[AISWorld] CFP of DASC2011, 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing

[Xiao Liu]

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011.


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: extended to August 30, 2011
Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/


Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.


Special issues:
Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 




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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; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.


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 at ADFA, Australia
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia


Steering Chairs
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada 
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan


Call for workshops: 
DASC2011 workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates in Melbourne, Australia.


We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing to the Workshop Chairs.


The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community.


Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged.


In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-day and half-day workshops are welcome.


A workshop proposal should contain at least:


Title of workshop: International workshop on ...
Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail,
Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
The workshop deadlines
Tentative composition of the committees
Brief biography of organizers
Prior history of this workshop, if any.
Important dates:


Workshop proposals submission: Ongoing as received. 
Suggested paper status notification: September 15, 2011.


Camera-ready due: October 3, 2011.


Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop.


Once accepted, the workshop organisers are in charge of:


Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed upon acceptance.
Establishing own paper submission system.
Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as DASC2011 main conference.
Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for DASC2011 at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors.
Proceedings of the DASC2011 workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of DASC2011, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index.


Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions.


For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs.


Workshop Chairs:


Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia: xliu at groupwise.swin.edu.au
Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia: jemal.abawajy at deakin.edu.au



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Dr. Xiao Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
Swinbure University of Technology
Melbourne 3122 Australia 
Tel: 61 3 9214 4758
Fax:61 3 9819 0823
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/xliu/
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