[agents] CfP: 5th Nordic Workshop on Dependability and Security (NODES 2011)

[Nicola Dragoni]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

Call for Papers

NODES 2011 - 5th Nordic Workshop on Dependability and Security
http://www.ifiptm.org/IFIPTM11/NODES11
Affiliated with the 5th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on  
Trust Management (IFIPTM 2011)
June 28, 2011, Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark

With our growing reliance on software, the total societal costs of its  
failure are hard to underestimate.
Software is in the heart of many critical infrastructures such as  
transportation, avionics,
energy production, telecommunications, healthcare, finances etc.
Dependability is a degree of reliance, which we can justifiably put on  
software-intensive systems.
Dependability encompasses such system characteristics as safety,  
reliability, availability, security etc.

NODES 2011 aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners  
interested in different aspects
of dependability and security to exchange ideas and current research  
results. Within the workshop we
also organize a doctoral symposium session to provide doctoral  
students with the opportunity to
present their ongoing research work.

The scope of NODES 2011 encompasses, but is not limited to, following  
areas:
- Methodologies for developing dependable systems; verification of  
software-intensive systems;
methods and tools for system safety and fault tolerance; techniques  
for ensuring availability in
presence of overloads, attacks, and failures.
- Security in distributed systems; security of mobile ad-hoc networks,  
pervasive and grid systems;
model-based reasoning about security; risk analysis; threat modeling;  
policy specification;
availability analysis; trust management and threat prevention.
- Modeling real-time behavior; reasoning about hybrid systems; and  
verification of complex
control systems models for diagnosing complex software-intensive  
systems and methods for
analyzing parallel processes;  software correctness.
- Dependability and security in domain-specific areas, such as  
telecommunications, transportation,
business applications case studies demonstrating development of  
dependable systems.

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Workshop Submissions
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NODES 2011 is intended to be a one day workshop organized in three  
technical sessions, namely
regular papers, position papers and doctorate papers. In particular,  
the aim of the doctoral symposium
session is to provide PhD students with the opportunity to present  
their ongoing research work.

Submitted regular papers must not exceed 16 pages in length, including  
bibliography and well-marked
appendices. Position and doctorate papers must not exceed 8 pages in  
length.

Papers can be submitted using the following link on EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodes2011

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available from

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0.

Please indicate whether you are submitting it to the workshop or to  
the doctoral symposium session.

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen  
for presentation based on
their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the  
workshop.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the  
workshop and participate presenting
the paper.

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Publication
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The collection of the accepted papers of all the IFIPTM workshops will  
be published in a technical
report at Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

** We already agreed with the editor of an international journal to  
have a special issue with
extended versions of best papers selected from NODES'10 and NODES'11.**

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Important Dates
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April 18, 2011: Submission of papers
May 16, 2011: Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2011: Camera-ready
June 28, 2011: NODES Workshop

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Organizing Commitee
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NODES 2011 Chair
Nicola Dragoni, DTU Informatics, Denmark

Program Committee
Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
Ketil Stolen, SINTEF Research centre and Oslo University, Norway
Gyrd Braendeland, SINTEF ICT Research, Norway
Jueri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Luigia Petre, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland

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Nicola Dragoni, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Office: building 322, room 230
Phone: +45 45253731
Email: ndra at imm.dtu.dk
Web: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~ndra
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