The International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2004) will be held in Suzhou, China, May 26-28, 2004. The workshop is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in distributed computing systems around the world to present their results, and 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. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

- Real-time, Pervasive, and Embedded Systems
- Security and Trust in Distributed Systems
- Self-Configurable, Self-repairing, and Self-Evolving Systems
- Highly Available Distributed Systems
- Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture
- Grid Computing
- Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Large-Scale Group Communication, Coordination and Cooperation
- Wireless Communication and Networks
- Performance Modeling Large-Scale Distributed Systems
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Novel Distributed Applications 

Workshop Location: Suzhou, China 

Workshop Date: May 26-28, 2004 

PAPER SUBMISSION
The workshop seeks submissions on any of the above topics with particular emphasis on revolutionary rather than incremental approaches. Manuscripts should be about 3000 words (minimum 10pt type), roughly 8 double-spaced pages excluding Tables and Figures. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript format. Details will be posted on the workshop web page (http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/ftdcs2004). Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the program committee with additional help from selected peers.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Paper Submission: December 11, 2003, 11:59PM PST (deadline extended)
Author Notification: January 15, 2004
Final Manuscript Due: February 16, 2004

Steering Committee Chair:
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

General Chair:
Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China

Program Co-Chairs:
Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University, China

Publicity Chair:
Brian Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Program Committee:
Yaw-Chung Chen, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Randy Chow, University of Florida, USA
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research, USA
Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA
Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft Corp., USA
Raj Kumar, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Frances Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Joonwon Lee, KAIST University, S. Korea
Xiaoming Li, Peking University, China
Jin Lu, Naking University, China
Dianfu Ma, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Phil McKinley, Michigan State University, USA
Gilles Muller, École des Mines de Nantes, France
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Andre Schiper, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jin-Yuan You, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Please direct questions regarding the workshop to either of the program co-chairs (rama@cc.gatech.edu, chlin@tsinghua.edu.cn), or the Steering Committee chair (yau@asu.edu)