[cap-talk] Fwd: Reminder to advertise for our workshop

[Mark Miller]

This "reasonable length" notion is liberating. I've had to amputate
too many papers to meet page limits. I encourage y'all to seize the
opportunity!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Van Roy <peter.vanroy at uclouvain.be>
Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Subject: Reminder to advertise for our workshop
To: alonso at inf.ethz.ch, Seif Haridi <seif at sics.se>,
bernardo.huberman at hp.com, anda at csee.usf.edu, Pascal.Molli at loria.fr,
nmp at di.fct.unl.pt, hweather at cs.cornell.edu, luc.onana at umh.ac.be,
ar at zib.de, erights at gmail.com, Marc Shapiro -- at work
<marc.shapiro at acm.org>
Cc: Peter Van Roy <peter.vanroy at uclouvain.be>


Dear PC members of our SASO workshop,

This is just a reminder to advertise for our workshop: send to mailing
lists, mention on blogs, send to people who are likely submitters,
etc.  Tell them that to write a position paper, it's enough to have a
strong opinion.  At the request of SASO organization, I've extended
the CFP to accept in addition to position papers also technical papers
(of any "reasonable length" since accepted papers will be in an IEEE
postproceedings on CD ROM).  I attach an ASCII CFP for your
convenience.  The URL for the workshop is:
http://www.ist-selfman.org/wiki/index.php/SelfmanWorkshop.

Best regards,

Peter


Call for Papers

                              Workshop on
     DECENTRALIZED SELF MANAGEMENT FOR GRIDS, P2P, AND USER COMMUNITIES

       http://www.ist-selfman.org/wiki/index.php/SelfmanWorkshop
       Oct. 20 or 21, 2008, Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy
           In conjunction with SASO 2008, Oct. 20-24, 2008

Important dates:
  * Submission of position paper: July 5, 2008 (required for attendance)
  * Notification of acceptance: Aug. 5, 2008
  * Final copy: Sept. 15, 2008
  * Workshop: Oct. 20-21, 2008

The Internet is a fantastic tool for information and resource sharing.
User communities such as families, friends, schools, clubs, etc., can
pool their resources and their knowledge: hardware, computation time,
file space, photos, data, annotations, pointers, opinions, etc.

However, infrastructures and tools for supporting such activities are
still relatively primitive.  Existing P2P networks enable world-wide
file sharing but are limited to read-only data and provide no security
or confidentiality guarantees.  Grids support closed-membership virtual
organizations (VOs), but their management remains largely manual.
Web 2.0 social networks, blogs, and wikis remain centralized and have
limited functionality.

This workshop examines issues of decentralized self management as they
relate to these areas.  The workshop is co-located with SASO 2008, the
Second International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing
Systems (<http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/saso2008/>).  The workshop
covers the application of:

  * Peer-to-peer techniques such as structured overlay networks
  * Self-adaptive techniques such as feedback loop architectures
  * Agoric systems, collective intelligence, and game theory
  * Decentralized distributed algorithms
  * Autonomic networking techniques

to:

  * Virtual organizations
  * Collaborative and social applications
  * Computer-supported cooperative work, collaborative editing,
    code management tools, or co-operative engineering
  * Data replication, distributed file systems or distributed
    databases
  * Security and confidentiality in distributed systems

To attend the workshop, you must submit a position paper of no more
than 5 pages to the workshop organizers.  Technical papers may be
submitted as well.  All accepted submissions will be published in
an IEEE postproceedings.  Submissions should be sent to the
following address (preferably by email in pdf format):

  Peter Van Roy
  Dept. of Computing Science and Engineering
  Place Sainte Barbe, 2
  UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain
  B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
  Belgium
  Email: peter.vanroy at uclouvain.be

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
The review will focus not only on the paper's quality but also on
its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions.  All
authors of accepted position papers are invited to attend the
workshop.  Note that workshop attendees must register both to the
conference and the workshop.  Workshop PC members are also
encouraged to submit position papers and that these papers will be
reviewed to the same standards as outside submissions.

This workshop is sponsored by the European projects Grid4All
<http://www.grid4all.eu/> and SelfMan <http://www.ist-selfman.org/>,
with corporate sponsorship from France TŽlŽcom R&D.

Keynote speaker

   [TBA]

Organizing committee

   Peter Van Roy, UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain, Belgium
   Marc Shapiro, INRIA & LIP6, Paris, France
   Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Program committee

   Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
   Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
   Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA
   Mark Miller, Google Research, USA
   Pascal Molli, LORIA, Nancy, France
   Luc Onana Alima, UMH, Mons, Belgium
   Nuno Pregui a, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
   Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institut Berlin, Germany
   Marc Shapiro, INRIA & LIP6, Paris, France
   Peter Van Roy, UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain, Belgium
   Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA





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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

 Cheers,
 --MarkM
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