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CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC '99)
September 27-29, 1999
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
http://www.disc99.sk/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for regular submissions: April 9, 1999
Deadline for Brief Announcement submissions: May 10, 1999
Acceptance notification: June 16, 1999
Camera-ready papers due: July 6, 1999
SCOPE
DISC was formerly known as WDAG. The name change, which took effect in 1998,
reflects the expansion from a workshop to a symposium and from distributed algorithms
to all aspects of distributed computing. The first DISC, held in Andros, Greece,
in September 1998, was a success, attracting nearly ninety submissions in
varied areas of distributed computing.
Original contributions to theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application
of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
* distributed algorithms and their complexity
* fault-tolerance of distributed systems
* consistency conditions, concurrency control, and synchronization
* multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms
* cryptographic and security protocols for distributed systems
* distributed operating systems
* distributed computing issues on the internet and the web
* distributed systems management
* distributed applications, such as databases, mobile agents, and electronic commerce
* communication network architectures and protocols
* specification, semantics, and verification of distributed systems
BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT TRACK (NEW THIS YEAR)
In addition to regular papers, Brief Announcements are also solicited this year.
Ongoing work for which full papers are not ready yet or recent results published
elsewhere are suitable for submission as brief announcements. It is hoped that
researchers will use the brief announcement track to quickly draw the attention
of the community to their experiences, insights and results from ongoing
distributed computing projects.
The symposium program lists all accepted papers---regular and brief announcements.
Brief Announcements are presented at the symposium in a rump session and get about
10 minutes each. Regular papers get about 25 minutes each. The symposium proceedings
will include only accepted regular papers and will be published by Springer in its
"Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).
Accepted brief announcements will be published in a Technical Report by the host
university,
Comenius University in Bratislava.
HOW TO SUBMIT
The submission deadline is earlier for regular papers than for brief announcements
(see IMPORTANT DATES above). The following guidelines apply to both tracks,
unless mentioned otherwise.
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers via the web;
instructions will be available later on the web site (http://www.disc99.sk/).
Authors unable to submit via the web should contact the program chair,
Prasad Jayanti, by email at prasad@cs.dartmouth.edu to receive instructions.
All electronic submissions must be in postscript and must be capable
of being previewed using ghostscript on a unix machine.
Every submission should be in English, begin with a cover page, and
followed by an extended abstract. The cover page should include: (1) title,
(2) authors and affiliations, (3) postal and email address of contact author,
(4) whether the submission should be considered for the best student paper award,
(5) whether the submission should be considered for both regular and
brief announcement tracks, and (6) an abstract of the work in a few lines.
Items 4 and 5 apply only to regular submissions.
The extended abstract of a regular submission should be no longer than 4800 words
and not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and
reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs).
The extended abstract of a brief announcement should not exceed 4 pages using
at least 11 point font and reasonable margins. Submissions deviating from
these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
It is recommended that the extended abstract begins with a succinct statement
of the problem or the issue being addressed, a summary of the main results or
conclusions, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with
related work, all tailored to a non-specialist.
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if it is a regular submission,
one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission and the student's
contribution is significant. The program committee may split this award or decline
to make it.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Angel Alvarez Technical University of Madrid
Anindya Basu Bell Labs
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University
Cynthia Dwork IBM, Almaden
Rachid Guerraoui Ecole Polytechnique, Lausaunne
Vassos Hadzilacos University of Toronto
Maurice Herlihy Brown University
Prasad Jayanti (Chair) Dartmouth College
Srinivasan Keshav Cornell University
Marios Mavronicolas University of Cyprus
Yoram Moses Technion
Alessandro Panconesi University of Bologna
Mike Reiter Bell Labs
Sam Toueg Cornell University
Moti Yung CertCo