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**** International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems *****
*************  Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing  **************
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                        Karlsruhe, Germany
                         April 8-11, 2002
                http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~arcs02

                Submission Deadline: October 1, 2001

Future processors become smaller, provide higher performance and consume
less power than today's devices. Such processors will spark off new
applications in particular in the area of everyday consumer devices.
Personal digital assistants, mobile consumer devices, and various smart
personal appliances will soon be widely used. Mobile telecommunication
systems increase bandwidth and will yield highly connected, ubiquitous
computing appliances. Ubiquitous computing induces a new way of thinking
in system design: computers vanish into the background hidden behind the
habitual human environment.

ARCS'2002 will emphasize the design and analysis of networking and
pervasive systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial
applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of network and
pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, the system
integration of hardware and networking aspects of up-to-now unconnected
devices is a challenging research topic.

The ubiquitous computing community gathers researchers from various
classical areas. Besides its main focus, the conference is open for more
general themes in operating systems, networking, and computer
architecture. Papers pertaining to all aspects of network and pervasive
computing are sought, including but not limited to the following:

- scenarios for ubiquitous computing
- mobile and wearable devices
- interfaces and human interaction models
- location awareness and contextual embedding
- safety, security, reliability aspects
- enabling technologies and infrastructures
- network computing (cluster and GRID computing)
- network server architectures
- network based applications
- home and wireless networking
- mobile computing
- intelligently connected devices
- low power systems design
- embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive)
- real-time systems
- operating systems
- computer and system architecture

This International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
continues and replaces the biennial 16th German Conference on
Architecture of Computing Systems. It will serve as a forum to present
current work by researchers from around the world.

In addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations,
the conference will offer invited presentations, workshops, and
tutorials.

The conference proceedings will be published in the 'Lecture Notes in
Computer Science' series by Springer-Verlag.

The conference is organized by GI-Fachausschuss 3.1 / ITG-Fachausschuss
6.1: Computer and System Architecture and GI-Fachausschuss 3.3,
Fachgruppe 3.3.1: Communication and Distributed Systems, supported by
CEPIS and EUREL, and held in cooperation with ACM and IEEE (approval
requested).

IMPORTANT DATES

October 1, 2001     Conference Paper Due
October 1, 2001     Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Due
December 15, 2001   Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
January 15, 2002    Camera-Ready Paper Due

Papers should not exceed 15 pages (approximately 5000 words) in Springer
LNCS style (see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Please send the full paper as postscript- or pdf-file.
The URL for the submission site is http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~arcs02


Official Address:

For any questions related to ARCS 2001 please refer to our web site:
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~arcs02   or e-mail to:
arcs02@uni-karlsruhe.de

General Chair: Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe,
schmeck@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Co-Chair: Lars Wolf, University of Karlsruhe, Lars.Wolf@uni-karlsruhe.de
Program Chair: Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg,
Theo.Ungerer@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe,
brinks@ira.uka.de

Program Committee:

Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California Irvine, USA
Michael Beigl, Telecooperation Office TecO, Karlsruhe, Germany
Frank Bellosa, University of Erlangen and IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, Yorktown Heights, USA
Arndt Bode, Technical University of München, Germany
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA
Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA
Reinhold Eberhart, DaimlerChrysler Research, Ulm, Germany
Werner Erhard, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
Hans Gellersen, University of Lancaster, GB
Orran Krieger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA
Jochen Liedtke (died June 10, 2001), University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Erik Maehle, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany
Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany
Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tübingen, Germany
Bernt Schiele, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA
Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Djamshid Tavangarian, University of Rostock, Germany
Rich Uhlig, Intel Microprocessor Research Lab, USA
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Lars Wolf, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Hans Christoph Zeidler, University of the Federal Armed Forces at
Hamburg, Germany
Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany