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|                  15th International Colloquium on                  |
|        Structural Information and Communication Complexity         |
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|                           SIROCCO 2008                             |
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|                   http://www.unine.ch/sirocco08                    |
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|          June 17-20, 2008, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland          |
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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

The Colloquia on Structure, Information, Communication, and Complexity
(SIROCCO) focus on the relationship between information and efficiency
in decentralized (distributed, parallel, and network) computing, i.e.,
the study of those factors that are significant for the relationship
between the computation and the communication complexities of
distributed problems, and in particular on the interplay between local
knowledge, and global efficiency. 

Original papers are solicited from all those areas where the interplay
between local structural knowledge and global communication and
computation complexity takes place, in particular distributed
computing, parallel computing, network computing (from ad hoc and
sensor networks to high-speed networks), mobile computing (autonomous
robots, etc.), and related areas.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): distributed
algorithms, compact data structures, information dissemination,
informative labeling schemes, combinatorial optimization, etc., with
potential applications to large scale distributed systems including
global computing platforms, peer-to-peer systems and applications,
social networks, network protocols (e.g., routing, broadcasting,
localization).

SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 12
pages using 11-point font and reasonable margins, including figures,
tables and references. 
 
The formal proceedings is planned to be published as a volume in the
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of
accepted papers are required to submit the final, camera-ready
versions of their papers after the Conference in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each participant will
receive a copy of the final proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
  Abstract submission:      February 13, 2008
  Full papers due:          February 20, 2008
  Author notification:      March 31, 2008
  Camera-ready submission:  April 13, 2008

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  Amotz Bar-Noy, City University of New York
  Costas Busch, Louisiana State University
  Bogdan Chlebus, Univ. of Colorado at Denver
  Andrea Clementi, Univ. "Tor  Vergata"  of  Rome
  Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno
  Stefan Dobrev, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
  Michael Elkin, Ben-Gurion University
  Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel
  Eli Gafni, UCLA
  Goran Konjevod, Arizona State University
  Dariusz Kowalski, University of Liverpool
  Adrian Kosowski, Gdansk Univ. of Technology
  Shay Kutten, Technion
  Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research
  Marios Mavronicolas, University of Cyprus
  Achour Mostefaoui, University of Rennes
  Alex Shvartsman (Chair), Univ. of Connecticut 
  Sebastien Tixeuil, Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie - Paris 6
  Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu Univ.

STEERING COMMITTEE
  Paola  Flocchini, University of Ottawa
  Pierre Fraigniaud (Chair), CNRS and Univ. Paris 7
  Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool
  Leszek Kirousis Lefteris, University of Patras
  Rastislav Kralovic, Comenius University
  Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University
  Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University
  Bernard Mans, Macquarie University
  Andrzej Pelc, University of Hull
  David Peleg, Weizmann Institute
  Giuseppe Prencipe, Pisa University
  Michel Raynal, IRISA, University of Rennes
  Nicola Santoro, Carleton University
  Pavlos Spirakis, CTI
  Shmuel Zaks, Technion

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
  Pascal Felber (Chair), University of Neuchatel
  Peter Kropf, University of Neuchatel