CALL FOR PAPERS
21st IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems
    http://www.iti.uni-luebeck.de/DPDNS16

Held in conjunction with the

30th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
    http://www.ipdps.org/

May 23-27, 2016
Chicago Hyatt Regency 
Chicago, Illinois USA


Important dates:
    Paper submission:           February 15, 2016
    Notification of authors:    February 20, 2016
    Camera-ready papers:        March 7, 2016

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 systems
- High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric systems
- Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems
- Autonomic network computing
- Resilience/fault tolerance at software level
- 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Submission of papers, at most 10 pages long including figures and references in the IEEE format describing original unpublished research by February 15, 2016 in PDF format electronically via the workshop webpage: http://www.iti.uni-luebeck.de/DPDNS16

All papers will be reviewed.

Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.

Please address questions to the PC Chair via email:  
 dpdns16@iti.uni-luebeck.de 

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

Program Chair:
 Roberto Palmieri, Virginia Tech. University, USA

Members:  
 B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
 S. Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 A. Doering, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
 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
 N. Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 A. Nanos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany
 R. Macedo, UFBA , Brazil
 A. Pellegrini, University of Roma, Italy
 S. Peluso, Virginia Tech. University, USA
 A. Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
 F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy
 J. Serafinski, Brisbane, Australia
 P. Sobe, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
 W. Steiner, TTTech Computertechnik AG, Vienna, Austria
 T. Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan