piotr@alberta (Piotr Rudnicki) (12/13/88)
CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ************* * PODC'89 * ************* August 14-16, 1989 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 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: - 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 - Cryptography and security Important dates: Jan. 30, 1989 Abstracts due Apr. 1, 1989 Acceptance notification May 15, 1989 Camera-ready version due Please send 4 copies of a detailed abstract (not the complete paper), with the address, e-mail address, and telephone number, to the Program Chair: Michael Merritt AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 3D-458 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 U.S.A. e-mail: allegra!mischu The abstract must provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper and should include appropriate references to and comparisons with literature. 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, all suitable for a non-specialist. 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 are essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they are encouraged to include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Abstracts conforming to the guidelines will be considered by the committee if they are postmarked by the deadline of January 30th, 1989, and are received within a reasonable time thereafter. The Program Committee: Yehuda Afek, AT&T and Tel Aviv University Baruch Awerbuch, MIT Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon Cynthia Dwork, IBM Michael Fischer, Yale University Mohamed Gouda, Univ. of Texas at Austin Maurice Herlihy, Carnegie Mellon Michael Merritt, AT&T David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel Charles Rackoff, University of Toronto Peter Weinberger, AT&T Pierre Wolper, University of Liege, Belgium Conference Chair: Piotr Rudnicki, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, (piotr@alberta.UUCP) Publicity Chair: M. Tamer Ozsu, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, (ozsu@alberta.UUCP)