---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-20) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:39:29 -0600 (CST) From: Anand Tripathi tripathi@cs.umn.edu To: Anand Tripathi tripathi@mail.cs.umn.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS

20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2001)

October 28-31, 2001 (tentative) New Orleans, USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

Please see http://srds.cs.umn.edu for latest information on this symposium.

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The objective of this symposium is to provide an effective forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in distributed systems design and development, particularly with reliability, availability, safety, security, or real-time properties. We welcome original research papers as well as papers that deal with development experiences and experimental results of operational systems. We are also soliciting papers for an experience track that presents on-going industrial projects, prototype systems, exploratory or emerging applications, etc.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

* Distributed systems with reliability, availability, security, safety, and/or real-time requirements * Distributed databases and transaction processing * Parallel and distributed operating systems * Internet-based systems and applications * Mobile and ubiquitous computing * Distributed multimedia systems * Electronic commerce and enabling technologies * Distributed workflow and enterprise management systems * Security and high confidence systems * QoS control and assessment * Analytical or experimental assessment of distributed systems * Formal methods and foundations for reliable distributed computing * Distributed objects and middleware systems * Distributed and Web-based application systems * Performance modeling and evaluations of reliable distributed systems

----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: April 2, 2001 Author notification: June 16, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: July 21, 2001

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINE:

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the SRDS-20 proceedings. All submissions must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point size and 1 1/2 spacing. Regular papers may not exceed 20 double-spaced or 15 one-and-half spaced pages (approximately 5000 words). Experience reports may not exceed 12 double-spaced or 9 one-and-half-spaced pages (approx. 3000 words). Each paper should include, on a cover page, the title, authors and their affiliations, the contact author and his/her email address, an abstract, a list of keywords, and the submission category (regular paper or experience report).

Paper submission is through the Web. Please submit the PostScript or PDF file at http://srds.cs.umn.edu

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Chair Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University and NSF, USA

Program Chair Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA

Program Committee Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA Farokh Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University. USA Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy Mario Dal Cin, University of Erlangen, Germany Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia, USA Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Sweden W. Kent Fuchs, Purdue University. USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Mirek Malek, Humboldt University, Germany D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, USA Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Labs, USA Gilles Muller, INRIA Rennes, France Suresh Rai, Lousiana State University, USA Michel Raynal, University of Rennes/IRISA, France Andre Schiper, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Eltefaat Shokri, Sun Microsystems, USA Santosh Shrivastava, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa & CNR, Italy Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Nian Feng Tzeng, University of Louisiana, USA Hee-Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY Buffalo, USA Jie Xu, Durham University, UK

Panel Organization Chair: I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Workshop Chair: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA

Publication Chair: Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs: Shivakant Misra, University of Colorado, USA Alexander Romanovksy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Neeran Karnik, IBM Research, India

Registration Chair: Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Local Arrangements: Golden G. Richard III, University of New Orleans, USA

TC Liaison Edgar Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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