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*  13th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and                  *

*  Network-Centric Systems - DPDNS '08                                                               *

*  Miami, Florida USA                                                                                                      *

*  April 14-18, 2008                                                                                                           *

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*  Held in conjunction with the                                                                                   *

*  22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium  *

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Theme

Increasingly large and complex parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems

provide unique challenges to the researchers in dependable computing, especially because

of the high failure rates intrinsic to these systems. The goal of this workshop in continuation

of the FTPDS (Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems) workshop series is to provide

a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss all aspects of dependability including

reliability, availability, safety and security for parallel, distributed and network-centric systems.

All aspects of design, theory and realization are of interest.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric systems

• High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems 

• Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems 

• Autonomic network computing 

• Dependable high-speed wide, local, and system area networks 

• Dependable mobile computing

• Dependable clusters of workstations and PCs 

• Dependable internet servers

• Dependability in distributed embedded systems 

• Using COTS for designing dependable network-centric computing systems 

• Dependable protocols for distributed and network-centric systems

• Protocol verification and validation 

• Practical experiences and prototypes

• Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed and network-centric systems

• Dependable quantum computing 

• Dependable organic computing

• Dependable biocomputing 

 

Program Chair:

Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

e-mail: apuliafito@unime.it

 

 

Program Committee:

M. Atighetchi, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA

B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy

G. Deconinck, University of Leuven, Belgium

A. Doering, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland

S. Geoghegan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

K. E.Grosspietsch, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany

R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

T. Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan

E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany

D. Nikolos, University of Patras, Greece

F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy

P. Romano, University of Roma, Italy

M. Roy, LAAS-CNRS, France

F. Salfner, Humboldt University, Germany

P. Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany

M. Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

C. Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany

 

Steering Committee:

D. Avresky, IRIANC, Boston USA/Munich Germany (Chair)

E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany

 

The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing.

For further information, please see http://www.ipdps.org/ and http://cia.unime.it/dpdns08.

or contact the Program Chair via email: dpdns08@unime.it.

 

 

Submission Guidelines

To submit papers, send the file (at most 8 pages long including figures and references

in the IEEE format (see http://www.ieee.org/)) describing original unpublished research

by November 11, 2007 in either Postscript or PDF format electronically via the workshop

webpage  cia.unime.it/dpdns08

 

All papers will be reviewed.

Notification of authors: December 20, 2007. Camera-ready papers: January 28, 2008.

The proceedings for workshops will be published (on CD-ROM) along with the  regular

proceedings for The IEEE International Parallel & Distributed  Processing Symposium.