FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 20th Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems |
| (DADS) of the 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'25) |
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March 31 - April 4, 2025
Sicily, Italy

https://dedisys.org/sac25/
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/

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

Important Dates:
Paper submission: October 4, 2024 (extended)
Author notification: October 30, 2024
Camera-ready copies: November 29, 2024

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/sac24/. 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, adaptiveness and security become a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, most innovative systems and applications (Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, Smart Environments, Mashups, NewSQL) suffer from a lack of dependability and security, which is fueled by global scale, mobility and heterogeneity, 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, light-weight virtualization (docker), fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and trustworthy service-oriented and microservice architectures with explicit control of quality of service properties and monitoring of 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 and can itself be provided as a service (Control-as-a-service).

Topics of interest
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* Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure 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)
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA)
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)

Program committee
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Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy)
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge (UK)
Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy)
Nicola Bena, University of Milan (Italy)
Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Paulo Coelho, Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil)
Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Shujie Cui, Monash University (Australia)
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK)
Antonella Del Pozzo, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France)
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Alexandre Huff, Federal Technological University of Parana (Brazil)
Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University (Canada)
Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain)
Mark Little, Redhat (UK)
István Majzik, Budapest UTE (Hungary)
Odorico Mendizabal, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany)
Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK)
Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal)
Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Alirio Sá, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
Valerio Schiavoni, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Antonio Sousa, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Matheus Torquato, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)