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@usa.net

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

PROGRAM 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

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


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

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

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

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


ADVISORY COMMITTEE 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

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)