The 3rd International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS 2009)

Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March 2009
http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/CODS09.htm

One of the most distinguishing requirements upon Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is today's ever-changing, highly open dynamic environments in which large-scale ICT systems are situated to operate. Challenges for ICT systems engineering immediately arise including, e.g., systems scalability, systems ultra-dependability, systems convergence against uncertainty and emergence, and so forth. In recent years, emergence, adaptation, self-organization, self-management, etc. have received extensive interests in both academics and industries of software, computing and communications.
The CODS 2009 conference aims at providing an international forum for the researchers and practitioners in the related subject areas to exchange research results, experiences, as well as the visions of the future and the scientific and practical problems that challenge the current technology development.

Important Dates

05 Dec. 2008 Submission of manuscripts
05 Jan. 2009 Notification of acceptance
01 Feb. 2009 Camera-Ready Version
23-25 Mar. 2009 Conferences

Submission and Publication

Submissions must be original contributions that neither have been published nor have been under review for publication elsewhere. All submissions must be in English and no more than 7 pages in the format specified in the Instructions for Authors, which are available on http://siwn.org.uk/press/ita.htm. To submit a paper, a file in pdf format containing the manuscript of submission must be uploaded to the CODS 2009 submission website.
All manuscripts submitted will be sent to 3-4 members of the International Technical Program Committees of the Conferences for peer reviews and assessed according to the technical merits and presentation, on which the acceptance decision will be based.
Accepted papers will be included in the CD-ROM Proceedings of SIWN 2009, which will be available for participants at the Conferences to promote the widest exchange and dissemination at the Conferences.
Accepted papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised versions in the international journal ((Communications of SIWN)) (CoSIWN) (ISSN 1757-4439) after the conference. Details can be seen on the SIWN 2009 website.
Proposals of workshops, invited sessions and tutorials on emerging areas are welcome. Please discuss your proposals with Prof. Hong Zhu, the Chair of Technical Program Committee.

Topics of Interest

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.
(1) Autonomic Networking and the Internet
(2) Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications
(3) Distributed Collaborative Systems
(4) Grid Computing
(5) System-of-Systems Architectures
(6) Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services
(7) Multi-Agent Systems
(8) Distributed Automation
(9) Pervasive Systems
(10) Security and Privacy in Distributed Systems
(11) Reliability and Dependability of Distributed Systems


CODS 2009 Online Submission Website

http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=cods09

Contact

Prof. Hong Zhu
Chair of Technical Program Committee,
CODS 2009

School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
Tel.: ++44 1865 484580
Fax.: ++44 1865 484545
Email: hzhu@brookes.ac.uk