DAIS 2018 - Call for Papers
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18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Part of DisCoTec 2018: 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques

June 18 - 21 2018, Madrid, Spain

http://2018.discotec.org

Important dates
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February 16, 2018 (AOE): abstracts deadline
February 23, 2018 (AOE): papers deadline
March 30, 2018: notifications
June 18-20, 2018: conference in Madrid

Scope
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The DAIS conference series addresses all practical and conceptual aspects of distributed applications, including their design, modeling, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness.

Main topics of interest
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The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems, particularly in the areas of
- middleware,
- cloud computing,
- edge and fog computing,
- big data processing,
- streaming and complex event processing,
- social networking,
- cyber-physical systems,
- mobile computing,
- advanced networking (SDN/NFV),
- service-oriented computing, and
- peer-to-peer systems;
Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in the areas of
- publish/subscribe systems,
- language-based approaches,
- data center and internet-scale systems,
- virtualization and resource allocation,
- distributed storage,
- blockchains, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, and
- bio-inspired distributed computing.
System issues and design goals, including
- interoperability and adaptation,
- self-* properties (e.g., self-organization, self-management,...),
- security and practical applications of cryptography,
- trust and privacy,
- cooperation incentives and fairness,
- fault-tolerance and dependability,
- scalability and elasticity, and
- tail-performance and energy-efficiency.

Submission and publication
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All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. DAIS 2018 offers three submission tracks:
- Full research papers in no more than 14 pages.
- Full practical experience reports, including experimental and evaluation studies, case studies, and practice reports in no more than 14 pages.
- Work-in-progress papers, describing ongoing work and interim results, in no more than 6 pages.

Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF, using the Springer LNCS style to the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2018). Each paper will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by the Program Committee. Reviewing is single-blind: author name(s) should appear. All papers accepted in any of the conference tracks will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference if the paper is accepted.

Program committee chairs
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Silvia Bonomi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Etienne Rivière, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Contact: dais2018@easychair.org

Program committee
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Takoua Abdellatif, Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia
Silvia Bonomi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon, France
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Yehia El Khatib, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
Mohammed Erradi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
Davide Frey, Inria, France
Fabíola Greve, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Jordi Guitart, BSC, Barcelona, Spain
Márk Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, UK
Boris Koldehofe, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Kostas Magoutis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Francisco Maia, INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal
Miguel Matos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon, USA
Emanuel Onica, Ioan al Cuza University, Romania
Marta Patino, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Etienne Rivière, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Altair Santin, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Marco Serafini, QCRI, Qatar
Pierre Sutra, Telecom SudParis, France
Mohamed Faten Zhani, École de Technologie Supérieure,University of Quebec, Canada

Steering committee
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Alysson Bessani, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon, France
Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland
Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Karl M. Goeschka, FH Technikum Wien, Austria
Márk Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, UK
Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Kostas Magoutis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Rui Oliveira, INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal (chair)
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany
Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille, France
Francois Taiani, Université de Rennes 1, France