FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING

October 3, 2017 – Opening Tutorials
October 4-6, 2017 – Conference Sessions

CALL FOR PAPERS


The Fifty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will kick off with Opening Tutorials being held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. The conference sessions will start on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 through Friday, October 6, 2017, at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center. The Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois 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:
biological information systems
coding techniques and applications
coding theory
data storage
information theory
multiuser detection and estimation
network information theory
sensor networks in communications
wireless communication systems
intrusion/anomaly detection and diagnosis
network coding
network games and algorithms
performance analysis
pricing and congestion control
reliability, security and trust
decentralized control systems
robust and nonlinear control
adaptive control and automation
robotics
distributed and large-scale systems
complex networked systems
optimization
dynamic games
machine learning and learning theory
signal models and representations
signal acquisition, coding, and retrieval
detection and estimation
learning and inference
statistical signal processing
sensor networks
data analytics.

Final versions of papers that are presented at the conference are required to be submitted electronically by October 8, 2017 in order to appear in the Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.

PLENARY LECTURE by John Lafferty, Louis Block Professor, Department of Statistics & Computer Science, University of Chicago is scheduled for Friday, October 6, 2017 at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center.

OPENING TUTORIAL LECTURES by Nathan Srebro, Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania will be presented on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Regular papers suitable for presentation in twenty minutes are solicited. Regular papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of eight 8.5” x 11” pages, in two column format) in the Conference Proceedings. Only papers that are actually presented at the conference and uploaded as final manuscripts can be included in the proceedings, which will be available after the conference on IEEE Xplore.

For reviewing purposes of papers, a title and a five to ten page extended abstract, including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing, are required.

Manuscripts can be submitted during June 16-July 10, 2017 with the submission deadline of July 10th being firm. Please follow the instructions at the Conference website: http://www.csl.illinois.edu/allerton/.

Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 7, 2017, at which time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for the Proceedings.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017
Acceptance Date: August 7, 2017
Registration Opens: after August 7, 2017
Conference Dates: October 3-6, 2017
Final Submission Deadline:  October 8, 2017

Conference Co-Chairs: Naira Hovakimyan and Negar Kiyavash

Email: [email protected]           URL:  www.csl.illinois.edu/allerton/