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Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, Sydney,
Australia.
Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/
Key dates:
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011
Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/
Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on
the website)
Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.
Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal
of Computer and System Sciences and others.
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Introduction
As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their
Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at
supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial
applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous
software/hardware/network components of changing capacities,
availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing
services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are
exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults,
virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural
disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become
compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it
remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the
dependability and security for a trusted computing environment.
Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as
well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy
protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and
sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve
towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators,
programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing
paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by
providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and
self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and
secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing
technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any
autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing
control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted
and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research
efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and
engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It
requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of
fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and
communication systems that support the effective and coherent
integration of the constituent technologies.
Scope and Topics
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
#Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and
Communications
#Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems
#Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment
#Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms
#Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems,
Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc.
#Self-improvement in Dependable Systems
#Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems
#Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing
#Software Engineering for Dependable Systems
#Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc.
#Security Models and Quantifications
#Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc.
#Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security
#DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection
#Context-aware Access Control
#Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software
#Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War
#Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems
#Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous
Computing
#QoS in Communications and Services
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address
of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main
conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The
template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper
submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the
paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the
conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at
the DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/.
Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE
Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of
accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register
and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers
will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after
the conference.
Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further
revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Computer
and System Sciences, and other quality journals.
General Chairs
Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
Program Chairs
Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Workshop Chairs
Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Publicity Chairs
Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Steering Chairs
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan