[news.announce.conferences] CFP: ACM Principles of Distributed Computing '88

jxu@yetti.UUCP (J. Xu) (10/15/87)

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                     Seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on
                      Principles of Distributed Computing
                                    (PODC88)
                            Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                               August 15-17, 1988


   Original research contributions are sought that address fundamental issues
   in  the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems.  Topics
   of interest include, but are not limited  to,  the  following  aspects  of
   concurrent and distributed systems:

   *  Principles of distributed computation derived from
      practical experience with working systems
   *  Algorithms and complexity Specification, semantics,
      and verification
   *  Programming languages and programming language constructs
   *  Fault tolerance

   Important Dates:

   Jan. 15, 1987: Abstracts due.
   Apr.  1, 1987: Authors informed of acceptance or rejection.
   May  15, 1987: A final copy of each accepted paper due, typed
                  on special forms for inclusion in the conference
                  proceedings.

   Please send twelve copies of a detailed abstract (not the complete paper),
   with  the address, telephone number, and "net address" (if available) of a
   contact author on the cover page, to the Program Chair:

                                  Danny Dolev
                          K53 Almaden Research Center
                                  IBM Research
                                 650 Harry Road
                            San Jose, CA 95120-6099
                      dolev@almvma.bitnet or dolev@ibm.com

   The abstract must provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee
   to  assess  the  merits  of  the  paper  and  should  include  appropriate
   references to and comparisons with extant work.  It  is  recommended  that
   each  submission begin with a succinct statement of the problem, a summary
   of the main results, and a  brief  explanation  of  the  significance  and
   relevance  to  the  conference's  topic  of  the  work, all suitable for a
   nonspecialist.   Technical  development  of  the  work,  directed  to  the
   specialist,  should  follow.   A  limit of 10 typed double-spaced pages is
   placed on submissions.  If the authors believe that more details essential
   to  prove  the  main  claims of the paper, then they may include a clearly
   marked appendix that will  be  read  at  the  discretion  of  the  Program
   Committee.

   Abstracts that deviate significantly from these guidelines, risk rejection
   without  consideration  of  their  merits.   Also,  abstracts that are not
   postmarked by the Jan.  15th deadline will not be considered.

   Conference Chair: Eshrat Arjomandi, York University
                     CS100002@YUSOL or utzoo!yetti!eshrat

   Publicity Chair:  Jia Xu, York University
                     utzoo!yetti!jxu

   The Program Committee:

   Krzysztof Apt   -CWI, Holland&Austin    Alan Demers     -XEROX PARC
   Danny Dolev     -Hebrew U.&IBM ARC      Cyntia Dwork    -IBM ARC
   Michael Fischer -Yale                   Jim Gray        -Tandem
   Richard Ladner  -Seatle                 Michael Merritt -AT&T
   David Peleg     -Stanford               Ken Sevcik      -Toronto
   Pierre Wolper   -Liege, Belgium         Shmuel Zakes    -Technion, Israel
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