DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING JOURNAL
SPECIAL ISSUE ON Future Directions for Internet Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contributions are invited on all aspects of where the Internet
is going technically including (although not exclusively):
* internet layer, new media, mobility
* routing and addressing
* classes of service, transport
* applications and user services
* security
* management, operation, and performance
* legal/economic aspects could also be considered
The preferred emphasis is a rigorous exposition of principles
and engineering methodologies rather than detailed protocol
descriptions.
PROPOSALS OR ABSTRACTS: right now to brian@dxcoms.cern.ch
and J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOW 1996 (peer review + revisions by July)
REVIEWED & REVISED: NOV 1996
PROPOSED PUBLICATION DATE: asap in 1997
SUBMIT PAPERS TO ONE OF THE GUEST EDITORS:
Dr Brian E. Carpenter
Computing and Networks Division E-mail: brian@dxcoms.cern.ch
CERN Tel: +41 22 767 4967
European Laboratory for Particle Physics Fax: +41 22 767 7155
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Web: http://wwwcs.cern.ch
Prof J Crowcroft E-mail: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science Tel: +44 171 380 7296
UCL Fax: +44 171 387 1397
Gower St, Web: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Contributions must not have been published previously and must not be
under consideration for publication elsewhere. They must be in English
and should typically be up to 10000 words in length although in
exceptional circumstances longer papers can be accepted.
The title page must include:
i) title of article,
ii) name(s) of author(s)
iii) adress(es) of establishment(s) where work was carried out;
iv) short title of not more than 50 characters.
v) abstract of not more than 200 words.
Initial submission in Ascii, PostScript or HTML via Internet please!
Paper copies needed for peer review.
Publisher can accept LaTeX and PC/Mac formats (whatever that means :-).
Details of format for final submission will be provided for accepted
papers. Authors who require more detail on presentation and style should
consult the booklet Notes for Authors, obtainable free of charge from IOP
Publishing at dse@ioppublishing.co.uk.
Acceptance of papers for publication is subject to a peer review procedure
and may be conditional on revisions being made in the light of comments
from referees. However authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of
statements in a paper
Distributed Systems Engineering Journal is
co-published by The British Computer Society,
The Institution of Electrical Engineers and
Institute of Physics Publishing.
Honorary Editors
Professor David Hutchison,
Lancaster University,
Department of Computing,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK.
Tel: + 44 1524 593798 Fax: + 44 1524 381 707
Email:dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Dr. Rafael Alonso
Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
2 Research Way
Princeton, NJ 08540-6699
USA
Email: alonso@mitl.research.panasonic.com
Phone: +1 609 734 7328
Fax: +1 609 987 8827
Dr Morris Sloman,
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
Department of Computing,
180 Queen's Gate,
London SW7 2BZ, UK.
Tel: + 44 171 594 8279 Fax: + 44 171 581 8024
Email: mss@doc.ic.ac.uk
Editorial Board includes:
Dr Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Brian Carpenter, CERN, Switzerland
Dr. Chris Cooper, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Professor Flaviu Cristian, University of California at San Diego, USA
Mr Michel Gien, Chorus Systems, France
Professor Fred Halsall, University College Swansea, UK
Dr Peter Harrison, Imperial College, UK
Dr Ian Leslie, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Rodger Lea, Sony, Japan
Professor Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK
Professor Andrew Lister, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, USA
Dr Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
Professor Santosh Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK
Dr James Stamos, Oracle, USA
Dr Ralf Steinmetz, IBM European Networking Centre, Germany
Dr Joseph Sventek, Hewlett-Packard Company, California, USA
Professor Mario Tokoro, Keio University/Sony CSL, Japan
Dr Ian Wilson, Olivetti Research Laboratory, UK
Scope
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The area of interest of this journal centres on the integration of
processing, storage and communication subsystems within a distributed or
networked system. The emphasis will be on distributed rather than
parallel processing and on practical engineering papers rather than
theoretical approaches. We particularly welcome papers from industry and
those which are based on implementation experience.
Distributed Processing
Distributed processing architecture
Distributed operating systems and environments
Standards and open distributed processing (ODP)
Configuration and management of distributed systems
Computer architecture support for distributed processing
Language support for distributed processing
Algorithms and protocols to support distributed processing
Computer Networks
Local, metropolitan and wide area networks
Network architectures and protocols
Network management
Communications and network standards
Open networking and open systems interconnection (OSI)
Multiservice networks
Storage and Databases
Data modelling
Distributed data bases
Distributed transaction processing
Information retrieval and transformation
Object stores
Information and file servers
Hypermedia systems
Information Systems & Applications
Distributed multimedia systems
Advanced home, business and industrial systems
Computer support for cooperative work
Distributed programming support environments
User Interface design
These four main areas would be linked by consideration of system
dependability, fault tolerance, security, performance engineering,
timeliness or other architectural issues.