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The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
August 22 - 24, 2013 (Thursday-Saturday)
Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA, USA
www.ieee-nca.org

Sponsored by:
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing

Patrons:
- AKAMAI, Akamai Technologies, Inc. Cambridge, MA, USA
- IRIANC, International Research Institute on Autonomic Network Computing

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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 Security
- Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks
- Intrusion-Tolerant Systems
- Scalable and Dependable Servers and Data Centers
- 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, applications)
- 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
- Energy- efficient computation and communications


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

Adaptive Cloud Computing (ACC)
- Dynamically forming virtual organizations
- Adaptive infrastructure for cloud computing
- Dynamic reconfiguration in the presence of anomalies in the cloud & infrastructures
- Security protocols in the cloud infrastructure



Interconnection Networks for Multicore Chips (INMC)
- Networked-Driven Multicore Chips
- Interconnection networks: fault tolerance, scalability and performance analysis
- Caching and virtualization in on-chip networks for MultiCore chips
- Low power on-chip networks for Multicore chips


Important Dates
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Papers Due
Tuesday, 15 May 2013

Authors Notified
Thursday, 24 May 2013

Advanced Registration Due
Monday, 4 June 2013

Camera Ready Papers Due
Friday, 8 June 2013

Hotel Reservation Deadline for the Conference Rate
Monday, 23 July 2013

Conference Start
Thursday, 22 August 2013

Conference End
Saturday, 24 August 2013

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.

Conference Committee
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Distinguished Chair
TBA

Steering Committee Chair
D. R. Avresky
IRIANC,Boston, USA

Program Chair - Co-Chair
A. Puliafito,
University of Messina,
Italy
apuliafito@unime.it

Program Chair - Co-Chair
A. Fernandez Anta,
Inst. IMDEA Networks,
Madrid, Spain,
antonio.fernandez@imdea.org

Program Chair - Co-Chair
S. Papavasileiou
University of Athens,
Greece,
papavass@mail.ntua.gr

Financial Chair
S. Geoghegan
Bloomberg, NY, USA
sgeoghegan1@optimum.net

Publicity Co-Chair - Europe
P. Romano
INESC- ID Lisbon, Portugal
Email: romano@inesc-id.pt

Publicity Chair - USA
P. Gasti,
New York Inst. of Technology,
USA - pgasti@nyit.edu

Publicity Co-Chair -ASIA
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya
Osaka University, Japan
t-tutiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Publication Chair
TBA



Program Committee
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J. Alonso, BSC – Duke University, USA
A. Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Y. Busnel, University of Nantes/CNRS, France
A. Fernandez Anta , Inst. IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
J. Becker, KIT, Germany
B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
M. Coates, University of McGill, Canada
F. Capello - CS -UIUC/USA, INRIA-France
A. Chronopoulos, UTexas, San Antonio, USA
C. Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
S. Distefano, CS, Pol. di Milano, Italy
C. Elks, University of Virginia, USA
J. Garcia, QoS Design, Toulouse, France
V. Ganesh, MIT, Cambridge, USA
I. Gashi, City University, London , UK
A. Goldman, University of San Paolo, Brazil
P. Gasti, New York Inst. of Techn. , USA
H. Helwagner, Klagenfurt Univeristy, Austria
B. Johnson, University of Virginia, USA
D. Kowalski, University of Liverpool, UK
C. Katsinis, Drexel, University, USA
R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Labs, MA, USA
R. Lent , Imperial College of London, UK
T. Little, Boston University, USA
G. Malewicz, FaceBook, CA, USA
E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany
A. Mostefaoui, Univ. of Nantes/CNRS, France
E.J.Merino, Universidad Politechica de Madrid, Spain
M. Mosteiro, Kean University, USA/Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany
R. Olsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
S. Papavasileiou, University of Athens, Greece
T. Pionteck, University of Luebeck, Germany
F. Pong, BroadCom, USA
A. Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy
P. Romano, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
T. Strayer, BBN, Cambridge, USA
L. Silva , University of Coimbra, Portugal
W. Steiner, TTTech Comp. AG, Vienna , Austria
C. Thraves, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
J. Torres, BSC - UPS, Barcelona, Spain
C. Trinitis, TU Munich, Munich, Germany
M. Tuttle, Intel,Hudson, MA,USA
M. Vouk, NC State University, USA