HICSS-42

 Dear Andrea Omicini,

I was wondering if you might be interested in being on the program committee for the following Hawaii International Conference on the System Science (HICSS) mini-track:

HICSS-42 Software Technology Track Mini-track proposal
*Architectures for Distributed Systems *

Being on the program committee would involve reviewing at most two papers between June 15th and August 15th this year.

Here is a summary of that the mini-track is about:

As the global Internet extends its reach with both backbone and “to the edge” bandwidth increasing with a concomitant drop in latency, the deployment of globally distributed services has become a reality. Popular deployed examples each with a different distributed architecture and two of which are opensource are Skype that spans the globe and consistently has between seven and ten million active users; Second Life’s 3-D world; SETI@Home’s  “BOINC” computational Grid, and Bittorrent’s Content Distribution Network.

Realizing there are many possible architectures and methodologies for distributed systems, including agent-oriented and resource-oriented architectures, Peer-to-Peer architectures, Grids, client-server, and hybrid systems that combine the qualities of two or more of these, this minitrack will explore the relative merits of different distributed architectures from an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together participants with technology backgrounds, practitioners from industry, members of open source communities, and researchers to discuss and evaluate the technology.

*Technical Area:* The technical area of this minitrack is programming distributed systems, including agent, p2p, and RESTful systems. These topics are recently covered in the IEEE P2P conference, the AP2PC workshop at the AAMAS conference, and the O'Reilly emerging technologies conference (REST).

Many thanks in advance 
Best regards
-- 
Sam Joseph, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii