SRDS 2004
                23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
                      Preliminary Call for Papers

October 18-20, 2004
Florianpolis, Brazil
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society  TC on Distributed Processing

The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is a traditional forum for
researchers and practitioners who are interested in distributed systems
design and development, particularly with properties such as reliability,
availability, safety, security, and real time.
We welcome original research papers as well as papers that deal with
design, development and experimental results of operational systems. We
are also soliciting papers for an experience track that present on-going
industrial projects, prototype systems and exploratory or emerging
applications.

Topics of Interest: The major areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
- Distributed systems with properties such as reliability, availability,
  security, safety, and/or real time
- Mobile, autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- Security and high-confidence systems
- Parallel and distributed operating systems
- Distributed objects and middleware systems
- Internet-based systems and applications
- Grid computing
- Distributed databases and transaction processing
- Distributed multimedia systems
- Electronic commerce and enabling technologies
- Distributed workflow and enterprise management systems
- Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
- Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems
- Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms
- QoS control and assessment


Important Dates:
Submission deadline:                    April  02, 2004
Author notification                     June   18, 2004
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: July   16, 2004

Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be written in English using at least 11-point size
double-space format. Regular papers may not exceed 20 double-spaced pages.
Each paper should include a cover page, the title, the authors and their
affiliations, the contact author and his/her email address, an abstract
and a list of keywords.
Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, to the symposium
homepage, at http://www.srds2004.ufsc.br. Accepted papers will appear in
the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society.

Workshops and Tutorial:
Two workshops and one tutorial are planned to be held in conjunction with
SRDS 2004. Information will be available at the symposium Web Site.

Additional Information:
Please visit http://www.srds2004.ufsc.br for detailed information and
updates.

Symposium Chair:
Joni Fraga, UFSC, Brazil

Program Co-Chairs:
Ravi Prakash, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA
Jie Xu, Durham University, UK

Program Committee:
Luiz Bacellar, United Tech. Research Center, US
Jean-Pierre Banatre, IRISA, France
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, US
Andrea Bondavalli, Univ. of Florence, Italy
Francisco Brasileiro, UFCG, Brazil
Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State Univ., US
Bojan Cukic, Univ. of West Virginia, US
Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan
Jan Gustafsson, Malardalen University, Sweden
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Univ. Polit. de Madrid, Spain
Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan
Kane Kim, Univ. California Irvine, US
Ajay Kshemkalyani, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, US
Michael R. Lyu, CUHK, Hong Kong
Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt Univ. of Berlin, Germany
D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, US
Edgar Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany
David Powell, LAAS-CNRS, France
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, US
Luigi Romano, University of Naples, Italy
Santosh Shrivastava, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
Neeraj Suri, Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Germany
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE and NSF, US
Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, US
S. Venkatesan, University of Texas at Dallas, US
Paulo Verssimo, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jean Arlat, LAAS-CNRS, France
William H. Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Publicity Committee:
Luiz Bacellar, United Tech. Research Center, US
Gerhard Fohler, Marladalen University, Sweden
Rogerio de Lemos, Univ. of Kent, UK
Orlando Loques, UFF, Brazil
Ingrid Jansch Porto, UFRGS, Brazil
Avelino Zorzo, PUC-RS, Brazil

TC Liaison:
Mukesh Singhal, Univ. Kentucky, USA

Finance Chair:
Romulo S. Oliveira, UFSC, Brazil

Local Arrangements Chair:
Frank Siqueira, UFSC, Brazil