Call for Papers 19th International Symposium on Distributed Computing DISC 2005 Krakow, Poland, September 25-29, 2005. IMPORTANT DATES # Submission Deadline: May 8, 2005, 12PM (EST, UTC-5hours) # Acceptance Notification: July 5, 2005 # Camera ready copy due: July 28, 2005 DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of distributed computing. DISC 2005 is organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). SCOPE Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: # distributed algorithms and their complexity # fault-tolerance of distributed systems # multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms # distributed operating systems # distributed computing issues on - the Internet - the Web - small worlds # distributed systems management # distributed applications such as: - peer-to-peer networks - databases - mobile agents # communication network architectures and protocols # distributed programing languages # specification, semantics, and verification of distributed systems # cryptographic and security protocols for distributed systems # consistency conditions and synchronization REGULAR PAPERS AND BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS Regular papers must present original work not previously published, and not concurrently submitted elsewhere for publication (conference or journal). Ongoing work for which full papers are not ready yet or recent results published elsewhere are suitable for submission as brief announcements. It is hoped that researchers will use the brief announcement track to quickly draw the attention of the community to their experiences, insights and results from ongoing distributed computing research and projects. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION The symposium program lists all accepted papers--regular and brief announcements. Brief Announcements get 5 to 10 minutes each, and 2 pages in the proceedings. Regular Papers get 25 minutes each, and 15 pages in the proceedings. The symposium proceedings will include accepted Regular Papers and Brief Announcements, 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 ACM - Springer Verlag 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: # 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 regular submission's extended abstract should be no longer than 4500 words and not exceed 10 pages 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. Alternatively, the submissions can be formatted according to the LNCS style, in which case the regular submissions should be no longer than 15 pages. A brief announcement's extended abstract should not exceed 2 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 abstracts 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 will be available on http://www.disc-conference.org/. Authors who cannot submit electronically must submit 15 printed copies of their paper to the DISC program chair at the following address: Pierre Fraigniaud, LRI, bat 490 Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France Email: Pierre.Fraigniaud@lri.fr Phone:+33 169 156 906 Authors submitting hard copies should also send an e-mail to the program chair indicating that they are submitting in this manner. 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 Dariusz Kowalski (Institut of Informatics, Warsaw University). PROGRAM CHAIR Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS, University of Paris Sud) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lenore Cowen (Tufts University) Panagiota Fatourou (University of Ioannina) Hugues Fauconnier (University of Paris VII) Roy Friedman (Technion) Yuh-Jzer Joung (National Taiwan University) Dariusz Kowalski (Warsaw University) Victor Luchangco (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Maged Michael (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) David Peleg (Weizmann Institute) Greg Plaxton (University of Texas at Austin) Sergio Rajsbaum (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Sylvia Ratnasamy (Intel Research Laboratory) Nicola Santoro (Carleton University) Sebastiano Vigna (University of Milano) Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M University) STEERING COMMITTEE Alex Shvartsman, chair (University of Connecticut) Paul Vitanyi, vice-chair (CWI and University of Amsterdam) Hagit Attiya (Technion) Faith Fich (University of Toronto) Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS, University of Paris Sud) Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL) Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)