See: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/ICDCS2001/
CFP: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/ICDCS2001/call_for_papers.htm
Call for workshop proposals: http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icdcs21/workshop/


The 21st International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-21)
April 16-19, 2001.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                     Deadline 10th September 2000

General Chair: 
  Forouzan Golshani,

Submission Guidelines: 
      Arizona State University Submit full papers up to a maximum of
5000 words. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee.
Reviewing guidelines are available. Final papers will be allowed 8
proceedings pages (up to 10 with overpage charges).

Electronic submissions are especially welcome. Submissions are to be
in the PDF format. If you cannot produce PDF you can submit by
hardcopy.

To submit a paper electronically, please follow this link. Please do
NOT submit via Email or Fax.

If you must submit a hardcopy, please mail eight copies to:
     Wei Zhao
     Department of Computer Science
     Texas A&M University
     College Station, TX 77843-3112

About 60 papers in 12 areas will be accepted. In the past the
conference has had an acceptance rate varying between 25-35%. We
expect the same.

Proposals for Workshops  should be submitted directly to the Workshops
Chair: Makoto Takizawa


Co-Program Chairs: 
  Partha Dasgupta, Arizona State University
  Wei Zhao, Texas A&M Univ.
Areas and Vice Chairs:
Distributed Algorithms: 
  Nancy A. Lynch, MIT
  Idit Keidar, MIT
Distributed Operating Systems
  Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State/NSF
Distributed Databases
  Calton Pu, Georgia Tech
  Roger Barga, Microsoft
Distributed Software Engineering
  Sol Shatz, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Security
  Douglas Maughan, DARPA/ITO,
Internet Technologies
  Philip K. McKinley, Michigan State Univ.
Middleware
  Douglas Schmidt, UC Irvine
Network Protocols
  Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ.
Mobile Computing and Communication
 Nitin Vaidya, Texas A&M Univ.
Real-time Systems
  Ragunathan Rajkumar, CMU
Fault Tolerance
  Farnam Jahanian, Univ. of Michigan
Distributed Agent Systems
  Alex Kilpatrick, HCI Training

Steering Committee Chair:
   Ming T (Mike) Liu, Founder ICDCS Organization Committee

Tutorials Chair: 
Workshops Chair: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University
Awards Chair:   Ten H. (Steve) Lai, Ohio State Univ., USA
Local Arrangements Chair:   Oris Friesen, ASU, USA
Publication Chair: Mark Lanus, Motorola, USA
Treasurer: Van Doubleday, Roz Software Systems, USA
International Liaison Co-Chairs:
                    Hiroshi Miyabe, NTT, Japan
                     A Min Tjoa, Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria
Publicity Co-Chairs:
             Eric W.S. Chen, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan
              Michel Raynal, IRISA, France
TCDP Chair:   Nian Tzeng, Univ. of Louisiana, USA
   

Important Dates (subject to change)
September 10, 2000:               Conference Papers Due
December 10, 2000:            Notification of Acceptance
January 20, 2001:                   Camera-Ready Paper Due