[ecoop-info] ACM Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems

[Karl M. Goeschka]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 13th Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and 
Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) |
| of the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 
(SAC'18)                        |
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April 9 - 13, 2018
Pau, France
http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2018/

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM 
conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: September 25, 2017 (extended)
Author notification: November 10, 2017
Camera-ready copies: November 25, 2017

Authors are invited to submit original work not 
previously published, nor currently submitted 
elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf 
format using the link to the submission site at 
http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/. Authors are 
allowed up to 10 pages, but with more than 8 
pages in the final camera ready, there will be a 
charge of 80USD per extra page.

Call details
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While computing is provided by the cloud and 
services increasingly pervade our daily lives, 
dependability and security are no longer 
restricted to mission or safety critical 
applications, but rather become a cornerstone of 
the information society. Unfortunately, the most 
innovative systems and applications (Internet of 
Things, Smart Environments, Mashups, NewSQL) are 
the ones that also suffer most from a significant 
decrease in dependability and security when 
compared to traditional critical systems. In 
accordance with Laprie we call this effect the 
dependability gap, which is widened in front of 
us between demand and supply of dependability, 
and we can see this trend further fueled by 
volume, velocity and variety, as well as the 
demand for resource awareness, green computing, and increasing cost pressure.

Among technical factors, software development 
methods, tools, and techniques contribute to 
dependability and security, as defects in 
software products and services may lead to 
failure and also provide typical access for 
malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide 
variety of fault and intrusion tolerance 
techniques available, including persistence 
provided by databases, redundancy and 
replication, group communication, transaction 
monitors, reliable middleware, cloud 
infrastructures, 
fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and 
trustworthy service-oriented architectures with 
explicit control of quality of service properties 
and service level agreements. Furthermore, 
adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to 
observed, or act upon expected changes of the 
system itself, the context/environment (e.g., 
resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) 
or users' needs and expectations. Provided 
without explicit user intervention, this is also 
termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, 
and often involves monitoring, diagnosis 
(analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration 
(repair). In particular, adaptation is also a 
means to achieve dependability and security in a 
computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties.


Topics of interest
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* Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS)
* Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS
* Protocols for DADS
* Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS
* Foundations and formal methods for DADS
* Applications of DADS
* Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS
* Holistic aspects of DADS

Track program co-chairs
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Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
(main contact: dads at dedisys.org)
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK)
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand)

Program committee
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Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy)
Mark Baker, Zepheira LLC (Canada)
Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy)
Stefan Beyer, S2 Grupo (Spain)
Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy)
Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK)
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK)
David Eyers, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria)
Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel (Germany)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA)
Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF (Norway)
Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Michaël Lauer, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Mark Little, JBoss (UK)
István Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary)
Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK)
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento (Italy)
Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany)
Francesc Daniel Muñoz-Escoí, UP Valencia (Spain)
Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain)
Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK)
Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Alirio Sá, University of Bahia (Brazil)
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden)
André Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland)
Stefan Tai, Information Systems Engineering, TU Berlin (Germany)
Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France)
Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)