Call for Paper Conference

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The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing,
self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now
at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems.

The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following tracks:

• * Alternative Systems and Models
• * Autonomic Computational Science
• * Cloud Computing
• * Embedded Systems
• * Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems / Dependability
• * Formal Methods in Distributed Systems
• * Grid Computing
• * Mobility and Dynamic Networks
• * Multicore Computing
• * Peer-to-Peer Systems
• * Self-Organizing Systems
• * Sensor Networks
• * Stabilization
• * System Safety and Security

IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper Submission: May 31, 2009
* Initial Notification and Beginning of Rebuttal Phase: July 24, 2009
* End of Rebuttal Phase: July 28, 2009
* Final Notification: August 1, 2009
* Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2009

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted in PDF format and be prepared using the LNCS style.
Detailed instructions for submitting papers will be available later.
Two types of papers can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements.
Submissions for regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title, authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief announcements are restricted to two pages using the
LNCS style, with no appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
If requested by the authors on the submission system, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for a brief announcement. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular paper.
A paper submitted at this forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal.

PUBLICATION
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Selected conference papers, provided they are within the scope of ACM TAAS, will be published in a special issue of that journal.\

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09) will take place on Marina Del Rey, California, USA during Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

DCOSS 2009 is a highly selective conference and features a single track of 26 papers reporting on state-of-the-art research on:
- Algorithms and Analysis
- Applications and Systems
- Signal Processing and Information Theory

The advance program includes the schedule and titles of each presented paper.
http://www.dcoss.org/program.php

Please see http://www.dcoss.org/ for detailed information on the keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09. Keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09 include:

"Compressive Sensing: an Overview",
Emmanuel J. Candes, Calfornia Institute of Technology

"Smart Grid - Convergence for a Future Energy Transmission and Distribution
System with Wireless communications, Sensors/Monitors, RFID and I.T."
Rajit Gadh, University of California at Los Angeles

The conference is co-located with seven closely related workshops, which will be held Wednesday, June 10:

- Third International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for
Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS)
- Second International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE)
- Second Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN)
- Third International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS)
- International Workshop on Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks
- First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from
Sensors and Streams
- International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future
Internet (RWI)

More workshop information is available at: http://www.dcoss.org/workshops.php

The DCOSS program includes a poster session, a demo session, and a work-in-progress session, at 6pm on Monday, June 8.

A government funding session will be led by Anita J. La Salle, Program Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), at the National Science Foundation. This session will be held 5:00pm - 6:30pm on Tuesday, June 9, 2008.

The conference will be held at the MARINA DEL REY MARRIOTT. Discount conference
rates are available through:
http://www.dcoss.org/accommodation.php