DSA 2016 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Dependable Software and Applications

The International Workshop on Dependable Software and Applications (DSA 2016) will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, promising solutions to the problems, for dependable software and applications.
Workshop theme
With the rapidly growing trend in dependable software and applications are being designed and deployed worldwide. There still exists several challenges when they are applied to these dependable systems due to the critical requirements on safety and reliability.
Scope of the workshop
Topics of interest, but not limited to:
Architecture and design for dependable software
Big data and cloud computing
Components, services, and middleware
Embedded and real-time software
Empirical software engineering
Formal methods and testing
Human and social factors for dependable software
Knowledge based software engineering
Mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive software
Safety-critical systems
Safety, security, and reliability
Software evolution and maintenance
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to 6 pages (IEEE Proceedings style) with up to 2 additional pages (with charges for each additional page) printed on 10-12 point fonts. Authors must follow IEEE CS Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop in person.
Program Committee
Lizhi Cai, SSC Shanghai
W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong
Zebao Gao, University of Maryland, College Park
Ruizhi Gao, University of Texas at Dallas
Dan Hao, Peking University
Tieke He, University of Queensland
He Jiang, Dalian University of Technology
Huai Liu, RMIT University
Chao Liu, Beihang University
Lu Lu, South China University of Technology
Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology
Xin Peng, Fudan University
Ju Qian, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Qinbao Song, Xian Jiaotong University
Changai Sun, University of Science & Technology Beijing
Xiaoyuan Xie, Wuhan University
Dianxiang Xu, Boise State University
Baowen Xu, Nanjing University
Jifeng Xuan, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe
Hongji Yang, De Montfort University
Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University
Zhenyu Zhang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Yunhui Zheng, IBM Research
Hong Zhu, hzhu-AT-brookes.ac.uk, Oxford Brookes University