==============CALL FOR PAPERS================= The 16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2018) 12-15 August 2018, Athens, Greece http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/ ==============================================

--------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018  Paper Submission Due: Mar. 30, 2018  Demo/Poster/WiP Submission Due:April 30, 2018 Author Notification: May 20, 2018 Camera-ready Paper Due:June 15, 2018

----------------------- INTRODUCTION ----------------------- IEEE DASC 2018 will be held in August 12-15, 2018 in Athens, Greece, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, IEEE DataCom 2018 and IEEE PiCom 2018 (the event location is very close to the Parliament of Greece).

IEEE DASC 2018 aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:

------------------------------- SCOPE AND INTERESTS -------------------------------- -  Dependable, Autonomic, Secure Computing Systems, Architectures and Communications -  Cloud Computing and Fog/edge Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment -  Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems -  Dependable Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems -  Dependable Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems -  Self-improvement in Dependable Systems -  Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems -  Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing -  Software Engineering for Dependable Systems -  Safety-critical Systems in Transportation and Power System -  Security Models and Quantifications -  Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, and PaaS -  Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security -  DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection -  Context-aware Access Control -  Virus Detections and Anti-Virus Techniques/Software -  Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War -  Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems -  Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing -  Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Cyber-Physical System -  Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Big Data, SDN, and IoT Systems -  QoS in Communications and Services and Service Oriented Architectures -  Information and System Security -  Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing -  Wireless Emergency and Security Systems -  Information Technology in Biomedicine -  Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks -  Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design and Performance Evaluation -  Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems -  Software Engineering for Emerging Networks, Systems, and Mobile Systems -  Evaluation Platforms for Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing Systems -  Trustworthy Data, Secured Data Collection System, Model, and Architectures

--------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original research work using IEEE CS Proceedings format via DASC 2018 website: http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/sub/.%C2%A0 Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Work-in Progress (WiP) Papers (5~6 pages) and Demo/Poster papers (2~4 pages) must describe working systems within the scope of DASC. Workshop & Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to corresponding workshops & special sessions.  * Accepted papers will be included into the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed).  * At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference.  * Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast-track publication in some prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed).  * Best Paper Awards will be given for the best papers in DASC 2018.

-------------------------------- Organizing Committees -------------------------------- General Chairs  Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece

General Executive Chairs Klimis Ntalianis, Athens U of Applied Sciences, Greece Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Program Chair  Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Program Co-Chairs Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Kambourakis Georgios, University of the Aegean, Greece  Tian Wang, Huaqiao University, China

Workshop/ Special Session Chairs Konsts Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan

Demo/Poster/WiP Chairs Taufiq Asyhari, Cranfield University, UK Rukhsana Afroz Ruby, SIAT, China

Publicity Chairs Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Md. Arafatur Rahman, Univ Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia Shaikh M Arifuzzaman, University of New Orleans, USA

Local Organizing Chair Nikolaos Mastorakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece

Honorary Chair: Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy

Advisory Committee Chairs Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), SFX University, Canada Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Please visit the DASC 2018 Website  http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/ for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.