Symposium
The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications is seeking articles concerning fundamental research and practical experience reports. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· High Speed Networks/Protocols and Middleware
· Routing Mechanisms
· Overlay Networks/Peer-to-Peer Systems
· System Area Networks (SAN)/Clusters
· Performance Modeling/Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
· Web Caching and Switching
· Network Processors
· Network Security
· Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks
· Intrusion-Tolerant Systems
· Scalable and Dependable Servers
· Middleware for Dependable Network Computing
· Self*(configuring, healing, optimizing, protecting, organizing, aware) platforms for Network Computing
· Seamless and virtual capabilities to achieve dynamic reconfiguration, self-healing, and non-stop operation
· Network Protocol Verification and Validation
· Autonomic Network Computing
· Cloud Computing: Optimizing the Cloud (path, communication, application, etc.)
· Autonomic Cloud Computing: Secure Cloud Applications and Platforms, Ensuring Site and Application Availability
· Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET)
· Sensor Networks
· Programming Environments for Distributed Systems
· e-Commerce
· Practical Experiences and Prototypes

Workshops
The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications is organizing the following workshops:

Adaptive Cloud & Grid Computing (ACGC)
· Dynamically forming virtual organizations
· Adaptive infrastructure for grid computing
· Dynamic reconfiguration in the presence of anomalies in the cloud & grid computational infrastructures

Interconnection Networks for Multicore Chips (INMC)
· Network-driven multicore chips
· Caching and virtualization in on-chip networks for multicore chips
· Low power on-chip networks for multicore chips
· Programming paradigms for multicore chips

Methods for Assessing Tradeoffs (e.g., security and performance) in Trustworthy System Design (MATTSD)
· Composition methods for designing trustworthy systems
· Composing untrustworthy computing platforms for trustworthy multiparty computation