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{{Event
 | Acronym = DEPEND 2009
 | Title = The Second International Conference on Dependability
 | Type = Conference
 | Series = 
 | Field = Computer security and reliability
 | Homepage = www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ComDEPEND09.html
 | Start date = Jun 14, 2009 
 | End date =  Jun 19, 2009
 | City= Athens
 | State = 
 | Country =  Greece
 | Abstract deadline = Jan 20, 2009
 | Submission deadline = Jan 20, 2009
 | Notification = Feb 25, 2009
 | Camera ready = Mar 20, 2009
}}

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The Second International Conference on Dependability

DEPEND 2009

June 14-19, 2009 - Athens, Greece


Call for Papers
Most of critical activities in the areas of communications (telephone, Internet), energy & fluids (electricity, gas, water), transportation (railways, airlines, road), life related (health, emergency response, and security), manufacturing (chips, computers, cars) or financial (credit cards, on-line transactions), or refinery& chemical systems rely on networked communication and information systems. Moreover, there are other dedicated systems for data mining, recommenders, sensing, conflict detection, intrusion detection, or maintenance that are complementary to and interact with the former ones.

With large scale and complex systems, their parts expose different static and dynamic features that interact with each others; some systems are more stabile than others, some are more scalable, while others exhibit accurate feedback loops, or are more reliable or fault-tolerant.

Inter-system dependability and intra-system feature dependability require more attention from both theoretical and practical aspects, such as a more formal specification of operational and non-operational requirements, specification of synchronization mechanisms, or dependency exception handing. Considering system and feature dependability becomes crucial for data protection and recoverability when implementing mission critical applications and services. 

Static and dynamic dependability, time-oriented, or timeless dependability, dependability perimeter, dependability models, stability and convergence on dependable features and systems, and dependability control and self-management are some of the key topics requiring special treatment. Platforms and tools supporting the dependability requirements are needed.  

The international conference on dependability, DEPEND 2009, is based on the positive participation and feedback at DEPEND 2008 workshop that addressed new approaches dealing with today's limitations and potential solutions.

As a particular case, design, development, and validation of tools for incident detection and decision support became crucial for security and dependability in complex systems. It is challenging how these tools could span different time scales and provide solutions for survivability that range from immediate reaction to global and smooth reconfiguration through policy based management for an improved resilience. Enhancement of the self-healing properties of critical infrastructures by planning, designing and simulating of optimized architectures tested against several realistic scenarios is also aimed.

To deal with dependability, sound methodologies, platforms, and tools are needed to allow system adaptability. The balance dependability/adaptability may determine the life scale of a complex system and settle the right monitoring and control mechanisms. Particular challenging issues pertaining to context-aware, security, mobility, and ubiquity require appropriate mechanisms, methodologies, formalisms, platforms, and tools to support adaptability.

Improvement of the risk and crisis management in critical infrastructures is achieved by the design of new models, countermeasures, and incident management tools. These new models will help to mitigate the cascading and escalading effects induced by different kind of dependencies present in communication and information systems. Development of decision support tools for critical infrastructures should be validated by scenarios based on different case studies.

We are looking for contributions on the actual trends in coping with these new challenges within the research community and industry. We expect some lessons learnt and description of the results coming from different R&D projects (e.g., like ones in the EC 6th Framework Program), or any other worldwide initiatives. We hope we will be able to identify the gaps between the needs and today's available solutions along with new challenges and potential for future directions.

DEPEND 2009 will provide a forum for detailed exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences with the goal of understanding the academia and the industry trends related to the new challenges in dependability on critical and complex information systems.

Researchers, designers and administrators, product and service developers, and other interested persons from academia, industry, and the government are welcome and encouraged to participate with unpublished contributions in areas including, but not limited to:

Dependability facets
Fundamentals on dependability 
Formalisms for dependability 
Managing and control in dependable systems 
Inter-system and intra-system dependability 
Operational and non-operational requirements 
Software and hardware dependability 
Dependability design and specification
Synchronization mechanisms and dependency exception handing 
Data protection, recoverability, fault-tolerance
Trust and dependability 
Static and dynamic dependability 
Time-oriented or time-agnostic dependability 
Dependability perimeter and dependability models 
Stability and convergence on dependable features and systems 
Dependability discovery 
Dependability control and self-management 
Dependability degradation of running software and services

Adaptability and (self)adaptability
Fundamental models and adaptability mechanisms
Principles of (self)adaptability
Adaptive replication models and protocols
Adaptable structures and behaviors
Context-aware adaptability
Perceived dependability and adaptability 
Adaptive and reflexive models and protocols
Management and control of (self)adaptable systems
Platforms and tool supporting (self)adaptability 
Autonomic and autonomous adaptation

Adaptability and dependability
Dependability and adaptability for functional and non-functional features 
Adaptability and dependability gap
Adaptability and dependability as complementing features
Context-aware adaptable and dependable design 
Inter- and intra-systems transactions 
Enforcing mechanisms for application level fault tolerance
Explicit and implicit control of quality of service and contracts
Dependability and adaptability in cloud and autonomic computing 
Verification and validation of highly adaptable and dependable systems 
Scalability aspects in dependable and adaptable systems
Research projects and topics on dependability and adaptability
Standards on system dependability and adaptability

Dependability and security
Integration of security, dependability, and adaptability concepts
Building and preserving scalable, secure and resilient architectures 
Security models/architectures and threat models
Trade-off and negotiation of dependability and security properties
Dependability modeling and dynamic management policies 
Verification and validation (including model checking) of dependable software architectures 
Real time detection and recovery capabilities against intrusions, malfunctions and failures 
Redundancy and reconfiguration architectures 
Integrated response architectures 
Planning of optimal configurations for anticipated operational modes 
Modeling of networks and Information Systems 
Simulation of modeled configurations 
Fast reconfiguration with priority to critical services 
Incident (including intrusion) detection and quick containment

Trust and system dependability
Semantics and models of trust
Dynamics of trust
Trust negotiation and management
Trusted systems from untrusted parts
Trust-based secure architectures
Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis
Trust in peer-to-peer and open source systems
Trust in mobile networks
Trust management, reputation management, and identity management
Trust, security, and dependability

Dependability, adaptability, and new technologies
Dependability and adaptability in service oriented architectures
Principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems
Dependability and adaptability in P2P and overlay systems
Middleware protocols and mechanisms to support adaptability and dependability
Adaptability and dependability in mobile and pervasive systems
Service composition in highly dependable and adaptable environments 
Dynamic, loosely-coupled, and ad-hoc environments 
Group membership services in failure scenarios with network partitions
Social networks and dependability in dynamic communities
Cross-organization heterogeneity

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The DEPEND 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)	January 20, 2009
Authors notification	February 25, 2009
Registration	March 15, 2009
Camera ready	March 20, 2009
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. 

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters on work-in-progress are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum".  Contributors are invited to submit up to four-page papers, following the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference�??s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petre@iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
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Abstract deadline	January 20, 2009 +
Acronym	DEPEND 2009 +
Camera ready due	March 20, 2009 +
End date	June 23, 2009 +
Event type	Conference +
Has PC member	Marco Domenico Aime +, José Enrique Armendáriz-Iñigo +, Elisa Bertino +, Stefan Beyer +, Andrea Bondavalli +, Vicent Cholvi +, António Casimiro Costa +, Bojan Cukic +, Rubén de Juan-Marín +, Changyu Dong +, Schahram Dustdar +, Nuno Ferreira Neves +, Desprez Frédéric +, Alexander Felfernig +, Lorenz Froihofer +, Cristina Gacek +, Holger Giese +, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta +, Karl M. Goeschka +, Artur Hecker +, Bjarne E. Helvik +, Michael Hobbs +, Jiun-Long Huang +, Wenjian (William) Jiang +, Hai Jin +, Yoshiaki Kakuda +, Mani Krishna +, Israel Koren +, Inhwan Lee +, Clement Leung +, Keqiu Li +, Shyue-Kung Lu +, Jianhua Ma +, Henrique Madeira +, Istvan Majzik +, Miroslaw Malek +, Nikola Milanovic +, Geyong Min +, Francesc D. Munoz-Escoi +, Jogesh K. Muppala +, Syed Naqvi +, Mats Neovius +, Thu D. Nguyen +, Aljosa Pasic +, Paolo Carlo Pomi +, Sergio Pozo Hidalgo +, Wolfgang Pree +, Calton Pu +, Gerald Quirchmayr +, Ramendra K. Sahoo +, Reijo Savola +, Raimondo Schettini +, Dimitrios Serpanos +, Isabelle Simplot-Ryl +, Arun K Somani +, Kuo-Feng Ssu +, Vladimir Stantchev +, Kymie Tan +, Michiaki Tatsubori +, Kishor S. Trivedi +, Ian Troxel +, Timothy Tsai +, Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya +, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni +, Marco Vieira +, Szu-Chi Wang +, Hee Yong Youn +, Wojciech Zamojski + and Hans P. Zima +
Has coordinates	37° 59' 2", 23° 43' 42"Latitude: 37.983941666667 Longitude: 23.728305555556 +
Has industry research chair	Ramendra K. Sahoo +, Michiaki Tatsubori + and Hans P. Zima +
Has location city	Athens +
Has location country	Category:Greece +
Has program chair	Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta +, Yoshiaki Kakuda + and Marco Vieira +
Homepage	http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ComDEPEND09.html +
IsA	Event +
Notification	February 25, 2009 +
Start date	June 18, 2009 +
Subevent of	NetWare 2009 +
Submission deadline	January 20, 2009 +
Title	The Second International Conference on Dependability +