SIROCCO 2013

20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
July 1–3, 2013, Ischia, Italy.
http://sirocco2013.di.unisa.it
Co-located with MAC2013

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.

Important dates

Submission

Papers are to be submitted electronically using the EasyChair server.  The link is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2013

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 are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the LNCS series. 

Selected papers are planned to 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 
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

Accomodation

SIROCCO 2013 will be held at the Hotel Continental Terme.

Hotel Continental Terme

Via Michele Mazzella, 74
Ischia Porto, Italy

Special rates for rooms are available for participants. In order to take advantage of this reservation you have to send the reservation form directly to the hotel.

Since ischia is a popular vacation resort, we suggest to book your hotel as soon as possible.

A few cheaper rooms are available for students; participants must contact directly the Hotel for any information.

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