CALL FOR PAPERS

32nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS 2013
September 30 - October 3, 2013. Braga, Portugal

http://srds.di.uminho.pt

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: April 2, 2013
Full paper submission: April 8, 2013
Authors notification: June 18, 2013
Camera-ready: July 15, 2013
Workshops: September 30, 2013
Conference: October 1-3, 2013

SCOPE

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service
Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Parallel and distributed operating systems
Distributed objects and middleware systems
Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment
Fault-tolerant and secure sensor nets and machine-to-machine communication
Internet-based systems and applications
Distributed databases and transaction processing
Distributed multimedia systems
Privacy-assuring large scale data management systems
Enabling technologies for dependable applications, including intelligent transport systems and smart energy grids
Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems
Distributed algorithms
Secure and trusted systems
High-assurance and safety-critical system design and evaluation

BEST PAPER AWARD

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.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please see the submission page for information. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops will be held in conjunction with SRDS 2013 on September 30, 2013.

COMMITTEES

Symposium Chair

Rui Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal

Technical Program Committee Co-chairs

Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Hans-Peter Schwefel, FTW, Austria

Technical Program Committee

Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, France
Jiannong Cao, The Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Andrea Ceccarelli, University of Florence, Italy
Miguel Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA
Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA
Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan
Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA
James Edmondson, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA
Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
Shashidhar Gandham, Google, USA
Jesper Grønbæk, FTW, Austria
Rado Grosu, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Joerg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France
Johan Karlsson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
Tatiana Madsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Neeraj Mittal, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Regina Moraes, UNICAMP, Brazil
Francesc Muñoz-Escoí, University of Valencia, Spain
Gopal Pandurangan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
José Pereira, University of Minho, Portugal
Sathya Peri, Indian Institute of Technology at Patna, India
Sasikumar Punnekat, Malardalens Hogskola, Sweden
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA
Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA

Local Arrangements Co-chairs

António Ribeiro, University of Minho, Portugal
António Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal

Publication Chair

Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy

Workshop Co-chairs

Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
Rodrigo Rodrigues, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Publicity Co-chairs

Alysson Bessani, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rudiger Kapitza, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

SC Liason

Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy

Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)