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	Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems (APADS)
		     Held in Conjunction with the
	    IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
			    October 20-23, 1998
			 West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

The 1-day workshop will focus on parallel and distributed computing and 
systems viewed from the three perspectives of software systems,
architecture and networking, and algorithms and applications. 
APADS will bring together leading researchers and developers in these 
areas and will strive toward setting future research directions.  
The meeting will emphasize both design and analysis of parallel and
distributed systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial
applications.

We invite contributions in all areas of parallel and distributed systems, 
including especially: 

- Parallel/Distributed Algorithms
- Software Tools and Environments for Parallel Systems
- Heterogeneous Computing
- Network-based Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Networks and Interconnection Networks
- Global Communication and Internetworking
- Memory Systems and Management
- I/O in Parallel Systems 
- Standards for Portability and Interoperability
- Experimental Evaluation of Existing Systems and Prototypes 
- Parallel/Distributed applications
- Data Mining
- Digital Libraries
- Mobile Computing
- Reliability and Fault-tolerance
- Multimedia and Video Conferencing

The program committee solicits abstracts of up to 5 pages for presentations on
the above and related topics.  Full versions of accepted papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings.

The program committee also solicits panel proposals detailing topics
of discussion and 3-6 suggested panel members.

Eight paper copies of the abstract are due by April 25, 1998 
to the program chair:
	Professor Susanne E. Hambrusch
	Department of Computer Sciences
	Purdue University
	W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1398
	seh@cs.purdue.edu

Alternatively, for electronic submission, email a postscript file 
(plain ASCII, no encoding or compression) to the program
chair no later than April 25.  Other electronic formats and faxed
submissions will NOT be accepted.
Acceptance notifications by June 5, 1998.

Program Committee:
  Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Tech
  Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
  Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University (Publicity Chair)
  Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University (Program Chair)
  Howard Ho, IBM Almaden
  Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Delaware
  Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
  Virgina Lo, University of Oregon
  Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh
  Dan Reed, University of Illinois
  HJ Siegel, Purdue University

The General Chair of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed
Systems and its associated workshops is Bharat Bhargava (Purdue
University).

The workshop will be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, 
Indiana during the week of October 20, 1998. Further information 
can be found at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/seh/pads.html.