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CALL FOR PAPERS
(Deadline: February 27, 2012 **EXTENDED**)

DAIS 2012
12th International IFIP Conference on
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Co-located with
International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages 2012
Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems 2012

Stockholm, Sweden - June 13-16, 2012
http://b00t.info/discotec/?q=node/1
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About the Conference

The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed applications, including their architecture, design, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports.

DAIS'12 is the 12th event in a series of successful international conferences started in 1997. It will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors, and users, to discuss and learn about new approaches, trends, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing.

Important Dates

* Abstract submission: February 20, 2012 (optional)
* Paper submission: February 27, 2012 (extended)
* Author notification: March 26, 2012
* Camera-ready version: April 9, 2012
* Conferences: June 13-15, 2012
* Workshops: June 16, 2012

Submission and Publication

DAIS'12 seeks:
* Full research papers in no more than 14 pages.
* Full experimental and evaluation studies, case studies, and practice reports in no more than 14 pages.
* Work-in-progress papers, describing ongoing work and interim results, in no more than 6 pages.

Papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference if the paper is accepted.

Topics of Interest

DAIS'12 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. DAIS'12 conference topics include, but are not limited to:

* Novel and innovative applications and systems: mobile and context-aware applications, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, Internet of services, Internet of things, service-oriented computing, autonomous and self-adaptive systems, cloud computing, peer to peer systems, sensor and ad-hoc networks, systems of systems, collaborative intelligent devices, social networks, apps for smartphones and pad-computers.

* Architectures, architectural styles, middleware, platforms, distributed computing infrastructures, application level protocols, and devices (e.g., smartphones) supporting distributed applications.

* Properties and design goals: Security, trust, privacy, dependability, resilience, safety, performance, scalability, usability, efficiency, sustainability, green computing, interoperability, autonomy, self-* properties.

* Engineering and tools: modeling, model-driven architecture, domain-specific languages, design, patterns, development, deployment, validation, testing, benchmarking, operation, management, adaptation, evolution.

* Challenges: change, evolution, complexity, large and ultra large scale, dynamism, mobility, heterogeneity.

General Chair

- Jim Dowling, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Program Chairs

- Karl M. Göschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Seif Haridi, SICS/KTH, Sweden

Steering Committee

- Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
- Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
- Rüdiger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- Lea Kutvonen (chair), University of Helsinki, Finland
- Elie Najm, Telecom-ParisTech, France
- Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1, France
- Twittie Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Program Committee

- Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- Antoine Beugnard, TELECOM Bretagne (France)
- Gordon Blair, Lancaster University (UK)
- António Casimiro, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
- Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
- Ada Diaconescu, TELECOM ParisTech (France)
- Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway)
- Lorenz Froihofer, Telekom (Austria)
- Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel (Germany)
- Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
- Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF (Norway)
- Peter Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim (Norway)
- Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA)
- Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland (Australia)
- Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Rüdiger Kapitza , University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
- Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki (Finland)
- René Meier, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
- Alberto Montresor, University of Trento (Italy)
- Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria (Canada)
- Elie Najm, TELECOM ParisTech (France)
- José Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
- Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK)
- Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
- Florian Rosenberg, IBM (USA)
- Giovanni Russello, Create-Net (Italy)
- Nicolas Schiper, Google Zurich (Switzerland)
- Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University (USA)
- François Taïani, Lancaster University (UK)
- Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde (UK)
- Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- Gaël Thomas, LIP6 (France)
- Vladimir Tosic, NICTA (Australia)