The Fifty-First Annual Allerton Conference on
Communication, Control, and Computing will be held
from Wednesday, October 2 through Friday, October 4,
2013, 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: Professor Kannan Ramchandran of the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of California at Berkeley, will deliver
this year’s plenary lecture. It is scheduled for Friday,
October 4, 2013.
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 Tuesday, July 9,
2013, following the instructions at the Conference
website: http://www.csl.illinois.edu/allerton/.
Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by
August 7, 2013, 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 6, 2013.