The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on
Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC06)
September 29-October 1, 2006
Indiana University, Purdue University,
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/DASC06/
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: April 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2006
Final manuscript due: July 1st, 2006
Symposium: September 29-October 1, 2006
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) to program co-chairs by email using
IEEE CS Proceedings format. More information is available at
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/DASC06/.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2006
Final manuscript due: July 1st, 2006
Symposium: September 29-October 1, 2006
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Yuanshun Dai, Indiana U., Purdue U. Indy, USA
Email : ydai@cs.iupui.edu
Mike Hinchey, NASA, USA
Email : mike.hinchey@usa.net
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Roy Sterritt, U. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland
Email: r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk
Xukai Zou, Indiana U., Purdue U. Indy, USA
Email : xkzou@cs.iupui.edu
Liudong Xing, U. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Email : lxing@umassd.edu
STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier U., Canada
Email: lyang@stfx.ca
Jianhua Ma, Hosei U., Japan
Email: jianhua@k.hosei.ac.jp
Mike Hinchey, NASA, USA
Email : mike.hinchey@usa.net
ADVISORY COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Manish Parashar, Rutgers U., USA
Email: parashar@caip.rutgers.edu
Salim Hariri, U. of Arizona, USA
Email: hariri@ece.arizona.edu
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON CHAIRS
Rajkumar Buyya, U. of Melbourne, Australia
Email: raj@cs.mu.oz.au
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., H.K.
Email: csjcao@comp.polyu.edu.hk
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State U., USA
Email: xiaolin@cs.okstate.edu
Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., H.K.
Email: csbxiao@comp.polyu.edu.hk
COMMITTEES
The DASC06 committees include leading researchers from academia and
industry. The list is available at the workshop web site.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will appear in a proceeding published by IEEE
Press. Selected papers that are presented will be published in a special
issue of Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing
INFORMATION
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/DASC06/
SPONSORS
IEEE Computer Society
Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
In cooperation with
NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)