<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">(apologies for multiple copies)<br><br><div>CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline)<div><br>32nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2013<br>September 30 - October 3, 2013. Braga, Portugal<br><br><a href="http://srds.di.uminho.pt/">http://srds.di.uminho.pt</a><br><br>The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, security, trust and real time. We welcome original research papers as well as practical experience reports that deal with design, development and experimental results of operational systems.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Abstract submission (extended): April 5, 2013<br>Full paper submission (extended): April 15, 2013<br>Authors notification: June 18, 2013<br>Camera-ready: July 15, 2013<br>Workshops: September 30, 2013<br>Conference: October 1-3, 2013<br><br>SCOPE<br><br>The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<br><br>Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service<br>Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing<br>Parallel and distributed operating systems<br>Distributed objects and middleware systems<br>Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment<br>Fault-tolerant and secure sensor nets and machine-to-machine communication<br>Internet-based systems and applications<br>Distributed databases and transaction processing<br>Distributed multimedia systems<br>Privacy-assuring large scale data management systems<br>Enabling technologies for dependable applications, including intelligent transport systems and smart energy grids<br>Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing<br>Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems<br>Distributed algorithms<br>Secure and trusted systems<br>High-assurance and safety-critical system design and evaluation<br><br>BEST PAPER AWARD<br><br>The symposium will highlight the best paper. All papers accepted for presentation at the symposium will be evaluated by the Best Paper Award Co-Chairs for the award.<br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br><br>Please see the submission page for information. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.<br><br>WORKSHOPS<br><br>Workshops will be held in conjunction with SRDS 2013 on September 30, 2013.<br><br>COMMITTEES<br><br>Symposium Chair<br><br>Rui Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal<br><br>Technical Program Committee Co-chairs<br><br>Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<br>Hans-Peter Schwefel, FTW, Austria<br><br>Technical Program Committee<br><br>Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA<br>Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA<br>Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, France<br>Jiannong Cao, The Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China<br>Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal<br>Andrea Ceccarelli, University of Florence, Italy<br>Miguel Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal<br>Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA<br>Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA<br>Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan<br>Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA<br>James Edmondson, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA<br>Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel<br>Shashidhar Gandham, Google, USA<br>Jesper Grønbæk, FTW, Austria<br>Rado Grosu, Technical University of Vienna, Austria<br>Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<br>Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA<br>Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<br>Joerg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany<br>Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France<br>Johan Karlsson, Chalmers University, Sweden<br>Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA<br>Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br>Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA<br>Tatiana Madsen, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary<br>Neeraj Mittal, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<br>Regina Moraes, UNICAMP, Brazil<br>Francesc Muñoz-Escoí, University of Valencia, Spain<br>Gopal Pandurangan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<br>Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland<br>José Pereira, University of Minho, Portugal<br>Sathya Peri, Indian Institute of Technology at Patna, India<br>Sasikumar Punnekat, Malardalens Hogskola, Sweden<br>Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA<br>Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA<br>Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland<br>Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA<br>Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA<br><br>Local Arrangements Co-chairs<br><br>António Ribeiro, University of Minho, Portugal<br>António Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal<br><br>Publication Chair<br><br>Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy<br><br>Workshop Co-chairs<br><br>Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada<br>Rodrigo Rodrigues, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal<br><br>Publicity Co-chairs<br><br>Alysson Bessani, University of Lisbon, Portugal<br>Rudiger Kapitza, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany<br><br>SC Liason<br><br>Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy<br><br>Sponsored by:<br>IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)</div></div></body></html>