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**                         CALL FOR PAPERS                        **
                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
                TOPIC 8:   Distributed Systems and Algorithms

                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 8 - DESCRIPTION


Distributed computing is everywhere. It is based on different forms of 
distributed systems, for example, grids and peer-to-peer, which have achieve 
some level of maturity; and new ones, such as web services and service 
architectures.

Parallel computing is increasingly exposed to the development and challenges of 
distributed systems, such as the lack of load balance, asynchrony, long latencies, 
network partition, failures, disconnected operation, heterogeneity and protocol 
standardization. This Euro-Par topic provides a forum for research and practice, 
of interest to both academia and industry, about distributed systems, distributed 
computing, distributed algorithms, and parallel processing on distributed systems. 
We encourage submission of papers across the whole area, with emphasis on the following:

Focus
-	Design and practice of distributed algorithms
-	Analysis of the behaviour of distributed systems and algorithms
-	Distributed operating systems and databases
-	Parallel processing on distributed systems
-	Resource and service discovery
-	Resource sharing and load balancing in distributed systems
-	Distributed fault-tolerance
-	Security in distributed systems
-	Scalability, concurrency and performance in distributed systems
-	Middleware for parallel computations
-	Web services
-	Interoperability and standards


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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 8 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Andrzej M. Goscinski
Deakin University
School of Information Technology
Victoria, Australia
ang@deakin.edu.au

Local Chair
Prof. Dr. Gudula Rünger
TU Chemnitz
Dept. of Computer Science
Chemnitz, Germany
reunger@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Vice Chair
Dr. Christine Morin
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu
IRISA / INRIA
France
cmorin@irisa.fr

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Edgar Gabriel
University of Houston
Computer Science Department
Houston, TX, USA
gabriel@cs.uh.edu


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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands
on experiences.

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