CALL FOR PAPERS

  20th IEEE  Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-20)

                  October 28-31, 2001 (tentative)
                         New Orleans, USA

o                Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

   Please  see  http://srds.cs.umn.edu   for latest information
                        on this symposium.

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The  objective of this symposium is to provide an effective forum
for  researchers  and  practitioners  who   are   interested   in
distributed  systems  design  and  development, particularly with
reliability,  availability,  safety,   security,   or   real-time
properties.   We  welcome  original  research  papers  as well as
papers that deal with development  experiences  and  experimental
results  of  operational  systems.  We are also soliciting papers
for  an  experience  track  that  presents  on-going   industrial
projects,    prototype    systems,    exploratory   or   emerging
applications, etc.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to,  the
following topics:

* Distributed systems with reliability, availability,
   security, safety, and/or real-time requirements
* Distributed databases and transaction processing
* Parallel and distributed operating systems
* Internet systems and applications
* Mobile and ubiquitous computing
* Distributed multimedia systems
* Electronic commerce enabling technologies
* Distributed workflow and enterprise management systems
* Security and High Confidence Systems
* QoS control and assessment
* Analytical or experimental assessment of distributed systems
* Formal methods  and foundations for reliable distributed computing
* Distributed  objects and middleware systems
* Distributed  and Web-based application systems
* Performance modeling and evaluations of reliable distributed systems


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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: April 2, 2001
Author notification: June 16, 2001
Camera-ready copy due: July 21, 2001
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINE:

Accepted  papers  will  be  published  by  IEEE  in  the  SRDS-20
proceedings.   All  submissions  must  be  written in English and
printed using at least 11-point size and 1 1/2 spacing.   Regular
papers  may  not  exceed  20  double  spaced or 15 one and a half
spaced pages (approximately 5000 words).  Experience reports  may
not  exceed  12  double-spaced  or  9 one and a half spaced pages
(approx. 3000 words).  Each paper  should  include,  on  a  cover
page,  the  title,  authors  and  their affiliations, the contact
author  and  his/her  email  address,  an  abstract,  a  list  of
keywords,  and  the  submission  category.   Paper submission are
through the web.  Please submit the PostScript  or  PDF  file  at
http://srds.cs.umn.edu

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Symposium Chair
    Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State Univ., USA

Program Chair
    Anand Tripathi, Univ. of  Minnesota, USA

Program Committee
    Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ.,  USA
    Andrea Bondavalli, U. of Florence, Italy
    Lorenzo Alvisi, U. of Texas Austin, USA
    Farokh Bastani, U. of Texas at Dallas, USA
    Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University. USA
    Mario Dal Cin, Erlangen, Germany
    Joanne Bechta Dugan, U of Virginia, USA
    Gerhard Fohler, U of Vasteras, Sweden
    W. Kent Fuchs, Purdue University. USA
    Rashid Guerraoui, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
    Joerg  Kaiser, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
    Tohru Kikuno, Osaka, Japan
    Vijay Kumar, U. of Missouri,  USA
    Michael Lyu, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
    Mirek Malek, Humboldt Univ., Germany
    D. Manivannan, Univ. of Kentucky, USA
    Catharine Meadows, Naval Res. Labs, USA
    Gilles Muller, INRIA Rennes, France
    Suresh Rai, Lousiana State Univ., USA
    Michel Raynal U of Rennes/IRISA, France
    Andre Schiper, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eltefaat Shokri, Sun Microsystems, USA
    Santosh Shrivastava, U. Newcastle, UK
    Luca Simoncini,  U. of Pisa & CNR, Italy
    Makoto Takizawa , Tokyo Denki Uni., Japan
    Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
    Nian Feng Tzeng, Univ. of Louisiana, USA
    Hee-Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan Uni., Korea
    Shambhu Upadhaya, SUNY Buffalo, USA
    Jie Xu, Durham  University, UK

Panel Organization Chair:
    I-Ling Yen, U of Texas at Dallas, USA

Workshop Chair:
    Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ.,  USA

Publication Chair:
    Alexander Romanovsky, U. Newcastle, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs:
    Shivakant Misra, U of Colorado, USA
    Alexander Romanovksy, U. Newcastle , UK
    Neeran Karnik, IBM Research India

Registration Chair:
    Ravi Prakash, U. of Texas at Dallas, USA

Local Arrangements:
    Richard Golden ,  U. of New Orleans, USA

TC Liaison
    Edgar Nett, Univ. of  Magdeburg, Germany