CALL FOR PAPERS
  StoDiS 2005 - Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems
                 December 19, 2005, San Jose, California.
                         http://www.stodis.org


You are invited to submit 4-page  position papers to be considered for
publication  at the  following   workshop.   The workshop  is  jointly
co-sponsored by  ICST   and Create-Net,  in  connection with  the IEEE
CollaborateCom  conference    (http://www.collaboratecom.org/)  in San
Jose, CA, USA.  Workshop proceedings will be  printed as a part of the
CollaborateCom 2005 proceedings.

All papers are due September 19th, 2005. This is a hard deadline.

* SCOPE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

  Distributed systems  such  as the Internet, the  Grid,  peer to peer
  systems, sensor networks, ad-hoc  networks,  etc., have grown to  be
  very complex and  very  large.   Stochasticity has emerged   as   an
  important principle  in both building  and understanding better such
  systems. On one  hand,  researchers are inventing  new probabilistic
  techniques  and  randomized  algorithms to   replace and  outperform
  traditional deterministic  approaches.  On   the   other hand,   the
  behavioral  characteristics  of such   distributed systems  are also
  inherently stochastic; their   analysis and study can simplify   our
  understanding of systems complexity, and consequently our ability to
  solve problems.

  Authors are invited to submit four-page  papers (10 pt font or more)
  on topics related    to stochasticity  in  distributed  systems.   A
  submission can  be  either a position  paper  that proposes a vision
  (new, provocative and/or  controversial ideas are encouraged), or be
  a  brief  technical     paper   that   points   to   fruitful    new
  directions. Focus distributed systems of  interest include (but  are
  not  limited to)  the Internet,  the Grid,   peer to peer  overlays,
  embedded  systems,  sensor networks,  ad-hoc  networks, and wireless
  computing. Focus issues include (but are  not limited to): 
  - Systems design  
  - Foundations, theory, and modeling 
  - Empirical studies and practical experiences 
  - Scalability, Reliability, Security, Mobility
  - Complex Adaptive Systems, biologically-inspired, swarm and quantum
  algorithms  
  - Economics and  rationality  
  - Science of  design  of
  distributed systems 
  - Stochasticity in end-user applications

Please visit the website http://www.stodis.org to submit your paper.


* CONFIRMED KEYNOTE TALKS:
  - Prof. Balaji Prabhakar, Computer Science, Stanford University, USA.
  - Dr. Robbert van Renesse, Computer Science, Cornell Univeristy, USA.

  There will  also be a panel; panelist  names  and  topic will   be
  announced later.

* WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
  Dr. Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Dr. Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna) 

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
  Dr. Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna) 
  Dr. Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Dr. Alberto Montresor (University of Bologna)     
  Dr. Alessandro Panconesi (University La Sapienza of Rome)
  Dr. Mark Jelasity (University of Bologna)    
  
* IMPORTANT DATES:
  Papers due:                    September 19, 2005
  Notification of acceptance:    October 5, 2005 
  Revised versions due:          October 19, 2005
  Workshop Date:                 December 19, 2005 

stochastic   [etymonline.com]:  "pertaining   to    conjecture,"  from
Gk. stokhastikos "able to guess, conjecturing," from stokhos "a guess,
aim, target, mark".