-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers (MSGID:20030419122430) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:26:19 +0800 From: CFP SYSTEM cfp@cs.tku.edu.tw To: Lars.Wolf@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de

********************************************************************** * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ICDCS 2004 * * * * THE 24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS * * * * http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04 * * //www.icdcs2004.org * * * * March 23-26, 2004 * * Tokyo, Japan * * * * Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society * * and * * the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) * * * **********************************************************************

IMPORTANT DEADLINES =================== Workshop Proposal.......May 31, 2003 Paper Submission........July 15, 2003 Author Notification.....October 31, 2003 Final Manuscript Due....December 20, 2003

PURPOSE AND SCOPE ================= ICDCS provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array of topics in distributed computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Agents and Mobile Code - Distributed Data Management - Distributed Algorithms - Distributed Operating Systems - Middleware - Internet Computing and Applications - Multimedia Systems - Peer-to-Peer Communication - Network Protocols - Real-time and Embedded Systems - Ubiquitous Computing - Wireless Communication and Networks - Security and Fault Tolerant Systems

PAPER SUBMISSION ================ All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript format. Please see the conference web page for instructions.

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04 //www.icdcs2004.org

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL ================= Six to eight workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop proposals should be submitted to Workshops Co-chair, Makoto Takizawa at taki@takilab.k.denkidai.ac.jp or Nian Feng Tzeng at tzeng@cacs.louisiana.edu.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Program Co-Chairs....... Ten H. Lai - Ohio State University, USA Kenichi Okada - Keio University, Japan

Program Vice Chairs: Agents and Mobile Code.. Toyoaki Nishida - Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Distributed Algorithms.. Toshimitsu Masuzawa - Osaka Univ., Japan Distributed Data Mgmt... Ambuj Singh - U of Calif. Santa Barbara, USA Distributed OS.......... Marvin Theimer - MS Research, USA Internet Comput/Appli... Santosh Shrivastava - U of Newcastle, UK Middleware.............. Jean Bacon - University of Cambridge, UK Multimedia Systems...... Wuchi Feng - Oregon Grad. Inst., USA Network Protocols....... Teruo Higashino - Osaka Univ., Japan RT and Embedded Sys..... Kwei-Jay Lin - U of Calif. Irvine, USA P2P Communication....... Xiaodong Zhang - NSF/William & Mary, USA Security and FT Sys..... Anish Arora - Ohio State University, USA Ubiquitous Computing.... Hideyuki Tokuda - Keio University, Japan Wireless Comm/Networks.. Yu-chee Tseng - Nat'l Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan

(Full program committee available at conference web site.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Honorary General Chairs. Shoichi Noguchi - SFAIS, Japan Iwao Toda - Fujitsu Labs, Japan General Co-Chairs....... Ming T. Liu - Ohio State University, USA Yutaka Matsushita - Tokyo U of Tech., Japan Workshops Co-Chairs..... Nien Feng Tzeng - U of LA Lafayette, USA Makoto Takizawa - Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan Awards Co-Chairs........ Michel Raynal - IRISA, France Norio Shiratori - Tohoku University, Japan International Liaison... Wen-Tsuen Chen - Nat'l Tsing-Hau U, Taiwan Michael Papazoglow, U Til., The Netherlands Joseph Urban - Arizona State Univ., USA Publicity Co-Chairs..... Bernd Kraemer - FernUniv. Hagen, Germany Arjan Durresi, Ohio State University, USA Masayuki Numao, IBM Japan, Japan Weijia Jia, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China Publication Co-Chairs... Dong Xuan - Ohio State University, USA Akira Idoue - KDDI, Japan Treasurer Chair......... Toru Hoshi - Tokyo Univ. of Tech., Japan Registration Chair...... Takanori Ugai - Fujitsu Lab., Japan Organization Chair...... Hiroshi Miyabe, NTT, Japan Local Arrangements Chair Kenichi Kitami - Tokyo Univ. of Tech., Japan TCDP Chair.............. Chita Das - Penn. State Univ., USA

For further information - please contact: Ten H. Lai at lai@cis.ohio-state.edu, or Kenichi Okada at okada@ics.keio.ac.jp

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