ACIT'2000 will be held at Zarqa Private University (ZPU). ZPU is located in Zarqa, the second largest city in Jordan. It is about 25 Km from the capital Amman, the old Philadelphia. Jordan is a young country dense with history and a  well-traveled bridge between sea and desert, east and west. Jordan provides monuments from every age of the humanity, crowned by the rosy  rock-carved city of Petra, a World Heritage Site. Petra and other Jordanian cities offer visitors beautiful holly and tourist sites such as Jerash, Madaba, Karak, Dead sea, Rum valley, river of Jordan, Maeen hot springs, and others. This strategic area was settled or crossed by restless cast of characters including Ammonites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads, and Crusaders.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

1. Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems
2. Database Systems
3. Computer Networks
4. Computer Architecture
5. Parallel & Distributed Systems
6. Internet & the Web
7. Multimedia & Visual Programming
8. Computer Simulation
9. Telecommunications
10. Neural Networks
11. Software Engineering
12. Neural Networks
13. Distance Learning
14. Algorithms & Applications
15. Others

Interested authors should submit 3 copies of a full paper describing their work, maximum of 15 double spaced pages including all illustrations. Papers are to be numbered starting from page one. The cover sheet should include the paper title, author name, affiliation, postal address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail. Include the article title, a brief abstract, a set of key words, and text as page two. Authors are recommended to specify the area of the paper in the covering letter based on the list of topics provided above. Electronic submission of papers in Word's format via e-mail directly to the program chair is acceptable. A final preparation format will be available upon notification of acceptance. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two reviewers with background in the area of the reported work. All referees' comments need to be incorporated prior to final acceptance. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. A special issue consisting of selected papers from ACIT'2000 will be published in Zarqa Journal for Research and Studies.

All papers submitted will be evaluated based on the contribution to the area of research, relevance to the focus of the conference, technical merit, novelty of the approach, soundness of results, and clarity of presentation. For more information about the evaluation process.

Submission of papers - May 1^st, 2000*
Notification of acceptance -July 31^st, 2000
Final camera ready submission -September 11^th, 2000
Conference period - October 31^st- November 2^nd, 2000
*Note: The deadline is extended two weeks. The new deadline is May 15^th,2000


For further information, contact ACIT'2000 Secretariat:
Miss Maysoun Malabi
Secretariat, ACIT'2000
Dept. of Computer Science
Zarqa Private University
P.O.Box 150863
Zarqa 13115, Jordan
Tel: +962-5-3656100
Fax: +962-5-3656120
E-mail: [email protected]

Please direct all submissions and related questions to:
Emad Abuelrub
Program Chair, ACIT'2000
Dept. of Computer Science
Zarqa Private University
P.O.Box 150863
Zarqa 13115, Jordan
Tel: +962-5-3656100
Fax: +962-5-3656120
E-mail: [email protected]