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*                             ICDCS 2004                             *
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* THE 24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS *
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*                http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04               *
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*                           March 23-26, 2004                        *
*                              Tokyo, Japan                          *
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*                Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society              *
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*         the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)         *
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Workshop Proposal.......May 31, 2003
Paper Submission........August 1, 2003
Author Notification.....October 31, 2003
Final Manuscript Due....December 20, 2003

PURPOSE AND SCOPE
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ICDCS provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia,
industry, and government 
to present and discuss their latest research findings on a broad array
of topics in 
distributed computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are
not limited to:

  - Agents and Mobile Code   - Distributed Data Management
  - Distributed Algorithms   - Distributed Operating Systems
  - Middleware               - Internet Computing and Applications
  - Multimedia Systems       - Peer-to-Peer Communication
  - Network Protocols        - Real-time and Embedded Systems
  - Ubiquitous Computing     - Wireless Communication and Networks
  - Security and Fault Tolerant Systems

PAPER SUBMISSION
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All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or
PostScript format. 
Please see the conference web page for instructions.

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04 
http://www.icdcs2004.org 

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
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Six to eight workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. 
Workshop proposals should be submitted to Workshops Co-chair, Makoto
Takizawa 
at taki@takilab.k.denkidai.ac.jp or Nian Feng Tzeng at
tzeng@cacs.louisiana.edu.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Program Co-Chairs....... Ten H. Lai - Ohio State University, USA
                         Kenichi Okada - Keio University, Japan 

Program Vice Chairs: 
Agents and Mobile Code.. Toyoaki Nishida - Univ. of Tokyo, Japan 
Distributed Algorithms.. Toshimitsu Masuzawa - Osaka Univ., Japan 
Distributed Data Mgmt... Ambuj Singh - U of Calif. Santa Barbara, USA 
Distributed OS.......... Marvin Theimer - MS Research, USA 
Internet Comput/Appli... Santosh Shrivastava - U of Newcastle, UK 
Middleware.............. Jean Bacon - University of Cambridge, UK 
Multimedia Systems...... Wuchi Feng - Oregon Grad. Inst., USA 
Network Protocols....... Teruo Higashino - Osaka Univ., Japan 
RT and Embedded Sys..... Kwei-Jay Lin - U of Calif. Irvine, USA 
P2P Communication....... Xiaodong Zhang - NSF/William & Mary, USA 
Security and FT Sys..... Anish Arora - Ohio State University, USA 
Ubiquitous Computing.... Hideyuki Tokuda - Keio University, Japan 
Wireless Comm/Networks.. Yu-chee Tseng - Nat'l Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan

(Full program committee available at conference web site.)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Honorary General Chairs. Shoichi Noguchi - SFAIS, Japan
                         Iwao Toda - Fujitsu Labs, Japan 
General Co-Chairs....... Ming T. Liu - Ohio State University, USA
                         Yutaka Matsushita - Tokyo U of Tech., Japan 
Workshops Co-Chairs..... Nien Feng Tzeng - U of LA Lafayette, USA
                         Makoto Takizawa - Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan 
Awards Co-Chairs........ Michel Raynal - IRISA, France
                         Norio Shiratori - Tohoku University, Japan 
International Liaison... Wen-Tsuen Chen - Nat'l Tsing-Hau U, Taiwan
                         Michael Papazoglow, U Til., The Netherlands
                         Joseph Urban - Arizona State Univ., USA 
Publicity Co-Chairs..... Bernd Kraemer - FernUniv. Hagen, Germany
                         Arjan Durresi, Ohio State University, USA
                         Masayuki Numao, IBM Japan, Japan
                         Weijia Jia, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China 
Publication Co-Chairs... Dong Xuan - Ohio State University, USA
                         Akira Idoue - KDDI, Japan
Treasurer Chair......... Toru Hoshi - Tokyo Univ. of Tech., Japan 
Registration Chair...... Takanori Ugai - Fujitsu Lab., Japan 
Organization Chair...... Hiroshi Miyabe, NTT, Japan 
Local Arrangements Chair Kenichi Kitami - Tokyo Univ. of Tech., Japan 
TCDP Chair.............. Chita Das - Penn. State Univ., USA


For further information - please contact: 
Ten H. Lai at lai@cis.ohio-state.edu, or 
Kenichi Okada at okada@ics.keio.ac.jp