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        11th Colloquium on Structural Information         
              and Communication Complexity 

                     S I R O C C O


                  June 21 - 23, 2004
              Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
           http://www.informatika.sk/sirocco


                FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Colloquiua on Structural Information and Communication
Complexity  (SIROCCO) encourage high-quality research 
focused on the relationship between computing and 
communication, i.e., the study of those factors which are 
significant for the computability and the communication 
complexity of problems, and on the interplay between 
structure, knowledge and complexity. The Colloquium provides 
an opportunity to bring together specialists interested in 
the fundamental principles underlying all computing through 
communication. 

Original papers are solicited in distributed computing, 
high-speed networks, interconnection networks, mobile 
computing, optical computing, parallel computing, wireless 
networks, etc. 

Topics of interest 
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include (but are not limited to): communication complexity, 
information dissemination, routing protocols, distributed 
data-structures, models of communication, network topologies, 
sense of direction, structural properties and computability, 
topological awareness and metric information.


Program Committee:
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Bernadette Charron-Bost (Palaiseau),
Bogdan Chlebus (Denver),
Francesc Comellas (Barcelona),
Krzysztof Diks (Warsaw),
Stefan Dobrev (Ottawa),
Robert Elssasser (Paderborn),
Michele Flammini (L'Aquila),
Cyril Gavoille (Bordeaux),
Rastislav Kralovic - co chair  (Bratislava),
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton),
Ludek Kucera (Praha),
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht),
Marios Mavronicolas (Nicosia),
Linda Pagli (Pisa),
Heiko Schroder (Melbourne),
Iain Stewart (Durham),
Ondrej Sykora  - co-chair (Loughborough),
Savio Tse (Hongkong),
Peter Widmayer (Zurich),
Shmuel Zaks (Haifa)

Conference chair: 
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David Peleg (Rehovot)


Authors
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are invited to submit a PostScript/PDF version of their 
paper (not exceeding 10 pages) together with at most 20 
lines of abstract in ASCII format via the conference web 
page http://www.informatika.sk/sirocco (preferrably) or 
by e-mail to siroccoPC@informatika.sk no later than 
February 29, 2004.

Short notes (1-2 pages) contributing to the open problems 
session are also welcome. Authors who are unable to submit 
electronically should contact the organizers. The proceedings 
will be published by Springer in the LNCS series and distributed 
during the conference.


Venue:
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SIROCCO 2004 will take place in the Smolenice Castle in 
Slovakia located about 35km from Bratislava. The castle, 
surrounded by a beautiful park, is towering above the village 
of Smolenice in the eastern foothills of Male Karpaty (Small 
Carpatians). Destroyed in the late 18th century and rebuilt 
in the Romantic style, the castle now offers accomodation 
in a tranquil and romantic atmosphere. More information can 
be found at the conference web page 
http://www.informatika.sk/sirocco
 
Organisation co-chairs:
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Dana Pardubska (Comenius University, Slovakia) and
Imrich Vrto (Slovak Academy of Sciences) 

Important dates:
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Submission deadline: February 29, 2004 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notification: March 23, 2004
Final version due: April 16, 2004
Early registration: May 9, 2004
Colloquium:  June 21-23, 2004

Conference address:
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Rastislav Kralovic
SIROCCO 2004
Department of Computer Science
Comenius University
Mlynska dolina, FMFI UK
842 48 BRATISLAVA, 
Slovak Republic

Phone: (+421 2) 602 95 470
Fax: (+421 2) 654 27 041
E-mail: sirocco@informatika.sk
E-mail (submissions): siroccoPC@informatika.sk
WWW: http://www.informatika.sk/sirocco
(Please, visit often for current information.)