Final Call for Papers ASIAN'03 Eighth Asian Computing Science Conference http://www.cse.psu.edu/asian03 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India December 10-13, 2003 Collocated with ICLP'03 and FSTTCS'03 http://www.cse.psu.edu/asian03/ ****** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 11, 2003****** The phenomenal success of the Internet at the application level may perhaps primarily be attributed to a few simple but powerful ideas: a client-server computing model, stateless (or partially stateful) protocols (such as SMTP, HTTP, Instant Messaging and Presence Protocols), the separation of transport from content, etc. Fundamental limitations of these ideas are already being addressed by the development of middleware platforms for distributed applications (e.g., J2EE, Groove, Jini, .Net). In the future, experience with large-scale distributed applications may result in well-understood computational models that are enshrined in programming languages with support for uniform naming, reflexive operation, fault tolerance, distribution, locality, partially disconnected operation, persistence, mobility, autonomic operation, spatial aggregation, continuous streaming, etc. SCOPE The theme of this conference is PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES and DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION. Papers are invited on all aspects of theory, practice and applications related to this theme. Papers targeting lessons learnt from the development of large-scale application frameworks (e.g., Internet applications, distributed sensor networks) that may serve as the basis for the development of programming languages are particularly welcome. - Programming languages for distributed computation - Distributed capability-based computing - Grid computing - Peer-to-peer computing - Static analysis and type systems - Provably secure distributed computing - Proof-carrying code - Persistence in distributed computation - Language implications for Trust management / Reputation management / Public-key infrastructure - Language aspects of Internet middleware - Web services - Programming models for: Distributed sensor networks / Epidemic algorithms / Real-time streaming and querying - Model-based methods for distributed systems - Modeling of distributed systems - Large-scale distributed applications: Distributed MUDs / Distributed gaming environments / Electronic communities / Distributed collaboration environments INVITED SPEAKERS Greg Morrisett (Cornell U.) Mark S. Miller (Combex, Inc./Johns Hopkins U.) SUBMISSIONS Submissions are to be sent to Vijay Saraswat by 11:59PM, August 11, 2003, EST. Authors must submit their papers electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file. Please send your submission via email to asian03-submissions@cse.psu.edu PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Please prepare your manuscript using the series' style, following the instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The proceedings papers will be limited to 15 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: August 11, 2003 (EST) Acceptance notification: September 7, 2003 Final paper due: September 21, 2003 ORGANIZATION General Co-chairs: R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan) Program Committee: Gul Agha (UIUC, USA) Guruduth Banavar (IBM Research, USA) Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems, USA) Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, UK) Georges Gonthier (INRIA, France) Seif Haridi (SICS, Sweden / NUS, Singapore) Nevin Heintze (Agere Research, USA) Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul U., USA) Naoki Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan) Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego, USA) Sanjiva Prasad (IIT Delhi, India) Padma Raghavan (Penn State U., USA) VIJAY SARASWAT, Chair (Penn State U., USA) R. K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India) Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State U., USA) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan) Sanjiva Weerawarana (IBM Research, USA / U. Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) Feng Zhao (PARC, USA) Workshop Chair: Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) Steering Committee: Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) Stephane Grumbach (INRIA, France) Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan) BACKGROUND The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was initiated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions. The first seven conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, Kathmandu, Manila, Phuket, Penang, and Hanoi. In addition to support from the host countries, they have also been sponsored by INRIA, France, UNU/IIST, Macau and NUS, Singapore. The proceedings have been published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. ----- End forwarded message -----