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Call For Papers
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA12)
23-25 August 2012 (Thursday-Saturday)
Hotel Marlowe www.ieee-nca.org Cambridge, MA, USA
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
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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:

* Theory of Network Computing
* 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

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Workshops
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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

Interconnectioin Networks for Multicore Chips (INMC)
* Networked-Driven Multicore Chips
* Caching and virtualization in on-chip networks for MultiCore chips
* Low power on-chip networks for Multicore chips


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Important Dates
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Papers Due: Monday, 2 April 2012
Authors Notified: Thursday, 10 May 2012
Camera-Ready Papers Due: Monday, 4 June 2012

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Submission Requirements
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* Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere and must be cleared for publication in the NCA Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
* The manuscript must be written in English.
* The manuscript must not exceed 8 pages for NCA papers or 4 pages for workshop papers.
* Manuscript templates are available at www.ieee-nca.org. Follow the Manuscript Submission link.
* The submission must be in PDF format.
* To submit a manuscript, visit www.ieee-nca.org and follow the submission guidelines


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Conference Committee
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General Chair
TBA

Steering Committee Chair
D. R. Avresky
IRIANC, USA

Program Chair
C. Elks
University of Virginia, USA

Program Co-Chair
H. Hellwagner
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

General & Financial Chair
S. J. Geoghegan
Bloomberg, USA

Publication Chair
P. Gasti
University of California - Irvine, USA

Publicity Chair-Europe
P. Romano
IST/INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal

Publicity Chair - Asia
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya
Osaka University, Japan

Publicity Chair - USA
Carl Elks
University of Virginia, USA


Program Committee

* J. Alonso, BSC - UPS, Barcelona, Spain
* A. Anta, IMDEA, Madrid, Spain
* J. Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* A. Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Y.Brun, University of Washington, USA
* F. Capello, CS -UIUC/USA, INRIA-France
* A. Chronopoulos, UTD, San Antonio, USA
* B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
* M. Coates, University of McGill, Canada
* C. Elks, University of Virginia, USA
* V. Ganesh, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, USA
* J. Garcia, QoS Design, Toulouse, France
* I. Gashi, City University, London , UK
* P. Gasti, University of California - Irvine, CA, USA
* A. Goldman, University of San Paolo, Brazil
* H. Hellwagner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
* B. Johnson, University of Virginia, USA
* C. Katsinis, Drexel, University, USA
* R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA
* R. Lent, Imperial College of London, UK
* T. Little, Boston University, USA
* E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany
* G. Malewicz, Google, Mountain View, USA
* E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany
* R. Olsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
* S. Papavasileiou - University of Athens, Greece
* F. Pedone , University of Lugano, Switzerland
* T. Pioteck, University of Luebeck, Germany
* F. Pong, BroadCom, USA
* A. Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
* F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy
* P. Romano, INESC-ID, Portugal
* L. Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
* I. Soler, Atos-Research, Barcelona, Spain
* W. Steiner, TTTech &CT AG, Vienna, Austria
* T. Strayer, BBN, Cambridge, USA
* J. Torres, BSC - UPS, Barcelona, Spain
* C. Trinitis, TU Munich, Munich, Germany
* M. Tuttle, Intel,Hudson, USA
* M. Vouk, NC State University, USA