Call for Papers

SIROCCO 2013

20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity

July 1–3, 2013, Ischia, Italy 

Important dates

• • Paper submission due: April 21, 2013 April 24, 2013, 23:59, Hawaii time (time zone HAST).

  • Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2013

  • Conference dates: July 1–3, 2013

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. 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 Ischia, a beautiful island in Italy, not far from Napoli. 

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 up 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. The contribution (or a related contribution) should have been either made or demonstrated, by the author in a paper that appeared in SIROCCO in the past. Moreover, the author should have made the contribution in at least one paper that appeared (in either a scientific journal or the proceedings of a scientific conference) at least 5 years ago.

Best Student Paper 

A Best Student Paper will be awarded. A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if one or more authors are full-time students at the time of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the phrase "Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in the abstract. The program commitee may decline to make this awards or split it.

Submission

Papers are to be submitted electronically (through EasyChair). Submission instructions and guidelines are available at the conference web page. 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

As in previous years, the proceedings of SIROCCO 2013 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.

Program Committee

Ittai Abraham, MSR Silicon Valley

Chen Avin, Ben Gurion University

Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion

Wei Chen, MSR Asia 

Ajoy Datta, University of Nevada 

Gabriele di Stefano, University of L’Aquila 

Yuval Emek, ETH Zurich 

Qiang-Sheng Hua, Tsinghua University 

David Ilcinkas, Université Bordeaux 

Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University 

Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Paderborn 

Thomas Moscibroda (Chair), MSR Asia & Tsinghua University

Calvin Newport, Georgetown University 

Adele Rescigno (Chair), Universita di Salerno 

Nicola Santoro, Carleton University 

Ulrich Schmid, TU Vienna 

Siddhartha Sen, Princeton 

Jukka Suomela, University of Helsinki 

Subash Suri, UC Santa Barbara 

Steering Committee

Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv University

Shay Kutten (Chair), Technion 

Ralf Klasing Université Bordeaux 

Guy Even, Tel-Aviv University 

Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University

Local Arrangement Committee

Luisa Gargano, Università di Salerno

Adele Rescigno (Chair), Università di Salerno

Ugo Vaccaro, Università di Salerno 

Conference Committee

Yang Chen (Submissions), MSR Asia 

Gennaro Cordasco (Publicity), Seconda Università di Napoli