Scope of DCCS 2005

Collaborative systems enable collaboration between people and computers to work more productively in acquiring, representing, organizing, archiving, protecting, accessing and communicating information. Consistency is one of the most important and classical issues in collaborative systems research, ranging from the chip level to the system level. Recent advances in collaborative systems have introduced several new challenges to the consistency maintenance in a decentralized, heterogeneous environment. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from various areas of computer science whose work is related to data replication, caching and consistency, including distributed systems, distributed database, Web caching and content delivery network, computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) systems, and so on. In particular, we are interested in the latest progress on data consistency in collaborative systems, including data consistency models, algorithms, systems, and applications.

We solicit papers of original research including, but not limited to, the following topics:
  • Cache modeling and analysis
  • Data consistency models
  • Cache coherence protocol
  • File and storage caching
  • Web caching and content delivery network
  • Caching and consistency in P2P systems
  • Secure data consistency
  • Concurrency control algorithms performance analysis
  • Consistency issues in wireless sensor networks

Submission Guidelines and Publications

Authors are invited to submit papers that demonstrate original and unpublished research in these areas. Abstracts should be no more than 10 pages in length (including references and figures) with in IEEE double column format. All submissions should be in pdf format via the cocus web site. In order to submit a paper to the conference, you should first register on the conference management system: http://cocus.create-net.it:8080/confsys/loadRegister.do?act=completeReg Shortly after completing the registration, you will get by e-mail a password.
Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2005 (Extended to Sep 15, 2005)
Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2005
Camera Ready Papers Due: October 15, 2005