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- 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/


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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

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 Neuchâtel, 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