SSS 2013 First CFP

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Call For Papers

- SSS 2013 -

15th International Symposium on
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/sss2013/

November 13-16, 2013, Osaka, Japan
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SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design
and development of 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,
opportunistic 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. We particularly encourage the submissions spanning these areas of
applications.

The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following
tracks:
* Self-stabilization
* Fault-tolerance and Dependability
* Formal Methods and Distributed Systems
* Ad-hoc, Sensors, Mobile Agents and Robot Networks
* P2P, Social, Self-organizing, Autonomic and Opportunistic Networks

IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract Submission: July 10, 2013
* Paper Submission: July 15, 2013
* Notification: August 25, 2013
* Camera Ready Submission: August 31, 2013


PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be prepared using the LNCS style and be electronically submitted in
PDF format using EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2013).
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, a regular submission that is not
selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for a
brief announcement.
This request must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper.
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 papers will be
published in the
Journal of Self-Computing (http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jsc).

BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best
student paper
awards. 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 clearly
indicated in the first page of the paper.

CONFERENCE VENUE
SSS 2013 will take place at Osaka Univesity Convention Center.

ORGANIZATION
General Chair:
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, University Pierre et Marie Curie
(Paris 6), France
Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University, Japan
Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan

Track Co-Chairs:
* Self-stabilization
Sebastien Tixeuil, University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) & IUF, France
Koichi Wada, Hosei University, Japan
* Fault-tolerance and Dependability
Achour Mostefaoui, University of Nantes, France
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
* Formal Methods and Distributed Sytems
Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
* Ad-hoc, Sensors, Mobile Agents and Robot Networks
Ralf Klasing, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Zvi Lotker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
* P2P, Social, Self-organizing, Autonomic and Opportunistic Networks
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Taisuke Izumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Local Arrangements Chairs
Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Osaka University, Japan
Fukuhito Ooshita, Osaka University, Japan

Publication Chair
Yoshiaki Katayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Publicity Chairs
Doina Bein, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Francois Bonnet, JAIST, Japan
Sylvie Delaet, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
Taisuke Izumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Tomoko Izumi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Steering Committee:
Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA
Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada, USA
Shlomi Dolev (Chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan
Vincent Villain, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France