20th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric
Systems (DPDNS '15)
Held in conjunction with the 28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed
Processing Symposium 

http://www.ipdps.org/ 

May 25-29, 2015

Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, INDIA 


Important dates:

Paper submission:  February 15th, 2015
Notification of authors: February 20th, 2015
Camera-ready papers: February 28th, 2015
Workshop date: May 29th, 2015

The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Parallel Processing and a patron IRIANC (International Research Institute of
Autonomic Network Computing), Boston, USA / Munich,Germany.

Increasingly, large and complex parallel distributed and network-centric
computing systems provide unique challenges to the researchers in dependable
computing, especially because of the high failure rates intrinsic to these
systems. This workshop is a continuation of the FTPDS (Fault-Tolerant Parallel
and Distributed Systems) workshop series. The goal is to provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners to discuss all aspects of dependability including
reliability, availability, safety and security for parallel, distributed and
network-centric systems. All aspects of design, theory and realization are of
interest.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

- Dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric computing system 
- High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric systems 
- Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems 
- Autonomic network computing 
- Dependability by virtualization 
- Dependable high-speed wide, local, and system area networks 
- Dependable mobile computing 
- Dependable clusters 
- Dependable internet servers 
- Dependable cloud computing 
- Dependability issues of multi- and many core systems 
- Dependability in distributed embedded systems 
- Dependable protocols for distributed and network-centric systems 
- Protocol verification and validation 
- Dependability of Software Defined Networks (SDN) 
- Practical experiences and prototypes 
- Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed and network-centric systems

Submission of papers, at most 10 pages long including figures and references in
the IEEE format (see www.ieee.org) describing original unpublished research by
February 15th, 2015 in PDF format electronically via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpdns15 

All papers will be reviewed. The proceedings for workshops will be published
(on CD-ROM) along with the regular proceedings for The IEEE International
Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium.

Please address questions to the PC Co-Chairs via email:
dpdns15@iti.uni-luebeck.de or dpdns15@easychair.org 

STEERING COMMITTEE

Chair: D. Avresky, International Research Institute on Autonomic Network
Computing (IRIANC), Boston USA/Munich Germany 
Co-Chair: E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chair: Nectarios Koziris, Computing Systems Lab, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
Co-Chair: Anastassios Nanos, Computing Systems Lab, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece 

Members: 

B. Ciciani, University of Roma/Italy 
A. Doering, IBM Research Zurich/Switzerland 
S. Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
C. Elks, University of Virginia/USA 
K.E. Grosspietsch, Fraunhofer IAIS/Germany 
B. Johnson, University of Virginia/USA 
R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Lab/USA 
K. Kim, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea 
E. Nett, University of Magdeburg/Germany 
A. Puliafito, University of Messina/Italy 
F. Quaglia, University of Roma/Italy 
P. Sobe, University of Applied Sciences, Dresden/Germany 
W. Steiner, TTTech Comptertechnik AG, Vienna/Austria 
T. Tsuchiya, Osaka University/Japan 
A. Pellegrini, University of Roma/Italy 
R. Palmieri, Virginia Tech. / USA