COLIN@isnet.inmos.co.uk (05/11/89)
I F I P - W G 10.3 CONCURRENT SYSTEMS
WORKING CONFERENCE
on
DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS
Lyon (France), December 11-13, 1989
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will address recent issues in the implementation and
evaluation of decentralized computer systems. It will be mainly
focused on architectures and programming systems with no central point
of control or communication.
List of topics (not limitative)
Communication networks Formal methods for design and verification
Non shared memory processors Fault tolerance
Distributed operating systems Performance evaluation of parallel systems
Distribution and communication concepts
Hardware and software tradeoffs Applications
Dedicated programming languages Fully scalable systems
Distributed data bases and expert systems
Date and Place
The conference will be held in Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon,
France, on 11-13 December, 1989
Deadlines
Prospective authors should submit five copies of their contribution in
its final form (full paper), to the Chairman of the Scientific
Programme Committee to arrive before 20 June, 1989 at the following
address:
Professor Claude GIRAULT
Laboratoire MASI telefax +(33)-1-43-29-41-96
Universite Paris 6, Tour 65 telex UPMCSIX 200 145 F
4 Place JUSSIEU telephone +(33)-1-43-36-25-25 ext 43-63
F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05, FRANCE electronic mail mcvax!inria!litp!cg
Paper submission
Papers should be no longer than 16 pages. The first page of the paper
should indicate the author's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax
or telex numbers and electronic mail address. It should also contain a
short abstract, some key words and the main topic (of the above list).
A submission letter that contains a commitment to present the paper at
the conference if accepted should accompany the paper. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection of their paper before the end of
September, 1989.
Publication
Copies of the papers will be available at the conference. Camera ready
copies are due at the conference.
The proceedings will be published by North Holland after the
conference, in the series of the WG 10.3 Conferences: Highly parallel
computers, Nice, France, 1986 - Distributed processing, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 1987 - Parallel processing, Pisa, Italy, 1988.
Provisional Scientific Committee
C.GIRAULT (Chairman) Paris, France; J.L.BAER, Seattle, USA; F.
BAIARDI, Pisa, Italy; M.BARTON, Bristol, UK; G.CARLSTEDT, Gotheburg,
Sweden; G.CHIOLA, Torino, Italy; Y.CHU, Maryland, USA; V.CORDONNIER,
Lille, France; M.COSNARD, Lyon, France; E.L.DAGLESS, Bristol, UK;
E.DIRKX, Brussels, Belgium; R.D.DOWSING, Norwich, UK; K.EBCIOGLU, New
York, USA; E.FEUSTEL, Massachussets, USA; W.GILOI, Berlin, FRG;
C.HAMACHER, Toronto, Canada; M.LEGENDI, Budapest, Hungary; E.S.LEE,
Toronto, Canada; R.W.MARCZYNSKI, Warsaw, Poland; K.MEHLHORN,
Saarbrucken, RFG; H.PERROS, Raleigh, USA; R.PUIGJANER, Palma, Spain;
M.RAYNAL, Rennes, France; G.L.REIJNS, Delft, Netherlands; B.SAMANI, New
Jersey, USA; B.SANDERS, Zurich, Switzerland; N.SANTORO, Ottawa, Canada;
O.SPANNIOL, Aachen, FRG; J.TIBERGHIEN, Bruxelles, Belgique;
M.VANNESCHI, Pisa, Italy; C.WHITBY-STREVENS, Bristol, UK.