SBRC 2001 
            19th BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER NETWORKS 
        Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil; May 22-25, 2001 

The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC) is an annual event 
promoted by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and by the National 
Laboratory of Computer Networks (LARC). The SBRC has become the most 
important forum for professionals interested in computer networks and 
distributed systems in Brazil over the years. In its 19th edition, the 
SBRC will consist of technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, 
lectures, mini-courses and panels. An exhibition of products, 
equipment and services is also being organized. 

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE TECHNICAL SESSIONS 

Authors are invited to submit papers describing research projects, 
experimental results and recent developments related, but not limited, 
to the following topics: 

- high-speed networks; 
- wireless communication; 
- the Internet: protocols, services and applications; 
- quality of service (QoS); 
- management of computer and telecommunication networks; 
- security; 
- middleware; 
- distributed multimedia systems; 
- distributed systems: algorithms, real-time and fault-tolerance; 
- multicomputers and distributed processing; 
- performance evaluation; 
- specification, verification, implementation and testing of 
  distributed systems and protocols; 
- mobile agents and active networks; 
- multi-agent systems; 
- mobile computing. 

The submission of papers will be processed electronically. Papers 
must be written in English or Portuguese, and must be in Postscript 
Postscript (please use generic postscript) or PDF (generated by Adobe 
Acrobat) format. Please do not send papers in the .doc format used by 
MS Word. The paper should have no more than 16 pages, including 
abstract, figures, diagrams, bibliography, etc (please avoid figures 
in bitmap format). The page size should be A4 (29,7 by 21,0 cm), with 
top margin of 3,0 cm, and bottom and side margins of 2,5 cm; the 
text should be in 12-point Times font, disposed in a single column 
with no more than 45 lines. Additional information related to the 
submission of papers can be found at http://www.gta.ufrj.br/sbrc2001. 

This call for papers can be found in HTML, PDF, and doc formats, in 
both English and Portuguese, at http://www.sbrc2001.ufsc.br. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
Preliminary version due Jan 26, 2001 
Notification of acceptance Mar 03, 2001 
Final version due Apr 06, 2001 

GENERAL CHAIR OF THE SYMPOSIUM 
Jean-Marie Farines 
DAS/UFSC and NURCAD/UFSC 
E-Mail: farines@lcmi.ufsc.br 

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte 
GTA/UFRJ 
E-Mail: otto@gta.ufrj.br 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Aloysio de Castro Pinto Pedroza - UFRJ 
Antônio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro - UFMG 
Carlos Becker Westphall - UFSC 
Carlos de Castro Goulart - UFV 
Djamel Sadok - UFPE 
Edmundo A. de Souza e Silva - UFRJ 
Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira - Unicamp 
Eduardo Whitaker Bergamini - INPE 
Eleri Cardozo - Unicamp 
Elias Procopio Duarte Jr - UFPR 
Guido Lemos de Sousa Filho - UFRN 
Jean-Marie Farines - UFSC 
Joberto Sergio Barbosa Martins - UNIFACS 
Joni da Silva Fraga - UFSC 
José Augusto Suruagy Monteiro - UNIFACS 
José Ferreira de Rezende - UFRJ 
José Gonçalves Pereira Filho - UFES 
Jose Marcos Silva Nogueira - UFMG 
José Neuman de Souza - UFC 
Julius Leite - UFF 
Luís Felipe Magalhães de Moraes - UFRJ 
Luiz Eduardo Buzato - Unicamp 
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares - PUC/RIO 
Luiz Fernando Rust da Costa Carmo - UFRJ 
Marcus Endler - USP 
Maria Izabel Cavalcante Cabral - UFPb 
Maria Janilce Almeida - UFRGS 
Mauricio Magalhães - Unicamp 
Michael Stanton - UFF 
Nelson Fonseca - Unicamp 
Noemi Rodriguez - PUC/Rio 
Orlando Loques - UFF 
Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte - UFRJ 
Raimundo José de Araújo Macêdo - UFBA 
Ricardo de Oliveira Anido - Unicamp 
Rogério Drummond - Unicamp 
Rosa Maria M. Leão - UFRJ 
Wanderley Lopes de Souza - UFSCar 
Wilson Vicente Ruggiero - USP 

ORGANIZED BY 
UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina 
NURCAD - High Speed Networks and High Performance Computing Group 
DAS - Department of Automation and Systems 
INE - Department of Computing and Statistics 

PROMOTED BY 
SBC - Brazilian Computer Society 
LARC - National Laboratory of Computer Networks 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM 
E-Mail: sbrc2001@nurcad.ufsc.br 
WWW: http://www.sbrc2001.ufsc.br