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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 11th IEEE International Conference on
Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data Systems and Applications
(DependSys-2025)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dependsys2025/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dependsys2025/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Exeter, UK, 13-15 August 2025</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>
=============</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DependSys-2025 conference is the 11th event in
the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new
ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor,
cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the
Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors,
individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and
Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the
dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become
inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving
the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has
become increasingly critical.</p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference provides a forum for
individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or
procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services
they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the
dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The
emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity,
effective performance, real-time responsiveness, corruption, anomaly, ability
to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions,
reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity,
security, safety, and so on.</p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">DependSys-2025
will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county
with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers to DependSys-2025. All accepted
papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by
Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited
post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious
journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CS</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Dependability
and Security Fundamentals and Technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Dependable
and Secure Systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Dependable
and Secure Applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Dependability
and Security Measures and Assessments</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;display:none"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>
==========================</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All papers
need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (</span><a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dependsys/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dependsys/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">)
with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published
or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 12 pages
with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once
accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings
published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the
authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the
conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="OLE_LINK30"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DependSys-2025 is inviting proposals for high-quality
workshops to complement its scientific program. Workshop topics should fall
within the broad area of Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and
Applications. The workshop organizers are highly encouraged to include
interactive and hands-on working sessions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The organizers of approved workshops are responsible for
advertising their workshops, collecting papers, managing the review process,
making accepted papers available to workshop participants (e.g., workshop
website). Conference facilities such as meeting rooms, wireless Internet and
meals will be provided by the main conference local organizers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop proposals should be
formatted as a single PDF document of 1-2 pages, describing the following:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The full name and acronym of
the workshop</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A description of the theme of
the workshop and its key topics</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A tentative list of workshop
chairs</span></li>
</ul>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A tentative CFP</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To Submit: Please email your
proposal to </span><a href="mailto:dependsys2025@googlegroups.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">dependsys2025@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> with the title “DependSys Workshop
Proposal”.</span></p>
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=================</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop Proposal: 1 March
2025 </span></a></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Deadline: 30 April
2025 </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification: 15 June
2025</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Final Manuscript Due: 15 July
2025</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Registration Due: 15
July 2025</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Date: 13-15
August 2025</span></p>
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