Call for Papers
                        16th International Symposium on
                       DIStributed Computing (DISC 2002)
                     October 28-30, 2002, Toulouse, France
                        http://www.enseeiht.fr/~disc02

Important dates:
    Regular submissions       17:59 GMT, April 19, 2002 (extended)
    Brief announcements       17:59 GMT, April 19, 2002 (extended)
    Acceptance notification   June 24, 2002
    Camera-ready copy due     July 30, 2002

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
  * consistency conditions and synchronization
  * multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms
  * cryptographic and security protocols
  * 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

BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT TRACK: 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.
The symposium program lists all accepted papers­regular and brief an-
nouncements. Brief Announcements are presented at the symposium in a rump
session and get 5 to 10 minutes each as time permits. 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. Accepted brief announcements will be published in a
Technical Report by the host university, ENSEEIHT/INPT.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD: A paper is eligible for the best student paper award
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.

ABSTRACT 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 should include:
    (1) title,
    (2) authors and affiliations,
    (3) postal and email address of contact author, and
    (4) an abstract of the work in a few lines.
Regular submissions only must indicate
    (5) whether the submission should be considered for the best student
        paper award, and
    (6) whether the submission should be considered for both regular and
        brief announcement tracks.

A regular submission's extended abstract should be no longer than 5000 words
and not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font
and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, graphs,
and bibliography). Additional necessary details may be included in a clearly
marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program
committee. 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 definitely 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 statement of the key
ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers
electronically at

        http://sigact.csci.unt.edu/~disc2002/DISC2002.html (extended abstracts)
 or     http://sigact.csci.unt.edu/~disc02b/DISC02b.html (brief announcements).

Authors who cannot submit electronically must submit a printed copy to the
DISC program chair at the following address:

        Dahlia Malkhi,
        School of Computer Science and Engineering,
        The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
        Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL.
        Email: dalia@cs.huji.ac.il
        Phone: +972-2-658-4328 (Israel).

Authors submitting hard copies should also send an e-mail to the program chair
indicating that they are submitting in this manner.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Gustavo Alonso          ETH Zurich
Roberto Baldoni         U. of Rome
Dave Bakken             Washington State U.
Paul Ezhilchelvan       U. of Newcastle
Christof Fetzer         AT&T Labs-research
Faith Fich              U. of Toronto
Roy Friedman            Technion
Juan A. Garay           Bell Labs - Lucent Tech.
Yuh-Jzer Joung          National Taiwan U.
Nancy Lynch             MIT
Dahlia Malkhi (chair)   Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
Michael Merritt         AT&T Labs-research
Dan Raz                 Technion
Robbert van Renesse     Cornell U.
Gadi Taubenfeld         Open U. and IDC
Masafumi Yamashita      Kyushu U.

ORGANIZATION COMMITEE:
Mamoun Filali           Institut de
Philippe Mauran         Recherche en
Gerard Padiou (chair)   Informatique de
Philippe Queinnec       Toulouse

POMC: The workshop on Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC) will be co-located
with DISC. Submissions to DISC and POMC are independent. See POMC call for
papers at http://www.utdallas.edu/~ravip/pomc/POMC/POMC.html.