Call for Papers - SRDS 2025
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The 44th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2025)

September 29 - October 02, 2025 (tentative)
Porto, Portugal
https://srds-conference.org/

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The 44th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2025) is a forum
for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development
and evaluation, with an emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, dependability,
security, verification, and real-time aspects.

We welcome the following types of submissions:
* Research papers describing original research as well as design, development and
experimental results of distributed systems;
* Practical experience reports (PER) describing ongoing industrial projects, prototype systems
and exploratory or emerging applications;
* Tool papers describing architecture, implementation, and usage of substantive tools to
support research, development, and operation of reliable distributed systems.

Papers will be assessed using criteria appropriate to each category.

# Important dates
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(All deadlines are at 23:59 AOE)

* Abstract Submission: April 25th, 2025
* Full Paper Submission: May 2nd, 2025
* Notification to Authors: June 27th, 2025
* Camera-Ready and author registration: July 7th, 2025
* Conference dates: September 29 - October 2, 2025 (tentative)

# Paper submission
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Papers must be written in English. Research Papers, Practical Experience Reports, and
Tool Papers should be no longer than 10 pages, *excluding references* for which there is
no page limit, following the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings.
Additional details to substantiate the main claims of the paper, such as proofs,
data tables or code snippets can be included in a clearly marked appendix beyond the
page limit, and read at the reviewers’ discretion. Authors are requested to first
register their submissions with a title and abstract, and then submit their manuscripts
in PDF format on the submission page.

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through
double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the
reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the
anonymity of your submission while at the same time allowing the reader to fully
grasp the context of related past work, including your own. It is recognized that,
at times, information regarding the identities of authors may become public outside
the submission process (e.g., if a preprint is published as a technical report or on
a preprint server). The PC will ignore this external information. Minimally, please
take the following steps when preparing your submission:
* Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
* Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
* Use care when referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references
to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context.
Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other
piece of related work by another author.


Submissions that do not conform to the above anonymization and formatting guidelines
(e.g., are too long, use fonts or line spacing smaller than what is indicated) or are
unoriginal, previously published, or under submission to multiple venues concurrently,
will be desk rejected without review.

If you have any questions regarding paper submission, please do not hesitate to contact the
conference PC Chairs:
* Amy Babay, University of Pittsburgh, USA, babay@pitt.edu
* Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, valerio.schiavoni@unine.ch

Submissions site: https://hotcrp.inesctec.pt/srds25/

For further information, please see https://srds-conference.org/


# Topics of Interest
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The major areas of interest include the following topics:
* Dependability, security, and privacy of distributed systems including, but not limited to,
cloud, high-performance, fog, and edge computing; distributed data storage and processing;
distributed machine learning and AI; safety-critical distributed systems; Internet of Things,
vehicular, robotic, cyber-physical, and mobile systems.

* Techniques and algorithms advancing the state-of-the-art in fault tolerance, fault recovery,
robustness, self-stabilization, self-healing, scalability, and real-time for distributed
systems. These include, but are not limited to, coordination, replication, failure prediction
and detection, micro-services, transactions, and blockchains.

* Methods and tools for designing, implementing, verifying, validating, and operating dependable
and secure distributed applications, middleware, operating systems, virtual machines, and hardware.

* Analytical, simulative, and experimental assessment of dependable and secure distributed systems, particularly when in real-world settings or with real-world data and in large-scale and complex environments.

# Best Paper Awards
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Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best
student paper award, at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time
of submission, and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper. The
latter should be indicated at submission time.


All accepted papers SRDS will compete for the "Prof. C. V. Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award". The SRDS Best Paper is named after Prof. Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy, who was instrumental in the 80’s in the success of SRDS, many of his former students have also significantly contributed to the conference.