SDNE'96
Call for Papers
The Third International Workshop on
Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE'96)
June 3-4, 1996
Macau
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
About SDNE'96
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The Third International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked
Environments (SDNE'96) is to be held in Macau in June 1996. SDNE'96 is
organized in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS-16) in Hong Kong May 27-30, 1996.
SDNE workshops augment the ICDCS program by focusing on global, network-based
services and addressing the emerging area of service engineering, building on
international standards such as ANSA, ODP, DCE, CORBA, and TINA. These layers
are the middleware that glue applications to the distributed environment,
insulating them from location dependencies where desirable, alerting them to
location information where necessary. Usability and usefulness of network
services depends upon the kind and quality of software services provided to
the users, availability of information on existing resources, ease of
developing new applications, reliability, and security.
SDNE'96 builds on the success of the First and Second International Workshops
on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE'94, Prague, Czech
Republic; SDNE'95, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada). The international
flavor of the workshop reflects the scope and diversity of worldwide
internetworking. Past SDNE workshops have had representation from North
and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.
About Macau:
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Macau is a Portuguese territory located in the south of China on the West bank
of the Pearl River estuary, 64 kilometers from Hong Kong. Macau features a
wealth of fascinating and historical monuments, museums, fortresses, and
exciting tourist activities, packed into 16 square km.
Call for Papers:
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The workshop seeks original papers on topics related to providing services to
applications, ranging from web search engines to RPC to algorithms for
multicast, and beyond. Past SDNE sessions have been devoted to mobile
services, collaboration, Internet information services, programming models for
service engineering, and many others.
The workshop is targeted to be a forum for free flow of ideas. Reports on
experimental work are particularly welcome. Presentations of new ideas and
work in progress are also invited.
The SDNE workshop seeks submissions in the following areas:
- Protocols and abstractions for service engineering, management, brokerage.
- Case studies of service creation and service deployment.
- Internet services (archie, gopher, netfind, Prospero, WAIS, WWW, etc.).
- Mobile computing and services for mobile users.
- Client/server programming, RPCs, and service strategies.
- Security, accounting, and management services.
- Using objects for distributed services.
- Persistence and concurrency in distributed services.
- DCE, CORBA, and ANSAware-based services.
- Interworking of heterogeneous services.
- Structure, usability, and performance of distributed services.
- Quality of service aspects of networked environments.
- Information retrieval/location services for large scale networks.
- Multicast and scalable services.
- Naming and directory services.
- Electronic commerce protocols and services.
- Broadband services to homes and telecommuters.
Submission Guidelines:
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You are invited to submit a full paper in English for presentation at the
SDNE'96. There will be an eight page limit on published papers; submitted
papers should be about that length. All submissions will be reviewed by the
Program Committee. Papers accepted for presentation at SDNE'96 will be
included in the proceedings distributed at the workshop and made available
from IEEE.
Electronic submission in PostScript is strongly encouraged. Please include an
abstract and a cover page with address, telephone, FAX and email of the
primary contact person. Submissions should be sent to:
Peter Honeyman
Center for Information Technology Integration
University of Michigan
519 W. William St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4943 USA
EMail: sdne96@citi.umich.edu
Tel : +1 313 763 4413
Fax : +1 313 763 4434
Further information may also be obtained from the above address. This call is
available at:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/sdne.html
Important dates:
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Submissions due : Feb 1, 1996
Notification by : March 1, 1996
Full papers due by: April 8, 1996
Workshop convenes : June 3-4, 1996
Organization:
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General Chair:
Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK.
Program Chair:
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, USA.
Local Arrangements Chair:
Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, Macau.
Program Committee:
- Jean Bacon, Cambridge University, UK
- Ashley Beitz, DSTC, Australia
- Mark E. Crovella, Boston University, USA
- David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
- Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Markus Endler, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Jan Janecek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
- Thomas Koch, University of Hagen, Germany
- Rodger Lea, Sony Corporation, Japan
- Gerald Neufeld, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Stephen Pink, SICS, Sweden
- Herman Rao, AT&T Bell Labs, USA
- John Rosenberg, University of Sydney, Australia
- Rich Salz, OSF, USA
- Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
- Ellen Siegel, Sun Microsystems, USA
- Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK
- Paulo Verissimo, INESC, Portugal