Subject: ADSN 2002 Call for papers

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:35:34 -0500 (CDT)

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                          Call for Papers

First International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems
and Networks (ADSN 2002)

(for details, please see http://adsn.nets.ce.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp).

                         Vienna, Austria
                           July 2, 2002

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed
Processing.

In cooperation with IEICE Technical Committee on Information Networks and
IEICE Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Systems.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002) (for details,
please see http://icdcs2002.di.fc.ul.pt).

Objective
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The objective of this Workshop is to provide an effective forum for
original scientific and engineering advances in Assurance in Distributed
Systems and Networks. Along with recent rapid growth of the Internet,
autonomous decentralized systems are connected with each other.  In these
systems, heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and the
requirements themselves are frequently changing.  Assurance in these
systems is defined as capability of adaptability to heterogeneous and
changing requirements.

The workshop is of interest in the sense that requirements for assurance
in distributed systems and networks are increasing in the future Internet
and technologies on assurance including integration of various
technologies on real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility and
intelligence have high possibilities to cope with complex distributed
systems and networks.

Topics
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Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Heterogeneous coexistence techniques.
- Techniques for achieving high dependability in complex systems.
- System life-cycle, specification, design, implementation,
  verification, and validation techniques of assurance.
- System management techniques for assurance.
- Real-time technology for assurance systems.
- Software and hardware technologies (E-commerce, Intelligent
  transport system, Train control, Space computer) for assurance.
- Agents technologies for assurance.
- Security issues for information warfare.
- Network control (QoS, CoS, etc) technologies for assurance.

Papers and Submissions
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Papers must be written in English, and they have to be in Postscript, PDF,
or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no more than 12 pages of
double-spaced text with 11pt fonts. The following information must be
provided on a cover sheet.

(1) paper title, full name, affiliation of complete address of the author,

(2) phone and fax numbers, and email address of the author to be contacted,

as well as up to a 150 words abstract.

To submit a research paper, please send an electronic version of the
manuscript to the appropriate program co-chair by e-mail.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline:   November 30, 2001
Notification of acceptance:  January 31, 2002
Camera-ready papers due:     March 29, 2002

Organizing Committee
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General Chair
  Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Vice Chair
  Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs
  Kenji Ishida, Hiroshima City University, Japan
  (Chair for Asia and Oceania)
  E-mail: [email-masked]

Dimitrios N. Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
  (Chair for Europe and Africa) 
  E-mail: [email-masked]

Jorge A. Cobb, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  (Chair for Americas)
  E-mail: [email-masked]

Program Committee:

Masaki Aida, NTT, Japan
Anish Arora, Ohio-State University, USA
Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab., USA
Satoshi Fukumoto, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Ran Giladi, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel
Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Hiroki Horiuchi, KDDI R&D Labs., Japan
Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Akita Katuji, Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan
Stavros Koubias, University of Patras, Greece
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
Steve Liu, Texas A&M University, USA
D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, USA
Masayuki Matsumoto, East Japan Railway Company, Japan
Yukikazu Nakamoto, NEC, Japan
Hidenori Nakazato, Waseda University, Japan
Panagiotis Nastou, Atmel Hellas, Greece
Peter Neumann, University of Magdenburg, Germany
Nagao Ogino, KDDI R&D Labs., Japan
Ravi Prakash, UT Dallas, USA
Burkhard Stiller, ETH, Switzerland
Saito Takafumi, NTT, Japan
Eduardo Tovar, ISEP, Portugal
Wayne Wolf, Princeton University, USA
Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan