[e2e] CFP: 2nd IEEE Intl Symposium on Network Computing and Applications

[Micah Beck]

Call for Papers

The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
April 16-18, 2003, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Distributed
Processing


The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications is
seeking articles concerning fundamental research and practical experience
reports.  The topics of interest include, but are not limited too:

* High Speed Networking/Protocols and Middleware
* Routing Mechanisms and Protocols, IP Multicast
* Private Virtual Networking
* Local- and Wide-Area Networking, Network Processors
* Optical Communication Networks
* Network Security
* Computation-intensive Applications in Network Systems
* Dependable High-Speed Wide, Local and System Area Networks
* Reliable Group Communications Protocols
* Protocol Verification and Validation
* System Area Networks (SAN)/InfiniBand
* Performance Modeling/Analysis and Load Balancing
* Web Caching and Switching
* Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
* Terabit Optical Switching /Routing Architectures
* Intrusion-Tolerant Systems
* Programming Environments for Distributed Systems
* Dependable Distributed Mobile Computing
* Scalable Dependable Servers, Internet Servers
* Practical Experiences and Prototypes, e-Commerce

Further details and submission requirements can be found in the full CFP,
available at these URLs:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mbeck/NCA03/NCA03-cfp.pdf
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mbeck/NCA03/NCA03-cfp.ps

Important Dates

Paper due:              January 10, 2003
Authors notified by:    February 15, 2003
Camera-ready paper due: March 1, 2003

Accepted Manuscripts will be included in the NCA-03 Proceedings published by
the IEEE CS Press.

Distinguished Chair
J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA

Program Chair
D.R. Avresky, Northeastern Univ., USA
avresky at ece.neu.edu

Co-Program Chair
J. Plank, Univ. of Tennessee
plank at cs.utk.edu

General Co-Chair
B.W. Johnson, Univ. of Virginia
bwj at virginia.edu

General Co-Chair
G. Lombardi, Northeastern Univ., USA
lombardi at ece.neu.edu

Publicity Chair
M. Beck, Univ. of Tennessee
mbeck at cs.utk.edu

Financial Chair
C. Katsinis, Drexel University
ckatsini at ece.drexel.edu

Local Arrangements
K. Panetta, Tufts University
Karen at ee.tufts.edu