Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call-for-papers. ================================================================================= DASC-09 The 8th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing December 12-14, 2009, Chengdu, China Technical Sponsored by IEEE Chengdu Section http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~ydai/DASC09/ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================================= INTRODUCTION ================================================================================= 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. ================================================================================= SCOPE AND INTERESTS ================================================================================= DASC-09 is the first conference event after the merger of the successful DASC symposium series previously held as RAMPDS-05 (July 2005, Fukuoka, Japan), DASC-06 (September 2006, Indianapolis, USA), DASC-07 (September, 2007, Columbia, MD, USA), and the successful SecUbiq symposium series, previously held as SecUbiq-05 (December 2005, Nagasaki, Japan), SecUbiq-06 (August 2006, Seoul, Korea), SecUbiq-07 (December 2007, Taipei, Taiwan) and SecUbiq-08 (December 2008, Shanghai, Shanghai). DASC-09 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 areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems Grid Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment Cloud Computing Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. Self-improvement in Dependable Systems Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing Software Engineering for Dependable Systems Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. Security Models and Quantifications Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection Context-aware Access Control Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing QoS in Communications and Services ================================================================================= PUBLICATION ================================================================================= Accepted papers will be appeared in DASC-09 proceedings to be indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in special issues of some top SCI-indexed journals. ================================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES ================================================================================= Submission deadline: August 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2009 Final manuscript due: October 15, 2009 Conference: December 12-14, 2009 ================================================================================= PAPER SUBMISSIONS ================================================================================= Prepare your paper in PDF file with no more than 8 pages for main conference and 6 pages for workshops/symposia. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting;jsessionid=BAADE4ED540A35D4C0DCE66D678F78DA. Submit your paper(s) at the DASC-09 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc09/sub/ Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. ================================================================================= WORKSHOP PROPOSAL ================================================================================= In conjunction with the DASC-09, several workshops will be held. Please submit a workshop proposal including call for papers, organizing committee, important dates, short bio of the organizers to the DASC-09 workshop chairs before July 15, 2009. . The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration for the leading workshop organizer. ================================================================================= GENERAL CHAIRS ================================================================================= Zhi-Guang Qin, University of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, USA ================================================================================= PROGRAM CHAIRS ================================================================================= Bo Yang, University of Elec. Sci. Tech. of China, China Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Ruo Ando, National Inst. of Info. & Comm. Tech., Japan ================================================================================= PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS ================================================================================= Chin-Yu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hong Mei, Peking University, China Jin Liu, State Key Lab. of Software Engineering, China Liudong Xing, University of Massachussette, USA Rick Siow Mong GOH, Inst. of High Performance Computing, Singapore Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea ================================================================================= PUBLICITY CHAIRS ================================================================================= Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong, China Qinbao Song, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China ================================================================================= WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================================================================================= Mingchu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Peidong Zhu, NUDT, China Zong-Hua Zhang, National Inst. of Info. & Comm. Tech., Japan ================================================================================= STEERING CHAIRS ================================================================================= Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan ================================================================================= INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================================================= Michael R. Lyu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Mingtian Zhou, University of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China Qun Jin, WASEDA University, Japan Karama Kanoun, LAAS-CNRS, France Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea ================================================================================= LOCAL AND FINANCE CHAIR ================================================================================= Yanping Xiang, University of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China ================================================================================= CONFERENCE SECRETARIES ================================================================================= Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Ling Tian, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China ================================================================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================================================================================= The DASC-09 committee includes leading researchers from academia and industry. The list is available at the conference web site. ================================================================================= FURTHER CONTACTS ================================================================================= For any queries, please contact Ling Tian: ruan052@126.com