The Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC), in collaboration with the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) and other Mexican IT societies -Mexican Academy of Informatics (AMIAC), Federation of Mexican Associations of Informatics. (FAMI), Association of Informatics-Educational Institutions of Mexico (ANIEI), Mexican Society for Computers in Education (SOMECE), Mexican IT Industry Association (AMITI) and the Mexican Chamber for the Industries of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (CANIETI) -- invite Computer Scientists from Mexico and other countries to submit papers to its Mexican International Conference in Computer Science 2001, ENC'01, to be held in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, from September 15th to the 19th of this year.

ENC'01 is the third edition of a biannual conference that brings together computer scientist from different countries to discuss their current research. Its aims are:

• To continue providing a high quality forum in Mexico for presentation and discussion of advances and new research in computer science;
• To strengthen the sense of community among computer science researchers and practitioners in Mexico; as well as
• To reinforce our academic community's links with the global community through a high-quality technical program.

Important Dates:

1.  Research Papers. An original contribution to Computer Science. Maximum length, 10 pages, including tables, figures and bibliography.

2.  Work in Progress. A short report of preliminary findings, a testimonial find of a novel application, or a proposal for discussion. Maximum length, 6 pages, including tables, figures and bibliography.

a.  Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers written in English will be published by an international editorial.

b.  Pre-proceedings. Abstracts of all papers as well as those articles written in Spanish will be published locally, in a publication that will be distributed at the Conference venue.

ENC-01 intends to be an inclusive event for computer scientists, regardless of their specialty. In previous versions of ENC (1997 and 1999), organizers had the program structured around the seven Special Interest Groups instituted by SMCC membership:

• Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval
• Graphics, Vision and Robotics
• Software Engineering
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Logic and Computing
• Distributed and Parallel Systems

In this occasion, we have convened a Program Committee that complements those seven areas, in order to invite papers of other specialties in Computer Science.

All papers must be registered and submitted electronically, through the ENC'01's web page: http://enc01.smcc.org.mx, by the deadline of May 20 at 23:59 hrs. In that web page, authors will find an electronic registration form, Latex and Word style-templates, as well as a mechanism for the submission of full papers. All papers must be submitted for evaluation as a PDF or PostScript file in the formatting conventions established there.

Papers will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Selection criteria will focus on significance, originality, clarity and potential for discussion. Notification to authors will be sent by June 30, 2001. Revised papers for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings are due by July 15, 2001.