Workshop on Dependability Benchmarking

Call for Papers

Deadlines:
Abstract Submission: February 1, 2002 (see call for submissions page for details)
Paper Submission: February 15, 2002
Notification: March 30, 2002
Camera ready final versions: April 22, 2002

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Supplement of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.

Contributions are solicited in the following areas:

• Dependability characterization tools and methodologies
• Operational and maintenance effects on dependability
• Benchmarking human error impact on system dependability
• Alternatives to fault injection for direct dependability measurement
• Relationship of fault injection results to field dependability
• Representativeness and variation of general dependability measures
• Frameworks for dealing with configuration effects on dependability
• Application-specific dependability benchmarking results
• Detailed dependability benchmark proposals with feasibility results
• Detailed dependability assessment models with feasibility results
• Field studies on system dependability
• Complete taxonomies/surveys of tools, problems, or other aspects that must be included in all eventual dependability benchmarking approaches.

As a workshop, contributions are welcome and encouraged that present a wide variety of perspectives. Substantive discussions of ideas, proposed approaches, reference models, and taxonomies are welcome, as are preliminary results that are not yet ready for full regular papers on the DSN regular paper track. These papers are meant to set forth important ideas and, ideally, document issues and possible solutions for core problems in the area of dependability benchmarking. The review criteria will emphasize the importance of the issue and quality of representing contrasting views rather than attainment of concrete technical results. The main author of accepted papers will be expected to attend and make a workshop presentation.

Papers should be submitted via e-mail to BOTH addresses: koopman@ece.cmu.edu ; henrique@dei.uc.pt
If you are unable to submit materials electronically, please contact one of the program co-chairs for special instructions.

Papers should be submitted in either Postscript or Adobe Acrobat formats. All papers must be in English. Format details are below

Information for authors

Manuscripts for this workshop will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and considered for publication in the Supplement of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. Excessively long submissions, unoriginal work, or work that is submitted to multiple venues, will be disregarded.

An Abstract must be submitted by February 1, preferably in the form of the title page shown below. The full submitted version, due February 15, must have the title page (the abstract can be revised from the February 1st version if necessary). The title page should include:

• the title of the paper,
  
• author name(s) and affiliation(s),
  
• mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address,
  
• a maximum 150-word abstract,
  
• five keywords,
  
• an approximate word count,
  
• and a declaration that the material has been cleared through author affiliations,
  
• for multi-authored submissions, the contact author should be indicated.

General Instructions

The format of submissions for review should be single-column, Times 11-point size, double-spaced. Two submission categories are sought with page limits per below (page limits do not include the required title page):

• 12 pages for technical workshop paper submissions (equivalent to 6 IEEE conference pages). Acceptance of these papers will be based on quality of papers and availability of workshop time.
  
• 4 pages for position statements (equivalent to 2 IEEE conference pages). We hope that every attendee will be able to submit a position statement. All responsible submissions of reasonable quality will be accepted until space runs out, much as in the spirit of the DSN FastAbstract tradition (however, these are workshop submissions, and are distinct from the DSN FastAbstract track). Submitters will be given a very brief presentation time to make their point at the workshop. Authors of 12-page submissions that are not accepted will be given a chance to submit 4-page position statements to ensure a broad representation of views at the workshop.
  

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2002. All papers must be in English.

Please preview the manuscript in a viewer such as GhostView to ensure its integrity before submitting it. For those who are unable to submit materials electronically, please contact program co-chairs for special instructions at koopman@ece.cmu.edu.

Templates and other information can be found at the DSN 2002 submission site. However, page limits and where to submit are different for this workshop as described above.

The format for final, camera-ready submissions that have been accepted for publication should be in accordance with IEEE standard conference paper format. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted for submission of camera-ready versions.

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