The Fifty-Second Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will be held from Wednesday, October 1 through Friday, October 3, 2014, at Allerton House, the conference center of the University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twentysix miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University 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 communication systems, communication and computer networks, detection and estimation theory, information theory, error control coding, source coding and data compression, network algorithms, control systems, robust and nonlinear control, adaptive control, optimization, dynamic games, multi-agent systems, largescale systems, robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, multivariable control, computer vision-based control, learning theory, cyberphysical systems, security and resilience in networks, VLSI architectures for communications and signal processing, and intelligent transportation systems.

Plenary lecture: Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, will deliver this year’s plenary lecture. It is scheduled for Friday, October 3, 2014.

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 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 must be submitted by Monday, July 7, 2014, following the instructions at the Conference website: http://www.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton/. Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 6, 2014, at which time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for the Proceedings.

Final versions of papers to be presented at the conference will need to be submitted electronically by October 5, 2014.