyman Chapin,  Interisle Consulting (US)			Publicity Co-Chair
Bartomeu Serra, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)			Publicity Co-Chair
Fatima Dolz, U. Mayor de San Andrés (BO)		Local Arrangements/SIGCOMM Treasury Liaison
Benjamín Barán, U. Nacional de Asunción (PY)		Tutorial Chair
Ricardo Baeza Yates, U. de Chile (CL)			CLEI Liason

Program Committee

Benjamín Barán, U. Nacional de Asunción (PY)
Raouf Boutaba, U. of Waterloo, (CA)
Ramón Cáceres, ShieldIP (US)
Lyman Chapin, Interisle Consulting (US)
Patricia Corbo, U. ORT (UY)
Christophe Diot, Intel (US)
Yesid Donoso, U. del Norte (CO)
Julio Escobar, Centauri Technologies (PA)
JJ Garcia-Luna, UCSC (US)
Germinal Isern, U. Central de Venezuela (VE)
Dipak Khakhar, Lund U. (SE)
Ernst Leiss, U. of Houston (US)
Greg Minshall, unaffiliated (US)
José Neuman de Sousa, U. Federal de Ceara (BR)
Dave Oran, Cisco (US)
José M. Piquer, U. de Chile (CL)
Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)
Guy Pujolle, LIP6 (FR)
Francisco-José Quiles, U. de Castilla-La Mancha (ES)
Daniela Rosu, IBM (US)
Bartomeu Serra, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)
Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen (DE)
Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto U. (JP)
Alfredo Viola, U. de la República (UY)
Lixia Zhang, UCLA (US)