Call for papers

SIROCCO 2011

18th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity

June 26-29, Gdansk, Poland

http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2011/

Important dates

Submission deadline: March 10, 2011  March 16, 2011 (23:59 Honolulu time)

Author notification: April 15, 2011

Camera-ready submission: April 30, 2011

Theme

SIROCCO is devoted to the study of communication and knowledge in multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and quantitative viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts to optimize current designs.

Conference

SIROCCO has a tradition of interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting leading researchers in a variety of fields in which communication and knowledge play a significant role. This year, SIROCCO is held in

Gdansk, a 1000-year old city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, with medieval tenements overlooking the Motlawa River.

Scope

Original papers are solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and global communication and computational complexities. Among the typical areas are distributed computing, communication networks, game theory, parallel computing, social networks, mobile computing (including autonomous robots), peer to peer systems, communication complexity, fault tolerant graph theories, and randomized/probabilistic issues in networks. Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, new areas are always welcome.

SIROCCO Award

The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing is awarded annually in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose research contributions had a major impact on the understanding of the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized

computing. Only authors of papers that were published in SIROCCO are eligible to receive the award. More details are available in the SIROCCO 2011 web site.

New: Invited talks

There will be two invited talks at SIROCCO this year. The invited speakers will be:

Submission

Full papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines available on the conference web page. The deadline for submitting a paper is March 16. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by April 15, and the camera-ready papers are due on April 30.

Authors are invited to submit their work in one of the three acceptable formats: novel research contributions, position papers, and surveys. Original research papers must contain results that have not previously appeared and have not been concurrently submitted to a journal or conference with published proceedings. In all cases, any partial overlap with any published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated.

Submissions are limited to 12 single-column pages on letter/A4-size paper (using at least 11 point font, 1 inch margins, standard line spacing). This includes figures, but excludes references and an optional appendix (to be read at the program committee's discretion).

Publication

The proceedings of SIROCCO 2011 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the LNCS series. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.