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The 7th International Conference on
Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2014)
September 22-24, 2014, Calabria, Italy
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IDCS 2014 conference is the seventh in its series to promote research in diverse fields related to Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. The emergence of Web as a ubiquitous platform for innovations has laid the foundation for the rapid growth of the Internet. Side-by-side, the use of mobile and wireless devices such as PDA, laptop, and cell phones for accessing the Internet has paved the ways for related technologies to flourish through recent developments. In addition, the popularity of sensor networks is promoting better integration of the digital world with physical environment. In IDCS 2014 conference, we are interested in receiving innovative papers on emerging technologies related to Internet and distributed systems to support the effective design and efficient implementation of high-performance computer networks and next-generation collaborative systems and technology. The target audience includes researchers and industry practitioners those are interested in different aspects of the Internet and distributed systems, with a particular focus on the practical experiences with the design and implementation of related technologies as well as their theoretical perspectives.


Topics of Interest
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The topics of interest are organized into 5 major tracks:


Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
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- Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Networked Sensing and Control
- Sensor Fusion, Tracking and Localisation
- Embedded Software for Sensor Networks
- Environmental Sensing Applications
- Body Sensor Networks
- Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
- Network Protocols
- Software-defined Networking

Track 2: Internet and Web Technologies
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- Internet Architectures and Protocols
- Modeling and Evaluation of Internet-based Systems
- Internet Quality of Service
- Real-time Multimedia Communication Systems
- Web services and Mash-ups
- Internet and Web of Things
- Social Networks

Track 3: Network Operations & Management
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- Energy Efficiency in Large-scale Distributed Systems
- Security of Network-based Systems
- Network-based Applications (VoIP, Streaming)
- Network Traffic Engineering
- Tools and Techniques for Network Measurements
- Management of Extreme-scale Systems

Track 4: Information Infrastructure
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- Next Generation Content Delivery Network
- Grid, Cloud, and P2P Computing
- Distributed Computing Applications
- Autonomic Computing
- Cognitive Networks
- Computational Economy for Distributed Systems
- Collaborative Technology and Applications

Track 5: Resilience, Fault tolerance, and Availability
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- Fault Tolerant and Self-managing Distributed Systems
- Dependability and Dependable Systems
- Computing Models for Resilient Distributed Systems
- Principles for Resilient Software Architecture
- Availability Design


Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries
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http://plasma.deis.unical.it/events/idcs2014/
email: idcs2014@easychair.org


Submission Guidelines
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idcs2014. Each submitted paper should follow Springer LNCS proceedings paper template. The length of all submitted papers will have 12 pages limit, including all figures, appendix, and references, etc. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Each submission will be reviewed by the members of the TPC and external reviewers.


Publication
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The conference proceedings will be published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All papers will also be electronically available through SpringerLink Database and professionally indexed through ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), EI, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar.
Selected presented papers at the conference will be invited to be submitted in special issues that will be organized in (i) Springer Book Series on Internet of Things and (ii) Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA, Elsevier).


Registration
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Each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings must be registered for IDCS 2014. Each paper has to be presented in person by the main author, or one of the authors.


Important Dates
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Submission Due: June 15, 2014
Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2014
Camera-ready Copy Due: July 20, 2014
Registration Due: July 22, 2014
Conference: September 22-24, 2014


Organization
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General Chair
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Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy


Program Chairs
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Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK
Wenfeng Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Sergio Ochoa, Universidad de Chile, Chile


Local Program Chair
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Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy


Web Chair
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Antonio Guerrieri, DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy


Publicity and Industry Chair
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Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia


Steering Committee - IDCS Series
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Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Dimitrios Georgakopolous, RMIT University, Australia
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia


Program Committee (TBF)
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Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University
Tarem Ahmed, BRAC University
Gianluca Aloi, University of Calabria
Hani Alzaid, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Ioannis Andreopoulos, University College London
Doina Bein, The Pennsylvania State University
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne
Massimo Cossentino, National Research Council of Italy
Maria De Souza, The University of Sheffield
Marcos Dias De Assuncao, IBM Research Brazil
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples
Abdelkarim Erradi, Qatar University
Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky
Stefano Galzarano, University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy
Maria Ganzha, University of Gdansk, Poland
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
Saurabh Kumar Garg, University of Melbourne Australia
Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus
Luca Geretti, University of Udine - DIEGM, Italy
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, UCLA
Soumya Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria
Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, King Saud University
Mick Hobbs, Deakin University
Jaehoon Paul Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University
Dimitrios Katsaros, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly
Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio
Hae Young Lee, Seoul Women's University
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology
Jaime Lloret, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille Nord-Europe
Michele Malgeri, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica - Università degli Studi di Catania
Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR
Mustafa Mat Deris, UTHM
Claudio Miceli de Farias, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Kyung Hee University
Enrico Natalizio, Universitè de Technologie de Compiègne
Surya Nepal, CSIRO
Marco Netto, IBM Research
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna
Ekow Otoo, COMS, University of the Witwatersrand
Pasquale Pace, University of Calabria
Carlos Palau, UPV
George Pallis, Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Marcin Paprzycki, IBS PAN and WSM
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Thomas Repantis, University of California, Riverside
Domenico Rosaci, DIMET Department, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, King Abdul Aziz University
Weiming Shen, NRC, Canada
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University
Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Waleed Smari, University of Dayton
Giandomenico Spezzano, CNR-ICAR and University of Calabria
Jun Suzuki, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO & Australian National University
Giorgio Terracina, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' della Calabria
Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba
Parimala Thulasiram, University of Manitoba
Paolo Trunfio, DEIS, University of Calabria
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, ICB
Athanasios Vasilakos, Prof. NTUA
Salvatore Venticinque, Seconda Università di Napoli
Bin Xie, InfoBeyond Technology
Norihiko Yoshida, Division of Mathematics, Electronics and Informatics, Saitama University