******************************************************* The 6th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2013) October 28-30, 2013, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China ******************************************************* IDCS 2013 conference is the sixth in its series to promote research in diverse fields related to Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. The emergence of Web as a ubiquitous platform for innovations has laid the foundation for the rapid growth of the Internet. Side-by-side, the use of mobile and wireless devices such as PDA, laptop, and cell phones for accessing the Internet has paved the ways for related technologies to flourish through recent developments. In addition, the popularity of sensor networks is promoting better integration of the digital world with physical environment. In IDCS 2013 conference, we are interested in receiving innovative papers on emerging technologies related to Internet and distributed systems to support the effective design and efficient implementation of high-performance computer networks. The target audience includes researchers and industry practitioners those are interested in different aspects of the Internet and distributed systems, with a particular focus on the practical experiences with the design and implementation of related technologies as well as their theoretical perspectives. Topics of Interest ================== The topics of interest are organised into 5 major tracks: Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks ----------------------------------- - Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks - Networked Sensing and Control - Sensor Fusion, Tracking and Localisation - Embedded Software for Sensor Networks - Environmental Sensing Applications - Body Sensor Networks - Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Track 2: Internet and Web Technologies -------------------------------------- - Internet Architectures and Protocols - Modeling and Evaluation of Internet-based Systems - Internet Quality of Service - Real-time Multimedia Communication Systems - Web services and Mash-ups Track 3: Network Operations & Management ---------------------------------------- - Energy Efficiency in Large-scale Distributed Systems - Security of Network-based Systems - Network-based Applications (VoIP, Streaming) - Network Traffic Engineering - Tools and Techniques for Network Measurements Track 4: Information Infrastructure ----------------------------------- - Next Generation Content Delivery Network - Grid, Cloud, and P2P Computing - Distributed Computing Applications - Autonomic Computing - Computational Economy for Distributed Systems Track 5: Resilience, Fault tolerance, and Availability ------------------------------------------------------ - Fault Tolerant and Self-managing Distributed Systems - Dependability and Dependable Systems - Computing Models for Resilient Distributed Systems - Principles for Resilient Software Architecture - Availability Design Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries ======================================== http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/idcs13 email: [log in to unmask] Submission Guidelines ===================== Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF via the conference Web site at http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/idcs13. Each submitted paper should follow Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. The length of all submitted papers will have 14 pages limit, including all figures, appendix, and references, etc. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Each submission will be reviewed by the members of the TPC and external reviewers. Publication =========== The conference proceedings will be published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All papers will also be electronically available through SpringerLink Database, and professionally indexed through SCI and EI. Extended and enhanced versions of top-quality selected papers from the workshop will be invited for submission on a fast-track basis for special issues in high-impact renowned international journals. Registration ============= Each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings must be registered for IDCS 2013. Each paper has to be presented in person by the main author, or one of the authors. Important Dates ================ Submission Due: May 15, 2013 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready Copy Due: July 31, 2013 Conference: October 28-30, 2013 Organization ============= Honorary Chair -------------- Wenzhan Dai, Zhejiang GongShang University, China General Chairs --------------- Yun Ling, Zhejiang GongShang University, China Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia Program Chairs -------------- Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia Guiyi Wei, Zhejiang GongShang University, China Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Program Committee ----------------- Tarem Ahmed, BRAC University, Bangladesh Hani Alzaid, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Doina Bein, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Michael Compton, CSIRO, Australia Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Marcos Dias De Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil Abdelkarim Erradi, Qatar University, Qatar Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, USA Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom Bretagne, France Saurabh Kumar Garg, IBM Research, Australia Soumya Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, King Saud University, USA Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece Hae Young Lee, ETRI, South Korea Jaime Lloret, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Rongxing Lu, University of Waterloo, Canada Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mohammad Matin, North South University, Bangladesh Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, King AbdulAziz university, Saudi Arabia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil Ekow Otoo, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Haifeng Qian, East China Normal University, China Shawon Rahman, University of Hawaii-Hilo, USA Mustafizur Rahman, DSTO, Australia Thomas Repantis, University of California-Riverside, USA Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia Parimala Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada William Voorsluys, The University of Melbourne, Australia Licheng Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Lihua Wang, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Xiaofeng Wang, National University of Defence Technology, China Bin Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Bin Xie, InfoBeyond Technology, USA Norihiko Yoshida, Saitama University, Japan Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------