1st CFP: SAC track: Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Call For Papers

Engineering Large-Scale Distributed Systems 
[http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/~claudio/sac08/] 

at SAC 2008
[http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/]

Social phenomena like YouTube and Flickr are incontrovertible evidence
of users' migration to a new Web overwhelmed by multimedia. In fact,
images, videos, music, and other kinds of multimedia objects today
constitute about 99% of the Web. Nonetheless, users' chances of a
successful search in such a large portion of information are not
proportionally supported. Web search is dominated by giants like
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft that exploit centralized text-only
indices enriched by an endless toolbox of smart ranking algorithms.
Their interest in riding this new tide is witnessed by the acquisition
of both Flickr and YouTube. On the other hand, content-based search
for image, music and videos has been deeply studied in the last years
but it is not yet adopted by the industry because of its cost.

At the same time users are becoming more and more active. There is no
doubt that the so called "Web 2.0" marked a new approach of generating
and distributing Web content itself, characterized by communities,
decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use. It is
fascinating the oppurtinity to develop distributed search engines
taking advantage of distributed resources controlled by communities,
interest groups, single users or providers.

In the last few years Peer-to-Peer systems have been widely used to
overcome scalability issues of centralized solutions. P2P algorithms
offer robust, scalable and highly available ways of exploiting large
pools of storage and computational resources. The approach has been
shown to be effective for tasks such as file sharing. In addition,
academic research started contributing new insights and paving new
promising outlooks for P2P networks. P2P seems the solution that can
make a large multimedia information retrieval system able to scale to
repositories as large as the Web is. Also, P2P is supposed to lead
users to freedom from advertisement-generating, commercial and
centralized web search engines. Users interesets are not the same of
web search engines.

 
Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit papers dealing with the following topics:

    * Algorithms for data distribution and search on P2P networks
    * Distributed indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data
    * Architectures for large-scale distributed systems
    * Multimedia query languages, query processing and optimization
for distributed systems
    * Efficient and scalable distributed data storage and management
    * Datasets, tools, benchmarks and standards
    * Large-scale mobile networks
    * Trust and reputation management in distributed systems
    * Innovative approaches to copyright management in distributed systems

 
Chairs

Fabrizio Falchi, [email protected], NMIS lab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa
, Italy

Claudio Lucchese, [email protected], Ca' Foscari University of
Venice, Italy

 
Program Committee

    * Yosi Mass, IBM Research Haifa, Israel.
    * Salvatore Orlando, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
    * Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy.
    * Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR, Italy.
    * Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy.
    * Philip S. Yu, IBM TJ Watson, USA.
    * Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

others t.b.a.

 
Submission Guidelines


Only original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas
will be considered. Parallel submission to other conferences or other
tracks of SAC 2008 is forbidden. Each paper will be undergo a DOUBLE
BLIND review process by at least three referees. Authors must hence
not use identifying information in the text of the paper and
bibliographies must be referenced to preserve anonymity. All
submissions must be formatted using the ACM conference-specific LaTeX
style, which can be obtained from the symposium webpage. The standard
paper length is 5 pages. Up to 8 pages can be accepted for an
additional fee.

IMPORTANT: Submissions will have to go through a global SAC 2008 site.
 

Important Dates

    * 8 September 2007 : Submission of papers
    * 16 October 2007 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
    * 30 October 2007 : Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers