HotDep '12 Call
for Papers
Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in System
Dependability (HotDep '12)
October
7, 2012
Hollywood, CA
Sponsored
by USENIX, the Advanced
Computing Systems Association
HotDep '12
will be co-located with the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating
Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12), which will
take place October 8–10, 2012.
Important Dates
- Paper
submissions due: June 11, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT
- Notification to
authors: July 30, 2012
- Final papers
due: September 10, 2012
Workshop Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
Michael J.
Freedman, Princeton
University
Neeraj Suri, TU
Darmstadt
Program
Committee
Marcos K.
Aguilera, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Yair Amir, Johns
Hopkins University
Christian
Cachin, IBM Research—Zurich
Allen Clement, Max Planck
Institute for Software System
Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM
Pascal Felber, University
of Neuchâtel
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown
University
Phil Koopman, Carnegie
Mellon University
Dejan Kostić, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Cristina
Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Mike Reiter, University
of North Carolina
Robbert van
Renesse, Cornell University
Bernard Wong, University
of Waterloo
Overview
Authors
are invited to submit papers to the Eighth Workshop on Hot
Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '12). The workshop will
be co-located with the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating
Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12), which will be
held October 8–10, 2012, in Hollywood, CA.
HotDep '12
will bring forth cutting-edge research ideas spanning the
domains of systems and fault tolerance/reliability, drawing
from the two associated research communities (i.e.,
researchers who attend traditional "dependability" conferences
such as DSN and ISSRE, and those who attend "systems"
conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, and EuroSys). The workshop
will build links between the two communities and serve as a
forum for sharing ideas and challenges. HotDep has been
alternating between DSN and OSDI since 2005; for previous
HotDep workshops, see http://www.hotdep.org/.
Paper Scope
and Topics
Possible
topics include but are not limited to:
- Dependability
in large-scale systems, despite either crash or Byzantine
failures
- Dependability
in emerging platforms, such as handheld, datacenters, or
cloud computing
- Dependability
in the software stack, including operating systems, network
protocols, runtime systems, etc.
- Fault and
intrusion tolerance, self-healing systems, and continuous
operation throughout recovery
- Techniques for
better detection, diagnosis, or recovery from failures
- Forensic tools
for use by administrators and programmers after failure or
attack
- Tools/concepts/techniques/metrics
for quantifying or optimizing trade-offs among
dependability, availability, performance, correctness,
resource utilization, and security
Authors
should consider that the workshop aims to improve interactions
among researchers from the dependability and systems
communities, and thus the review process favors papers that
are likely to generate healthy debate. Example
submissions include but are not limited to:
- Innovative
techniques, algorithms, or protocols for building
dependable/secure systems
- Reconsideration
of existing problems using novel approaches with
demonstrable benefits
- Description of
an emerging problem and potential solutions
- Refuting old,
entrenched perspectives on dependability
- Advocacy,
critical or controversial papers if based on a technical
foundation
Deadline and
Submission Instructions
Authors
are invited to submit position papers by 11:59 p.m. PST on
June 11, 2012. This is a firm deadline—no extensions will be
given.
Submitted
position papers must be no longer than 5 pages (8.5" x 11") of
text including figures and tables, and 1 additional page
solely for references. Your paper should be typeset in
two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced)
leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by
9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the
title page.
Papers must
be in PDF and must be submitted via the Web submission form,
which will be available here soon.
Authors will
be notified of acceptance by July 30, 2012. Authors of
accepted papers will produce a final PDF by September 10,
2012. All papers will be available online to registered
attendees before the workshop. If your accepted paper should
not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will
be available online to everyone beginning on the day of the
workshop.
Simultaneous
submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of
previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and
technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices
and may take action against authors who have committed them.
See the USENIX
Conference Submissions Policy for details.
Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, hotdep12chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX
office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Papers
accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be
considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as
confidential prior to publication on the USENIX HotDep '12 Web
site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as
confidential.
Registration
Materials
Complete
program and registration information will be available on the
HotDep '12 Web
site in August 2012.