CALL FOR PAPERS

Extended Deadline September 15 2002

6th International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems

OPODIS'02

December 11-13, 2002, Reims, France

Invited Speakers

T. Bolognesi (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
M. Cosnard (Inria Sophia Antipolis)
L. Lamport (Microsoft, San Fransisco, USA)

Program co-Chairs

A. Bui (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
H. Fouchal (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Aims and Scopes of the Conference

The 6th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on Distributed Computing among researchers from around the world.

This conference is the sixth in a series of annual conferences. The program committee is soliciting research contributions to the design, analysis theory and specification of Distributed Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

Distributed Systems: concepts and design Distributed
Algorithms Concurrency Control and Synchronization
Self-stabilization, Reliability and Fault-Tolerance Performance
Analysis and Distributed Complexity Networks
Security, Routing and Communication Techniques Cooperative Distributed Information
Systems Distributed computing issues in LANs, WANs and the Internet Mobile
Computing Fundamental topics for distributed computing
Formal Techniques
GRID Computing

Program Committee

J. Beauquier (Univ. of Paris 11, France)
G. Bernard (INT, Evry, France)
M. Bui (Univ. of Paris 8, France)
O. Carvalho (Univ. Fed. Minas Geras, Brazil)
J. Carlier (Univ. of Compiègne, France)
R. Castanet (Univ. of Bordeaux, France)
R. Gomez-Cardenas(CEM-ITESM, Mexico)
S.K. Das (Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA)
A.K. Datta (Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas, USA)
K. Drira (LAAS, Toulouse, France)
T. Higashino (Osaka Univ., Japan)
I. Lavallée (Univ. of Paris 8, France)
R.Y. Lee (Central Michigan Univ. , USA)
T. Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
D. Mery (Univ. of Nancy, France)
J.F. Myoupo (Univ. of Amiens, France)
Y. Paker (Queen Mary Univ., UK)
M. Papatriantafilou (Univ. of Göteborg, Sweden)
I.D. Scherson (Univ. of California at Irvine, USA)
A. Shvartsman (Univ. of Connecticut / MIT, USA)
N. Santoro (Carleton Univ. Canada)
P. Tsigas (Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden)
V. Villain (Univ. of Amiens, France)

Organizing Committee

O. Flauzac (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
M. Krajecki (Univ. Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Paper Submission

Submitted papers must be written in english and should not exceed 12 pages using 11-point font and reasonable margins, including figures, tables and references. First page, must include the title of the paper, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, fax number, email, address for correspondence, up to 5 keywords and an abstract of no more 250 words. Each paper will receive a minimum of two reviews from Program Committee members and some external reviewers. Authors should submit their paper electronically in printable postscript format or in PDF format at :

opodis02@univ-reims.fr Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors.

For any further information, please contact us at : opodis02@univ-reims.fr

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline : September 15, 2002

Notification of Acceptance : October 15, 2002

Early registration : October 30, 2002

Camera Ready Papers Due : November 15, 2002

Conference: December 11-13, 2002