This year, OPODIS particularly encourages contributions in the fields of real-time systems and wireless networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- OPODIS 2005 9th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems Pisa, Italy, December 12-14, 2005 http://www.di.unipi.it/OPODIS2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPODIS is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on distributed computing and systems among researchers from around the world. Being the 9th conference in a series of annual conferences, it is intended to be a lively meeting, covering many of the aspects in this scientific area. This year, a particular focus will be given to real-time systems and wireless networks. The program committee is soliciting original research contributions to the theory, specifications, design and implementation of distributed systems, including: - communication and synchronization protocols - distributed algorithms, multiprocessor algorithms - distributed collaborative environments - embedded systems - fault-tolerance, reliability, availability - grid and cluster computing - location- and context-aware systems - mobile computing and networks - peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks - performance analysis of distributed algorithms and systems - real-time systems - security issues in distributed computing and systems - sensor networks - specification verification and testing of distributed systems 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. The first page must include the title of the paper, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, fax number, email, address for correspondence, a list of keywords and an abstract. Submitted papers must have original content that has not been previously published in, or under review by, other refereed venues. Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the OPODIS 2005 web page at http://www.di.unipi.it/OPODIS2005. Authors who are unable to submit electronically must contact the program committee co-chairs. Publication The selection of contributions will be based on peer-review by the Program Committee. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. An informal proceedings consisting of the accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. The formal proceedings is planned to be published as a volume in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of accepted papers are required to submit the final, camera-ready versions of their papers after the Conference in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each participant will receive a copy of the final proceedings. Important dates Paper registration deadline: August 17, 2005 Paper submission deadline: August 21, 2005 Acceptance notification: October 10, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: October 30, 2005 Program Committee Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia Luis Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal James Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Co-Chair) Anish Arora, Ohio State University Ted Baker, Florida State University Joffroy Beauquier, Université de Paris Sud, France Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Christian Cachin, IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland Danny Dolev, Hebrew University, Israel Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Panagiota Fatourou, University of Ioannina, Greece Paola Flocchini, Ottawa University, Canada Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Sweden Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Shelby Funk, University of Georgia Mohamed Gouda, The University of Texas at Austin Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technolo Giuseppe Lipari, Scuola Superiore S.Anna Pisa, Italy Giuseppe Prencipe, University of Pisa, Italy Mike Reiter, Carnegie Mellon University Ulrich Schmid, TU Vienna, Austria Alex A. Shvartsman, University of Connecticut Srikanta Tirthapura, Iowa State University Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair) Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University, Japan Organization Committee Thomas Moscibroda, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Publicity) Giuseppe Prencipe, Universita di Pisa, Italy (Chair) Andreas Wetzel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Submissions) Steering Committee Alain Bui, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Marc Bui, Université de Paris 8/EPHE, France Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada Philippas Tsigas, University of Chalmers, Sweden (Chair) Roberto Gomez, CEM-ITESM, Mexico