Submission Guidelines
 
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of optical interconnections including development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  • High-Speed Interconnections
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Parallel Optical Architectures
  • Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects and Architectures
  • Applications of Optical interconnects
  • Modeling of Optical Systems and Applications
  • Performance Analysis and Comparisons
  • Packaging of optical interconnects
  • System Demonstrations
  • Routing in Optical Networks
To submit an original research paper, send your complete manuscript (not to exceed 8 single-spaced pages of text using point size 12 type on 8 1/2 X 11 inch or A4 pages) to the Program Chair. References, figures, tables, etc. must be included in the 8 pages.
  • Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent to WOCCS@cs.pitt.edu.
    Electronic submissions should be in the form of a readable postscript file, PDF file, Frame Maker or Microsoft Word document.
     
  • Hard copy submissions are also permitted and, like electronic submissions, must be received by the submission deadline. Send three copies of the manuscript to:
     
     Donald Chiarulli
     Program Chair, WOCCS
     Department of Computer Science
     212 MIB
     University of Pittsburgh
     Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15260
All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by 20 November 2000. Notification of review decisions will be sent by 10 December 2000. Workshop proceedings will be available at the conference and published by Springer Verlag in a volume of LNCS. Authors will receive, along with the notification of acceptance, the LNCS authors' kit for their papers. Camera-ready papers are due 15 January 2001 to match IPDPS deadlines. The final paper submission should be prepared according to the LNCS guidelines, which can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
 
About the Proceedings: The full proceedings of IPDPS symposium including WOCCS will be published on CD-ROM. WOCCS will also be published in a volume of LNCS by Springer Verlag. Each IPDPS registrant will be handed a copy of the CD-ROM and a paper copy of the LNCS containing the WOCCS proceedings.