DISC , the International
Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for research
presentations on all facets of distributed computing. The symposium
was called the International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms (WDAG)
from 1985 to 1997. DISC 2004 is organized in cooperation with the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
IMPORTANT DATES
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
distributed algorithms and their complexity fault-tolerance of distributed systems consistency conditions and synchronization multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms cryptographic and security protocols for distributed systems distributed programing languages distributed operating systems distributed computing issues on the Internet and the Web distributed systems management distributed applications such as databases, mobile agents, electronic commerce, and peer-to-peer networks communication network architectures and protocols specification, semantics, and verification of distributed systems
WORKSHOPS
There will be two workshops in conjunction with DISC04
INVITED TALKS
PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION
The symposium program lists all accepted papers--regular and brief
announcements. Brief Announcements get 5 to 10 minutes each and Regular Papers
get 25 minutes each. The symposium proceedings will include only accepted
regular papers and will be published by Springer in its
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.
Extended
and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special
issue of the international journal:
Distributed Computing
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Every submission, regular or brief, should be in English, begin with
a cover page (not a cover letter), and be followed by an extended abstract.
The cover page must include:
A regular submission's extended abstract should be no longer than 4500 words and not exceed 10 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins. (The page limit includes all figures, tables, graphs, and references.) Additional necessary details may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee.title, the names of all authors and their affiliations, contact author's postal address, email address, and telephone number, a brief, one paragraph abstract of the paper, whether the paper is to be considered for the regular track, the brief announcement track, or both, and whether the submission should be considered for the best student paper award.
A brief announcement's extended abstract should not exceed 4 pages using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
It is recommended that the extended abstract begin with a succinct statement
of the problem or the issue being addressed, a summary of the main results
or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement
of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a
non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist,
should follow.
SUBMISSION
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically.
Information about how to submit papers is available on http://disc.epfl.ch/papers/submit/.
Authors who cannot submit electronically must submit a printed copy to
the DISC program chair at the following address:
Rachid Guerraoui,Authors submitting hard copies should also send an e-mail to the program chair indicating that they are submitting in this manner.
EPFL-I&C-LPD,
Bat. IN,
CH-1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland
Email: Rachid.Guerraoui@epfl.ch,
Phone:+41-21.693.52.72
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
A paper is eligible for the best student paper award only if it is
a regular submission, one of its authors is a full-time student at the
time of submission and the student's contribution is significant. The program
committee may split this award or decline to make it.
ORGANIZATION
Paul Vitanyi (Chair) and Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Co-Chair) (Univ of Amsterdam)
PUBLICITY
Lorenzo Alvisi (UT Austin)
Roman Vitenberg (UCSB)
PROGRAM CHAIR
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Mustaque Ahamad (Georgia Tech)
Lorenzo Alvisi (UT Austin)
James Anderson (Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Paul Attie (Northeastern Univ)
Ozalp Babaoglu (Univ of Bologna)
Carole Delporte (Univ of Paris VII)
Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion Univ)
Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS)
Felix Gaertner (Univ of Aachen)
Maurice Herlihy (Brown Univ)
Nancy Lynch (MIT)
Michael Merritt (AT&T)
Achour Mostefaoui (IRISA)
Mike Reiter (CMU)
Robbert van Renesse (Cornell Univ)
Luis Rodrigues (Univ of Lisboa)
Paul Spirakis (CTI and Univ of Patras)
Philippas Tsigas (Chalmers Univ)
Paul Vitanyi (Univ of Amsterdam)
Roman Vitenberg (UCSB)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Hagit Attiya (Technion Univ)
Faith Fich (Univ of Toronto)
Marios Mavronicolas (Univ of Cyprus)
Dahlia Malkhi (Univ of Jerusalem)
Michel Raynal (IRISA)
Alex Shvartsman (Univ of Connecticut and MIT)