[ieeetcsc-discuss] CFP: Due Extension of DASC'2007 to May 10th

[Xiaolin (Andy) Li]

Dear Colleagues:

We apologize in advance if you recieve this message multiple times. Due to some
technical problems with the e-submission system recently, the submission due
date of the third IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing
(DASC'07) is further extended to May 10th. Enclosed please find the new cfp.
More information can be found at the conference website
(www.dasc-conference.org). We look forward to your submission! Many thanks!

Best regards,
DASC'07 Committees

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The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC07)
25-27 September, 2007
Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA

http://www.DASC-conference.org/


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: 10 May, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2007
Final manuscript due: July 1st, 2007
Symposium: 25-27 September, 2007


CALL FOR PAPERS
As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability,
Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science,
engineering, and commercial

applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network
components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They
provide computing services to

large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of
dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious
attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural

disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised,
or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to
design, analyze, evaluate,

and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment.
Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as
services that are autonomous,

dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable,
assessable and sustainable.

The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the
capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for
the autonomic computing

paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing
self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a
promising means to implement dependable

and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology
needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be
trustworthy to avoid the risk of

losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and
autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts
covering many disciplines, ranging

from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social
sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of
fields, as well as new

software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the
effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies.

This Symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers,
and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results,
novel designs, work-in-progress,

experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of either
dependability, security or autonomic computing systems. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
*    Autonomic Computing and Communications
*    Dependability Models and Evaluations
*    Security Models and Quantifications
*    Security, Dependability and Autonomic issues in Ubiquitous Computing
*    Grid Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment
*    Security and Privacy
*    Autonomic Computing Theory, Models and Architectures.
*    Reliable and Dependable Systems
*    Self-improvement in Dependability,
*    Self-protection and intrusion-detection in Security
*    Context-aware Access Control
*    Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems
*    Software and Hardware Reliability, Verification and Testing
*    Sensing, Monitoring and Measurements for Self-managing Systems
*    Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems
*    Applications, Real Projects, Reports in Autonomic, Dependable or Secure Systems

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (up to 8 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics (not limited
to the above list). All manuscripts will be reviewed on originality, technical
strength, significance,

quality of presentation, and relevance to the Symposium. Authors should submit
full papers electronically (PDF or postscript) via the electronic submission
system using IEEE CS Proceedings

format. More information is available at http://www.DASC-conference.org/ .


GENERAL CHAIRS
Mike Hinchey, NASA, USA
Email : mike.hinchey at usa.net

Yuanshun Dai, Indiana U., Purdue U. Indy, USA
Email : ydai at cs.iupui.edu

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Roy Sterritt, U. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland
Email: r.sterritt at ulster.ac.uk

Xukai Zou, Indiana U., Purdue U. Indy, USA
Email : xkzou at cs.iupui.edu

Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State U., USA
Email: xiaolin at cs.okstate.edu


STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Mike Hinchey, NASA, USA
Email : mike.hinchey at usa.net

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier U., Canada
Email: lyang at stfx.ca

Jianhua Ma, Hosei U., Japan
Email: jianhua at k.hosei.ac.jp

Roy Sterritt, U. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland
Email: r.sterritt at ulster.ac.uk


ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Manish Parashar, Rutgers U., USA
Email: parashar at caip.rutgers.edu

Salim Hariri, U. of Arizona, USA
Email: hariri at ece.arizona.edu

INTERNATIONAL LIAISON CHAIRS
Rajkumar Buyya, U. of Melbourne, Australia
     Email: raj at cs.mu.oz.au

Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., H.K.
     Email: csjcao at comp.polyu.edu.hk

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT  AND FINANCE CHAIR
Ben Benokraitis, Loyola College

COMMITTEES
The DASC07 committees include leading researchers from academia and industry.
The list is available at the workshop web site.

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will appear in an IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings to be
indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of some top
journals (TBA).

INFORMATION
http://www.DASC-conference.org/

SPONSORS
IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on
Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (AAS)