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|			S I R O C C O    2007                          |
|14th Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity|
|             June 6-8, 2007, Castiglioncello (LI), Italy              | 
|                 http://www.di.unipi.it/SIROCCO2007                   |
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CONFERENCE:
     The Colloquia on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) focus 
on the relationship between computing and communication, i.e., the study of those factors 
that are significant for the computability and the communication complexity of problems and 
on the interplay between structure, knowledge and complexity. The Colloquia provide an 
opportunity to bring together specialists interested in the fundamental principles underlying 
all computing through communication.
SIROCCO prides itself on being a lively venue, which encourages the emergence of new research 
areas (related to distributed computing in a broad sense) and the dissemination of original 
ideas. This is achieved by dedicating ample time for informal discussions and open problem 
sessions in addition to regular conference activities.

SCOPE:
     Original papers are solicited from all those areas where the interplay between complexity 
and communication takes place. In particular from: distributed computing, high-speed networks, 
interconnection networks, mobile computing, optical computing, parallel computing, sensor 
networks, wireless networks, autonomous robots, and related areas. 
     Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): communication complexity, 
distributed algorithms and data structures, information dissemination, mobile agent computing, 
models of communication, network topologies, routing protocols, sense of direction, structural 
properties, selfish computing.
                             
SUBMISSIONS:
     Authors are invited to submit their work via the conference web page 
http://www.di.unipi.it/SIROCCO2007 , in ps or pdf format (not exceeding 12 pages), 
together with an abstract (not exceeding 20 lines) in ascii format.  Authors who are 
unable to submit their work electronically should contact the organizers.  The proceedings 
of the conference are published in the Springer-Verlag LNCS series. No simultaneous submission 
to other conferences with published proceedings is allowed. Selected papers will be invited 
to the special issue of a high quality journal devoted to SIROCCO 2007 (in the past it has 
been with Theoretical Computer Science).

IMPORTANT DATES:
           Deadline for submission:	January 26, 2007
           Notification to authors:	March 2, 2007
           Final version:		March 23, 2007
           Symposium			June 6-8, 2007


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Vincenzo Gervasi, Giuseppe Prencipe.

CONTACT ADDRESS: 
                 Giuseppe Prencipe
                 Dipartimento di Informatica
                 Universita di Pisa
                 Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, 56100, Pisa, Italy
                 Tel: +39 050 2213148
                 Fax: +39 050 2212726
                 Email: sirocco07@di.unipi.it
                 Web: http://www.di.unipi.it/SIROCCO2007

INVITED SPEAKERS: 
         Hans Bodlaender (Utrecht)
         Luisa Gargano (Salerno)
         S. Muthukrishnan (Google)
         Alessandro Panconesi (Rome)

JOINT EVENTS:
SIROCCO 2007 will be co-located with FUN (http://www.di.unipi.it/fun07), June 3-5, 2007, 
and with a meeting of the EU GRAAL (COST 293) action (http://www.cost293.org), June 4-5, 2007.
The sessions of the invited talks will be joined with the GRAAL meetings.

LOCATION:
The conference will be held in the 19th century Pasquini Castle, in the elegant town of 
Castiglioncello, which is one of the most beautiful localities of coastal Leghorn. It is 
located at the start of "Costa degli Etruschi" (the Etruscan Coast), and is one of its most 
desired destinations (http://www.rivieratoscana.com/en/ct/riviera/castiglioncello.asp). 
Castiglioncello is a panoramic view point, with thriving pine forests and spectacular rocks.

STEERING COMMITTEE:
     Paola Flocchini (Ottawa)			Andrzej Pelc (Hull) 
     Pierre Fraigniaud} (CNRS & Paris, Chair)	David Peleg (Weizmann)
     Leszek Gasieniec (Liverpool)		Giuseppe Prencipe (Pisa)  
     Lefteris Kirousis (Patras)			Michel Raynal (IRISA, Rennes)
     Rastislav Kralovic (Bratislava)		Nicola Santoro (Carleton)
     Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)		Paul Spirakis (CTI & Patras) 
     Danny Krizanc (Wesleyan)			Shmuel Zaks (Technion)
     Bernard Mans (Macquarie) 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
     Christoph Ambuhl (Liverpool)	Giuseppe Prencipe (Pisa, co-Chair)    
     Ioannis Caragiannis (Patras)	Guido Proietti (L'Aquila)    
     Lenka Carr-Motyckova (Olomouc)	Andrzej Proskurowski (Oregon)   
     Bogdan Chlebus, (Denver)		Geppino Pucci (Padova)
     Thomas Erlebach (Leicester)	Tomasz Radzik (London) 
     Rastislav Kralovic (Bratislava)	Sergio Rajsbaum (Mexico City) 
     Evangelos Kranakis (Ottawa)	Michel Raynal (IRISA, Rennes)
     Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht)		Tami Tamir (Herzliya)
     Euripides Markou (McMaster)	Savio Tse (Bilkent) 
     Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka)	Peter Widmayer (Zurich)                               
     Yves  Metivier (Bordeaux)		Shmuel Zaks (Technion, co-Chair)