CALL FOR PAPERS
14th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing
(DISC 2000)
October 4-6, 2000
Toledo, Spain
http://www.disc2000.org/
IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular submissions due: 11:59 PM EST, April 11, 2000.
Brief Announcements due: 11:59 PM EST. May 10, 2000.
Acceptance notification: June 16, 2000.
Camera-ready copy due: July 6, 2000.
SCOPE:
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:
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 research and 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 10 minutes each. Regular papers get 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, the Polytechnic
University of Madrid.
ABSTRACT FORMAT:
Every submission, regular or brief, 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, and (4) an abstract of the work in a few lines. Regular submissions
only must indicate (5) whether the submission should be considered for the best
student paper award, and (6) whether the submission should be considered for
both regular and brief announcement tracks.
A regular submission's extended abstract 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). A
brief announcement's extended abstract 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.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. A
detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at
http://sigact.acm.org/~disc2000/DISC2000.html. Authors who cannot submit
electronically must submit a printed copy to the DISC program chair at the
following address: Maurice Herlihy, Computer Science Dept, Box 1910, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Email: herlihy@cs.brown.edu Phone:
401-863-7646 (USA). Authors submitting hard copies should also send an e-mail
to the program chair indicating that they are submitting in this manner.
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
Rida Bazzi (Arizona State U.) Ajoy Datta (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Peter Dickman (U. of Glasgow) Panagiota Fatourou (Max-Planck Inst.)
Paola Flocchini (U. of Ottawa) Maurice Herlihy (chair) (Brown U.)
Lisa Higham (U. of Calgary) Christos Kaklamanis (CTI)
Idit Keidar (MIT) Michael Merritt (ATT Laboratories)
Enrico Nardelli (L'Acquila) Luis Rodrigues (U. of Lisbon)
Peter Ruzicka (Comenius U.) Assaf Schuster (Technion)
Mark Tuttle (Compaq Research) Roger Wattenhofer (Brown U.)
Jennifer Welch (Texas A\&M) Peter Widmayer (ETH Zurich)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Angel Alvarez, Polytechnic University of Madrid