Subject: CFP ISADS 2001, August 15 deadline

From: Jorge Cobb <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:23:41 -0500 (CDT)

ISADS 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS

                  The Fifth International Symposium on
                    Autonomous Decentralized Systems

                  Monday March 26 - Wednesday March 28, 2001
                         Dallas, Texas, USA

Sponsored by:

                         IEEE Computer Society 
              Information Processing Society of Japan 
        The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan 
    The Institute of Electronics, Infor. and Communication Engineers, Japan 

In Cooperation with:

             International Federation for Information Processing 
             International Federation of Automatic Control 
                             OMG 
                            TINA-C 
          Manufacturing Science and Technology Center, Japan 

Scope: 

Driven by the continuous growth in the power, intelligence and openness of
computer, communication and control technologies, possibilities and
opportunities for realizing highly efficient and dependable business and
control systems have been steadily increasing.  Dynamically changing
social and economic situations demand next-generation systems based on
emerging technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have
the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and
decentralized components. Such systems are called Autonomous Decentralized
Systems (ADS).

After the successful first, second, third, and fourth International
Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) held in 1993 in
Japan, in 1995 in the USA , in 1997 in Germany, and in 1999 in Japan, the
fifth ISADS will be held in Dallas, Texas, USA during March 26-28, 2001.
While ISADS 2001 will primarily focus on advancements and innovation in
ADS concept, technologies, and applications related to the increasingly
important topic of *Electronic Commerce*, other themes such as
telecommunications and heterogeneous system and application integration
will also be included.

The ISADS 2001 committee invites papers and panel proposals on the topics
of the symposium that will foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in computer, communication, management, control as applied
to electronic commerce and other related fields from academia, industry,
and government.

The scope of discussions on ADS shall include, but not be limited 
to: 

* Computer and communication architectures / intelligent network /Internet; 
* Heterogeneous distributed information / control systems; 
* Mobile agent /computer-supported cooperative works;
* Distributed software development and maintenance;
* Assurance, fault tolerance and on-line expansion; 
* Object management architecture /design pattern / application frameworks; 
* Emergent control and robotic systems; 
* Novel applications: electronic commerce, telecommunications, 
  information service systems, manufacturing systems, 
  real-time event management, office automation, traffic and 
  transportation control, logistics systems. 

Plant tour is scheduled on March 29, 2001. Delegates are encour-
aged to participate. 

Information for Authors 

Papers should describe original work (not submitted or published
elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length.
Papers should include: title, authors, affiliations, 150-word abstract and
list of keywords.

Identify the author responsible for correspondence, including the author's
name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email
address. One of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper
at ISADS 2001.

Information for Panel Organizers 

Panel proposals should include: title, organizer's affiliations, position,
mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, and 150-word
statement on the scope, proposed chair and panelists.

Submission Address 

Authors and panel organizers are requested to submit their manuscripts
electrically in the Microsoft WORD document file format, the PDF format,
or the Postscript format, and also email the abstract and the full
addresses of the author(s) to the following address:

[email-masked]

Note The program committee of ISADS2001 highly encourage electronic
submissions. Otherwise, papers should be sent to the program chair:

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Mail Stop A270
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 781-271-8873
Fax: 781-271-8752
Email: [email-masked]

General Information 

For general information, see our World-Wide Web Page at: 

http://isads.utdallas.edu

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.

Important Deadlines

August 15, 2000: All papers and panel proposals are due
November 15, 2000: Authors and panel organizers notified of acceptance. 
December 15, 2000: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and 
panelists' position papers 

General Chair
William Osborne, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA

Program Committee

Chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corp., USA 

Co-Chair: Makoto Imase, NTT Labs, Japan
Co-Chair: Linda Strick, GMD Fokus, Berlin, Germany 
Co-Chair: Jeffrey Tsai, U. of Illinois, Chicago, USA 

Members
G. Agha, U. of IL, Urbana, USA
R. Arai, U. of Tokyo, Japan
D. Bae, KAIST, Korea  
F. Bastani, U. of TX, Dallas, USA
E. Bertino,  U. of Milano, Italy
M. Ceruti, SPAWAR, USA
I. Chen, Virginia, Tech, USA
Y. Chen, U. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
R. Chow, U. of FL, USA
J. Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
P. Chuang, Tamkang U., Taiwan
P. Ciancarini, U. of Bologna.
B. Cukic, West Virginia U., USA
K. Eckert, GMD FOKUS Germany
S. Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK
D. Ferrari, U. of Catoloca, Italy
M. Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan U., UK
M. Fujita, Sony, Japan
A. Fukuda, Nara Inst. of Science and Technology, Japan
V. Garg, Univ. of TX, Austin, USA
S. Ghosh, Arizona State U., USA       
A. Ghafoor,  Purdue U., USA
A. Ghose, U. of Wollongong, Australia
M. Gien, Sun, France
V. Gobel, U. of Oslo, Norway
T. Higashino Osaka U., Japan   
D. Hislop, ARO, USA
I.  Iida, Fujitsu, Japan
Y. Ishiguro, NEC, Japan
K. Ito, TITECH, Japan
Y. Kakuda, Hiroshima City U., Japan
K. Kim, U.C. Irvine, USA 
H. Kopetz, TU Wien, Austria
J. Kramer, Imperial College, UK
L. LeLann, INRIA, France
C. Liu, Chung Yuan Christian U., Taiwan
M. Lyu, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Y. Masunaga, Ochanomizu U., Japan 
W. Meng , State U. of New York at Binghamton, USA
R. Montenari, U. of Bologna, Italy
W. Ng, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore
A. Prakash, U. of Michigan, USA
J. Putman, MITRE, USA
Q. Qingquan, Southwest Jiatong U., China
N. Raynal, INRIA, France
W. Ruh, Concept-V, USA
D. Serpanos, Inst. of Comuter Science, Technology-Hellas, Greece
S. Shekhar, U. of MN, Mpls, USA
L. Simoncini, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
R. Stroud, U. of  New Castle, UK
V. Subrahmanian, U. of MD, College Park, USA
K. Tsuchiya, Kyoto Uv, Japan
B. Wah, U. of  IL, Urbana, USA
Y. Wakahara, U. of Tokyo, Japan
F.  Wang, National Chao Tung U., Taiwan
M. Wooldridge, U. of Liverpool, UK
H. Yokota, TITECH, Japan  
M. Yano, Tohoku U., Japan
S. Yongqiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong U, China
P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
S. Zubairy, Quaid-e-Azam U., Pakistan

Steering Committee

Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State U., USA 
Hiroshi Kuwahara, Hitachi, Japan
Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD, Germany

Publicity Chair

Jorge Cobb, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA

Jorge A. Cobb
Assistant Professor
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
PO Box 830688,  Mail Station EC 31
Richardson, TX 75083-0688

[email-masked] 972 883 2479