Call for Papers
Design, Analysis, and Simulation of Distributed Systems 2004 (DASD '04)

Part of the 2004 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'04)

Sponsored by:
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS)

April 18 - 22, 2004

Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia

Making simulation and analysis successful through novel distributed system design, methodologies, and management

The 2004 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'04) will feature the conference on Design, Analysis, and Simulation of Distributed Systems (DASD'04). The conference is devoted to all kinds of distributed and Internet-based systems.

Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Web Computing and Information Retrieval
Efficient Distributed Simulation
Distributed Systems
Performance Evaluation
Petri Nets and other models
Self-Organization and Adaptation
User Interfaces and Cooperative Systems

The goal of the conference is to encourage innovation in design, analysis and simulation of distributed systems. This includes new technologies as well as new methodologies, new concepts and experience reports. DASD'04 will promote a high quality exchange of ideas and information between universities, industry, and national laboratories supporting the development in the design, analysis and simulation area of next generation distributed systems which can provide solutions to current scientific and technological challenges.

Special Areas of Interest:

Application oriented methods and tools
Applications: scientific computing, tele-medicine, multimedia, e-commerce, etc.
Aspects of real-time systems
Case studies, best practices and lessons learned
Communication protocols
Communities
Data management, distributed file systems
Design and implementation approaches for complex systems using Petri nets
Distributed Algorithms
Evaluation of hardware and software performance
Fault tolerance / reliability
Global information infrastructure and global computing
Metacomputing, cluster and grid computing approaches
Mobile agents and distributed objects
Mobile computing
Modeling of distributed systems including analysis and simulation
New formal concepts and methods for validation and testing
Numerical methods for performance approximation
Petri net simulation tools
Queuing analysis
Reconfigurable / ad-hoc systems
Resource management, search and location
Security and safety
Self-organization and learning in distributed systems
Semantic Web
Support for HW/SW co-design
Theoretical aspects of analysis and simulation of web systems
Traffic estimation for communication networks of distributed systems including multicast traffic patterns and fault tolerance
Verification of web services and infrastructure
Web and P2P-computing
Web service design and architectures

Key Dates

Full papers    November 16, 2003
Notification of acceptance    November 30, 2003
Full Camera-ready papers    February 6, 2004

Submission Guidelines

All prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages (single spaced, 12pt) describing their (previously unpublished) work and achievements to DASD'04. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer-reviewing process by 3 program committee members. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the SCS.

In addition, the committee will select a set of eight best papers. Authors of these papers will be encouraged to submit appropriately expanded versions of these papers for journal publication.

Please submit papers in PDF or PostScript with the authors' complete addresses, phone, fax, and e-mail for consideration. Papers should be submitted electronically to http://scs.proceedingscentral.com.

Anticipated conference fees will be US$435.00 (for SCS members). It is expected that accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors. 

If you have any problems with electronic submission please contact either the SCS office (see below) or one of the chairs of DASD:

General Chair

Herwig Unger, phone +49 381498-3355

Program Chair

Dietmar Tutsch, phone +49 30 314-73618

Program Co-Chair

Peter Kropf, phone +1 514 343-2446

International Program Committee

Khalid Al-Begain, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Vladimir Anisimov, GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom
Gilbert Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada
Kirstie Bellman, Aerospace Corporation, USA
Arndt Bode, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Thomas Boehme, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
Pranay Chaudhuri, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Mario A. R. Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Wolfgang Fengler, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
Markus Fiedler, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
Ricardo Fricks, Motorola Inc., USA
Stefania Gnesi, National Research Council, Italy 
Martin Griebl, University of Passau, Germany
Guenter Hommel, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Joern W. Janneck, University of California Berkeley, USA
Olaf Kluge, BMW AG, Germany
Pierre Kuonen, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland 
Ulrike Lechner, University Bremen, Germany
Paulo Maciel, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
Tiziana Margaria, Metaframe Technologies, Germany
Armin Mikler, University of North Texas, USA
Jogesh K. Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong
Alexander Ryjov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Detlef Schoder, WHU Koblenz, Germany
Tony White, Carleton University, Canada
Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent University, Belgium
DJ Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Wlodek M. Zuberek, Memorial University of Nfld, Canada

For additional information, see the DASD'04 web site at http://wwwteo.informatik.uni-rostock.de/DASD.

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, California 92177
Phone 858-277-3888
Fax 858-277-3930
E-mail scs@scs.org

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