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    *                   	FTCS-23 : CALL FOR PAPERS		             *		       
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    *    The Twenty Third Annual International Symposium        *
    *             on Fault-Tolerant Computing                   *   
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    *            Toulouse, France, June 22-24, 1993             *  
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    *      Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and LAAS-CNRS     *
    *          in cooperation with AFCET and IFIP WG 10.4       *
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AIMS and TOPICS

The Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium is the major international forum in
computing system dependability. The symposium scope spans system, software
and hardware issues, including: architectures, design, implementation,
specification, modeling, test, diagnosis, evaluation and validation of
dependable and fault-tolerant computing systems. 

In addition to regular paper presentations and panel discussions, the
symposium offers special sessions on 

  	i) 	practical experience in fault-tolerant computing such as design and
      deployment of a system, failure and recovery field data, and
      correlation of field data with model predictions,
	 ii)	 innovative ideas in early stages of research and development, 
	 iii)	demonstrations of software tools and systems.

Major topics include, but are not limited to: 

    	-	Fault-Tolerant Architectures,
    	-	Fault Tolerance in On-line Transaction Processing Systems,
    	-	Distributed Systems and Real-Time Systems,
    	-	Safety-Critical Systems,
    	-	Software Fault Tolerance,
    	-	Testing and Verification,
    	-	Dependability Modeling and Prediction,
    	-	Defect Tolerance and Concurrent Error Detection in VLSI circuits.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

All submitted material (written in English) will be refereed and should be
typed in 1-1/2 spaced, 12 point font. All accepted material will appear in
the proceedings.

PAPERS should not exceed 20 pages including figures and text. 

PANEL proposals should include the topic(s), a maximum two-page description
of the panel objectives, names and addresses of the probable panelists. The
proposed panel chair should include a one-page biographical sketch.

For PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE REPORTS and EARLY INNOVATIVE IDEA REPORTS, the
submission should be a 5-10 page description of the experience or the idea.
These manuscripts must be marked either "Practical Experience" or
"Innovative Idea" for them to be considered in their respective categories.

For SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS, the submission should be a 5-10 page
description of the software, its context and objective, and of the planned
demonstration. Sun workstations and MacIntoshes connected to a video
projector will be available. Please indicate on a separate sheet the
requirements for the demonstration. These manuscripts must be marked
"Software Demonstration". 

SUBMISSIONS

Six copies of a 1-page abstract and a list of 5 keywords should be
submitted to program chair Ambuj Goyal before October 30, 1992. Mark the
envelope "FTCS 23 submission". Abstracts will be used for referee
assignments. Please submit your abstracts on time to get best possible
reviewing coverage.

Six copies of the papers, panel proposals, practical experience reports,
early innovative idea reports and software demonstrations should be
submitted to program chair Ambuj Goyal by December 4, 1992 and should be
accompanied by ten copies of a title page which includes: the title, author
name(s), affiliations, mailing address, phone number, fax number and
e-mail, a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, an approximate word
count and a declaration that the material has been cleared through author
affiliations. For multi-authored submissions, the principal contact should
be indicated. Mark the envelope "FTCS 23 submission". Submissions arriving
late or significantly departing from length guide-lines, or papers
published or submitted elsewhere will be returned without review.

Notification of acceptance or rejection of all submissions will be made by
March 12, 1993.

EXHIBITS

Exhibitors from both industrial and academic communities are encouraged.
This will be an opportunity to present advanced products to an informed and
sophisticated audience. Proposals must be submitted to exhibits chair
Jean-Claude Rault by March 1, 1993 on the official application form
available from the exhibits chair.

GENERAL CHAIR: 	Jean-Claude Laprie (LAAS-CNRS)
               	7 Avenue du Colonel Roche
               	31077 Toulouse - France
               	E-mail: Jean-Claude.Laprie@laas.fr 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 

CHAIR: 	Ambuj Goyal 
		      IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center
	      	P.O. Box 704
	      	Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
	      	E-mail: ambuj@watson.ibm.com

V.Agarwal (CDN)    J.Hlavicka (CS)  	D.Lenoski (USA)   	W.Sanders(USA)
J. Arlat (F)       R.Iyer (USA)     	Y.Levendel (USA)  	N.Saxsena(USA)
D.Avresky (BG)     N.Kanekawa (J)   	R.Leveugle (F)     J.Shen(USA)
M.Banatre (F)      J.Karlsson (S)   M.Malek (USA)	     S.Shrivastava(GB)
P.Banerjee (USA)	  J.Kelly (USA)	    G.Masson (USA)	    D.Siewiorek(USA)
D.Blough (USA)	    K.Kinoshita (J)	  J.Meyer (USA)	     L.Simoncini (I)
F.Cristian (USA)	  H.Kopetz (A)	     T.Nanya (J)	       B.Smith(USA)
T.Dahbura (USA)	   T.Krol (NL)	      M.Nicolaidis (F)	  Y.Tamir(USA)
C.Georgiou (USA)	  J.Lala (USA)	     D.Powell (F)	      D.Taylor(CDN)
J.Gray (USA)	      G.Le Lann (F)	    S.Reddy (USA)	     H.Wunderlich(D)

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR

Marie-Therese Ippolito (LAAS-CNRS)
E-mail: Marie-Therese.Ippolito@laas.fr

PUBLICATION CHAIR 

David Powell(LAAS-CNRS)
E-mail: David.Powell@laas.fr

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Mohamed Kaaniche(LAAS-CNRS)
E-mail: Mohamed.Kaaniche@laas.fr

EXHIBITS CHAIR

Jean-Claude Rault (EC2)
269 rue de la Garenne
92024 Nanterre - France
Tel +(33) 1 47 80 70 00
Fax +(33) 1 47 80 66 29

EX OFFICIO

Jacob Abraham, FTC-TC Chair
The University of Texas at Austin
2201 Donley Drive
Austin, TX 78758 - USA
jaa@cerc.utexas.edu

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION and/or a copy of the advance program when
available, send an email to ftcs23@laas.fr or contact:
                   
                     Mohamed Kaaniche
                     LAAS-CNRS
                     7 Avenue du Colonel Roche
                     31077 Toulouse - France
                    	E-mail: Mohamed.Kaaniche@laas.fr
	                    Tel +(33) 61 33 64 05
                    	Fax +(33) 61 33 64 11