Dear Jan: May I request you to kindly broadcast the attached CFP of IWDC 2003 in the IFIP mailing lists that you handle. With Regards, -Debashis ----------------------------------------------------------- *** please accept our apologies in case of multiple postings *** ----------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers
Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), 2003 Calcutta, India December 27-30,2003 http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jointly organized by ==================== Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India & Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India
Co-Sponsored by =============== IEEE AES-COM-LEO SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA
in cooperation with =================== IFIP TC6 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: ====== Organized since 1999, the International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC) is a forum for presenting the latest research on distributed/networked computing systems. IWDC 2003 is the fifth workshop in this series. This year it will be jointly organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. The workshop will cover all the facets of distributed computing including theory, systems and applications. The topics of interest include, but are but not limited to:
Mobile and Pervasive Computing System Management and Security Fault Tolerance and Reliability Distributed Objects, Data Management and Algorithms Network Protocols and Internetworking Real-Time and Embedded Systems Web-based Systems and Distributed Multimedia Middleware Distributed Database Distributed A.I. Multi-agent Systems Agent-based Systems
Important Deadlines: ==================== * Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2003 * Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: September 15, 2003
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: ================================= Papers should be a maximum of 15 pages in length (in single or double column), formatted using at least a 10 point font and 1 inch margins. Please number the pages. (These are review copies. Instructions for final paper preparation will be available at the workshop website.) This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Shorter papers are both reasonable and encouraged. Reviewers will favor clarity and crispness of presentation over length.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers in the students' track.
Please submit papers in MS_Word, postscript or PDF format by email to either of the program chairs. Please make sure that your paper is readable and understandable in black-and-white. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper. Please avoid the use of color, particularly to convey important content or meaning. Questions about the workshop content, paper preparation, etc. may also be emailed to them. Please see the workshop website for further information.
The detailed Call for Papers is available in http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm
Tutorial Submission Guidelines: =============================== Proposals for half- or full-day tutorials are solicited related to the topics of interest. Proposals should include the abstract of the tutorial and brief biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be emailed to the tutorial chairs by the paper submission deadline.
-------------------------------------------------------------- The Proceedings of the IWDC 2002 was published by Springer Verlag as LNCS 2571, vide link http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacts: ========= General Chairs: --------------- Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Email: ghosh@cs.uiowa.edu Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: pkdas@ieee.org
Program Chairs: -------------- Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Email: samir@cs.sunysb.edu Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University ,India Email: chandanm@vsnl.com
Organising Chairs: ----------------- Asim K Pal, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Email: asim@iimcal.ac.in Suranjan Ghose, Jadavpur University, India Email: suranjanghose@yahoo.co.uk
Publication Chair: ------------------ Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Email: das@cse.uta.edu
Tutorial Chairs: -------------- Ambuj Mahanti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: am@iimcal.ac.in Swapan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: bswapan@hotmail.com
Student Activity Chairs: ------------------------ Ranjan Dasgupta, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India E-mail: ranjandasgupta@hotmail.com Sankhayan Choudhury, Calcutta University, India E-mail: csankhayan@hotmail.com
Industry Chairs: ---------------- Rabindra N. Lahiri, TCS Calcutta, India E-mail: rnl@tcscal.co.in Rajeev Shorey, IBM Solutions Research Lab, New Delhi, India E-mail: srajeev@in.ibm.com
Publicity Chairs: ----------------- Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: ds@iimcal.ac.in Rajkumar Buiyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia E-mail: raj@cs.mu.oz.au
Finance Chairs: --------------- Avijit Kar, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: avijit_kar@vsnl.com Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta Univeraity, India E-mail: nabendu@ieee.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Steering Committee:
Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA : Chair Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Prasanta K. Nandi, Bengal Engineering College (DU), India Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Sanjib C. De Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Shyamal Majumdar, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,India Subhangsu Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta University, India T. Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore