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IEEE P2P 2012
12th International Conference in Peer-to-Peer Computing
CALL FOR PAPERS
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September 3-5 2012, Tarragona (Spain)
http://www.ieee-p2p.org

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# Papers Due: *** April, 13 2012 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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The P2P'12 conference solicits papers on all aspects of large-scale distributed
computing. Of particular interest is research that furthers the state-of-the-art
in the design and analysis of large-scale distributed applications and systems,
or that investigates real, deployed, applications or systems. We seek high-quality
and original contributions on this general theme along a range of topics including:

* Information retrieval and query support
* P2P for cloud computing
* Large-scale infrastructure technology
* Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing
* P2P for grids, clouds, and datacenters
* Deployed (commercial) applications and systems
* Security, trust, and reputation
* Cooperation, incentives, and fairness
* P2P economics
* Social networks
* Overlay architectures and topologies
* Overlay interaction with underlying infrastructure
* Overlay monitoring and management
* Self-organization
* P2P applications and systems over mobile networks
* Measurements and modeling of P2P and cloud systems
* Performance, robustness, and scalability



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Paper submission guidelines
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Papers can be submitted either as full papers or as short papers (following the
IEEE single-spaced two-column format and a 10-point font size). Full papers should
not exceed 10 pages and short papers should not exceed 5 pages. Short papers are
expected to present work that is less mature but holds promise, articulate a high-level
vision, describe challenging future directions or offer results that do not merit
a full submission. Please note that short papers also need evaluation results or
analysis to corroborate the claims of the paper and that a paper longer than 5 pages
is treated as a full paper.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the EDAS paper-submission
website linked from the conference website. IEEE templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word,
as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Digital Toolbox webpage. The
conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society.

All submissions will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. To ensure blind
reviewing, papers should be anonymized by removing author names and affiliations, as well
as by masking any information about projects and bibliographic references, etc. that
might reveal the authors' identities. Papers that are not properly anonymized will be
rejected without review. Submitted papers should describe original and previously
unpublished research and are not allowed to be simultaneously submitted or under review
elsewhere.

*Note:* P2P 2012 will experiment with two changes to the traditional reviewing process:
two-phase reviewing and "open reviews". These changes are an effort to provide additional
feedback to authors of submitted papers and make the overall reviewing process more
transparent. Specifically, all paper submissions will receive between 3 and 5 reviews
each; while all papers will receive at least 3 reviews, papers of sufficient quality
will undergo a second reviewing phase. In addition, the camera-ready version of each
accepted paper will be accompanied by a 1-page summary that consists of the significant
portions of the (anonymized) reviews that the paper received during the reviewing
process and a 1-paragraph summary by the authors detailing how they addressed the reviewers'
comments. The conference proceedings as well as the conference website will include the
camera-ready version of each accepted paper together with the corresponding 1-page summary
review.

In addition to the main conference, IEEE P2P 2012 will have a poster and demo session,
and a conference best paper award.
Thanks to the supporting organizations, P2P 2012 also plans to offer a small number of
travel grants . Application Information for these grants will be published in the
P2P'12 web site.

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Important Dates
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* Abstract Submission: April 6, 2012
* Submission Deadline: April 13, 2012
* Notification: July 9, 2012
* Author Registration Deadline: July 20, 2012
* Camera-ready: July 29, 2012
* Conference dates: September 3-5, 2012

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Contact Information
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Fabian Bustamante and John Douceur (TPC Chairs)
Email: p2p12-chairs@comsoc.org


Pedro Garcia Lopez (General Chair)
Email: p2p12@comsoc.org