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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> Final Call for Papers</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> ICDCS 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> 34th Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> 30th June-3rd July 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> Madrid, Spain</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">SCOPE</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">industry and government to present their latest research findings</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">in any aspects of distributed computing.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Big Data, Data Management and Analytics</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Cloud Computing and Data Center Systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Distributed OS and Middleware</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Algorithms and Theory</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Fault Tolerance and Dependability</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Security and Privacy</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Social Networks, Crowdsourcing, and P2P systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Energy Management and Green Computing</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Sensor Networks and Systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- Mobile and Wireless Computing</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">- File and Storage Systems</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">NOTE: To build a broad program and to encourage a diverse set of submissions,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">a limited number of papers will be accepted within each topic area,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">and every topic area will accept a minimum quota of papers.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">WORKSHOPS</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Workshop proposals should be submitted to Workshops Co-Chairs Prof.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Roberto Baldoni (baldoni@dis.uniroma1.it)</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">and Prof. Jason Gu (jasongu@sutd.edu.sg) by September 30th, 2013.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance will be made by October 10th, 2013. Please see</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">the conference web page for details.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">PAPER SUBMISSION</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Form of Manuscript: All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5” x</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">11” Two-Column Format.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Each submission can have 10 pages. If the paper is accepted for</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">publication, up to 2 overlength pages</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">may be purchased for the final camera-ready version. Submitted papers</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">should NOT be blinded for review.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Electronic Submission: Submissions will be handled via the conference web</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">page.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DEADLINES</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Abstract registration 22nd November 2013</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Paper Submission<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Author Notification<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>17th March 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Final Manuscript Due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">For further information, please contact General Chair, Prof. Marta</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Patiño-Martínez (mpatino@fi.upm.es) or</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Program Co-Chair, Prof. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris (rjimenez@fi.upm.es).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">ORGANIZING & PROGRAM COMMITTEES</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">General Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Marta Patiño-Martínez (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Program Co-Chairs</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Ricardo Jimenez-Peris (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Hui Lei (IBM Watson, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Program Vice Chairs</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Phillip Gibbons (Intel Labs, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Flavio Junqueira (MSR-Cambridge, UK)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Algorithms and Theory</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Antonio Fernandez-Anta (IMDEA, Spain)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Fault Tolerance and Dependability</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Bettina Kemme (McGill Univ., Canada)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Security and Privacy</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Elisa Bertino (Purdue, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Alberto Montresor (Trento Univ., Italy)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Tarek F. Abdelzaher (UIUC, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Tian He (University of Minnesota, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Mobile and Wireless Computing</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Guohong Cao ( Pennsylvania State Univ, US)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">André Brinkmann (Mainz Univ., Germany)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Program Committee Members</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Workshops Co-Chairs</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Roberto Baldoni (Univ. Sapienza, Italy)</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Jason Gu (Singapore Univ., Singapore)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Publicity Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Ernesto Jimenez (Univ. Politecnica Madrid, Spain)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Publication Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Mikel Larra (Univ. Pais Vasco, Spain)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">TCDP Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Jiannong Cao,(Hong Kong Polyt. Univ., HK)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Steering Committee Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State Univ., USA)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Sponsors</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Microsoft Research Cambridge</font></div>
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