Conference announcements

2nd Call for Papers -
5th International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND'2012)

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:19:22 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: ecoop-info@ecoop.org
Subject: [ecoop-info] 2st CfP:  DEPEND 2012 || August 19-24, 2012 -Rome,
	Italy


INVITATION:

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Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish
original scientific results to DEPEND 2012.
The submission deadline is set to April 5, 2012.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== DEPEND 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

DEPEND 2012: The Fifth International Conference on Dependability

August 19-24, 2012 -Rome, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DEPEND12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPDEPEND12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas


Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitDEPEND12.html


Submission deadline: April 5, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not
under review in any other conference or journal in the following,
but not limited to, topic areas.


All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions,
in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials,
and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


DEPEND 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Dependability facets

Fundamentals on dependability; Formalisms for dependability; Managing
and control in dependable systems; Inter-system and intra-system
dependability; Operational and non-operational requirements; Software
and hardware dependability; Dependability design and specification;
Synchronization mechanisms and dependency exception handing; Data
protection, recoverability, fault-tolerance; Trust and dependability;
Static and dynamic dependability; Time-oriented or time-agnostic
dependability; Dependability perimeter and dependability models;
Stability and convergence on dependable features and systems;
Dependability discovery; Dependability control and self-management;
Dependability degradation of running software and services

Adaptability and (self)adaptability

Fundamental models and adaptability mechanisms; Principles of
(self)adaptability; Adaptive replication models and protocols;
Adaptable structures and behaviors; Context-aware adaptability;
Perceived dependability and adaptability; Adaptive and reflexive
models and protocols; Management and control of (self)adaptable
systems; Platforms and tool supporting (self)adaptability; Autonomic
and autonomous adaptation

Adaptability and dependability

Dependability and adaptability for functional and non-functional
features; Software rejuvenation; Adaptability and dependability gap;
Adaptability and dependability as complementing features; Context-aware
adaptable and dependable design; Inter- and intra-systems transactions;
Enforcing mechanisms for application level fault tolerance; Explicit
and implicit control of quality of service and contracts; Dependability
and adaptability in cloud and autonomic computing; Verification and
validation of highly adaptable and dependable systems; Scalability
aspects in dependable and adaptable systems; Research projects
and topics on dependability and adaptability; Standards on system
dependability and adaptability

Dependability and security

Integration of security, dependability, and adaptability
concepts; Building and preserving scalable, secure and resilient
architectures; Security models/architectures and threat models;
Trade-off and negotiation of dependability and security properties;
Dependability modeling and dynamic management policies; Verification
and validation (including model checking) of dependable software
architectures; Real time detection and recovery capabilities against
intrusions, malfunctions and failures; Redundancy and reconfiguration
architectures; Integrated response architectures; Planning of optimal
configurations for anticipated operational modes; Modeling of networks
and Information Systems; Simulation of modeled configurations;
Fast reconfiguration with priority to critical services; Incident
(including intrusion) detection and quick containment

Trust and system dependability

Semantics and models of trust; Dynamics of trust; Trust negotiation and
management; Trusted systems from untrusted parts; Trust-based secure
architectures; Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis; Trust
in peer-to-peer and open source systems; Trust in mobile networks;
Trust management, reputation management, and identity management;
Trust, security, and dependability

Dependability, adaptability, and new technologies

Dependability and adaptability in service oriented architectures;
Principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems;
Dependability and adaptability in P2P and overlay systems; Middleware
protocols and mechanisms to support adaptability and dependability;
Adaptability and dependability in mobile and pervasive systems; Service
composition in highly dependable and adaptable environments; Dynamic,
loosely-coupled, and ad-hoc environments; Group membership services
in failure scenarios with network partitions; Social networks and
dependability in dynamic communities; Cross-organization heterogeneity;
Aerospace system dependability; Dependable software for life critical
applications

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