-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [laas-dependability-announce] EDCC 2008 Deadline Extension Datum: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:29:16 +0200 Von: Karama Kanoun karama.kanoun@laas.fr An: laas-dependability-announce@laas.fr

*****the submission deadline has been extended to September 30*******

Seventh European Dependable Computing Conference EDCC-7 Kaunas, Lithuania May 7-9, 2008 http://edcc.dependability.org

CALL FOR PAPERS There is an increasing dependency of the society on computing services and their underlying computing systems. This dependency creates strict requirements for the delivered services. These requirements affect to he quality of service, continuous availability, survivability in the advent of catastrophic failures, confidentiality, intrusion tolerance, etc. Dependability is a concept that considers all these cross-cutting concerns and required attributes, such as reliability, availability, safety, and security, as well as human factors.

The seventh European Dependable Computing Conference aims at providing a European-hosted venue for researchers and practioners from all over the world to present and discuss their latest research achievements. Original papers are solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable computing systems. All kinds of faults are of interest, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions.

Major topics include, but are not limited to: - Architectures for dependable systems. - Architecture and protocols for security. - Critical infrastructure protection. - Dependability for mobile systems. - Dependability in high-bandwidth and system area networks. - Dependability measurement, modeling, and evaluation. - Dependability in SOA and middleware. - Dependability in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. - Dependability in high performance and grid systems. - Dependability in business and e-commerce applications. - Dependability in data streaming. - Security. - Fault tolerant distributed systems. - Fault tolerance in databases and transactional systems. - Fault tolerance in real-time systems. - Fault tolerance in multimedia systems. - Hardware and software testing, verification, and validation. - Human factors. - Formal methods for dependability. - Information assurance, survivability, and intrusion tolerance. - Internet dependability and quality of service. - Safety-critical systems. - Software reliability engineering. - Dependability benchmarking. - Software engineering for dependability.

EDCC is the successor of two European conference series on fault-tolerance, dependability, and testing dating back to the 70s and 80s. EDCC is now an established conference on dependability organized every 2 years by a European country and attracting papers from all over the world.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers, Practical Experience Reports, Prototype-Tool descriptions and Panels. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables using 11-point type. Practical Experience Reports (5-12 pages) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. Prototype-Tool description papers (5-12 pages) should outline the design or implementation of a software tool, a prototype or an operational system, etc. Panels (2-4 pages) should describe the panel objectives, and include the bios of the Panel proposers and the probable panelists.

The title page of each submission should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and address and include a line specifying the submission category. The full mailing address, phone, fax and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically through the web at http://edcc.dependability.org

The proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Submission: September 30, 2007 (extended) Notification: January 15, 2008 Final version: February 28, 2008

General Chair Algirdas Avizienis (aviz@adm.vdu.lt) Vytautas Magnus U. in Kaunas, Lithuania

Program Chair Ricardo Jiménez-Peris (rjimenez@fi.upm.es) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Student Forum Chair Leonardo Querzoni (querzoni@dis.uniroma1.it) Univ. La Sapienza di Roma, Italy

Fast Abstracts Chair José Orlando Pereira (jop@di.uminho.pt) Univ. do Minho, Portugal

Local Arrangements Chair Juozas Augutis (j.augutis@adm.vdu.lt) Vytautas Magnus U. in Kaunas, Lithuania

Publications Chair Ernesto Jiménez-Merino (ernes@eui.upm.es) Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Finance Chair TBD

Publicity Chair Sasha Romanovsky (Alexander.Romanovsky@newcastle.ac.uk) Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

International Liason Chairs North America: Lorenzo Alvisi (lorenzo@cs.utexas.edu) Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Latin America: Francisco Brasileiro (fubica@dsc.ufcg.edu.br) Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Asia: Xavier Defago (defago@jaist.ac.jp) JAIST, Japan

EDCC Program Committee Roberto Baldoni, Univ. La Sapienza di Roma, Italy Angelos Bilas, FORTH/Univ. Crete, Greece Andrea Bondavalli, Florence Univ., Italy Cristian Cachin, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Domenico Cotroneo. Naples Federico II Univ., Italy Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, France Antonio Fernandez, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel Felicita di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy Pedro Gil, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Janusz Gorski, Gdansk Univ. of Techn., Poland Elena Gramatova, Slovak Acad. Sciences, Slovakia Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research, Spain Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France Johan Karlsson, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Rogerio de Lemos, Kent Univ., UK Henrique Madeira, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Erik Mahle, Univ. Lübeck, Germany István Majzik, Budapest Univ., Hungary Miroslaw Malek, Humbold Univ., Germany Gilles Muller, Nantes Univ., France Edgar Nett, Magdeburg Univ., Germany Rui Oliveira, Univ. Minho, Portugal Esther Pacitti, INRIA-LINA, France Marta Patiño, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Fernando Pedone, Univ. Lugano, Italy Peter Popov, City Univ., UK Jaan Raik, Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Estonia Michel Raynal, IRISA, France Luis Rodrigues, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Luigi Romano, Naples Univ. Parthenope, Italy Juan Carlos Ruiz, Univ. Politecn. Valencia, Spain Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle Univ., UK Matteo Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany François Taiani, Lancaster Univ., UK Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Univ., Finland Paulo Veríssimo, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Roman Vitenberg, Oslo Univ., Norway

EDCC Steering Committee Luca Simoncini, Italy (chair) Algirdas Avizienis, Lithuania Mario Dal Cin, Germany Karl Grosspietsch, Germany Karama Kanoun, France Johan Karlsson, Sweden Jean-Claude Laprie, France András Pataricza, Hungary Brian Randell, UK João Gabriel Silva, Portugal Janusz Sosnowski, Poland Raimund Ubar, Estonia

EDCC Student Forum Program Committee Sergio Mena, York Univ., UK (smenadel@cs.york.ac.uk) Corentin Travers, INRIA, France (Corentin.Travers@irisa.fr) Paulo Sousa, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal (pjsousa@di.fc.ul.pt)

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