[ecoop-info] Call for Workshop Proposals: 31st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2012)

[Poolsappasit, Nayot]

			Call for Workshop Proposals 
31st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2012) 
			Irvine, California, USA 
		http://web.mst.edu/~cswebdb/srds2012/ 
			8th/11th October 2012 

Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with SRDS 2012. Each proposed workshop should 
provide a forum to address specific topics of interest in the areas of reliability, security, privacy, and safety 
of distributed systems and networks. 

Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and 
distributed at the Symposium. The papers might also be made available online from the workshop web pages. 

Important Deadlines 
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Submission of workshop proposals: 		Friday, March 9 
Workshop selection notification: 		Friday, March 23 
Sending out workshop CFPs and web site ready: 	Friday, April 13 
Submission of workshop papers: 			Monday, June 25 
Acceptance notification for workshop papers: 	Friday, July 20 
Submission of camera-ready workshop papers: 	Monday, July 30

Workshop organizers may shorten the above deadlines. 

Workshop Proposal Submission 
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Workshops proposals should be submitted in the PDF format, and should include: 

1. Workshop title 
2. A statement of the workshop goals 
3. Names, affiliations, and addresses of the organizers 
4. A CFP draft 
5. Planned length of the workshop (e.g., half day, full day) 
6. A tentative schedule showing all planned activities (paper sessions, panels, keynote addresses, etc.) 
7. Expected number of submissions and acceptance rate 
8. Expected number of attendees 
9. Program chair(s), and, optionally, tentative Technical Program Committee 
10. Short professional biographies of workshop organizers 
11. A description of the publicity plans 
12. If applicable, descriptions of the past instances of the workshop, including dates, organizers, submission counts, 
acceptance counts, attendance counts, and web sites (URLs). 

Please email workshop proposals with the subject "SRDS 2012 Workshop Proposal" to the IEEE SRDS 2012 Workshop 
Chairs: Ravi Prakash (ravip at utdallas.edu) and Pin Zhou (pinzhou at us.ibm.com).