NODES'11 2011 - 5th Nordic Workshop on Dependability and Security

Call for Papers

NODES 2011 - 5th Nordic Workshop on Dependability and Security
http://www.ifiptm.org/IFIPTM11/NODES11
Affiliated with the 5th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM 2011)
June 28, 2011, Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark

With our growing reliance on software, the total societal costs of its failure are hard to underestimate. Software is in the heart of many critical infrastructures such as transportation, avionics, energy production, telecommunications, healthcare, finances etc.
Dependability is a degree of reliance, which we can justifiably put on software-intensive systems. Dependability encompasses such system characteristics as safety, reliability, availability, security etc.

NODES 2011 aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in different aspects of dependability and security to exchange ideas and current research results. Within the workshop we also organize a doctoral symposium session to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present their ongoing research work.

The scope of NODES 2011 encompasses, but is not limited to, following areas:
- Methodologies for developing dependable systems; verification of software-intensive systems;
methods and tools for system safety and fault tolerance; techniques for ensuring availability in
presence of overloads, attacks, and failures.
- Security in distributed systems; security of mobile ad-hoc networks, pervasive and grid systems;
model-based reasoning about security; risk analysis; threat modeling; policy specification;
availability analysis; trust management and threat prevention.
- Modeling real-time behavior; reasoning about hybrid systems; and verification of complex
control systems models for diagnosing complex software-intensive systems and methods for
analyzing parallel processes; software correctness.
- Dependability and security in domain-specific areas, such as telecommunications, transportation,
business applications case studies demonstrating development of dependable systems.


Workshop Submissions


NODES 2011 is intended to be a one day workshop organized in three technical sessions, namely
regular papers, position papers and doctorate papers. In particular, the aim of the doctoral symposium
session is to provide PhD students with the opportunity to present their ongoing research work.

Submitted regular papers must not exceed 16 pages in length, including bibliography and well-marked
appendices. Position and doctorate papers must not exceed 8 pages in length.

Papers can be submitted using the following link on EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodes20...

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available from

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-....

Please indicate whether you are submitting it to the workshop or to the doctoral symposium session.

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen for presentation based on
their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the workshop.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and participate presenting
the paper.


Publication


The collection of the accepted papers of all the IFIPTM workshops will be published in a technical
report at Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

** We already agreed with the editor of the International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
(IJCCBS) to have a special issue with extended versions of best papers selected from NODES’10 and
NODES’11. **


Important Dates


April 18, 2011: Submission of papers
May 16, 2011: Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2011: Camera-ready
June 27-28, 2011: NODES Workshop


Organizing Commitee


NODES 2011 Chair
Nicola Dragoni, DTU Informatics, Denmark

Program Committee
Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
Ketil Stolen, SINTEF Research centre and Oslo University, Norway
Gyrd Braendeland, SINTEF ICT Research, Norway
Jueri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Luigia Petre, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi University, Finland