CFP: 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016)

[OPODIS 2016 publicity chair <op...@gmail.com>]

========================= *CALL FOR PAPERS* ============================

20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
                           (OPODIS 2016)

                     13-16 DecEMBER 2016,
                        Madrid, Spain

http://opodis2016.etsisi.upm.es
opodis2016@easychair.org


OPODIS solicits papers in all aspects of distributed systems, including 
theory, specification, design,
performance, and system building. With a strong background in the theory 
of distributed systems,
OPODIS has recently expanded its scope to cover the whole range between 
the theoretical aspects and
practical implementations of distributed systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

\u2022 Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
\u2022 Synchronization, concurrent algorithms, shared and transactional memory
\u2022 Design and analysis of concurrent and distributed data structures
\u2022 Communication networks (protocols, architectures, services, applications)
\u2022 High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
\u2022 Mesh and ad-hoc networks (wireless, mobile, sensor), location and 
context-aware systems
\u2022 Mobile agents, robots, and rendezvous
\u2022 Internet applications, social systems, peer-to-peer and overlay networks
\u2022 Distributed operating systems, middleware, and distributed database 
systems
\u2022 Programming languages, formal methods, specification and verification 
applied to distributed systems
\u2022 Embedded and energy-efficient distributed systems
\u2022 Distributed event processing
\u2022 Distributed storage and file systems, large-scale systems, and big 
data analytics
\u2022 Dependable distributed algorithms and systems
\u2022 Self-stabilization, self-organization, autonomy
\u2022 Security and privacy, cryptographic protocols
\u2022 Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
\u2022 Randomization in distributed computing
\u2022 Biological distributed algorithms


Important Dates

Abstract registration: August 15, 2016
Submission deadline: August 22, 2016
Acceptance notification: October 27, 2016
Final version due: November 21, 2016
Conference: December 13-16, 2016, Madrid, Spain


Submissions

Papers are to be submitted electronically through Easychair at the 
following link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opodis2016. Submissions must be 
in English in pdf format and
they must be prepared using the LaTeX style templates for LIPIcs
(https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/) 
and choosing the A4 paper option. A
submission must not exceed 16 pages, including the cover page, figures, 
tables and references. The cover
page should include the title of the paper, the authors\u2019 names, 
affiliations and e-mails, an abstract,
information about the contact author, and a list of keywords.

Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix or as 
supplementary material which will
be read at the discretion of the reviewers. Submissions are expected to 
be intelligible and complete
without such additional details.

A submission must report on original research that has not previously 
appeared in a journal or conference
with published proceedings. It should not be concurrently submitted to 
such a journal or conference. Any
overlap with a published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly 
indicated. The Program Chairs
reserve the right to reject submissions that are out of scope, or of 
clearly inferior quality, or that violate
the submission guidelines. Each of the remaining papers will undergo a 
thorough reviewing process.


Publication

OPODIS has post-proceedings published by Leibniz International 
Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) in
gold open access mode. The proceedings become available online, free of 
charge, after the conference.
Preliminary versions of the proceedings will be available to 
participants at the conference electronically.
The camera-ready version of a paper must have the same format and be of 
the same length as its
submitted version. Extended and revised versions of selected papers will 
be considered for a special issue
of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier).


Best Paper Award

OPODIS features a best paper award. All accepted papers will be 
evaluated for the best paper award. The
best paper award aims to encourage work that combines theory and 
practice and demonstrates excellence
of research in at least one of these two areas. Such work could be an 
advance in theory that sheds lights
on an interesting system problem or an advance in system work that 
builds upon strong theoretical results


General Chair

Ernesto Jim�nez Merino, Technical University of Madrid, Spain


Program Committee

Yehuda Afek, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Marco Canini, Universit� Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Shantanu Das, Aix-Marseille University, France
Carole Delporte, Universit� Paris Diderot \u2013 Paris 7, France
Fernando Dotti, PUC-RS, Brazil
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH ICS & University of Crete, Greece (co-chair)
Pascal Felber, Universit� de Neuch�tel, Switzerland
Pierre Fraigniaud, Universit� Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France
Cyril Gavoille, Universit� de Bordeaux, France
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
R�diger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Parisa Marandi, Microsoft Research, UK
Euripides Markou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France
Gilles Muller, INRIA, France
Roberto Palmieri, Virginia Tech, USA
Marta Pati�o-Mart�nez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland (co-chair)
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sebastiano Peluso, Virginia Tech, USA
Maria Potop Butucaru, Universit� Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Nuno Pregui�a, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada
Mark Shapiro, INRIA & Universit� Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA
Robert Soule, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway
Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Steering Committee
Marcos Aguilera, VMware Research Group, USA
Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France
Maria Potop-Butucaru, Universit� Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Giuseppe Prencipe, Universit� di Pisa , Italy
Etienne Rivi�re, University of Neuch�tel, Switzerland
Marc Shapiro, INRIA & Universit� Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Sebastien Tixeuil, IUF & Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, 
France (chair)


Organizing Commitee

�ngel �lvarez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Sergio Ar�valo (organization chair), Technical University of Madrid, 
Spain (chair)
Antonio Fern�ndez-Anta, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
Jos� Luis L�pez-Presa (publicity chair), Technical University of Madrid, 
Spain
Pilar Manzano, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Isabel Mu�oz, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Nicolas Nicolaou, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
Andr�s Sevilla, Technical University of Madrid, Spain