Deadline for for full paper submissions:  extended to June 22, 2003
Deadline for work-in-progress papers: extended to June 22, 2003
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003
Final versions: September 1, 2003
Conference dates : 19 to 21 November 2003
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                               Call for papers

                 4th International IFIP Working Conference on

       Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2003)

                  19-21 November 2003, Paris, France

                to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03
      International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based
                  Distributed Applications Systems

                      http://fedconf.enst.fr/


           A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and
             a call for workshops will be issued separately.


Objectives and Scope
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The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of
distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a
unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development,
implementation and operation of  distributed applications in complex IT
environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the
evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and
platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed
applications.

DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform
service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new
approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed
computing.

DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper
sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are
also encouraged.


Conference themes
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In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for
reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in
addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original
unpublished papers addressing the following topics:

- new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration
   and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA
   Components, EJB, .NET),
- modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and
   adaptive applications,
- support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour
   in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET,
   WebServices),
- integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making,
- application environments that exploit characteristics of specific
   technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless),
- issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration,
- semantic interoperability and semantic web services.

Submissions
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DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for:
- Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000
   words);
- Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results,
   in no more than 5 pages.

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the
Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer
Verlag in the LNCS series.
A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops
will be issued separately.

Submission method:
Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submission dates:
- Deadline for for full paper submissions:  extended to June 22, 2003
- Deadline for work-in-progress papers: extended to June 22, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003
- Final versions: September 1, 2003
- Conference dates : 19 to 21 November 2003


Conference Organisers
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General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA)
Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin)
Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST)
PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA)


Program Committee
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M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA
N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece
S.Baker, IONA, Ireland
Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
R.Campbell, UIUC, USA
N.Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA
F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany
P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA.
J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
E.Jul, DIKU,  Denmark
H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany
F.Kordon, LIP6, France
S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France
H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany
L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA
P.Linington, University of Kent, UK
C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany
P.Merle, INRIA, France
G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
E.Najm, ENST, France
L.Pautet, ENST, France
K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia
A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany
S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK
J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France