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*                          ICDCS 2004                                *
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* THE 24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS *
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*              URL http:www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04               *
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*                           March 23-27, 2004                        *
*                              Tokyo, Japan                          *
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*                 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society             *
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*              Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)        *
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PURPOSE AND SCOPE
=================
ICDCS provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia,
industry, and government to present and discuss their latest research
findings on a broad array of topics in distributed computing. Topics
of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  - Agents and Mobile Code   - Distributed Data Management
  - Distributed Algorithms   - Distributed Operating Systems
  - Middleware               - Internet Computing and Applications
  - Multimedia Systems       - Mobile Computing and Communication
  - Network Protocols        - Peer-to-Peer Communication
  - Ubiquitous Computing     - Real-time and Embedded Systems
  - Security and Fault Tolerant Systems

PAPER SUBMISSION
================
Papers are not to exceed 5000 words (25 double-spaced pages, including
figures, tables, and references). Accepted papers will be allotted 8
pages in the conference proceedings. Please number each page and
include an abstract, 5-10 keywords, and the technical area(s) most
relevant to your paper.

Submissions will be handled via the conference web site:
 URL http:www.cis.ohio-state.edu/icdcs04

******If you do not have adequate web access and require an alternative
method to submit your paper, please contact:

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WORKSHOP
==========
Six to eight half-day/one-day workshops will be held during the conference.  
Workshop proposals should be submitted to a Workshops Co-Chair 
Makoto Takizawa (taki-wMwmRy4SwzHLTJ4gsEYFB+ga9YzINl48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) or 
Nian Feng Tzeng (tzeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
by May 31, 2003. Please see the conference web page
for details.

The proceedings of the conference and the workshops will be published by the 
IEEE Computer Society Press. 


IMPORTANT DATES
===============
WORKSHOP PROPSAL DUE ...May 31, 2003
PAPER SUBMISSION........July 15, 2003
Author Notification.....October 31, 2003
Final Manuscript Due....December 20, 2003


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================
Program Co-Chairs....... Ten H. Lai - Ohio State University
                         Kenichi Okada - Keio University
Program Vice Chairs:
Agents and Mobile Code.. Toyoaki Nishida - University of Tokyo
Distributed Algorithms.. Toshimitsu Masuzawa - Osaka University
Distributed Data Mgmt... Ambuj Singh - University of California
Distributed OS.......... Marvin Theimer - Microsoft Research
Internet Comput/Appli... Santosh.Shrivastava - University of Newcastle   
Middleware.............. Jean Bacon - University of Cambridge
Mobile Comput/Commun.... Yu-chee Tseng - National Chiao-Tung University
Multimedia Systems...... Wuchi Feng - Oregon Graduate Institute
Network Protocols....... Teruo Higashino - Osaka University
RT and Embedded Sys..... Kwei-Jay Lin - University of California
P2P Communication....... Xiaodong Zhang - NSF and W&M College 
Security and FT Sys..... Anish Arora - Ohio State University
Ubiquitous Computing.... Hideyuki Tokuda - Keio University

(Full program committee available at conference web site.)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
Honorary General Chairs. Shoichi Noguchi - SFAIS
                         Iwao Toda - Fujitsu Laboratory

General Co-Chairs....... Ming T. (Mike) Liu - Ohio State University
                  Yutaka Matsushita - Tokyo U. of Technology

Workshops Co-Chairs..... Nian Feng Tzeng, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette 
                      Makoto Takizawa - Tokyo Denki University
Awards Co-Chairs........ Michel Raynal - IRISA
                         Norio Shiratori - Tohoku University
International Liaison... Wen-Tsuen Chen - National TsingHua U.
                         Michael Papazoglow, University of Tilburg
                        John Stankovic - University of Virginia
Publicity Co-Chairs..... Bernd Kraemer - FernUniversitaet Hagen
                        ***** Dong Xuan - Ohio State University
                        *** from Japan
Publication Co-Chairs... Dong Xuan, The Ohio State Univ.
                         Akira Idoue - KDDI
Treasurer chair............... Toru Hoshi - Hitachi
Registration chair          *** from Japan
Local Arrangements. chair..... Hiroshi Miyabe - NTT
TCDP Chair.............. Chita R. Das - Penn State University


For further information - please contact: Ten H. Lai at
lai-0WXWO1EiuPOpAIv7I8X2sze48wsgrGvP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or Kenichi Okada at 
okada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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