--------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- PODC 2007 26th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing Portland, Oregon, August 12-15, 2007 http://www.podc.org/podc2007 --------------------------------------------- PODC 2007 solicits papers on all areas of distributed systems and networking. We encourage submissions dealing with any aspect of distributed computing, including theory and practice. The common goal is to shed light on the principles of distributed computing. Topics of interest include the following subjects in distributed systems: - communication and synchronization protocols - distributed algorithms, analysis, and complexity - distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, and databases - economical aspects of distributed computing and selfish agents - experiments and performance measurements in distributed systems - fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and self organization - high-performance, cluster, and grid computing - internet, world wide web, and social networks - location- and context-aware distributed systems - mobile computing, mobile networks, and mobile agents - multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms - networking: architectures, services, routing, and applications - peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, and distributed data management - security issues in distributed computing, and cryptographic protocols - sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks - shared and transactional memory, and concurrent programming - specification, semantics, verification, and testing of distributed systems SUBMISSION: Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the PODC web page. A submission for a regular presentation must report on original research. Papers submitted for regular presentations must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings, and must not be concurrently submitted to any other conference. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Abstracts of regular presentations must be registered by the abstract registration deadline indicated below, whereas the full paper itself is due only by the paper submission deadline. Papers for regular presentation must be no longer than 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11-point font, including tables and references. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for a brief announcement must be no longer than 3 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11-point font. Such submissions may describe work in progress or work presented elsewhere. A submission that is not selected for regular presentation may be invited for a brief announcement. Posters and demos are also solicited; details will appear on the PODC web page. PUBLICATION: The selection of regular presentations will be based on peer-review by regular program committee members. The selection of brief announcements may also be based on peer-reviews by junior program committee members. Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD: Following a long-standing PODC tradition, a prize will be given to the best paper co-authored by a full-time student at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper registration: February 12, 2007 - Paper submission: February 19, 2007 - Acceptance notification: April 30, 2007 - Camera-ready copy due: May 21, 2007 Submission dates for brief announcements and posters can be found on the PODC website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yehuda Afek, Tel Aviv University Anish Arora, Ohio State University Hagit Attiya, Technion Joffroy Beauquier, University of Paris Sud John Douceur, Microsoft Research Panagiota Fatourou, University of Ioannina Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden Pierre Fraigniaud, University of Paris Sud Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Kamal Jain, Microsoft Research Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College Idit Keidar, Technion Nancy Lynch, MIT Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University Bernard Mans, Macquarie University Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Nicola Santoro, Carleton University Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto Ulrich Schmid, TU Vienna Berthold Voecking, RWTH Aachen Roger Wattenhofer (Chair), ETH Zurich JUNIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rui Fan, MIT Seth Gilbert, MIT / EPFL Amos Korman, Technion Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Aleksandrs Slivkins, Cornell University CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University (Finances) Alex Brodsky, University of Winnipeg (Publicity) Costas Busch, RPI (Workshops) Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (General Chair) Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research (Publicity) Gil Neiger, Intel (Local Chair) Srikanta Tirthapura, Iowa State University (Workshops) STEERING COMMITTEE James Aspnes, Yale University Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, (Chair) Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dahlia Malkhi, MSR & Hebrew University Michel Raynal, IRISA Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich