NETYS First Call for Papers The International Conference on NETworked sYStems May 2-4, 2013, Marrakech, Morocco http://www.netys.net<http://www.netys.net/> Important Dates Abstract submission: January 15, 2013 Paper submission: January 21, 2013 Acceptance notification: March 21, 2013 Camera-ready copy due: April 21, 2013 Scope. NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from both the theory and practice of networked systems. These systems are viewed in their general sense including multi-core architectures, middleware environments, storage clusters, as well as social, peer-to-peer, sensor, wireless and mobile networks. NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices and novel algorithms, results and techniques on networked systems. Original contributions as well as experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, and application of networked systems are solicited. Specific concepts common to different forms of such systems are most welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multi-core architectures and multithreaded applications * Distributed databases, embedded systems and operating systems * Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, sensor networks and social networks * Cloud systems and services, virtualization * Middleware environments and data centers * Concurrent and distributed algorithms * Web-based and service-oriented architectures * Event-based, operating and embedded systems * Security and privacy * Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems * Overlays and peer-to-peer infrastructures. Papers submission. NETYS is soliciting two forms of papers: full and short papers. All in LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs)<http://www.springer.com/lncs>. Full papers are allowed a maximum of 15 pages, whereas short papers are allowed a maximum of 5 pages, both in the submission and in the proceedings. A full paper submission might be accepted as such, as a short paper or a poster. A short paper may be accepted as such or as a poster. Posters will be presented at the conference to reflect work in progress and will not lead to a publication in the proceedings. Authors are given the option to accept or not the type in which their paper is selected for acceptance. Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series will publish the proceedings of the conference. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. The Computing Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607) will consider publishing extended versions of the best papers of the conference in a special issue. Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission. This should be indicated in the submission. Workshops and Tutorials will be held in conjunction with NETYS with the aim of allowing researchers and practitioners to explore topics and/or emerging research areas in depth. Please contact the program chairs with a brief description of proposals by January 1, 2013. Program Committee: Sihem Amer-Yahia CNRS LIG, France Gildas Avoine UCL, Belgium Boualem Benatallah UNSW, Australia Gregor V. Bochmann Univ of Ottawa, Canada Ahmed Bouajjani Univ Paris 7, France Mohammed Boulmalf IUR, Morocco Christian Cachin IBM, Switzerland Dalila Chiadmi EMI, Marocco Carole Delporte Univ Paris 7, France Christophe Diot Technicolor, France Rachida Dssouli Concordia Univ, Canada Sameh Elnikety Microsoft Research, USA Mohammed Essaidi ENSIAS, Morocco Hugues Fauconnier Univ Paris 7, France Mamoun Fillali CNRS, France Eli Gafni UCLA, USA Benoît Garbinato UNIL, Switzerland Maurice Herlihy Brown University, USA Thomas Hofmann Google, Switzerland Ihab Francis Ilyas Univ of Waterloo, Canada Anne-Marie Kermarrec INRIA, France Ahmed Khoumsi Sherbrooke Univ, Canada Mira Mezini Univ of Darmstadt, Germany Louise Moser UCSB, USA Vivien Quéma Grenoble INP, France Michel Raynal IRISA, France Liuba Shrira Brandeis Univ, USA Stefan Tai KIT, Germany General Chairs: Mohammed Erradi ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco Bernd Freisleben Marburg Univ, Germany Program Chairs: Rachid Guerraoui EPFL, Switzerland Vincent Gramoli University of Sydney, Australia History: The origin of NETYS dates back to the International Spring School on Distributed Systems organized under the name “METIS”. After the success of the first two editions of METIS’2008 in Rabat and METIS’2009 in Marrakech, both in French, the last three editions, METIS-CTDS’2010 in Fez, METIS-CTDS’2011 in Marrakesh and METIS’2012 in Tangier were in English. Along the different editions of METIS, different topics related to distributed systems have been addressed, from the “Principles of Distributed Systems” and “How to Secure Distributed Systems” to “Social Networks”. All involved a prestigious list of speakers. ############################ To unsubscribe from the PODC list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa-ACMLPX.exe?SUBED1=PODC&A=1