[agents] Last Mile: DEPEND 2015 || August 23 - 28, 2015 - Venice, Italy

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:

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The submission deadline is April 15, 2015.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- DEPEND 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Dependability

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


DEPEND 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Dependability

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/DEPEND15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitDEPEND15.html

Event schedule: August 23 - 28, 2015 - Venice, Italy

Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini-symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: April 15, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


DEPEND 2015 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPDEPEND15.html


Dependability facets

    Fundamentals on dependability; Formalisms for dependability; Managing and control in dependable systems; Inter-system and intra-system dependability; Operational and non-operational requirements; Software and hardware dependability; Dependability design and specification; Synchronization mechanisms and dependency exception handing; Data protection, recoverability, fault-tolerance; Trust and dependability; Static and dynamic dependability; Time-oriented or time-agnostic dependability; Dependability perimeter and dependability models; Stability and convergence on dependable features and systems; Dependability discovery; Dependability control and self-management; Dependability degradation of running software and services

Adaptability and (self)adaptability

    Fundamental models and adaptability mechanisms; Principles of (self)adaptability; Adaptive replication models and protocols; Adaptable structures and behaviors; Context-aware adaptability; Perceived dependability and adaptability; Adaptive and reflexive models and protocols; Management and control of (self)adaptable systems; Platforms and tool supporting (self)adaptability; Autonomic and autonomous adaptation

Adaptability and dependability

    Dependability and adaptability for functional and non-functional features; Software rejuvenation; Adaptability and dependability gap; Adaptability and dependability as complementing features; Context-aware adaptable and dependable design; Inter- and intra-systems transactions; Enforcing mechanisms for application level fault tolerance; Explicit and implicit control of quality of service and contracts; Dependability and adaptability in cloud and autonomic computing; Verification and validation of highly adaptable and dependable systems; Scalability aspects in dependable and adaptable systems; Research projects and topics on dependability and adaptability; Standards on system dependability and adaptability

Big Data and dependability

    Techniques for big data security analysis; Stream event processing system; Security for big data platforms (e.g., Storm, Hadoop, S4); Real-time optimization methods for big data processing platforms.

Dependability and security

    Integration of security, dependability, and adaptability concepts; Building and preserving scalable, secure and resilient architectures; Security models/architectures and threat models; Trade-off and negotiation of dependability and security properties; Dependability modeling and dynamic management policies; Verification and validation (including model checking) of dependable software architectures; Real time detection and recovery capabilities against intrusions, malfunctions and failures; Redundancy and reconfiguration architectures; Integrated response architectures; Planning of optimal configurations for anticipated operational modes; Modeling of networks and Information Systems; Simulation of modeled configurations; Fast reconfiguration with priority to critical services; Incident (including intrusion) detection and quick containment

Trust and system dependability

    Semantics and models of trust; Dynamics of trust; Trust negotiation and management; Trusted systems from untrusted parts; Trust-based secure architectures; Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis; Trust in peer-to-peer and open source systems; Trust in mobile networks; Trust management, reputation management, and identity management; Trust, security, and dependability

Dependability, adaptability, and new technologies

    Dependability and adaptability in service oriented architectures; Principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems; Dependability and adaptability in P2P and overlay systems; Middleware protocols and mechanisms to support adaptability and dependability; Adaptability and dependability in mobile and pervasive systems; Service composition in highly dependable and adaptable environments; Dynamic, loosely-coupled, and ad-hoc environments; Group membership services in failure scenarios with network partitions; Social networks and dependability in dynamic communities; Cross-organization heterogeneity; Aerospace system dependability; Dependable software for life critical applications


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DEPEND Advisory Chairs
Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Sergio Pozo Hidalgo, University of Seville, Spain
Manuel Gil Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

DEPEND 2015 Industry Liaison Chairs
Piyi Yang, Wonders Information Co., Ltd., China
Timothy Tsai, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA

DEPEND 2015 Research/Industry Chair
Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

DEPEND 2015 Special Area Chairs

Cross-layers dependability
Szu-Chi Wang, National Ilan University, Taiwan

Big Data and dependability
Cesario Di Sarno, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

Empirical assessments
Marcello Cinque, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Security and Trust
Syed Naqvi, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom

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DEPEND 2015 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComDEPEND15.html
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