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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


                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


The Colloquia 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. 

Program Committee:
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B. Charron-Bost (Palaiseau)
B. Chlebus (Denver)
F. Comellas (Barcelona)
K. Diks (Warsaw)
S. Dobrev (Ottawa)
R. Elssasser (Paderborn)
M. Flammini (L'Aquila)
C. Gavoille (Bordeaux)
R. Kralovic (Bratislava)
E. Kranakis (Carleton)
L. Kucera (Praha)
J. van Leeuwen (Utrecht)
M. Mavronicolas (Nicosia)
L. Pagli (Pisa)
H. Schroder (Melbourne)
I. Stewart (Durham)
O. Sykora (Loughborough)
S. Tse (Hongkong)
P. Widmayer (Zurich)
S. Zaks (Haifa)

Invited Talks:
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Paul Spirakis (Patras):  Algorithmic aspects in Congestion Games 
Shmuel Zaks (Haifa):   Results and research directions in ATM and optical networks
 
Conference chair:
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David Peleg (Rehovot)

Program co-chairs:
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Rastislav Kralovic (Bratislava)
Ondrej Sykora (Loughborough)

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://sirocco.informatika.sk

SIROCCO 2004 proceedings are published in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag 
and contain 26 selected papers focused mainly on the areas of 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.

The registration fee includes attendance to the lectures, accomodation 
for 3 nights (June 20,21,22) with full board, a copy of the LNCS proceedings, 
and social events. The early registration deadline is May 16. A student discount 
is available. Please, check the more detailed information at the conference 
web page http://sirocco.informatika.sk

Organisation co-chairs:
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Dana Pardubska (Comenius University, Slovakia) and
Imrich Vrto (Slovak Academy of Sciences) 

Contact:
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Dana Pardubska, SIROCCO 2004
Department of Informatics Education
Comenius University
Mlynska dolina, FMFI UK
842 48 BRATISLAVA, 
Slovak Republic

Phone:(+421 2) 602 95 236
Fax:(++421 2) 654 24 826
E-mail: sirocco@informatika.sk
WWW: http://sirocco.informatika.sk