arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (07/19/85)
From: Flaviu Cristian <flaviu%ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
The organizing committee of the 16th International
Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing would appreciate
if you could broadcast to the sites on the Arpanet and CSnet
the following call for papers:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
FTCS16
THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM ON FAULT-TOLERANT
COMPUTING
VIENNA, AUSTRIA JULY 1-3, 1986
FTCS is the conference on fault tolerant computing systems. It
encompasses all aspects of specifying, designing, modeling, imple-
menting, testing, diagnosing and evaluating dependable and fault
tolerant computing systems and their components. In addition to
the established fields of fault tolerance particular emphasis is
placed on papers relating to practical experience with real time
systems, switching systems and transaction systems as well as the
application of artificial intelligence techniques to the solution
of problems in fault tolerance.
Papers relating to the following areas are invited:
fault-tolerant architectures, fault-tolerance in distributed systems
and interconnection networks, artificial Intelligence for diagnosis
and maintenance, reliable synchronization, consensus and interprocess
communication in distributed systems, hardware/software tradeoffs in
the design of fault-tolerant systems, design diversity in software
and VLSI, robust programs and data structures, exception handling, recon-
figuration and restart, testing techniques, coverage and test tools
for VLSI components and systems, fault-tolerance aspects of VLSI and
WSI, modeling, verification and experimental evaluation of fault-
tolerant systems, application of fault-tolerance techniques (robotics,
pattern recognition, knowledge based systems etc.), reliability and
safety in real time systems, availability of transaction systems and
electronic switching systems.
Information for Authors:
An abstract of the paper including up to five keywords should be
submitted before October 25, 1985. Submit 6 copies of the paper
(double spaced) before the submission deadline, November 25, 1985.
Papers should be no longer than 5000 words. The first page of each
paper must include the following information: title, the author's
name, affiliations, complete mailing address, telephone number and
electronic mail address where applicable, a maximum 150-words ab-
stract of the paper and up to five keywords (important for the
correct classification of the paper). If there are multiple authors,
please indicate who will present the paper at FTCS-16 if the paper
is accepted. The first page should also indicate that the papers
has been cleared through the author's affiliations. The conference
language is English only.
The general chairman for this symposium is Herman Kopetz, TU Vienna,
Austria. The Program Chairman is Mario Dal Cin, Univ. Tuebingen.
The program committee consists of:
J. A. Abraham (USA) V. K. Agraval (Canada)
T. Anderson (GB) A. Avizienis (USA)
J. Bartlett (USA) W. C. Carter (USA)
F. Cristian (USA) K. E. Grosspietsch (FRG)
J. Hlavicka (CSSR) R. Iyer (USA)
K. H. Kim (USA) G. Le Lann (France)
B. Littlewood (GB) R. Maxion (USA)
D. Morgan (USA) S. Naito (Japan)
B. E. Ossfeldt (Sweden) D. Powell (France)
L. Simoncini (Italy) L. Svobodova (Switzerl.)
Y. Tohma (Japan) K. Trivedi (USA)
U. Voges (FRG) J. Wensley (USA)
Y. W. Yang (China)