[Beowulf] CFP: MDC'05

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Call for Papers
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The 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'05)
(http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~mdc05)

In conjunction with 
  the 25th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05), 
  Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 5-10, 2005.

With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology, research 
in distributed computing is beginning to extend its scope to address 
problems relevant to mobile environments.  Mobile distributed computing 
has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice 
toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions 
using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to 
enable the sharing of distributed resources/services and to facilitate 
remote collaborations while people work away from the fixed, wired facilities.

MDC'05 is the third in series.  Following the success of the first 
two workshops MDC'03 in Rhode Island, USA and MDC'04 in Tokyo, Japan, 
MDC'05 provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and 
industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and 
research results about all aspects of mobile distributed computing. 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
 - Distributed algorithms for communication, synchronization and 
   coordination in mobile computing environments
 - Networking protocols for mobile distributed computing
 - Mobile codes and agents 
 - Environments, middleware and tool support for mobile distributed computing
 - Fault tolerance and security in mobile distributed environments
 - Location-based services and applications
 - Mobile cluster computing / Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing
 - Resource/service sharing and management in mobile distributed environments
 - Mobile distributed transactions
 - Distributed applications in mobile environments
 - Security in mobile distributed systems

Paper Submission:
  MDC 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must
be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style.
Authors should shubmit a Postscript (level 2) or PDF file that will print
on a Postscript printer. Electronic submission through the submission website
is strongly encouraged. Hard copies will be accepted only if electrnoic 
submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least
one of the authors to register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be
published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important Dates:
  Papers due   --------------------- November 22, 2004
  Notification of acceptance ------- February 6, 2004
  Camera-ready papers due ---------- March 1, 2005 

Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs:
  Sajal K. Das,  University of Texas at Arlington
  das at roop.uta.edu

  Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  csjcao at comp.polyu.edu.hk

Program Chair:
  Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University
  czxu at wayne.edu

Program Vice Chairs:
  Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University 
  gcao at cse.psu.edu

  Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong
  itjia at cityu.edu.hk

Program Committee:
  Arup Acharya, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
  Giuseppe Anastasi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
  Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
  Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research, India 
  Marco Conti, Council for National Research, Italy 
  Kent Fuchs, Cornell Univ., USA
  Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State Univ., USA
  Mohan Kumar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Francis Lau, Univ. of Hong Kong, HK 
  Jie Li, Univ. of Tskuba, Japan
  Jian Lu, Nanjing Univ., China
  Koji Nakano, Hiroshima Univ., Japan
  Yi Pan, George State Univ., USA
  Filip Perich, Cougaar Software, Inc., USA 
  Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Sumit Roy, HP Labs, USA
  Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State Univ., USA 
  Mukesh Singhal, Univ. of Kentucky, USA
  Bala Srinivasan, Monash Univ., Australia
  Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
  Anand Tripathi, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
  Xingwei Wang, Northeastern Univ., China
  Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
  Yang Xiao, Univ. of Memphis, USA 
  Jian-liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., HK 
  Jingyuan Zhang, Univ. of Alabama, USA 
  Wei Zhao, Texas A&M Univ., USA 
  Wanlei Zhou, Deakin Univ., Australia 
  Xiaobo Zhou, U. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

Further Information:
  For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission,
please contact Dr. Jiannong Cao at csjao at comp.polyu.edu.edu.hk or
Prof. Cheng-zhong Xu at czxu at wayne.edu