[CALL FOR PAPERS] The First International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2006) is the first workshop which focuses on dependability and sustainability of P2P systems, with respect to their designs, operations, applications and social impacts. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) can be a promising technology on which we can depend lives of ours and our children, upon which we can build sustainable societies. Designs of P2P systems are characterized by their usage of overlay networks such that there is symmetry in the roles among participants. This implies distribution of authorities, not only preventing introduction of single points of failure, but also assuring a level of autonomy which allows many of us to spontaneously start, maintain, or recover from failures of, such systems. Although difficulties exist, such as uncertainty in the trust among participants, one needs to be aware that such difficulties are, in many parts, due to our own human nature; depending on P2P is, in fact and literally, depending on ourselves and our friends, which seem to be the only ones we can trust anyway, when it comes to our own survival. The goal of this workshop is to share experiences, insights and new ideas, and set forth research agendas and suggestive future directions by collaborations among researchers with different disciplines and with similar interests toward dependability and sustainability. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics: ** Designs and operations of dependable and sustainable P2P systems - Self-organization and emergence - Attack-resistance - Fault tolerance - Sustainable operations - Sustainable mutual trust - Sustainable reciprocal relationships ** Applications and social impacts of dependable and sustainable P2P systems - Sustainable economy - Sustainable governance - Sustainable lifestyles - Rescue activities - Post-catastrophic recovery - Tackling environmental problems The program of the workshop will be a combination of invited talks, paper presentations and discussions. [SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS] The workshop invites your contributions of previously unpublished papers, which will be selected based on their originality, technical merit and topical relevance. Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to interesting and fruitful discussions at the workshop. Your contributions should be formatted acoording to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines: 10-point Times, single-spaced, two-column format (see http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm for detail). Each of your contributions should not exceed 8 pages. See the workshop web site (http://das-p2p.wide.ad.jp/) for the submission procedure. [PUBLICATION] Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. [IMPORTANT DATES] Paper submission due: December 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 15th, 2006 Camera-ready copies due: February 1st, 2006 Author registration due: February 1st, 2006 Workshop: April 20th-22nd, 2006 (exact date is to be decided) [REGISTRATION] Workshop registration will be handled by the ARES 2006 organization along with the main conference registration. [ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Program co-chairs: Yusuke Doi Communication Platform Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, TOSHIBA Corporation 1 Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-Ku, Kawasaki Kanagawa 212-8582 Japan Youki Kadobayashi Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma Nara 630-0192 Japan Kenji Saito (main contact) Graduate School of Media and Governance Keio University 5322 Endo, Fujisawa Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan ks91@sfc.wide.ad.jp [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] See the workshop web site (http://das-p2p.wide.ad.jp/). ----- _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]