FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 13th Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) |
| of the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'18) |
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April 9 - 13, 2018
Pau, France
http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2018/

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: September 25, 2017 (extended)
Author notification: November 10, 2017
Camera-ready copies: November 25, 2017

Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf format using the link to the submission site at http://www.dedisys.org/sac18/. Authors are allowed up to 10 pages, but with more than 8 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page.

Call details
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While computing is provided by the cloud and services increasingly pervade our daily lives, dependability and security are no longer restricted to mission or safety critical applications, but rather become a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, the most innovative systems and applications (Internet of Things, Smart Environments, Mashups, NewSQL) are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in dependability and security when compared to traditional critical systems. In accordance with Laprie we call this effect the dependability gap, which is widened in front of us between demand and supply of dependability, and we can see this trend further fueled by volume, velocity and variety, as well as the demand for resource awareness, green computing, and increasing cost pressure.

Among technical factors, software development methods, tools, and techniques contribute to dependability and security, as defects in software products and services may lead to failure and also provide typical access for malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide variety of fault and intrusion tolerance techniques available, including persistence provided by databases, redundancy and replication, group communication, transaction monitors, reliable middleware, cloud infrastructures, fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and trustworthy service-oriented architectures with explicit control of quality of service properties and service level agreements. Furthermore, adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to observed, or act upon expected changes of the system itself, the context/environment (e.g., resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) or users' needs and expectations. Provided without explicit user intervention, this is also termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, and often involves monitoring, diagnosis (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration (repair). In particular, adaptation is also a means to achieve dependability and security in a computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties.


Topics of interest
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* Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS)
* Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS
* Protocols for DADS
* Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS
* Foundations and formal methods for DADS
* Applications of DADS
* Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS
* Holistic aspects of DADS

Track program co-chairs
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Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
(main contact: dads@dedisys.org)
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK)
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand)

Program committee
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Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy)
Mark Baker, Zepheira LLC (Canada)
Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy)
Stefan Beyer, S2 Grupo (Spain)
Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy)
Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK)
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK)
David Eyers, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria)
Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel (Germany)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA)
Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF (Norway)
Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Michaël Lauer, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Mark Little, JBoss (UK)
István Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary)
Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK)
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento (Italy)
Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany)
Francesc Daniel Muñoz-Escoí, UP Valencia (Spain)
Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain)
Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK)
Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Alirio Sá, University of Bahia (Brazil)
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden)
André Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland)
Stefan Tai, Information Systems Engineering, TU Berlin (Germany)
Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France)
Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)