Program Committee

J. Bruck, Caltech, CA, USA	K. Birman, Cornell Univ., USA	M. Beck, Univ. of Tennessee, USA
W. Boehm, Siemens, Germany	I. Chlamtac, UTD, Dallas, USA	J. Cooper, Raytheon, USA
J. Duato, Univ. of Valencia, Spain	K. Deierling, Mellanox Tech., Inc., CA, USA	K. Echtle, University of Essen, Germany
K. Fuchs, Cornell Univ., USA	J. Foster, University of Florida, USA	O. Frieder, IIT, Chicago, USA
D. Follett, USA	J. Gaudiot, Univ. of CA, Irvine, USA	D. Garcia, Hewlett Packard, USA
J. Hayes, The University of Michigan, USA	R. Horst, HT Consulting, USA	Y. Huang, PreCache Inc., USA
K. Hwang, Univ. of SC, CA, USA	T. Katayama, JAIST, Japan	T. Kikuno, Osaka Univ.,Japan
C. Katsinis, Drexel Univrsity, USA	M. Knowles, Hewlett Packard, USA	M. Kokar, Northeastern Univ., MA, USA
Q. Li, Santa Clara Univ., USA	G. Masson, John Hopkins University, USA	R. Muller, Boston College,USA
E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany	R. Morris, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA	K. Panetta, Tufts Univ., USA
J. Plank, Univ. of Tennessee, USA	G. Rommel, ECS Univ., Connecticut, USA	M. Raynal, IRISA, France
J. Redi, BBN, Cambridge, USA	H. Schwefel, Siemens, Germany	T. Strayer, BBN, Cambridge, USA
A. Shvartsman,UCon. and MIT, USA	P. Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ., USA	D. Stefanescu, Suffolk Univ., USA
D. Simovici, UMB, Boston, USA	F. Schubert, RPI, USA	J. Waldo, Sun Microsystems, USA

Publicity Chair	Financial Chair	Local Arrangements
M. Beck	C. Katsinis	K. Panetta
Univ. of Tennessee	Drexel University	Tufts University
E-mail:mbeck@cs.utk.edu	E-mail:ckatsini@ece.drexel.edu	E-mail:Karen@ee.tufts.edu

The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications is seeking articles concerning fundamental research and practical experience reports. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- High Speed Networks/Protocols and Middleware	- System Area Networks (SAN)/InfiniBand
- Routing Mechanisms and Protocols, IP Multicast	- Performance Modeling/Analysis and Load Balancing
- Private Virtual Networking	- Web Caching and Switching
- Local-and Wide-Area Networking, Network Processors	- Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
- Optical Communication Networks	- Terabit optical switching/routing architectures
- Network Security	- Intrusion-Tolerant Systems
- Computation-intensive Applications in Networked Systems	- Programming Environments for Distributed Systems
- Dependable High-Speed Wide, Local, and System Area Networks	- Dependable Distributed Mobile Computing
- Reliable Group Communications Protocols	- Scalable Dependable Servers, Internet Servers
- Protocol Verification and Validation	- Practical Experiences and Prototypes, e-Commerce

Important Dates:
Manuscripts due: January 24, 2003
Authors notified by: February 15, 2003
Camera-ready manuscripts:March 01, 2003

Submission Requirements: Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Send a ps or pdf file of the manuscript, in English, to D. Avresky: avresky@ece.neu.edu. Manuscripts are not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages, inclusive of figures and tables, in A4 or 8.5 by 11 inches. Type size must be at least 12 point. The manuscript must contain a cover page with author contact information (name, postal address, telephone number, and e-mail address) and a 100-word abstract. Manuscripts must be cleared for publication and should be formatted such that they can be viewed using Ghostview (ps file) or Acrobat Reader (pdf file). Accepted manuscripts will be included in the NCA-03 Proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press.