This workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in
distributed computing systems around the world to present their results,
exchange ideas and experience. In contrast to large international conferences
in this area, this workshop will place emphasis on more in-depth discussions
and project future trends.

In order to encourage closer interaction between the academic and industrial
research communities, we solicit both academic research papers and industrial
research papers (which address the related issues from an industrial researcher's
point of view to place requirements on academic research). The authors should
indicate whether their papers should be considered as academic research papers
or industrial research papers. Topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:

        Distributed and Collaborative Agents
    Java-Based Network Computing and Network Programming
        Intranet and Internet Technologies for Distributed Systems
        Cluster Computing and Parallel/Distributed Systems
        Network Infrastructure for High-Performance Computing
        Broadband Computing and Telecommunication
        Active Networks and Protocol Engineering
        Network Protocols, ATM, and Gigabit Ethernet
        Security, Safety and Assurance of Distributed Systems
        Distance Learning, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
        Timing, Reliability and Security of Communication Systems
        Applications of Distributed Systems, including Distributed
                Databases, Distributed AI, and Distributed OS
        Collaborative and Cooperative Software Engineering
            Distributed Multimedia Computing
        Distributed Object Computing
            Mobile Computing and Communications
        Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
        Web-Based Computing
        Performance Modeling and Distributed Simulation
        Wireless Networks

       Deadlines:

Summary Paper Due:                      June 12, 2001

Feedback to the Authors:                June 28, 2001

Camera-ready Manuscript Due:            July 30, 2001


For general information, please refer to http://www.eas.asu.edu/~seg/ftdcs2001

Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems Faculty of Engineering 

University of Bologna Viale Risorgimento 2 Bologna, Italy

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Workshop Chair
Maurelio Boari, University of Bologna, Italy

Program Committee 
Co-Chairs:
  Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
             Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                Arndt Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany
            Carl Chang, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
            Yaw-Chung Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
                Randy Chow, University of Florida, USA
Peter Henderson, Southampton University, UK
            Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy
            Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
            Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation, USA             

Operations Committee Chair
     Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy

Registration Chair
      Yu Wang, Arizona State University, USA