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CALL FOR PAPERS

DAIS 2008

8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Oslo, Norway 4 - 6 June 2008

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The 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 10th IFIP International Conference Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS). It will be organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oslo, Norway.

OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE:

Established in 1997, the DAIS series of conferences aims to provide an integrated forum for research on all aspects of distributed applications and interoperable systems. DAIS 2008 conference themes include, but are not limited, to:

innovative distributed applications in the areas of - enterprise computing - mobile, grid and peer-to-peer computing - context-aware, ubiquitous and pervasive computing - distributed applications cutting across the above areas models and concepts supporting dist. applications in the areas of - sustainability - adaptability - evolution - ecosystems combining sustainability, adaptability, and evolution middleware supporting distributed applications in the areas of - pervasive and location-based services - autonomic applications and systems - context-aware, adaptive applications - reconfigurable and self-managing applications - quality of service-aware applications - intelligent mobile systems evolution of service-oriented applications - enterprise-wide integration - global integration - semantic interoperability and semantic web services - application management software engineering of distributed applications - domain-specific modelling languages - model evolution - model-driven software adaptation, testing and validation

INVITED SPEAKER:

Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College London, UK

ORGANISERS:

General chairs: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway

PC chairs: René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK

Publicity Chair: Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus, Germany

Steering Committee: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus, Germany Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Elie Najm, ENST, France Kerry Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia

Program Committee: N. Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece D. Bakken, Washington State University, USA Y. Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK A. Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, France G. Blair, Lancaster University, UK A. Casimiro Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal I. Demeure, ENST, France S. Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland D. Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, France N. Dulay, Imperial College London, UK F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway P. Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland K. Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany N. Georgantas, INRIA, France R. Grønmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway D. Hagimont, INP Toulouse, France S. Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway P. Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim, Norway J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia R. Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany R. Kroeger, University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany M. Lawley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia P. Linington, University of Kent, UK C. Linnhof-Popien, University of Munich, Germany K. Lund, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway R. Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy E. Najm, ENST, France N. Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, USA R. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal P. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK A. Puder, State University San Francisco, USA K. Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia D. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA T. Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand K. Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland E. Tanter, University of Chile, Chile S. Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK

IMPORTANT DATES:

8 January 2008: Abstract submission 15 January 2008: Paper submission 7 March 2008: Author notification 26 March 2008: Camera-ready verion 4-6 June 2008: DAIS 2008 conference

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

The DAIS 2008 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the themes above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as postscript or PDF, using the Springer LNCS style. Full technical papers should not exceed 14 pages in length while work-in-progress papers should not exceed 6 pages in length. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will attend the conference if the paper is accepted. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. More specific guidelines on the preparation of papers can be found on the conference website.