From dmanet@math.utwente.nl Thu Aug 14 00:57:10 1997 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:15:20 METDST From: DMANET Reply-To: koskas@laria.u-picardie.fr To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL Subject: OPODIS'97 Call for papers OPODIS'97 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems Chantilly, FRANCE, December 10-11-12, 1997. http://www.laria.u-picardie.fr/OPODIS'97 Research contributions to the design, analysis, theory and specification of Distributed Systems are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to : * Distributed Algorithms and Complexity * Fault Tolerance and Self-Stabilization * Performance Evaluation * Routing Algorithms * Distributed Data Structures * Communication Networks * Design and Analysis of Distributed Algorithms * Concurrency Control and Synchronization * Multiprocessors Algorithms and Architectures * Modeling and Simulation * Multimedia Distributed Systems * Object Oriented Distributed Computing * Mobile Computing * Task Allocation and Scheduling * Reliability Submitted papers must be written in English. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee members and by external reviewers. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The first page must include the title of the paper, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, e-mail. Include up to 5 keywords and an abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ------------- How to submit Authors are encouraged to submit their paper electronically in postscript format at opodis@laria.u-picardie.fr before September 15, 1997. Authors unable to submit paper electronically could send 4 copies to the organization committee before September 8, 1997: Alain BUI LaRIA 5 rue du Moulin Neuf, 80000 AMIENS, France Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by October 15, 1997. A camera-ready copy of each accepted paper is due by November 10, 1997. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. For any further information, you could contact us at : opodis@laria.u-picardie.fr. ------------- Program Committee N. BADACHE; USTHB, Algeria J. BEAUQUIER; LRI, Univ. Paris 11, France A. BOUABDALLAH; Univ. de Tech. de Compiègne, France J. CARLIER; Univ. de Tech. de Compiègne, France B. CHARRON BOST, LIX; Ecole Polytech., France S. DOLEV; Ben-Gurion University, Israel V. GAY; MASI, Univ. Paris 6, France R. GUERRAOUI ; EPFL, Switzerland R. GOMEZ CARDENAS; ITESM, Mexico I. LAVALLEE; Univ. Paris 8, France C. LAVAULT; LIPN Univ. Paris 13, France P. LEYDEKKERS; KPN research, The Netherlands M. NAIMI; LaRIS, UTBM, France Y. PAKER; Queen Mary & Westfield College, England M. PAPATRIANTAFILOU; MPI, Germany P. TSIGAS; MPI, Germany V. VILLAIN; Univ. de Picardie, France Organization Committee * A. BUI, LaRIA, Univ. de Picardie, Franc * M. BUI, Heudiasyc, Univ. de Tech. de Compiègne, France * V. VILLAIN, LaRIA, Univ. de Picardie, France ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: September 15, 1997 Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 1997 Preregistration & Camera Ready Papers Due: November 10, 1997 -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The original sender, however, is invited to prepare an update of the replies received and to communicate it via DMANET. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)