16th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

October 22-24, 1997, Regal University Hotel, Durham, North Carolina, USA

THEME:

The focus of the symposium concerns the building and use of dependable distributed and parallel systems, particularly with system properties such as reliability, availability, and performance. In addition to traditional submissions, we welcome papers that deal with experimental results, testbeds, development, and datafrom operational systems. We especially encourage timely papers that describe industrial projects, experimental systems, exploratory applications in large networks, and topics related to the next generation of large reliable distributed systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The major areas of interest include but are not limited to the following topics, as they relate to reliable distributed and parallel systems:
- System-Level Fault Tolerance
- Databases and Transaction Processing
- Software Fault Tolerance
- Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems
- Reliability and Performance Modeling
- Fault-Tolerant Object-Oriented Systems
- Security
- Global Information Infrastructure
- Programming Language Support
- Dependable Parallel and Clustered Systems

ADVANCE PROGRAM

Program Details

Registration form - interactive and text versions

CONFERENCE SITE AND HOTEL INFORMATION:

Regal University Hotel
2800 Campus Walk Avenue
Durham, NC 27705-4479
(919) 383-8575
(919) 383-6035 (fax)
(800) 633-5379 (toll-free U.S. and Canada)

The Regal University Hotel is conveniently located south of I-85 off Rte 15-501 and Morrene Road, adjoining the historic Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Durham is one vertex of the Research Triangle, a center of high-tech industry in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic region. The other two vertices of the Research Triangle are picturesque Chapel Hill and the state capital Raleigh, all within a relaxing half-hour drive of each other.

The conference room rate is $79.00 single or double occupancy plus 6% NC sales tax and 5% occupancy tax. This rate is applicable before and during the conference and requires checkout on the last day of the conference. Please call the hotel's toll free reservation number 800-633-5379 or call the hotel directly at (919) 383-8575, and mention SRDS'97 (Group #482) to receive the conference rate. Some rooms have also been set aside at the standard hotel rate for those who wish to extend their stay through the following weekend.

Deadline for hotel reservation: SEPTEMBER 19, 1997

NOTE - Due to the large demand for hotel rooms at this time of year from both Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill, we recommend your prompt reponse.

The hotel provides complimentary shuttle service to and from the Raleigh-Durham Airport. For transportation to the hotel, call the Regal University Hotel using the courtesy phone located in the baggage claim area of the airport. Arrangements for the return trip to the airport should be made at least 24 hours prior to departure at the podium located at the hotel's front entrance.

Driving directions to the hotel

IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers are to be submitted no later than April 15, 1997 (new extended deadline)
Authors will be notified by June 21, 1997
Final camera-ready copies are due August 11, 1997

• IEEE Press will contact authors about the procedure to prepare camera-ready copies.
  

SPONSORS:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on Distributed Processing, Fault-Tolerant Computing, and Operating Systems
Center for Advanced Computing and Communication

GENERAL CHAIR:
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
kst@ee.duke.edu

VICE GENERAL CHAIR:
Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA
vouk@csc.ncsu.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:
Amir A. Abouelnaga, TRW, USA
Farokh B. Bastani, University of Houston, USA

FINANCE CHAIR:
Veena Mendiratta, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech., USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Dimiter Avresky, Boston University, USA

REGISTRATION CHAIR:
Siddhartha Chatterjee, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Ajay Kshemkalyani, University of Cincinnati, USA

TC LIAISON:
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Geneva Belford, U. of Illinois, USA
M. Dal Cin, U. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
J. Dehn, Lockheed-Martin, USA
Joanne Dugan, U. of Virginia, USA
Kent W. Fuchs, Purdue University, USA
Paul Green, Stratus, USA
Sumi Helal, MCC, USA
Kevin Jeffay, UNC-CH, USA
Tohru Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan
Kane Kim, UC Irvine, USA
Chandra Kintala, Lucent Tech., USA
Kinji Mori, Hitachi, Japan
Jose Munoz, DARPA, USA
Edgar Nett, GMD, Germany
R. Ramanujan, ATC, USA
M. Y. Sanadidi, NCR, USA
Shirish Sathaye, Fore Systems, USA
Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland
Eltefaat Shokri, Sohar, USA
M. Sievers, Paracel, USA
L. Simoncini, U. of Pisa, Italy
Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State U., USA
David Taylor, U. of Waterloo, Canada
Anand Tripathi, NSF, USA
Wei-Tok Tsai, U. of Minnesota, USA
Philip Thambidurai, Okidata, USA
S.-M. Yang, Soongsil U., Korea
Luke Young, Tandem Corp., USA
Phillip Yu, IBM T. J. Watson, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS: