CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

             The 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures
              for Networking and Communications Systems

                              ANCS 2012
                       http://www.ancsconf.org

                         October 29-30, 2012
                        AT&T Conference Center
                         University of Texas
                         Austin, Texas, USA

You are invited to participate in the Eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on 
Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), which
will be held October 29-30 at the AT&T Executive Education and 
Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, 
TX, USA. We have an exciting program with 19 high-quality papers and
14 posters: http://www.ancsconf.org/conference-program . In addition,
there will be keynote presentations by Gordon Brebner (Distinguished 
Engineer, Xilinx, Inc.) and Teemu Koponen (Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware, 
Inc.): http://www.ancsconf.org/keynotes . For registration details, 
please see the conference web site. A limited number of student travel
grants is available (application deadline September 20, 2012).

This year, ANCS is co-located with ICNP 2012 to reduce travel expenses 
for those who plan to attend both conferences.

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:

ANCS is a systems-oriented research conference, presenting original 
work that explores the relationship between the architecture of modern 
computer networks and the architecture of the individual hardware and 
software elements from which these networks are built. This year's 
conference emphasizes in its paper selection research on computer 
and network systems that provide the foundations of emerging network 
technologies and the future Internet.

SPONSORSHIP:

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM)
IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)
ANCS is also supported by Intel Corporation and Netronome.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair:         Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Program Chairs:        Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge, UK)
                       Viktor Prasanna (Univ. of Southern Calif., USA)
Finance Chair:         Michela Becchi (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
Poster Chair:          Charlie Wiseman (Wentworth Inst. of Tech., USA)
Local Arrangements:    EJ Kim (Texas A&M University, USA)
Student Travel Grants: Michela Becchi (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
Web Chair:             Xinming Chen (University of Massachusetts, USA)