The 9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology
March 27-29, 2008  .  Robert H. Smith School of Business  ·  University of Maryland  ·  College Park, MD
 
Call For Papers
The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications solicits papers and presentations for its ninth biennial conference. The theme of the conference is advances in telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology. The conference organizers invite you to submit theoretical and applied work that highlights the conference theme. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) network design, network management, data mining, national and international policy making, new technologies and business models, and convergence of digital and mobile technologies.

Submissions

There are two categories of submissions: (1) papers for the conference volume and (2) papers for presentation.

Papers for the Conference Volume

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers for Conference Volume

bulletSubmission deadline July 30, 2007

bulletNotification of acceptance September 30, 2007

bulletFinal papers due October 31, 2007

Abstracts for Presentations

bulletSubmission deadline December 15, 2007

bulletNotification of acceptance December 31, 2007

A volume of peer-reviewed papers will be published for distribution at the conference. A paper submitted for the conference volume must describe original work that has not been published previously and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. A paper for the conference volume is limited to 6,000 words, will be refereed, and should be submitted as a PDF file by email to telecom2008@rhsmith.umd.edu . After acceptance for publication, authors will prepare their paper for the conference volume using a style format supplied by the publisher. A paper accepted for the conference volume must be presented at the conference.

Papers for Presentation

A paper may be submitted only for presentation at the conference and will not appear in the conference volume. An abstract of less than 200 words, not containing formulas, references or abbreviations, should be submitted as a text file by email to telecom2008@rhsmith.umd.edu . The names of all authors and affiliations should be provided, with the presenting author listed first. A paper accepted for presentation will have the abstract printed in the conference program.

Abstracts are still being accepted on a space available basis until January 15, 2008.

 

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