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General Information:

The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is the pre-eminent forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design and development, particularly with properties such as reliability, availability, safety, security, and real time. We welcome original research papers that deal with theoretical foundations, design, development and evaluation of experimental as well as operational systems.
We are also soliciting papers for an experience track that present experimental studies, prototype systems and exploratory or emerging applications.

Topics of Interest:

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

·  Fault-tolerant distributed/networked algorithms

·  Distributed/Networked operating systems

·  Distributed objects and middleware systems, Internet, grid computing

·  Reliable ad hoc and sensor networks

·  Mobile, autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing

·  Distributed transaction processing, workflow and enterprise management systems

·  Analytical, experimental, formal evaluations of dependable distributed systems 

·  Authentication, confidentiality and integrity protocols in high-confidence distributed systems

Important Dates:

Research Paper Submissions: April 25, 2005 (firm deadline, no extensions)

Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2005

Camera-ready copy due: August 1, 2005

Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must be written in English using at least 11-point size double-space format. Regular papers may not exceed 20 double-spaced pages. Each paper should include a cover page, the title, the authors and their affiliations, the contact author and his/her email address, an abstract and a list of keywords.
Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, to the submission web site, http://www.softconf.com/start/SRDS2005/submit.html. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.