ISADS 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifth International Symposium on
Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Monday March 26 - Wednesday March 28, 2001
Dallas, Texas, USA
Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society
Information Processing Society of Japan
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan
The Institute of Electronics, Infor. and Communication Engineers, Japan
In Cooperation with:
International Federation for Information Processing
International Federation of Automatic Control
OMG
TINA-C
Manufacturing Science and Technology Center, Japan
Scope:
Driven by the continuous growth in the power, intelligence and openness of
computer, communication and control technologies, possibilities and
opportunities for realizing highly efficient and dependable business and
control systems have been steadily increasing. Dynamically changing
social and economic situations demand next-generation systems based on
emerging technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have
the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and
decentralized components. Such systems are called Autonomous Decentralized
Systems (ADS).
After the successful first, second, third, and fourth International
Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) held in 1993 in
Japan, in 1995 in the USA , in 1997 in Germany, and in 1999 in Japan, the
fifth ISADS will be held in Dallas, Texas, USA during March 26-28, 2001.
While ISADS 2001 will primarily focus on advancements and innovation in
ADS concept, technologies, and applications related to the increasingly
important topic of *Electronic Commerce*, other themes such as
telecommunications and heterogeneous system and application integration
will also be included.
The ISADS 2001 committee invites papers and panel proposals on the topics
of the symposium that will foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in computer, communication, management, control as applied
to electronic commerce and other related fields from academia, industry,
and government.
The scope of discussions on ADS shall include, but not be limited
to:
* Computer and communication architectures / intelligent network /Internet;
* Heterogeneous distributed information / control systems;
* Mobile agent /computer-supported cooperative works;
* Distributed software development and maintenance;
* Assurance, fault tolerance and on-line expansion;
* Object management architecture /design pattern / application frameworks;
* Emergent control and robotic systems;
* Novel applications: electronic commerce, telecommunications,
information service systems, manufacturing systems,
real-time event management, office automation, traffic and
transportation control, logistics systems.
Plant tour is scheduled on March 29, 2001. Delegates are encour-
aged to participate.
Information for Authors
Papers should describe original work (not submitted or published
elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length.
Papers should include: title, authors, affiliations, 150-word abstract and
list of keywords.
Identify the author responsible for correspondence, including the author's
name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email
address. One of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper
at ISADS 2001.
Information for Panel Organizers
Panel proposals should include: title, organizer's affiliations, position,
mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, and 150-word
statement on the scope, proposed chair and panelists.
Submission Address
Authors and panel organizers are requested to submit their manuscripts
electrically in the Microsoft WORD document file format, the PDF format,
or the Postscript format, and also email the abstract and the full
addresses of the author(s) to the following address:
thura@mitre.org
Note The program committee of ISADS2001 highly encourage electronic
submissions. Otherwise, papers should be sent to the program chair:
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Mail Stop A270
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 781-271-8873
Fax: 781-271-8752
Email: thura@mitre.org
General Information
For general information, see our World-Wide Web Page at:
http://isads.utdallas.edu
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.
Important Deadlines
August 15, 2000: All papers and panel proposals are due
November 15, 2000: Authors and panel organizers notified of acceptance.
December 15, 2000: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and
panelists' position papers
General Chair
William Osborne, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA
Program Committee
Chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corp., USA
Co-Chair: Makoto Imase, NTT Labs, Japan
Co-Chair: Linda Strick, GMD Fokus, Berlin, Germany
Co-Chair: Jeffrey Tsai, U. of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Members
G. Agha, U. of IL, Urbana, USA
R. Arai, U. of Tokyo, Japan
D. Bae, KAIST, Korea
F. Bastani, U. of TX, Dallas, USA
E. Bertino, U. of Milano, Italy
M. Ceruti, SPAWAR, USA
I. Chen, Virginia, Tech, USA
Y. Chen, U. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
R. Chow, U. of FL, USA
J. Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
P. Chuang, Tamkang U., Taiwan
P. Ciancarini, U. of Bologna.
B. Cukic, West Virginia U., USA
K. Eckert, GMD FOKUS Germany
S. Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK
D. Ferrari, U. of Catoloca, Italy
M. Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan U., UK
M. Fujita, Sony, Japan
A. Fukuda, Nara Inst. of Science and Technology, Japan
V. Garg, Univ. of TX, Austin, USA
S. Ghosh, Arizona State U., USA
A. Ghafoor, Purdue U., USA
A. Ghose, U. of Wollongong, Australia
M. Gien, Sun, France
V. Gobel, U. of Oslo, Norway
T. Higashino Osaka U., Japan
D. Hislop, ARO, USA
I. Iida, Fujitsu, Japan
Y. Ishiguro, NEC, Japan
K. Ito, TITECH, Japan
Y. Kakuda, Hiroshima City U., Japan
K. Kim, U.C. Irvine, USA
H. Kopetz, TU Wien, Austria
J. Kramer, Imperial College, UK
L. LeLann, INRIA, France
C. Liu, Chung Yuan Christian U., Taiwan
M. Lyu, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Y. Masunaga, Ochanomizu U., Japan
W. Meng , State U. of New York at Binghamton, USA
R. Montenari, U. of Bologna, Italy
W. Ng, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore
A. Prakash, U. of Michigan, USA
J. Putman, MITRE, USA
Q. Qingquan, Southwest Jiatong U., China
N. Raynal, INRIA, France
W. Ruh, Concept-V, USA
D. Serpanos, Inst. of Comuter Science, Technology-Hellas, Greece
S. Shekhar, U. of MN, Mpls, USA
L. Simoncini, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
R. Stroud, U. of New Castle, UK
V. Subrahmanian, U. of MD, College Park, USA
K. Tsuchiya, Kyoto Uv, Japan
B. Wah, U. of IL, Urbana, USA
Y. Wakahara, U. of Tokyo, Japan
F. Wang, National Chao Tung U., Taiwan
M. Wooldridge, U. of Liverpool, UK
H. Yokota, TITECH, Japan
M. Yano, Tohoku U., Japan
S. Yongqiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong U, China
P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
S. Zubairy, Quaid-e-Azam U., Pakistan
Steering Committee
Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State U., USA
Hiroshi Kuwahara, Hitachi, Japan
Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD, Germany
Publicity Chair
Jorge Cobb, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA