[CFP] The Second International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications -- DependSys 2016 -- Firm Deadline Aug 05, 2016

Dear All,

Please find below a call for papers of the Second International Symposium
on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications
(DependSys2016)




                                                              DependSys
2016| Call for Papers

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 The Second International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and
Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys2016),
                                           Zhangjiajie, China, November
16-18, 2016 [Springer, EI-Indexed]

http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/DependSys2016/

https://sites.google.com/site/dependsys/

                                  In conjunction with SpaCSS 2016 [
http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2016/]


   Hosted by:
                                                                     Temple
University, USA
                                                                Guangzhou
University, China


Technical Co-Sponsorship:
                                                      Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science


Venue & Dates:
                                                        Zhangjiajie, China,
November 16-18, 2016

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                      Proceedings & Special Issues:
The conference proceedings (including main conference papers and workshop
papers) will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series (EI indexed). Distinguished papers, after further revisions,
will be published in several SCI & EI indexed special issues (to be
announced soon).
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HIGHLIGHT 1
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Authors of selected, high-quality papers of the symposium would be invited
to submit their improved versions to one of high-impact SCI & EI indexed
Special Issues:

(1) IEEE Transactions on Big Data (SCI&EI Indexed: Coming soon)
(2) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact
Factor: 2.786)
(3) Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (SCI&EI
Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.229)
(4) Journal of Computational Science - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact
Factor: 1.231)
(5) Wireless Personal Communications - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact
Factor: 0.653)
(6) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI&EI Indexed)
(7) IEEE Access (SCI&EI Indexed: Coming soon)
(8) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE)
- INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed)
(9) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI
Indexed)
(10) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
(IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed)
(11) Future Internet (EI Indexed)

HIGHLIGHT 2: Keynotes
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Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Jie Wu, IEEE Fellow, Temple University, USA
Title: Algorithmic Crowdsourcing: Current State and Future Perspective

Keynote Speaker 2: Prof. Schahram Dustdar, IEEE Fellow, TU Wien, Austria
Title: Services Computing - A Research Agenda for the Next 10 Years

Keynote Speaker 3: Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, China
Title: To be decided

Keynote Speaker 4: Prof. David Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title:   To be decided

Keynote Speaker 5: Prof. David Naccache, ENS Paris, France
Title:  Thrifty Zero-Knowledge: When Linear Programming Meets Cryptography


INTRODUCTION
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The DependSys 2016 is the second event, which is a timely event bringing
together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its
issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. The first
event (DependSys 2015) was held at the same place, which was of a great
success. As we are deep into the Information Age, we witness the explosive
growth of data available on the Internet. Human beings are producing
quintillion bytes of data every day, which come from sensors, individual
archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprise and Internet in
all scales and formats. One of the most challenging issues we face in
achieving designed system performance to an expected level, i.e., how to
effectively provide dependability in sensor, cloud, and big data systems.
These systems need to typically run continuously, which often tend to
become inert, brittle, and vulnerable after a while.  We can observe that
this trend is further stimulated by an ever-increasing cost pressure.

The focus of DependSys 2016 is to provide a forum for individuals,
academics, practitioners, and organizations, who are developing or
procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services
they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the
dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The
emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g.,
continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to
overcome data fault/corruption/anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic
failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions,
reliability/availability/sustainability/adaptability/heterogeneity/security/safety,
and so on.

SCOPE AND INTERESTS
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DependSys2016 will focus on emerging ideas and trends, algorithms and
applications, systems design techniques, platforms and tools, as well as
measurement assessment tools in all aspects of Dependability, which include
but are not limited to the following list:

(1) Fundamentals and Technologies
 + Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and
methodologies for dependability
 + Security and privacy
 + Anomaly detection and protection
 + Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks dependability in
mobile computing
 + Dependability of software defined networks (SDN)
 + Dependability issues in clouds (e.g., cloud storage, computing)
 + Software and hardware dependability
 + Reliability and fault-tolerant computing
 + Dependability by virtualization
 + Dependability in distributed scheduling and resource management
 + Dependability issues in parallel and distributed databases
 + Dependability issues in autonomic computing
 + Dependable Biocomputing, Quantum computing, etc.
 + Dependable big data foundation and management
 + Big data privacy and security
 + Dependable IoT supporting technologies
 + Social networks and crowdsensing

(2) Systems
 + Dependable sensor systems
 + Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems
 + Cyber-physical systems (e.g. networked embedded systems, autonomous
vehicle, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems, and so on)
 + Dependability issues in socio-technical systems
 + Dependability issues in database and transaction processing systems
 + Safety and security in distributed computing systems
 + Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
 + IoT smart sensors and systems
 + RFID Systems
 + Reliability issues in long-distance telemetry of distributed sensor
systems
 + Dependability in automotive systems
 + Dependable computing clouds for cyber-physical systems
 + Dependable integration between sensor systems and the cloud
 + Dependability in big data systems
 + Safety-critical systems and software
 + Software system security

(3) Applications
 + Sensor and robot applications, sensor network applications
 + Big data applications
 + Cloud computing applications
 + Datacenter monitoring
 + Safety care, medical care and services, IoT-based  healthcare
 + Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications
 + IoT Energy, smart grid, and utility applications
 + Scientific applications
 + e-commerce and e-government
 + Activity monitoring
 + Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking

(4) Measures and Assessments
 + Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity,
easiness, comfort, and worry
 + Dependability levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority
 + Dependability assessment standards
 + Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
 + Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed systems
 + Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification and validation
 + Evaluation of fault-tolerant systems
 + Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor,
cloud, big data systems
 + Experimental performance of parallel & distributed systems
 + Practical experiences and prototypes

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION
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All papers in PDF format need to be submitted electronically through the
symposium website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dependsys2016).
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference
with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not
exceed 12 pages (or 18 pages with the over length charge), including
tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with
PDF. The majority of papers that finally appear in the symposium will
likely be the result of the symposium solicitation. Papers will be
evaluated based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity
of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers from respective
research areas.
All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI-Indexed).


IMPORTANT DATES
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(1) Paper Submission Deadline:  August 05, 2016 (Firm Deadline)
(2) Author Notification:        September 01, 2016
(3) Camera-Ready Paper:  September 15, 2016
(4) Conference Dates:    November 16-18, 2016

Organizing Committee
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Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair)
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/lslamic University in
Madinah, KSA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia
Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia

General Chairs
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WenZhan Song, Georgia State University, USA
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of South Australia, Australia
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Temple University, USA

Program Chairs
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Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Guerroumi Mohamed, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene,
Algeria
M. Thampi Sabu, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management,
India

Publicity Chairs
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Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institue of Information Technology,
Pakistan
Mahmuda Naznin, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,
Bangladesh
Risat Mahmud Pathan, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rossi Kamal, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Shahriar Hossain, Kennesaw State University, USA
Sajal Bhatia, Fordham University, USA
Tian Wang, Huaqiao University,  China
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Yuan-Fang Chen, University of Paris VI, France

Program Committee Members
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(Please refer to the DependSys 2016 website:
http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/DependSys2016/
https://sites.google.com/site/dependsys/)

Webmaster
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Xian Tang, Central South University, China

Contact
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Please email inquiries concerning DependSys 2016 to:
Dr. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan: zakirulalam AT gmail DOT com and the
conference organizers (dependsys AT yahoo DOT com).
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/zakirulalam/
Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP

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Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ph.D., Senior Member IEEE
Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
Associate Editor, IEEE *Access*
Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals
Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks
Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Tel: +92-333-3052764
https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/
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