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Scope
The name of WDAG was changed to DISC to reflect the expansion of WDAG from
a workshop to a symposium, and the expansion of its area of interest.
DISC builds on, and expands, the tradition of WDAG, as a truly
international symposium on all aspects of distributed computing. It is
aimed to reflect the exciting and rapid developments in this field,
and to help lead its continuesexploration.
Research contributions to the theory, practice, design, and analysis of
distributed systems and networks, and of their algorithms, are
solicited.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- communication networks-algorithms, protocols,
and architectures
- concurrency control
- design and analysis of distributed systems
- distributed algorithms, complexity
- distributed applications, databases, debugging,
information retrieval, management, operating systems
- electronic commerce
- fault tolerance and self stabilization
- groupware and clusters
- Internet and WWW
- knowledge in distributed systems
- mobile and wireless computing
- multiprocessors
- privacy and security
- quality of service
- replication and consistency
- semantics, specification and verification
- shared memory
- software agents
- synchrony, asynchrony, and real-time
Best Student Paper Award
Papers authored or coauthored by a student are eligible to be
candidates for the best student paper award, provided that the
student's contribution is significant. The award includes a modest
monetary award. The program committee may decline to give the
award, or may split it.
Abstract format
Contributions to DISC98 (formerly WDAG) must report original
research, submitted exclusively to this symposium. (It is hoped that
this will be a basis for a paper that can later appear in a scientific
journal.) A submission should be in the form of an extended abstract
in English that provides sufficient detail to allow the Program
Committee to assess its merits. The first page of the extended
abstract must include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of
authors, a brief abstract, five (5) keywords, and the contact author's
name, address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address, if
available. If the paper qualifies as a candidate for the best student
paper award (see below) this too is to be mentioned explicitly on the
first page, together with the name of the student author that is the
candidate for the award. This will be interpreted as an implicit
statement of the other authors that the student's contribution is
significant. The extended abstract should include appropriate
citations and comparisons to related work. It is recommended that
each submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem or
issue being addressed, a summary of the main results, a brief
statement of the key ideas, and a brief justification of the
significance and relevance of the results to the symposium, all
tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work,
directed to the specialist, should follow.
Submitted abstracts should not exceed 12 double-space pages on
letter-size paper using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins
(roughly 4800 words). If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion
of the Program Committee. Extended abstracts deviating
significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits.
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