CFP OPODIS 08 Extended Deadline (July 21th)

/*Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP*/

Call for Papers — OPODIS 2008

12th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems
December 15-18, 2008, Luxor, Egypt (Sheraton Hotel)
http://www.opodis.net
-------------------------------------------
Important dates

Abstract Submission Deadline : JULY 15th

Full version Submission Deadline : JULY 21th

Acceptance notification: September 15, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: September 29, 2008

-------------------------------------------
Scope.

OPODIS is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-theart
knowledge on distributed computing and systems among researchers
from around the world. This conference is the 12th in
a series of annual conferences. Following the tradition of the previous
events, its program will be composed of high-quality contributed
and invited papers.
The program committee is soliciting original and significant research
contributions to the theory, specification, design and implementation
of distributed systems, including:
- communication and synchronization protocols
- distributed algorithms, multiprocessor algorithms
- distributed cooperative computing
- embedded systems
- fault-tolerance, reliability, availability
- grid and cluster computing
- location- and context-aware systems
- mobile agents and autonomous robots
- mobile computing and networks
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks
- complexity and lower bounds
- performance analysis of distributed systems
- real-time systems
- security issues in distributed computing and systems
- sensor networks: theory and practice
- specification and verification of distributed systems
- testing and experimentation with distributed systems

Submission.
Submitted papers must be written in English and must not exceed 12
letter-size 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, an abstract,
address for correspondence, fax number, email, and a list of keywords.
The papers must be submitted electronically per instructions at www.opodis.net

. Authors who cannot submit electronically must contact the OPODIS
chairs at contact@opodis.net.

Publication.
The selection of contributions to be presented at
the conference and published in the proceedings will be based on
peer-review by the Programme Committee. The proceedings volume
will be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. It is required that each accepted paper be
presented at the conference by one of its authors. Authors of accepted
papers are required to submit the final, camera-ready versions
of their papers (in LNCS format, see authors instructions
at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), including an
electronic version as specified in the authors' instructions.
-------------------------------------------

General Chair
Alain Bui, U. of Reims, FR

Program co-Chairs
Theodore P. Baker, Florida State U., US
Sebastien Tixeuil, U. of Paris 6, FR

Program Committee

James Anderson, U. of North Carolina, US
Bjorn Andersson, ISEP-IPP, PT
Alan Burns, U. of York, UK
Andrea Clementi, U. of Roma, IT
Liliana Cucu, INPL Nancy, FR
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., IL
Khaled El-Fakih , American U. of Sharjah, UAE
Pascal Felber, U. of Neuchatel, CH
Paola Flocchini, U. of Ottawa, CA
Gerhard Fohler, U. of Kaiserslautern, DE
Felix Freiling, U. of Manheim, DE
Mohamed Gouda, U. of Texas, US
Fabiola Greve, UFBA, BR
Isabelle Gu´erin-Lassous, U. of Lyon I, FR
Ted Herman, U. of Iowa, US
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, FR
Rastislav Kralovic, Comenius U., SK
Maged Michael, IBM, US
Bernard Mans, Macquarie U., AU
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, U. of Osaka, JP
Rolf H. Mohring, TU Berlin, DE
Mohamed Mosbah, U. of Bordeaux 1, FR
Emmanuelle Lebhar, CNRS/U. of Paris 7, FR
Jane W. S. Liu, Academic Sinica, Taipei, TW
Steve Liu, Texas A&M U., USA
Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers U. of Technology, SE
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv U., IL
Andre Shiper, EPFL, CH
Raj Rajkumar, CMU, US
Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, MX
Sam Toueg, Univ. of Toronto, CA
Eduardo Tovar, ISEP-IPP, PT
Koichi Wada, Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP

Publicity Chair

Thibault Bernard, U. of Reims, FR

Organizing Committee

Celine Butelle, U. of Paris 8 , FR