**************************************************************************** - SSS 2009 - 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems November 3-6, 2009, Lyon, France http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/SSS09/ **************************************************************************** The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following tracks: * Alternative Systems and Models * Autonomic Computational Science * Cloud Computing * Embedded Systems * Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems / Dependability * Formal Methods in Distributed Systems * Grid Computing * Mobility and Dynamic Networks * Multicore Computing * Peer-to-Peer Systems * Self-Organizing Systems * Sensor Networks * Stabilization * System Safety and Security IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: May 31, 2009 * Initial Notification and Beginning of Rebuttal Phase: July 24, 2009 * End of Rebuttal Phase: July 28, 2009 * Final Notification: August 1, 2009 * Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2009 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in PDF format and be prepared using the LNCS style. Detailed instructions for submitting papers will be available later. Two types of papers can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements. Submissions for regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title, authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief announcements are restricted to two pages using the LNCS style, with no appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. If requested by the authors on the submission system, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for a brief announcement. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular paper. A paper submitted at this forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal. PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected conference papers, provided they are within the scope of ACM TAAS, will be published in a special issue of that journal. REBUTTAL PHASE The review process will include a rebuttal phase. Authors will be able to comment on the reviews of their submissions. BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT AWARDS A best paper and a best student paper award will be selected by the program committee. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission. This must be indicated by marking an appropriate box in the submission system. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA Program Co-Chairs: Rachid Guerraoui, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Franck Petit, INRIA, Universite de Lyon, France Program Vice Chairs: Alternative Systems and Models Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA Autonomic Computational Science Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Cloud Computing Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Embedded Systems Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems/Dependability Martin Hutle, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Josef Widder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Formal Methods in Distributed Systems Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Grid Computing Thierry Priol, Universite de Rennes, France Mobility and Dynamic Networks Eric Fleury, Universite de Lyon/ENS, France Multicore Computing Pascal Felber, Universite de Neuch?tel, Switzerland Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Peer-to-Peer Systems Thomas Fuhrmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany Self-Organizing Systems Salima Hassas, Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, France Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK Sensor Networks Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA Jason Hallstrom, Clemson University, USA Stabilization Franck Petit, INRIA, Universite de Lyon, France System Safety and Security Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mohamed G. Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Local Arrangements Chair Eddy Caron, University of Lyon/ENS, France Publication Chairs Stephane Devismes, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France Cedric Tedeschi, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Mediterranee, France Publicity Chairs Doina Bein, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Stephane Devismes, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France Yoshiaki Katayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Ji-Cherng Lin, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Webmaster Benjamin Depardon, University of Lyon, France