DependSys 2015 - The First International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications

(1) Fundamentals and Technologies
+ Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies for dependability
+ Security and privacy
+ Anomaly detection and protection
+ Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks dependability in mobile computing
+ Dependability of software defined networks (SDN)
+ Dependability issues in clouds (e.g., cloud storage, computing)
+ Software and hardware dependability
+ Reliability and fault-tolerant computing
+ Dependability by virtualization
+ Dependability in distributed scheduling and resource management
+ Dependability issues in parallel and distributed databases
+ Dependability issues in autonomic computing
+ Dependable Biocomputing, Quantum computing, etc.
+ Dependable big data foundation and management
+ Big data privacy and security
+ Dependable IoT supporting technologies
+ Social networks and crowdsensing
(2) Systems
+ Dependable sensor systems
+ Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems
+ Cyber-physical systems (e.g. networked embedded systems, automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems, and so on)
+ Dependability issues in socio-technical systems
+ Dependability issues in database and transaction processing systems
+ Safety and security in distributed computing systems
+ Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
+ IoT smart sensors and systems
+ RFID Systems
+ Reliability issues in long-distance telemetry of distributed sensor systems
+ Dependability in automotive systems
+ Dependable computing clouds for cyber-physical systems
+ Dependable integration between sensor systems and the cloud
+ Dependability in big data systems
(3) Applications
+ Sensor and robot applications, sensor network applications
+ Big data applications
+ Cloud computing applications
+ Datacenter monitoring
+ Safety care, medical care and services, IoT-based healthcare
+ Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications
+ IoT Energy, smart grid, and utility applications
+ Scientific applications
+ e-commerce and e-government
+ Activity monitoring
+ Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking
(4) Measures and Assessments
+ Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry
+ Dependability levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority
+ Dependability assessment standards
+ Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
+ Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed systems
+ Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification and validation
+ Evaluation of fault-tolerant systems
+ Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems
+ Experimental performance of parallel & distributed systems
+ Practical experiences and prototypes