Second Call for Papers

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7th Asian Computing Science Conference

Hanoi, Vietnam, December 4-6, 2002

Conference themes:
   Internet Computing and Modeling
   Grid, peer-to-peer and cluster computing

http://www.lirmm.fr/asian02/
http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/ASIAN02/

_____ DEADLINE Extended to July 28, 2002 _____

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SCOPE

The popular success of the Internet is due in large part to the
World Wide Web. The Web was initially designed as a system for the
storage and retrieval of distributed data. 

We are witnessing an evolution of the services supported by the Global
Network. More and more, applications run over the net will consist in
complex data search and retrieval (electronic commerce...), and high
performance computing tasks, for the Laboratory user (physics,
biology, ...), the Industrial user (aeronautics, pharmaceutics, ...)
as well as for the end user (weather services, stock market, ... ).

For the middleware and application developers, Internet is now more
and more seen as a programming environment for data mining, data
processing, cooperative work etc.  This has lead to "Internet
Computing", a fast growing scientific area, encompassing distributed
computing and networking. 

Together with the associated concepts of Grids and Peer-to-Peer
exchanges, Internet Computing is the source of several scientific and
technological challenges. Among those: the efficient and fair sharing
of the globalized resources, and the total yet transparent security of
exchanges of data.

The ASIAN 2002 conference will seek contributions of theoretical computer 
science to two major themes:

Theme 1: Internet Computing and Modeling
     Design and analysis of network and Internet protocols
     Cryptographic algorithms and protocols
     User authentication and data/transaction safety
     Models and algorithms for the Web structure and Web evolution
     Contents distribution and management: web servers, caching, multimedia
     Internet telephony and video / streaming
     Quality of service and Performance evaluation of the Internet
     Traffic models & statistics, measurements and characterization

Theme 2: Grid, peer-to-peer and cluster computing
     Software architectures for computing and data resource integration
     Algorithms (and software) for workload and data distribution
     Distributed scheduling
     Load balancing
     Distributed operating systems 
     Mobile code and Mobile computations
     Code certification
     Data distribution/mirroring algorithms, parallel data bases
     Performance monitoring and optimization
     Network reliability and failure management
     User registration and accounting
     Grid computing environments: frameworks, portals, PSE's, etc. 

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SUBMISSIONS
     Submissions are to be sent to Alain JEAN-MARIE before July 28, 2002.
     The preferred form is a PostScript or PDF file sent by electronic mail to
			     ajm@lirmm.fr
     Alternately, paper copies may be sent in triplicate to:
          Alain JEAN-MARIE
	  LIRMM
	  161 Rue ADA
	  34392 MONTPELLIER Cedex 05
	  FRANCE

     The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.
     Please prepare your manuscript using the series' style, following the
     instructions at:
		  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

     The proceedings papers will be limited to 15 pages.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:   Extended to July 28, 2002
Acceptance notification:     August 31, 2002
Final paper due:             September 15, 2002

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BACKGROUND 

The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was
initiated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for
researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote
interaction with researchers from other regions. The first six
conferences have been held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore,
Katmandu, Manila, Phuket and Penang. In addition to support from the
host countries, they have also been sponsored by INRIA, France,
UNU/IIST, Macau and NUS, Singapore. The proceedings have been
published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag. Past
ASIAN conferences have included invited talks from Z. Manna (keynote
speaker, 95), Ph. Flajolet, G. Berry, D. Harel (96), J.-C. Bolot,
G. Smolka, D. Tygar, M. Rabin (97), N. Ayache, R. Bryant, M.N. Velev,
J. Wing (98), S. Hayashi, C. Kirchner, A. Pnueli (99), N. Halbwachs,
K. Palem, J. Vuillemin (00), R. Kotagiri, A. Jean-Marie.

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ORGANIZATION

  General co-Chairs: Kanchana KANCHANASUT (AIT, Thailand)
		      Kazunori UEDA (Waseda U., Japan)

  Steering Committee: 
    Shigeki GOTO (Waseda U., Japan)      Stéphane GRUMBACH (INRIA, France)
    Joxan JAFFAR (NUS, Singapore)        R.K. SHYAMASUNDAR (TIFR Bombay, India)
    Gilles KAHN (INRIA, France)          Kazunori UEDA (Waseda U., Japan)
    Kanchana KANCHANASUT (AIT, Thailand) Zhou CHAOCHEN (UNU/IIST, Macau)

  PC Chair: Alain JEAN-MARIE (U. Montpellier, France)

  Members (partial list): 
     Chadi BARAKAT (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) 
     Denis CAROMEL (U. Nice Sophia-Antipolis/INRIA/CNRS-I3S/IUF, France) 
     Frederic DESPREZ (ENS Lyon, France)
     Kanchana KANCHANASUT (AIT, Thailand)
     Zhen LIU (IBM Yorktown Heights, USA)
     Phong NGUYEN (ENS Paris, France)
     Brigitte PLATEAU (IMAG Grenoble, France)
     Shinji SHIMOJO (Osaka U., Japan)
     Kian-Lee TAN (NUS, Singapore)
     Yong-Meng TEO (NUS, Singapore)
     Putchong UTHAYOPAS (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
     Kenichi YOSHIDA (U. Tsukuba, Japan)
     Li ZHANG (IBM Yorktown Heights, USA)

   Local Organization Chair:
     Pr. Nguyen Cong THANH, Director, Asian Institute of Technology, Vietnam

   Local Organization Committee:
     Nguyen THI BICH HOA
     Patcharee BASU
     Natchana POONTHAWEELAP

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Jacques Stern (ENS Paris, France) on Cryptography
Brigitte Plateau (IMAG Grenoble, France) on Grid/Cluster computing

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