Subject: DAIS 2003: Deadline extended to June 22nd!

From: [email-masked] (dncr)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:59:59 +0200 (CEST)

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                               Call for paper
                Fourth International IFIP Working Conference
                                     on
             Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
                                  DAIS 2003
                    19-21 November 2003, Paris, France
                  to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03
      International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based
                    Distributed Applications Systems
                         http://fedconf.enst.fr/

          A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and
            a call for workshops will be issued separately.

The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of
distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create
a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the
development, implementation and operation of distributed applications
in complex IT environments full of diversity and
heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will
focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable,
scalable and adaptable distributed applications.

DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform
service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new
approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing.

DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper
sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are
also encouraged.

Conference themes:
In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for
reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in
addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original
unpublished papers addressing the following topics:

- new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration
  and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA
  Components, EJB, .NET),
- modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and
  adaptive applications,
- support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour
  in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices),
- integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making,
- application environments that exploit characteristics of specific
  technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless),
- issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration,
- semantic interoperability and semantic web services.

Submissions:
DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for:
- Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words);
- Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results,
  in no more than 5 pages.

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the
Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer
Verlag in the LNCS series.
A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops
will be issued separately.

Submission method:
Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submission dates:
- Deadline for full paper submissions: extended to June 22, 2003
- Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June  22, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003
- Final versions: September 1st, 2003
- Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 

General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA)
Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin)
Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST)
PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA)

Program Committee:
M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA
N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece
S.Baker, IONA, Ireland
Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France
V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
R.Campbell, UIUC, USA
N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA
F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany
P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA.
J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
E.Jul, DIKU,  Denmark
H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany
F.Kordon, LIP6, France
S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France
H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany
L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA
P.Linington, University of Kent, UK
C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany
P.Merle, INRIA, France
G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
E.Najm, ENST, France
L.Pautet, ENST, France
K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia
A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany
D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA
S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK
J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France