DEPEND 2009 - The Second International Conference on Dependability DEPEND 2009

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Category DEPEND 2009

Deadline: January 20, 2009 | Date: June 18, 2009

Venue/Country: Athens, Greece

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Most of critical activities in the areas of communications (telephone, Internet), energy & fluids (electricity, gas, water), transportation (railways, airlines, road), life related (health, emergency response, and security), manufacturing (chips, computers, cars) or financial (credit cards, on-line transactions), or refinery& chemical systems rely on networked communication and information systems. Moreover, there are other dedicated systems for data mining, recommenders, sensing, conflict detection, intrusion detection, or maintenance that are complementary to and interact with the former ones.

With large scale and complex systems, their parts expose different static and dynamic features that interact with each others; some systems are more stabile than others, some are more scalable, while others exhibit accurate feedback loops, or are more reliable or fault-tolerant.

Inter-system dependability and intra-system feature dependability require more attention from both theoretical and practical aspects, such as a more formal specification of operational and non-operational requirements, specification of synchronization mechanisms, or dependency exception handing. Considering system and feature dependability becomes crucial for data protection and recoverability when implementing mission critical applications and services.

Static and dynamic dependability, time-oriented, or timeless dependability, dependability perimeter, dependability models, stability and convergence on dependable features and systems, and dependability control and self-management are some of the key topics requiring special treatment. Platforms and tools supporting the dependability requirements are needed.

The international conference on dependability, DEPEND 2009, is based on the positive participation and feedback at DEPEND 2008 workshop that addressed new approaches dealing with today's limitations and potential solutions.

As a particular case, design, development, and validation of tools for incident detection and decision support became crucial for security and dependability in complex systems. It is challenging how these tools could span different time scales and provide solutions for survivability that range from immediate reaction to global and smooth reconfiguration through policy based management for an improved resilience. Enhancement of the self-healing properties of critical infrastructures by planning, designing and simulating of optimized architectures tested against several realistic scenarios is also aimed.

To deal with dependability, sound methodologies, platforms, and tools are needed to allow system adaptability. The balance dependability/adaptability may determine the life scale of a complex system and settle the right monitoring and control mechanisms. Particular challenging issues pertaining to context-aware, security, mobility, and ubiquity require appropriate mechanisms, methodologies, formalisms, platforms, and tools to support adaptability.

Improvement of the risk and crisis management in critical infrastructures is achieved by the design of new models, countermeasures, and incident management tools. These new models will help to mitigate the cascading and escalading effects induced by different kind of dependencies present in communication and information systems. Development of decision support tools for critical infrastructures should be validated by scenarios based on different case studies.

We are looking for contributions on the actual trends in coping with these new challenges within the research community and industry. We expect some lessons learnt and description of the results coming from different R&D projects (e.g., like ones in the EC 6th Framework Program), or any other worldwide initiatives. We hope we will be able to identify the gaps between the needs and today's available solutions along with new challenges and potential for future directions.

DEPEND 2009 will provide a forum for detailed exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences with the goal of understanding the academia and the industry trends related to the new challenges in dependability on critical and complex information systems.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. 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:

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

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

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

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The DEPEND 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) January 20, 2009

Authors notification February 25, 2009

Registration March 15, 2009

Camera ready March 20, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference¡¯s CD collection. Please send your presentations to petreiaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petreiaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petreiaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petreiaria.org.