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Purpose
Current distributed systems have to efficiently cope with many forms of dynamism occurring on the environment in which they operate. The ability to deal with continuing arrivals and departures of nodes In a peer-to-peer overlay network is so fundamental to be considered part of the requirements of the system itself. Similarly, long-running distributed systems have to adapt themselves to the changes occurring in the deployment of their own components, supporting new services to be added or removed at run-time or even moved from node to node, to changed requirements.
Things become even more complex when mobility becomes part of the picture. Distributed systems operating on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks must be able of providing their service despite frequent changes in the networking topology, with nodes joining and leaving the system, and links appearing and disappearing as nodes move. Also, applications running on top of a Wireless Sensor Network have to react to the changes in the topology triggered by malfunctioning, faults, or simply nodes turning-off to save batteries.
Although many techniques have been developed to deal with specific aspects of a dynamic system and for a specific scenario, they often share a common framework and are often used to address similar problems; thus, a unitary view could help in understanding the implication of the dynamic dimension in the design space of a distributed system, to achieve efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
This half day workshop, held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), aims at bringing together people from academia and industry interested in the foundations, implementation, and application of all aspects related to distributed dynamic systems, including MANET networks, dynamic peer-to-peer networks, etc. The workshop is organized in the context of the "IS-MANET" project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, (MIUR).

Scope
We solicit submission of original and previously unpublished research papers addressing the dynamic issue in distributed systems. Papers may focus on theoretical results, methodologies, software architectures, middleware technologies, mechanisms, protocols, to develop and operate dynamic distributed systems, including, but not limited to:

• Peer-to-peer computing
• Applications of wireless sensor networks
• Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
• Modelling of dynamic systems
• Communication and coordination in dynamic systems
• Middleware infrastructures for dynamic systems
• Algorithms for topology management and reconfiguration of dynamic distributed systems
• Experience reports with dynamic distributed systems
• Performance evaluation of dynamic distributed systems (simulations, analytical models, etc.)

Papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important dates
Submission deadline: January 10, 2006 January 16, 2006
Author notification: February 21, 2006 February 28, 2006
Camera ready due: April 7, 2006

Submission guideline
Authorsare invited to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 (six) pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file via email to iwdds@dis.uniroma1.it
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will present the paper in the workshop. For any further infomation contact one of the Program Co-chairs.

Program Co-chairs
R. Beraldi
DIS, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
via Salaria 113 - 00198 - Roma (ITALY)
Phone: +39-06-4991.8502
Fax: +39-06-85300849
Email: beraldi@dis.uniroma1.it

G. Cugola
DEI, Politecnico di Milano
via Ponzio 34/5 20133 - Milano (ITALY)
Phone: +39 02 2399 3493
Fax: +39 02 2399 3411
Email: cugola@elet.polimi.it

Steering Committee
R. Baldoni (Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
A.Corradi (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
C. Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
U. Montanari (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)

Program Committee
L. Alvisi (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA)
P. Bellavista (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
A. Carzaniga (Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland)
M. Conti (National Research Council, Italy)
G. Cortese (Telecom Italia Learning Services, Italy)
S. Dustdar (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
C. Fetzer ( Technical Univ. of Dresden, Germany)
M. Gerla (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA)
C. Gkantsidis (Microsoft Research, UK)
R. Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)
M. Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland)
A. Karmouch (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
I. Keidar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
A-M. Kermarrec (IRISA, France)
M. E. Kounavis (Intel Corporation, USA)
T. Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
A. Murphy (Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland)
M. Patino (Madrid Technical University, Spain)
R. Prahash (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA)
S. Tucci Piergiovanni (Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

Local Organizer Chair
Jorge Cardoso
Departamento de Matematica e Engenharias
Universidade da Madeira
9000-390 Funchal Portugal
Phone: +351 291 705 150<>
Fax: +351 291 705 199