Call for Papers

         16th IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

                   http://www.ee.duke.edu/~srds97

    October 22-24, 1997, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

THEME:
The focus of the symposium concerns the building and use of dependable
distributed and parallel systems, particularly with system properties
such as reliability, availability, and performance.  In addition to
traditional submissions, we welcome papers that deal with experimental
results, testbeds, development, and data from operational systems.  We
especially encourage timely papers that describe industrial projects,
experimental systems, exploratory applications in large networks, and
topics related to the next generation of large reliable distributed
systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The major areas of interest include but are not limited to the following
topics, as they relate to reliable distributed and parallel systems:

- System-Level Fault Tolerance    - Databases and Transaction Processing
- Software Fault Tolerance        - Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems
- Modeling                        - Fault-Tolerant Object-Oriented Systems
- Security                        - Global Information Infrastructure
- Programming Language Support    - Dependable Parallel and Clustered Systems

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
Papers must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point
type and 1-1/2 line spacing.  Manuscripts should be no more than 20 pages in
length, including figures.  Authors are requested to submit six copies of
their paper by April 15, 1997 to the program committee co-chair:

        Amir A. Abouelnaga
        TRW Systems Integration Group
        One Federal Systems Park Drive
        Fairfax, VA 22033

        Phone: 1-703-803-5613
        Email: amir.a.abouelnaga@trw.com

The best SRDS '97 papers in Reliability and Survivable Information Systems will
be published in the IEEE Transactions on Reliability or Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, respectively.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline:      April 15, 1997
Author notification:            June 21, 1997
Final camera-ready copies due:  July 26, 1997
Symposium dates:                Oct. 22-24, 1997


GENERAL CHAIR: Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University

VICE GENERAL CHAIR: Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:
Amir A. Abouelnaga, TRW 
Farokh B. Bastani, University of Houston

FINANCE CHAIR: Veena B. Mendiratta, Bell Labs, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR: Dimiter Avresky, Boston University, USA

REGISTRATION CHAIR: Siddhartha Chatterjee, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Ajay Kshemkalyani, IBM, USA

TC LIAISON: Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
G. Belford, U. of Illinois, USA
M. Dal Cin, U. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
J. Dehn, Lockheed-Martin, USA
J. Dugan, U. of Virginia, USA
K. W. Fuchs, Purdue University, USA
P. Green, Stratus, USA
S. Helal, MCC, USA
K. Jeffay, U. of North Carolina, USA
T. Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan
K. Kim,  UC at Irvine, USA
C. Kintala, Bell Labs, USA
K. Mori, Hitachi SDL, Japan
J. Munoz, DARPA, USA
E. Nett, GMD, Germany
R. Ramanujan, ATC, USA
M. Y. Sanadidi, NCR, USA
S. Sathaye, FORE Systems, USA
A. Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland
E. Shokri, SoHaR, USA
M. Sievers, Paracel, USA
L. Simoncini, U. of Pisa, Italy
M. Singhal, Ohio State U, USA
D. Taylor, U. of Waterloo, Canada
A. Tripathi, NSF, USA
W. Tsai, U. of Minnesota, USA
P. Thambidurai, Okidata, USA
S. Yang, Soongsil U, Korea
L. Young, Tandem, USA
P. Yu, IBM, USA

SPONSORS:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on Distributed Processing,
Fault-Tolerant Computing, and Operating Systems.
Center for Advanced Computing and Communication.


Further information can be found at URL http://www.ee.duke.edu/~srds97
General questions can be directed to srds97@ee.duke.edu