Authors of accepted papers to Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM) are requested to send an ASCII version of the abstract of their paper in the following FORMAT via email to : jnsm-abstract@conrel.sice.umkc.edu . Be sure to include the word JNSM in the subject header of your message title. first author. Should contain name only address of first author e-mail address of first author http address of first author if any The above lines can be repeated for multiple authors by replacing 1 with 2, 3, etc. For each author N, and are required fields; the other two are optional. body of abstract. keywords JNSM Vol. X, No. Y . ----- example follows: ----- Where to Send Your Abstract Electronically D. Medhi School of Interdisciplinary Computing & Engineering University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 USA dmedhi@umkc.edu http://www.sice.umkc.edu/~dmedhi M. Malek Department of Computer Science Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey USA mmalek@stevens-tech.edu Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper in Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). We would like to make the abstract of your paper available via the home page for JNSM at http://www.sice.umkc.edu/jnsm/. To do this, we would appreciate it if you would prepare your abstract conforming to the format provided here, and mail to jnsm-abstract@conrel.sice.umkc.edu Be sure to include the word JNSM in the subject header of your message. Thank you. electronic abstract submission, web page JNSM Vol. 1, No. 5