[XML-SIG] [CFP:] OPODIS'03]

[Philippe Hunel]

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				Call For Papers
			7th International Conference 
		On Principles of Distributed Systems: OPODIS 2003 
		   December 10-13 2003, La Martinique, France
		   http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~dcs/OPODIS03/

The 7th Interantional Conference On Principles of Distributed Systems
(OPODIS'03) will be held at La Martinique (French West Indies), 
during December 10-13, 2003, and is co-organized by 
the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, La Martinique, France 
and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

It is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on
distributed computing and systems among researchers from around the
world. This conference is the 7th in a series of annual
conferences. Following the tradition of the previous organizations,
its program will be composed of high-quality contributed and invited
papers by experts of international caliber in this scientific
area. The program committee is soliciting research contributions to
the theory, specifications, design and implementation of distributed
systems, including: 
- distributed and multiprocessor algorithms
- communication and synchronization protocols
- coordination and consistency protocols
- self-stabilization, reliability and fault-tolerance of distributed systems
- performance analysis of distributed algorithms and systems
- specification verification of distributed systems
- security issues in distributed computing and systems
- applications of distributed computing, such as distributed
  collaborative environments, peer-to-peer systems, cluster and grid
  computing.
 
Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must be written in english and should not exceed 12
pages using 11-point font and reasonable margins, including figures,
tables and references. The first page must include the title of the
paper, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, fax number,
email, address for correspondence, up to 5 keywords and an
abstract. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers
electronically, following the guidelines available via the web-page
Authors who cannot submit electronically must contact the program
committee co-chairs at opodis03 at cs.chalmers.se 

Selection of contributions will be based on peer-review by the
Conference Programme Committee. Accepted papers will be published in
the official proceedings volume of the conference. It is required that
each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its
authors. There is a pending proposal regarding the publication of the
conference proceedings by a major publishing organization. The
outcome, together with the camera-ready-due-date, will be available in
the final call for papers. 

For any further information, please contact us at : opodis03 at cs.chalmers.se
 
Important dates

    * Submissions due by: August 22, 2003
    * Notification of acceptance by: October 13, 2003
    * Camera ready copy due by: (to be announced)

Program Committee

Mustaque Ahamad (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA)
Joffroy Beauquier (Univ. Paris 11, France)
Alain Bui (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Marc Bui (Univ. Paris 8, France)
Osvaldo Carvalho (Univ. Fed. Minas Geras, Brazil)
Bernadette Charron-Bost (Laboratoire d'Informatique, LIX, France)
Hacene Fouchal (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Roberto Gomez-Cardenas (CEM-ITESM, Mexico)
Hans Hansson (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Ted Herman (University of Iowa, USA)
Teruo Higashino (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Philippe Hunel (Un. of Antilles-Guyane, France -- Co-chair)
Colette Johnen (LRI, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Christian Lavault (LIPN (CNRS UMR 7030), Univ. Paris 13, France)
Toshimitisu Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Jean-Franois Méhaut (Univ. of Antilles-Guyane, Martinique-France)
Dominique Mery (Université Henri Poincaré & LORIA, France)
Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers Univ., Sweden -- Co-chair)
Luis Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Nicola Santoro (Carleton Univ. , Canada)
Alex Shvartsman (Univ. of Connecticut/MIT, USA)
Philippas Tsigas (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)
Vincent Villain (Univ. Picardie Jules Verne, France)
 
Organizing Committee

Hacene Fouchal (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Philippe Hunel (Univ. of Antilles-Guyane, Martinique-France)
Richard Nock Univ. of Antilles-Guyane, Martinique-France)
Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)
Jean-Emile Symphor Univ. of Antilles-Guyane, Martinique-France)
Yi Zhang (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)