Calls for Contribution > Workshops

DSN strives to be a conference that welcomes both researchers and practitioners, and hence we would like to have a number of workshops that provide different opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. These include:

• Workshops that address hot topics and open challenges
• Workshops that give researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference or journal publication
• Workshops that provide practitioners and researchers with working sessions to discuss and make progress toward solutions to current issues in dependability
• Workshops that focus on enabling discussions and information sharing between researchers and industrial practitioners

Workshops Chairs

Michel Cukier (University of Maryland, US)
mcukier [at] umd.edu

Karthik Pattabiraman (University British Columbia, CA)
karthikp [at] ece.ubc.ca

DSN is interested in workshop topics that represent either complimentary areas to the main conference or a large, active subarea. Topics from recent DSN workshops include:

• Dependability Issues in Software Defined Networks (SDN)
• Cyber-physical Systems Dependability
• Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles
• Dependability Assessment of Complex Systems
• Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Machines’ Dependability
• Dependability and Security of System Operation
• Fault-tolerance for Extreme Scale Systems
• Trustworthiness of Smart Grids

Acceptance and Publication

 Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop’s potential for generating useful results, the timeliness of and expected interest in the topic, and the proposers’ ability to lead a successful workshop.

Accepted workshops will have a two-page proceedings-format summary (generated by the workshop organizers) published in the Main Proceedings of the conference. Written contributions to the workshop itself (summaries, short papers, etc.) will be included in the Supplement to the DSN Proceedings as well as in the DSN-W volume on IEEE Xplore. The workshop web pages will be linked through the main DSN website (www.dsn.org) and the call for papers will be advertised through the DSN mailing lists.

Organizers are expected to perform any additional advertising in related communities outside the main DSN community, to create and maintain the workshop website, arrange for the collection and refereeing of submissions, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and IEEE copyright transfers.

 Please submit all workshop proposals by November 6th, 2015, preferably as a PDF file, via e-mail to workshop_proposals@dsn.org.

Workshop proposers will be notified of the outcome of their submission by November 27th, 2015.

The timelines for submissions to the accepted workshops will be communicated directly to the proposers.

Format of Proposals

A workshop proposal consists of a descriptive proposal that is not more than 4 pages in length and contains the following information:

▪  Title and description of the workshop including motivations, goals, and relevance to the dependability community.
▪  Names and contact information of the organizers, including a brief statement on their background and past workshop experience.
▪  A description of the workshop planning processes, including the invitation and selection of participants, the refereeing of papers, a tentative program committee if available, and any other pre-workshop activities.
▪  A summary of the planned workshop activities including length of time (full day or half day), space required (i.e., room capacity), and the expected workshop outputs. A desired schedule, i.e., approximate number of papers, invited talks, panels, and/or discussion sessions.
▪  Whether workshop is new or an ongoing workshop. Information on past editions of the workshop (if applicable) including:

▪  History and frequency of the workshop
▪  Previous conference co-locations
▪  URLs, if available
▪  Approximate attendance (for each past edition)
▪  How papers were published (website, IEEE, ACM, etc.)

▪  Communities from which participation is expected.