[AISWorld] Call for Workshop Proposals - SRDS 2024 - Extended deadline

[Antonio Casimiro]

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Call for Workshop Proposals  -  SRDS 2024

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The 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 
2024)
September 30 - October 04, 2024
Charlotte, USA
https://srds-conference.org/

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The 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 
2024) 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. The organizing committee of SRDS 
2024 is welcoming workshop proposals.

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

  * Workshop Proposal Submission: May 3rd, 2024May 10th, 2024
  * Workshop Acceptance Notification: May 10th, 2024May 17th, 2024

# Proposal Submission
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Proposals must be sent to SRDS'24 workshop co-chairs, and have the 
following structure:

  * Title of the workshop;
  * A 150- to 200-word abstract, suitable for the conference website;
  * Themes and goals, and relevance to the SRDS community;
  * Information about the procedure for selecting papers and/or
    presentations, plans for dissemination and publication, and expected
    number of participants;
  * Preference for a half- or one-day format;
  * Information about previous editions of the same workshop, if any;
  * Names, affiliations and brief bios of organizers, including their
    past experience in organizing workshops and/or conferences in the field;
  * A list of possible Program Committee members and their affiliations;

Proposals must not exceed three pages in PDF.

SRDS'24 workshop co-chairs:

  * Michel Cukier: mcukier at umd.edu
  * Anne Remke: anne.remke at wwu.de

# Evaluation Criteria
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  * Relevance to SRDS;
  * Timeliness and expected interest in the topic;
  * Organizers’ ability to lead a successful workshop;
  * Balance and synergy with other SRDS events;

For any questions regarding workshops, please email the workshop chairs:
For further information, please see:
https://srds-conference.org/cf_workshop_proposals.html

# 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.