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.

| 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.
| 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 |

| Full papers | November 16, 2003 | |
| Notification of acceptance | November 30, 2003 | |
| Full Camera-ready papers | February 6, 2004 |
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 |
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Program Chair |
Dietmar Tutsch, phone +49 30 314-73618 | |
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Program Co-Chair |
Peter Kropf, phone +1 514 343-2446 |

| 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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