Topics of Interest

The major areas of interest include the following topics:

    Dependability, security, and privacy of distributed systems including, but not limited to, cloud, high-performance; fog, edge and cloud-to-device computing; distributed data storage and processing; distributed machine learning and AI; distributed ledgers and blockchain systems; safety-critical distributed systems; Internet of Things, vehicular, robotic, cyber-physical, and mobile systems;
    Techniques and algorithms advancing the state-of-the-art in fault tolerance, fault recovery, robustness, self-stabilization, self-healing, security, scalability, and real-time for distributed systems. These include, but are not limited to, coordination, replication, transactions, failure prediction and detection, performance and metastable failure mitigation and recovery, privacy-preservation, end-to-end security, integrity and verifiability.
    Methods, paradigms and tools for designing, implementing, verifying, validating, and operating dependable and secure distributed applications and platforms, including  microservice-based and serverless-based systems, middleware, operating systems, virtual machines, and hardware;
    Analytical, simulative, and experimental assessment of dependable and secure distributed systems, particularly when in real-world settings or with real-world data and in large-scale and complex environments.