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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Apologies if you receive multiple copies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>30th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>October 4-7, 2011, Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es:11888/srds/cfp.html">http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es:11888/srds/cfp.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'>The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, security, trust and real time. We welcome original research papers as well as practical experience reports that deal with design, development and experimental results of operational systems. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Abstract submission: March 27, 2011 (required)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Full Paper submission: April 3, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Author notification: June 13, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Camera-ready: July 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Workshops: October 4, 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conference: October 5-7, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>SCOPE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='text-align:justify'>The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Autonomic, pervasive, ubiquitous and diffuse computing <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Secure and trusted systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Secure and dependable web services <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>High-confidence systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Parallel and distributed operating systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Distributed objects and middleware systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fault-tolerant and secure sensor nets and wireless ad-hoc networks <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Event-based and peer-to-peer infrastructures <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Distributed databases and transaction processing <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Distributed multimedia systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Grid Computing <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Electronic commerce and enabling technologies <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Distributed algorithms <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Internet-based systems and applications <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Wireless and ad-hoc networks <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>QoS control and assessment <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Trust and scalable system design in social networks <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><h2>Best Paper Award: <o:p></o:p></h2><p style='text-align:justify'>The symposium will highlight the best paper. All papers accepted for presentation at the symposium will be evaluated by the Best Paper Award Co-Chairs for the award. The authors of the awarded paper will receive 1,000 euros (taxable). The Best Paper Award is co-sponsored by Yahoo! Research. <o:p></o:p></p><h2>Submission Guidelines: <o:p></o:p></h2><p style='text-align:justify'>Please see <a href="http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es:11888/srds/submission.html">the submission page</a> for information. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Workshops</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshops will be held in conjunction with SRDS 2011 on October 4, 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Committee</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SYMPOSIUM CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Luiz Eduardo Buzato, Unicamp, Brazil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Christof Fetzer, TUD, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Benoit Garbinato, University of Lausanne, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas Austin, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Univeristy of Illinois at U-C, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Johan Karlsson, Chalmers University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yi Lin, Microsoft, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mark Linderman, AFRL, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Raimundo Macedo, UFBA, Brazil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Henrique Madeira, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Istvan Majzik, BUTE, Hungary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gilles Muller, INRIA, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Murray, HP Labs, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lotfi Ben Othmane, Western Michigan University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marta Patiño, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vivien Quema, CNRS, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anand Ranganathan IBM Watson, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eltefaat Shokri, Aerospace corp, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gene Tsudik, University of California at Irvine, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ouri Wolfson, UIC, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FINANCE CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marta Patiño, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Claudio Soriente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PUBLICATION CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WORKSHOP CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PUBLICITY CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sriram Chellappan, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SC LIAISONS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University<o:p></o:p></p><h2>Sponsored by: <o:p></o:p></h2><p style='text-align:justify'>IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>