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CALL FOR PAPERS
PRDC 2013 - 19th International Symposium Pacific Rim Dependable Computing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
December 2 - 4, 2013
http://prdc.dependability.org/2013
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PRDC 2013 is the nineteenth in this series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers the many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing systems has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems.

SCOPE
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Topics of interest for submissions include (but are not limited to):
- Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation
- Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
- Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
- Software aging and rejuvenation
- Safety-critical systems and software
- Architecture and system design for dependability
- Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols
- Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications
- Cloud and Internet Information security
- Dependability issues in computer networks and communications
- Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems
- Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing systems
- Dependability issues in autonomic computing
- Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems

SUBMISSIONS
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Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 20 pages double-spaced. Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 12 pages double-spaced) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. The title page should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the web site. Please visit our web site for full submission instructions and updated information on the symposium. Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. One outstanding paper will be selected to receive the Best Paper Award.

FAST ABSTRACT
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Fast Abstracts are lightly-reviewed 2-page manuscripts in IEEE format describing unpublished, in-progress, novel work, opinions or ideas.

INDUSTRY TRACK
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The industry track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and debate R&D challenges, practical solutions, case studies, and share field reliability data. Industry track submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines.

POSTER
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The poster session provides a forum to present and discuss works-in-progress with topics related to dependable systems. A poster paper should use the same format as a regular paper but with a maximum of 2 pages.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Regular Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013 *** Deadline Extended ***
Notification of Acceptance of Regular Papers: July 19, 2013 *** Deadline Extended ***
Fast Abstact Submission Deadline: July 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance of Fast Abstracts: August 22, 2013
Industry Track Submission Deadline: July 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance of Industry Track Papers: August 22, 2013
Poster Submission Deadline: July 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance of Posters: August 22, 2013
Conference: December 2 to 4

Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Dependable Computing
IFIP WG10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
Karthik Pattabiraman, UBC, Canada

General Vice-Chair:
Timothy Tsai, Nvidia, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Alan Wood, Oracle, USA
Min Xie, City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Steering Committee Chair:
Takashi Nanya, Canon, Japan

Finance Chair:
Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen’s U, Canada

Publicity Chair:
Yutao He, NASA/JPL, USA

Publication Chair:
Saman A. Zanouz, U. of Miami, USA

Registration Chair:
Ali Mesbah, UBC, Canada

Fast Abstract Chair:
Kalyan Vaidyanathan, Oracle, USA

Industry Track Chair:
Cristian Constantinescu, AMD, USA

Poster Session Chair:
Varun Sethi, Freescale, India

Local Arrangements Chair:
Andre Ivanov, UBC, Canada

Program Committee
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Javier Alonso, Duke U, USA
Masayuki Arai, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan
Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue U, USA
Domenico Cotroneo, U of Naples Federico II, Italy
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima U, Japan
Satoshi Fukumoto, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan
Ilir Gashi, CSR, City U of London, UK
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia U, USA
Myron Hecht, Aerospace Corp, USA
Mick Hobbs, Deakin U, Australia
Masashi Imai, U of Tokyo, Japan
Hidetsugu Irie, U of Electro-Communications, Japan
Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Japan
Dong Seong Kim, U of Canterbury, New Zealand
Masato Kitakami, Grad. School Adv. Integration Sci, Japan
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan U, Taiwan
Inhwan Lee, Hanyang U, Korea
Xiaowei Li, ICT, China
Yang Liu, National U of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Lyu, Chinese U of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hiroshi Nakamura, U of Tokyo, Japan
Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima U, Japan
Alex Orailoglu, UC San Diego, USA
Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, France
Toshinori Sato, Fukuoka U, Japan
Vibhu Sharma, Accenture, USA
Arun Somani, Iowa State U, USA
Ann Tai, WW Technology Group, USA
Dong Tang, Oracle, USA
Kishor Trivedi, Duke U, USA
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka U, Japan
Marco Vieira, DEI-CISUC U of Coimbra, Portugal
Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan U, Taiwan
Shiyi Xu, Shanghai U, China
Bob Yeh, Boeing, USA
Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Hee Youn, Sungkyunkwan U, Korea