ASIAN'03

Eighth Asian Computing Science Conference

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

December 10-12, 2003

Collocated with ICLP'03 and FSTTCS'03

Conference Schedule (10/30/03)

Travel Information (10/15/03; link to ICLP site)

Registration Details(10/15/03; link to ICLP site)

Sixteen Papers have been accepted. (09/15/03)

The phenomenal success of the Internet at the application level may perhaps primarily be attributed to a few simple but powerful ideas: a client-server computing model, stateless (or partially stateful) protocols (such as SMTP, HTTP, Instant Messaging and Presence Protocols), the separation of transport from content, etc. Fundamental limitations of these ideas are already being addressed by the development of middleware platforms for distributed applications (e.g., J2EE, Groove, Jini, .Net). In the future, experience with large-scale distributed applications may result in well-understood computational models that are enshrined in programming languages with support for uniform naming, reflexive operation, fault tolerance, distribution, locality, partially disconnected operation, persistence, mobility, autonomic operation, spatial aggregation, continuous streaming, etc.

Scope

The theme of this conference is Programming Languages and Distributed Computation. Papers are invited on all aspects of theory, practice and applications related to this theme. Papers targeting lessons learnt from the development of large-scale application frameworks (e.g., Internet applications, distributed sensor networks) that may serve as the basis for the development of programming languages are particularly welcome.

Invited Speakers

Greg Morrisett (Cornell U.)
Mark S. Miller (HP Labs / Johns Hopkins U.)
Andrew Birrell (Microsoft Research)

Submissions

Submissions are to be sent to Vijay Saraswat by 11:59PM, August 11, 2003, EST. Authors must submit their papers electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file. Plese send email to asian03-submissions@cse.psu.edu.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Please prepare your manuscript using the series' style, following the instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The proceedings papers will be limited to 15 pages.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 11, 2003 (EST)
Acceptance notification: September 7, 2003
Final paper due: September 21, 2003

Organization

General Co-chairs:

R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India)
Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan)

Program Committee:

Gul Agha (UIUC, USA)
Guruduth Banavar (IBM Research, USA)
Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems, USA)
Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, UK)
Georges Gonthier (INRIA, France)
Seif Haridi (SICS, Sweden / NUS, Singapore)
Nevin Heintze (Agere Research, USA)
Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul U., USA)
Naoki Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego, USA)
Sanjiva Prasad (IIT Delhi, India)
Padma Raghavan (Penn State U., USA)
Vijay Saraswat, CHAIR (Penn State U., USA)
R. K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India)
Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State U., USA)
Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan)
Sanjiva Weerawarana (IBM Research, USA / U. Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Feng Zhao (PARC, USA)

Workshop Chair:

Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand)

Steering Committee:

Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan)
Stephane Grumbach (INRIA, France)
Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore)
Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France)
Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand)
R.K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, India)
Kazunori Ueda (Waseda U., Japan)

Background

The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was initiated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions. The first seven conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, Kathmandu, Manila, Phuket, Penang, and Hanoi. In addition to support from the host countries, they have also been sponsored by INRIA, France, UNU/IIST, Macau and NUS, Singapore. The proceedings have been published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag.

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Last Update: August 23, 2003