Time/place:

September 28 – October 1, 2003
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Link:

http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/~icon/

Areas:

Ad hoc & sensor networks, Addressing & location management;
Approaches for mobility & intermittent connectivity;
Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15;
Content distribution & webcaching;
Label switching protocols;
Layer interaction for mobile/wireless systems;
Location-dependent applications;
Low power & energyefficient designs;
Media access techniques;
Middleware;
Multicast;
Multimedia & voice over the Internet;
Network characteristics of interactive online games;
Network diagnostics & troubleshooting;
Network support in operating systems;
Novel distributed applications;
Operational network measurements & experiences;
Optical & photonic networks;
Overlay networks;
Peer-to-peer networking;
Pervasive computing;
Pricing & billing;
Privacy, security, vulnerabilities & defences;
Programmable/active network architectures;
Quality of Service;
Routing & switching algorithms;
Satellite communications;
Scheduling & resource management;
Service discovery mechanisms;
Service enabling technologies;
Storage Area Networks;
Testbeds, simulation & modeling techniques;
Transport protocols;
Wireless community networks;
Wireless LANs;
Wireless, mobile & pervasive networking

Key dates:

Full papers and tutorial proposals due: March 21, 2003
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2003
Final version of papers due: July 4, 2003
Final overheads & handouts for tutorials due: August 15, 2003

Submission:

Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages.
http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/~icon/cfp.pdf

DSN-2003 The IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Time/place:

June 22nd - 25th, 2003
San Francisco, CA

Link:

http://www.dsn.org/

Areas:

Architectures for Dependable Computer Systems
Dependability of High-Speed Networks and Protocols
Dependability Modeling and Prediction
Dependability in VLSI
E-commerce Dependability
Fault Tolerance in Transaction Processing
Fault Tolerance in Distributed & Real-Time Systems
Fault Tolerance in Multimedia Systems
Fault Tolerance in Mobile Systems
Information Assurance, Survivability, and Intrusion Tolerance
Internet Dependability and Quality of Service
Safety-Critical Systems
Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
Software Reliability

Key dates:

The deadline has passed, but keep a watch for next year

Submission:

IEEE Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2003)

Time/place:

July 2-4, 2003
Berne, Switzerland

Link:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~rvs/events/ASWN_2003/

Areas:

Media Distribution over Wireless Networks;
New Data Services for Wireless Network;
Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business;
Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility;
QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS
Security and AAA Aspects;
Nomadic Services, Interface Management ;
Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Networks;
Wireless Local Loop Technologies;
Wireless Personal Area Networks;
Software Radios;
Enabling Technologies and Architectures, 3G and beyond;
Service Development, Validation & Test;
Service Creation and Discovery; Location-based Services;
Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services;
Mobile Multimedia;
Performance of Mobile/Wireless Networks and Systems;
Mobile Service Interworking;
Context and Ambient Awareness;
Cooperative Networks

Key dates:

Full Paper submission: February 28, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2003
Camera Ready: May 15, 2003

Submission:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~rvs/events/ASWN_2003/cfp.html

Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT '03

Time/place:

July 31 to August 2, 2003, at the Sheraton World, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Link:

http://www.iiisci.org/ccct2003/

Areas:

A. Computing and Information Systems and Technologies
B. Communication Systems, Technologies And Applications
C. Control Systems, Technologies And Applications
D. Hybrid Systems, Dual Technologies, Cross-Fertilizing Research and Analogical Thinking
D. 1. Communications and Control
D. 2. Computing and Communications
D. 3. Computing and Control
D. 4. Computing, Communication and Control
E. Applications of CCCT in other areas
F. Applications of other areas in CCCT
G. Hybrid Applications

Key dates:

February 05, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper drafts (2000-5000 words).

February 05, 2003: Invited Session proposals.

February 19, 2003: Notifications of Acceptance.

April 02, 2003: Submission of final versions: hard copies and electronic versions.

July 31, 2003: Conference Starts

August 2, 2003: Conference Ends

Submission:

Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages.

16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems

Time/place:

August 13-15, 2003, Atlantis Hotel, Reno, Nevada, USA.

Link:

http://www.isca-hq.org/PDCS-2003-call.htm

Areas:

1. Parallel Architectures and Systems
- Parallel Architectures & Interconnection Networks
- Application-Specific Parallel Architectures
- Architectural Support for Fine-Grain Parallelism
- Theoretical Distributed Computing & Formal Approaches
- Architectures for Distributed and Enterprise Systems
- Instrumentation for Performance Evaluation
- Reconfigurable Architectures
- Ubiquitous and Invisible Computing
- High Performance and Cluster Architectures
- Cluster and Grid Computing
- High Performance Networking and Internetworking
- Network and Interconnect Architectures and Interfaces

2. Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
- Partitioning, Mapping, and Scheduling
- Routing, Communication, and Synchronization Techniques
- Load Balancing & Load Sharing
- Fault Tolerance and Replication Designs
- Security, Naming, and Authentication
- Resource Allocation and Management
- Modeling, Simulation and Evaluation Techniques
- Reliable Distributed Computing
- Distributed Query Processing & Data Base Systems Design
- Network Management Algorithms & Computer Networks Protocols
- Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing Algorithms
- Real-Time & Embedded Distributed Algorithms & Systems

3. Parallel and Distributed Systems Software
- Languages, Compilers and Operating Systems
- Libraries and Programming Environments
- Message Passing and Distributed Shared Memory Software
- Software Development, Services, Support, and Tools
- Middleware for Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Benchmarking and Measurements
- CORBA-Based Technologies and Java-Based Systems
- Component- and Agent- Based Systems
- Data Warehousing and Mining
- Transaction Management and Concurrency Control
- Hardware/Software Co-designs
- Cooperative Information Systems

4. Parallel and Distributed Applications
- Bioinformatics & Biocomputing
- Distributed & Federated Database and Legacy Applications
- Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery
- Distributed Multimedia Systems and Internet Applications
- Grid and Internet Appliances
- Personal Communication Networks and Systems
- Broadband ISDN & ATM High-Speed Networks and Systems
- P & D Systems Integration and Large Scale Scientific Computations
- P & D Industrial and Manufacturing Applications
- Heterogeneity and Interoperability
- Neural and Fuzzy Computing and Applications
- Collaboration Enterprises and Environments

Key dates:

Paper submission: 24 Feb 2003.

Submission:

Abstract/proposals

The Second IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA-03)

Time/place:

Cambridge, USA. April 16-18, 2003

Link:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mbeck/NCA03/NCA03-cfp.pdf

Areas:

Key dates:

Paper submission: 24 January 2003

Submission:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mbeck/NCA03/NCA03-cfp.pdf

The Ninth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS’2003 And The 2003 International Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce and Agent Technology (MSEAT2003)

Time/place:

Miami, Florida, USA. September 24 - 26, 2003

Link:

http://www.cs.fiu.edu/DMS2003/

Areas:

audio and video compression
MPEG, Quicktime, Windows API standards
image, video, audio content analysis and indexing/retrieval
image, video and audio watermark
3D audio and video
computer graphics and animation
modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems
OS support for distributed multimedia systems
distributed multimedia databases and computing
multi-paradigmatic information retrieval
multimedia human-computer interaction
multimedia communications and network architectures
mobile networks and mobile computing
multimedia stream synchronization and QoS control/scheduling
multimedia software engineering
multimedia processors and ASIC
multimedia technologies for people with disability
intelligent multimedia computing
intelligent multimodal interaction
multi agents, mobile agents and their applications
communication encryption
security of distributed computer systems
Web servers and services
XML applications
Java, VRML and multimedia languages
visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications
multimedia digital libraries and mail systems
multimedia applications for CSCW
multimedia authoring tools and intelligent tutoring
cultural heritage multimedia applications
tele-conferencing, tele-medicine and tele-lecture
virtual reality, distributed virtual environment, and their applications
virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning community
distance learning methodology, tools and systems
e-commerce, e-education and e-entertainment

Key dates:

Paper submission: 1 March 2003

Submission:

http://www.cs.fiu.edu/DMS2003/html/dms2003.pdf

Twenty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2003)

Time/place:

July 13-16, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts

Link:

http://www.podc.org/podc2003/

Areas:

Distributed middleware platforms, operating systems, and databases;
Multiprocessor/cluster architectures, algorithms, and performance;
Distributed computing issues in the Internet and the Web;
Hardware, software, and compiler support for coordination and synchronization;
Mobile computing;
Communication network protocols and architectures;
High-performance distributed computing and the computational grid
P2P Computing;
Distributed algorithms and their complexity;
Fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems;
Distributed cryptographic and security protocols;
Specification, semantics, and verification of distributed systems;

Special track: Security.

Key dates:

Paper submission: 31 January 2003
Acceptance notification: April 2, 2003
Camera-ready copy due: April 22, 2003

Submission:

http://www.podc.org/podc2003/cfp.html

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Time/place:

26th - 29th August 2003 in Klagenfurt, Austria

Link:

http://europar-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/

Areas:

Topic 01: Support Tools and Environments
Topic 02: Performance Evaluation and Prediction
Topic 03: Scheduling and Load Balancing
Topic 04: Compilers for High Performance
Topic 05: Parallel and Distributed Databases, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Topic 06: Grid Computing and Middleware Systems
Topic 07: Applications on High-Performance Computers
Topic 08: Parallel Computer Architecture and Instruction-Level Parallelism
Topic 09: Distributed Algorithms
Topic 10: Parallel Programming: Models, Methods and Programming Languages
Topic 11: Numerical Algorithms and Scientific Engineering Problems
Topic 12: Architectures and Algorithms for Multimedia Applications
Topic 13: Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation
Topic 14: Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks
Topic 15: Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Topic 16: Distributed Systems and Distributed Multimedia
Topic 17: High-Performance Object-Oriented and Middleware Systems
Topic 18: Peer-to-Peer Computing
Topic 19: Demonstration of Parallel and Distributed Computing taken from the Topics above (Special Submission Rules)

Key dates:

Paper submission: 9 Februrary 2003

Submission:

http://europar-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/cfp.html