[hpc-announce] CFP: SRDS 2014 (OPEN for submissions); 33rd Intl. Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems; Nara, Japan

[Antonio Casimiro]

SRDS 2014 is now open for new submissions.

Please visit the conference website
     http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/srds2014/
or, if you are already aware of the submission guidelines, you can register
your submission directly from the EasyChair submission page.
     https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srds2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS

33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2014
October 6 - 9, 2014.  Nara, Japan

http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/srds2014


The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is a forum for researchers and
practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and
evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety,
security, trust and real-time. We welcome original research papers as 
well as
practical experience reports that deal with design, development and 
experimental
results of operational systems.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission:   April 7, 2014 (23:00 ETC)
Full paper submission:   April 13, 2014 (23:00 ETC; NO EXTENSIONS)
Authors notification:   June 27, 2014
Camera-ready:   July 20, 2014
Conference:   October 6-9, 2014


SCOPE

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service
* Dependability of distributed databases and transaction processing
* Dependability of distributed multimedia systems
* Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment
* Dependable cooperative mobile systems
     (ad hoc networks, sensor networks, robot networks, ...)
* Distributed algorithms
* Distributed objects and middleware systems
* Experimental or analytical evaluations of dependable distributed systems
* Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability in distributed systems
* Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
* High-assurance and safety-critical distributed system design and 
evaluation
* Internet-based systems and applications
* Parallel and distributed operating systems
* Privacy-assuring large scale data management systems
* Resilience of distributed infrastructures
     (intelligent transport, smart grids, vehicular networks, ...)
* Secure and trusted distributed systems


BEST PAPER AWARD

The symposium will highlight the best paper. All papers accepted for
presentation at the symposium will be evaluated by the Best Paper Award
Co-Chairs for the award.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please see the submission page for information. Accepted papers will 
appear in
the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer 
Society.
IMPORTANT: There will be no deadline extension!


WORKSHOPS

Workshops will be held in conjunction with SRDS 2014 on October 6, 2014.
Workshop topics will be announced on the symposium website.


SPONSORS

Technical Sponsors
   IEEE Computer Society (pending)
   DBSJ The Database Society of Japan

Corporate Sponsors
   Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. [Platinum sponsor]


COMMITTEES

Symposium Chair:
   Takahiro Hara,   Osaka University, Japan

Program Chairs:
   Xavier Defago,   JAIST, Japan
   D. Manivannan,   University of Kentucky, USA
   Antonio Casimiro,   Univ. of Lisboa, Portugal

Finance Chairs:
   Tomoki Yoshihisa,   Osaka University, Japan
   Susumu Ishihara,   Shizuoka University, Japan

Local Arrangement Committee:
  Akimitsu Kanzaki,   Osaka University, Japan (Chair)
  Haruhiko Kaneko,   Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan

Publication Chair:
   Nobuyasu Kanekawa,   Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Award Committee Chairs:
   Takashi Nanya,   Canon Inc., Japan
   Michel Raynal,   IRISA, France

Workshops Chair:
   Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya,   Osaka University, Japan

PhD Forum Chair:
   Jun Miyazaki,   NAIST, Japan

Publicity Chairs:
   Masumi Shirakawa,   Osaka University, Japan
   Sanjay Madria,   Missouri University S&T, USA

Advisory Committee Chair:
   Masaru Kitsuregawa,   Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Advisory Committee Members:
   Tohru Kikuno, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan
   Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan
   Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan
   Takashi Nanya, Canon Inc., Japan
   Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan

Executive Committee Chair:
   Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan

Steering Committee Liaison:
   Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy

Technical Program Committee:
   Saurabh Bagchi,   Purdue University, USA
   Sara Bouchenak,   University of Grenoble 1, France
   Jiannong Cao,   Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
   Miguel Correia,   IST/INESC-ID, Portugal
   Domenico Cotroneo,   University of Naples Federico Secondo, Italy
   Bojan Cukic,   West Virginia University, USA
   Patrick Eugster,   Purdue University, USA
   Pascal Felber,   University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
   Christof Fetzer,   Technical University of Dresden, Germany
   Arobinda Gupta,   Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
   Naohiro Hayashibara,   Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
   Matti Hiltunen,   AT&T Labs Research, USA
   Chunming Hu,   Beihang University, China
   Yennun Huang,   Academia Sinica, Taiwan
   Chalermek Intanagonwiwat,   Cisco, USA
   Mizuho Iwaihara,   Waseda University, Japan
   Taisuke Izumi,   Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
   Joerg Kaiser,   University of Magdeburg, Germany
   Johan Karlsson,   Chalmers University, Sweden
   Betina Kemme,   McGill University, Canada
   Hiroaki Kikuchi,   Meiji University, Japan
   Philip Koopman,   Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   Ajay Kshemkalyani,   University of Illinois Chicago, USA
   Sandeep Kulkarni,   Michigan State University, USA
   Leszek Lilien,   Western Michigan University, USA
   Michael R. Lyu,   Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
   Raimundo Macedo,   Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
   Sanjay Madria,   Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
   Istvan Majzik,   Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
   Luca Mottola,   Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   Marta Patino,   Technical University of Madrid, Spain
   Fernando Pedone,   University of Lugano, Switzerland
   Jose Pereira,   University of Minho, Portugal
   Ravi Prakash,   University of Texas Dallas, USA
   Francesco Quaglia,   Universite di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Italy
   Peter Scheuermann,   Northwestern University, USA
   Andre Schiper,   EPFL, Switzerland
   Hans-Peter Schwefel,   FTW, Austria
   Francois Taiani,   University of Rennes 1 / IRISA, France
   Sebastien Tixeuil,   Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
   Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya,   Osaka University, Japan
   S. Felix Wu,   University of California Davis, USA
   Haruo Yokota,   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

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