SRDS 2002
               21st Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
   October 13-16, 2002, Convention Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
                     sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

                                CALL FOR PAPERS

Objectives

   The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems aims to bring together
   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.

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
     * Distributed objects and middleware systems
     * Internet-based systems and applications
     * Mobile and ubiquitous computing
     * Grid computing
     * Distributed multimedia systems Electronic commerce and enabling
       technologies
     * Distributed workflow and enterprise management systems
     * Security and high confidence systems
     * Analytical or experimental evaluations of reliable distributed
       systems
     * Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms
     * Formal methods and foundations for reliable distributed computing

Important Dates

     * Submission deadline: April 5, 2002
     * Author notification: June 15, 2002

Submission Guideline

   All submissions must be written in English and printed using at least
   11-point size, and double-spaced. Regular papers may not exceed 20
   double-spaced. Each paper should include, on a cover page, the title,
   the authors, and their affiliations, the contact author and her/his
   email address, an abstract, a list of keywords. Papers should be
   submitted electronically to eltefaat.shokri@sun.com

Workshops

   The following two workshops will be held on October 13 in conjunction
   with SRDS 2002.
     * International Workshop on Self-Repairing and Self-Configurable
       Distributed Systems
       (Workshop Co-Chairs: X. Defago and F. Pedone)
     * International Workshop on Reliable Peer-to-Peer Distributed
       Systems
       (Workshop Chair: A.-M. Kermarrec)

   Call-For-Papers for the workshops will be available on this page.

    Symposium Chair

   Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan

    Program Co-Chairs

   Eltefaat Shokri, Sun Microsystems, USA
   Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
   Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan

    Program Committee

   O. Babaoglu, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
   F. Bastani, UT Dallas, USA
   A. Bondavalli, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
   M. Castro, Microsoft Research, UK
   J. Dugan, Univ. of Virginia, USA
   J.-C. Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
   H. Fauconnier, Univ. of Paris VII, France
   R. Friedman, Technion Haifa, Israel
   K. Fuchs, Purdue University, USA
   S. Fujita, Hiroshima Univ., Japan
   F. Gaertner, Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
   F. Herrmann, Sun Microsystems, USA
   S.-T. Huang, National Central Univ., Taiwan
   M. Inoue, Nara Ins. of Science and Tech., Japan
   Y. Kihara, NTT Laboratories, Japan
   S. Kutten, Technion, Israel
   C. Meadows, Naval Research Lab., USA
   M. Mock, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
   L. Moser, UCSB, USA
   M. Raynal, IRISA, Rennes, France
   L. Rodrigues, Univ. of Lisboa, Portugal
   S. Shrivastava, Univ. of Newcastle, UK
   M. Singhal Univ. of Kentucky, USA
   K. Tanaka, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
   A. Tripathi, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
   N. F. Tzeng Univ. of Louisiana, USA
   Sh. Upadhyaya, SUNY Buffalo, USA
   P. Verissimo, Univ. of Lisboa, Portugal
   M. Yamashita, Kyushu Univ., Japan
   T. Yoneda, Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan
   H. Y. Youn, Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Korea

    Publication Chair

   S. Kusumoto, Osaka Univ., Japan

    Publicity Chair

   M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan

    Publicity Committee

   J. Xu, University of Durham, UK
   J. Arlat, LAAS-CNRS, France
   J. Fraga, Univ. Federal Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Finance Chair

   Y. Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan

    Registration Chair

   M. Nakamura, Osaka University, Japan

    Local Arrangement Chair

   T. Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan

    TC Liaison

   Edgar Nett, Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany