Call for Papers - The 16th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks

The Sixteenth International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN2017)

Atlanta, Georgia, USA | June 5 - 8, 2017 | https://icdcs2017.gatech.edu/
held in conjunction with the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017)

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing in cooperation with the IEICE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Networks and the IEICE Information and Systems Society Technical Committee on Dependable Computing (Approval Pending)

ADSN 2017 is the sixteenth edition of this International Workshop demonstrating its long-term continuity and considerable recognition. The objective of the Workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks.

Along with recent rapid growth of the Internet and ubiquitous networks, applications for autonomous decentralized systems are emerging in many important areas like transportation, automotive systems, smart energy grids and the Internet of Things (IoT) to name a few. In these distributed systems and networks, heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and the requirements themselves are frequently changing. Assurance in these distributed systems and networks is defined as capability of guaranteeing functional and non-functional system properties such as dependability, security, timeliness and adaptivity in heterogeneous and changing environments. The workshop theme is critical in meeting ever more demanding requirements for assurance in systems and networks.
Technologies supporting assurance including integration of various fields such as real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility and intelligence will have to be incorporated in complex distributed systems and networks.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Assurance technologies for new generation networks
• Assurance in cooperative embedded, grid, and cloud computing systems
• Assurance in service-oriented and web-service based computing systems
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Heterogeneous systems coexistence and consistency technologies
• Network control (QoS,QoE, CoS, etc) technologies for assurance
• Self-stabilization and sensor networks assurance
• Agents technologies for assurance
• Assurance in safety-critical, automotive, and avionic systems
• Software and hardware technologies for assurance in intelligent transportation systems, train control, and space computers
• System life-cycle assurance in specification, design, implementation, testing, verification, and validation
• Assurance in IoT systems
• Security technologies for assurance
• System management and proactive fault management technologies for assurance
• Technologies for achieving high assurance in complex systems

Papers and Submissions

Papers must be written in English, and they have to be Postscript, PDF, or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no longer than 6 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. The following information must be provided as well:

1. paper title, full name, affiliation of the author(s)
2. full name, affiliation, complete address, phone number and email address of the author to be contacted, and
3. an abstract (up to 150 words).

All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EasyChair system. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair system.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsn2017

Authors are expected to present their paper at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must register for ICDCS to be included in the workshop program.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission: January 31, 2017
• Acceptance notification: March 15, 2017

General Chair: Miroslaw Malek, USI-Lugano, Switzerland

Vice Chair: Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan Program

Chair: Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, Canada

Vice Program Chairs

• Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Eitaro Kohno, Hiroshima City University, Japan
• Harigovind V. Ramasamy, IBM, USA

Program Committee

• Masaki Aida, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Emmanuelle Anceaume, CNRS / IRISA, France
• Robin Berthier, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Shuo Chen, Microsoft Research, USA
• Jorge Cobb, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Elias P. Duarte Jr., Federal Univ. of Parana, Brazil
• Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle University, UK
• Junichi Funasaka, Hiroshima City University, Japan
• Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Anatoliy Gorbenko, National Aerospace University, Ukraine
• Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Yoshifumi Manabe, Kogakuin University, Japan
• Krerk Piromsopa, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK
• Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi, Finland
• Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
• Marco Vieira, Univ of Comibra, Portugal
• Yufeng Wang, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
• Xin Wang, Fudan University, China
• Charles Weinstock, Software Engineering Institute, USA