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                                   ICDCS 2006

      The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

                                 Lisboa, Portugal
                                 July 4-7, 2006
		           http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt

			             Sponsored by
    The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing

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The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, 
industry and government to present their latest research findings in any 
aspects of distributed and parallel computing. Topics of particular interest 
include, but are not limited to: 

     o Algorithms and Theory
     o Autonomic Computing
     o Data Management	
     o Fault-Tolerance and Dependability
     o Internet Computing and Applications
     o Network Protocols
     o Operating Systems and Middleware	
     o Parallel, cluster and GRID Computing
     o Peer to Peer
     o Security	
     o Sensor Networks and Ubiquous Computing
     o Wireless and Mobile Computing


WORKSHOPS

  Workshops will be held during the conference.  Workshop proposals
  should be submitted to the Workshops Co-Chair Professor Ricardo
  Jiménez Peris (rjimenez@fi.upm.es) by July 30, 2006.  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. 


PAPER SUBMISSION 
  Form of Manuscript: Not to exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch pages 
  (including figures, tables and references) in 10-12 point font. Number 
  each page.  Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical area(s)
  most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail address. 

  Electronic Submission: 
	 Submissions will be handled via the conference web page at 
	 http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt.

IMPORTANT  DATES 
     Paper Submission  -     November 15, 2005 *Deadline extended: November 22*
     Author Notification -   February 15, 2006
     Final Manuscript Due -  March    29, 2006 

For Further Information, Please Contact:  
    ler@di.fc.ul.pt


ICDCS 2006 - Organizing and Program Committee
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General Co-chairs:  
         Haruhisa Ichikawa 
	 Global Computing Laboratory, Japan

         Michel Raynal
	 IRISA, France
	                   
Program Co-chairs:
         Mustaque Ahamad  
	 Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

         Luis Rodrigues
	 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Program vice chairs:

    Algorithms and Theory               
         Philippas Tsigas
         Chalmers University, Sweden 

    Autonomic Computing                
         Manish Parashar
         Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

    Data Management                     
         Karl Aberer
         EPFL, Switzerland

    Fault-Tolerance and Dependability	 
         Eliane Martins
         UNICAMP, Brazil

    Internet Computing and Applications 
         Ling Liu
         Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
					
    Network Protocols
         Katherine Guo
         Bell Labs, USA

    Operating Systems and Middleware	
         Roy Friedman
         Technion, Israel

     Parallel, Cluster and GRID Computing	
         Tarek S. Abdelrahman
         University of Toronto, Canada

     Peer to Peer				
         Bobby Bhattacharjee
         University of Maryland, USA

     Security
         Christian Cachin
         IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

     Sensor Networks and Ubiquitous Computing
         Tarek Abdelzaher
         University of Virginia, USA
					
     Wireless and Mobile Computing
         Arup Acharya
         IBM Research, USA 
    
(see web page for complete sub-committees)

Workshop Co-Chairs:
	 Makoto Takizawa
	 Tokyo Denki University, Japan

	 Ricardo Jiménez Peris
	 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

International Liaison Chair:
	 Ten H. Lai
	 Ohio State University, USA

Award Co-Chairs:
         Anish Arora
	 Ohio State University, USA
         
	 Joseph E. Urban
	 Arizona State University, USA

Treasure Chair:
         Filipe Araújo
	 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Local Arrangements Chair:
         José Rufino
	 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
    
Publicity Chair
	 Antonio Casimiro
	 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
	 
TCDP Chair:
         Chita Das
	 Penn State University, USA

Steering Committee Chair:
         Ming T. (Mike) Liu
         Ohio State University, USA