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                         CALL FOR PAPERS 

 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2001) 

                 October 28-31, 2001 (tentative) 
                        New Orleans, USA 

               Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society 

  Please see http://srds.cs.umn.edu for latest information 
                       on this symposium. 

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The objective of this symposium is to provide an effective forum 
for researchers and practitioners who are interested in 
distributed systems design and development, particularly with 
reliability, availability, safety, security, or real-time 
properties. We welcome original research papers as well as 
papers that deal with development experiences and experimental 
results of operational systems. We are also soliciting papers 
for an experience track that presents on-going industrial 
projects, prototype systems, exploratory or emerging 
applications, etc. 

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TOPICS OF INTEREST: 

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the 
following topics: 

* Distributed systems with reliability, availability, 
  security, safety, and/or real-time requirements 
* Distributed databases and transaction processing 
* Parallel and distributed operating systems 
* Internet-based systems and applications 
* Mobile and ubiquitous computing 
* Distributed multimedia systems 
* Electronic commerce and enabling technologies 
* Distributed workflow and enterprise management systems 
* Security and high confidence systems 
* QoS control and assessment 
* Analytical or experimental assessment of distributed systems 
* Formal methods and foundations for reliable distributed computing 
* Distributed objects and middleware systems 
* Distributed and Web-based application systems 
* Performance modeling and evaluations of reliable distributed systems 

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IMPORTANT DATES: 

Submission deadline: April 2, 2001 
Author notification: June 16, 2001 
Camera-ready copy due: July 21, 2001 

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: 

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the SRDS-20 
proceedings. All submissions must be written in English and 
printed using at least 11-point size and 1 1/2 spacing. Regular 
papers may not exceed 20 double-spaced or 15 one-and-half 
spaced pages (approximately 5000 words). Experience reports may 
not exceed 12 double-spaced or 9 one-and-half-spaced pages 
(approx. 3000 words). Each paper should include, on a cover 
page, the title, authors and their affiliations, the contact 
author and his/her email address, an abstract, a list of 
keywords, and the submission category (regular paper or 
experience report). 

Paper submission is through the Web. Please submit the 
PostScript or PDF file at http://srds.cs.umn.edu 

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Symposium Chair 
   Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University and NSF, USA 

Program Chair 
   Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA 

Program Committee 
   Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, USA 
   Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA 
   Farokh Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 
   Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University. USA 
   Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy 
   Mario Dal Cin, University of Erlangen, Germany 
   Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia, USA 
   Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Sweden 
   W. Kent Fuchs, Purdue University. USA 
   Rachid Guerraoui, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland 
   Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany 
   Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan 
   Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA 
   Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong 
   Mirek Malek, Humboldt University, Germany 
   D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, USA 
   Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Labs, USA 
   Gilles Muller, INRIA Rennes, France 
   Suresh Rai, Lousiana State University, USA 
   Michel Raynal, University of Rennes/IRISA, France 
   Andre Schiper, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland 
   Eltefaat Shokri, Sun Microsystems, USA 
   Santosh Shrivastava, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
   Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa & CNR, Italy 
   Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan 
   Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA 
   Nian Feng Tzeng, University of Louisiana, USA 
   Hee-Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea 
   Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY Buffalo, USA 
   Jie Xu, Durham University, UK 

Panel Organization Chair: 
   I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 

Workshop Chair: 
   Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA 

Publication Chair: 
   Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
   Shivakant Misra, University of Colorado, USA 
   Alexander Romanovksy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
   Neeran Karnik, IBM Research, India 

Registration Chair: 
   Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 

Local Arrangements: 
   Golden G. Richard III, University of New Orleans, USA 

TC Liaison 
  Edgar Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany 
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