OPODIS 2005: Call for Papers

The submission deadline of OPODIS 2005 is approaching. Please note that
this year, submissions in the fields of real-time systems and wireless
networks are particularly encouraged.


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CALL FOR PAPERS --- OPODIS 2005
9th International Conference on
Principles of Distributed Systems

Pisa, Italy, December 12-14, 2005
http://www.di.unipi.it/OPODIS2005
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OPODIS is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge
on distributed computing and systems among researchers from around the
world. Being the 9th conference in a series of annual conferences, it
is intended to be a lively meeting, covering many of the aspects in
this scientific area. This year, a particular focus will be given to
real-time systems and wireless networks.

The program committee is soliciting original research contributions to
the theory, specifications, design and implementation of distributed
systems, including:

- communication and synchronization protocols
- distributed algorithms, multiprocessor algorithms
- distributed collaborative environments
- embedded systems
- fault-tolerance, reliability, availability
- grid and cluster computing
- location- and context-aware systems
- mobile computing and networks
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks
- performance analysis of distributed algorithms and systems
- real-time systems
- security issues in distributed computing and systems
- sensor networks
- specification verification and testing of distributed systems

Submission

Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 12
pages using 11-point font and reasonable margins, including figures,
tables and references. The first page must include the title of the
paper, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, fax number,
email, address for correspondence, a list of keywords and an abstract.
Submitted papers must have original content that has not been
previously published in, or under review by, other refereed venues.
Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the
guidelines available on the OPODIS 2005 web page at
http://www.di.unipi.it/OPODIS2005. Authors who are unable to submit
electronically must contact the program committee co-chairs.

Publication

The selection of contributions will be based on peer-review by the
Program Committee. It is required that each accepted paper be presented
at the conference by one of its authors. An informal proceedings
consisting of the accepted papers will be distributed at the
conference. The formal proceedings is planned to be published as a
volume in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Authors of accepted papers are required to submit the final,
camera-ready versions of their papers after the Conference in LNCS
format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each
participant will receive a copy of the final proceedings.

Important dates

- Submissions deadline: August 17, 2005
- Acceptance notification: October 10, 2005
- Camera-ready copy due: October 30, 2005

Program Committee

- Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia
- Luis Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- James Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Co-Chair)
- Anish Arora, Ohio State University
- Ted Baker, Florida State University
- Joffroy Beauquier, Université de Paris Sud, France
- Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University
- Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Christian Cachin, IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland
- Danny Dolev, Hebrew University, Israel
- Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Panagiota Fatourou, University of Ioannina, Greece
- Paola Flocchini, Ottawa University, Canada
- Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Sweden
- Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Shelby Funk, University of Georgia
- Mohamed Gouda, The University of Texas at Austin
- Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
- Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
- Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University
- Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Giuseppe Lipari, Scuola Superiore S.Anna Pisa, Italy
- Giuseppe Prencipe, University of Pisa, Italy
- Mike Reiter, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ulrich Schmid, TU Vienna, Austria
- Alex A. Shvartsman, University of Connecticut
- Srikanta Tirthapura, Iowa State University
- Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair)
- Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University, Japan

Organization Committee

- Thomas Moscibroda, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Publicity)
- Giuseppe Prencipe, Universita di Pisa, Italy (Chair)
- Andreas Wetzel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Submissions)

Steering Committee

- Alain Bui, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Marc Bui, Université de Paris 8/EPHE, France
- Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada
- Philippas Tsigas, University of Chalmers, Sweden (Chair)
- Roberto Gomez, CEM-ITESM, Mexico

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