IPDS 2002 deadline has been extended to Januray 10, 2002. Please
see below for complete details on IPDS. 

Sachin Garg and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk
IPDS 2002 PC co-chairs.

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
International Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS) 2002
             June 23 - 26, 2002, Washington DC, U.S.

                  http://www.dsn.org/ipds.html

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In the year 2002, IPDS will be organized under umbrella of DSN
(Dependable Systems and Networks) Conference, which will take 
place in Washington DC, U.S., June 23 - 26, 2002.
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                               OBJECTIVES
With growing strategic importance of large scale networked applications
executing on high-performance computers and broadband communication 
networks, the performance and dependability of computer systems and 
networks have become closely related. Designers and analysts must 
consider the relationships between the occurrence of errors/failures 
and their impact on performance, both in computer systems themselves
and in the interconnections between the system's components.

The International Performance and Dependability Symposium aims to bring
together academic and industrial researchers in these two areas, with 
emphasis on integrating theory and practice. Relating analytical 
techniques to simulations, actual measurements, and experiments will 
be the broad theme of IPDS. Research relating to hardware and software
issues in parallel and distributed systems and networks will be 
emphasized. The topics include but are not restricted to:

            Analytical/Simulation/Measurement Techniques for
            Performance/Dependability applied to:
            Software/Hardware Systems
            Real-Time Systems
            Communication Systems
            Distributed Systems
            Parallel and Clustered Systems
            Multiprocessing Systems
            Systems for Fault-tolerance

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                        INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Regular papers describing original research, practical experience
reports, tool descriptions/demonstrations, and panel proposals will 
be refereed and considered for publication in the Proceedings of the
2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.

Excessively long submissions, unoriginal work, or work that is 
submitted to multiple venues, will be disregarded. The title page 
should include the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliations,
mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address, a maximum
150-word abstract, five keywords, the submission category (see above),
an approximate word count, and a declaration that the material has been
cleared through author affiliations. For multi-authored submissions, the
contact author should be indicated.

The format of submissions for review should be single-column, Times 
11-point size, double spacing and no more than:
     20 pages for Regular Papers,
     10 pages for Practical Experience Reports and Tool Descriptions &
        Demonstrations,
      2 pages for Panel proposals.

The format for final, camera-ready submissions that have been accepted
for publication should be in accordance with IEEE standard conference 
format. The paper should be submitted in electronic form: PostScript 
(.ps) or Portable Document Format (.pdf) to:
               http://www.dsn.org/ipds.html#Authors

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Selected papers submitted under the regular paper category will be 
considered for publication in a special issue of the Performance
Evaluation Journal
 
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                          IMPORTANT DATES
                     Submission:      January 10, 2002
                     Notification:    March 11, 2002

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Program Co-Chairs

Sachin Garg
<sgarg@avaya.com>
Avaya Labs, Avaya, Inc.
233 Mount Airy Road
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 - USA
Phone: (+1) 908 582 3912
Fax: (+1) 908 582 5809

Zbigniew Kalbarczyk
<kalbar@crhc.uiuc.edu>
Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1308 W. Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801 - USA
Phone: (+1) 217 244 7110
Fax: (+1) 217 244 5686

Tools Demonstration Chair
M. Kaâniche (LAAS-CNRS, France)
kaaniche@laas.fr

Industry Liaison
L. Votta (Motorola Inc., USA)
lvotta1@email.mot.com

lvotta1@email.mot.com