Call for Papers
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with
a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment.
Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance and variety of dynamic distributed systems such as
peer-to-peer networks, large-scale sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and cloud computing. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services,
distributed command and control, and a vast array of decentralized computations in a variety of disciplines has driven the need to ensure that distributed computations are
self-stabilizing, performant, safe and secure.
The symposium takes a broad view of the self-managed distributed systems area and encourages the submission of original contributions spanning fundamental research and
practical applications within its scope, covered by the three symposium tracks: (i) Stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice, (ii) Distributed Computing and Communication
Networks, as well as (iii) Computer Security and Information Privacy.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Stabilizing Systems: Self-stabilizing systems, Practically-stabilizing systems, Self-* abstractions, Stabilization and self-* properties with relation to dependability of
hardware, software and middleware, Self-stabilizing software defined infrastructure, Safety and self-stabilization, Self-stabilizing autonomous mobile agents;
Distributed Computing and Communication Networks: Distributed and concurrent algorithms and data structures, Synchronization protocols, Shared and transactional memory,
Formal Methods, validation, verification, and synthesis, Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing, Randomization in distributed computing, Biological
distributed algorithms, Communication networks (protocols, architectures, services, applications), High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing, Mesh and ad-hoc
networks (wireless, mobile, sensor), Location and context-aware systems, Mobile agents, robots, and rendezvous, Social systems, Peer-to-peer and overlay networks,
Population protocols, Infection dynamics;
Computer Security and Information Privacy: Network security, Privacy, Internet-of-Things Security, Secure cloud computing, Mobile sensor networks/ad-hoc networks security,
Verifiable/fault-tolerant computing, Anomaly and networked malware detection, Cryptocurrencies and distributed consensus protocols, Secure multi-party computation/applied
crypto.
Conference presentations will have two formats:
Regular presentations of 30 minutes accompanied by papers of up to 15 pages in the proceedings. This form is intended for contributions reporting on original research
submitted exclusively to this conference.
Brief announcements of 10 minutes accompanied by 5 page abstracts in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications and may be
published in other conferences.
Submission.
Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines available on the conference web page. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program
co-chairs to receive instructions.
All submission must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series. Each submission must be in English, in PDF format, and include in the first page:
(1) the title, (2) the names and affiliations of all authors, (3) contact author’s email, address and telephone number, (4) a brief, one paragraph abstract of the paper,
(5) indication whether the paper is a regular submission, or a brief announcement submission, (6) indication whether the submission is eligible to be considered for the best
student paper award.
A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, authors, abstract, figures, and references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify
the main claims of the submission should be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed. A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages and
should not include appendix. Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merit.
It is recommended that a regular submission begin with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation
of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work,
directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of
the conference scope will be rejected without review.
If requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format.
This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
Please make sure to fill out and send to fradmin 'at' cs.bgu.ac.il the LNCS Consent to Publish form. The form has to be signed by the authors of each paper, at least by the corresponding author.
Only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) should tick that particular box. If you work in a country in the European Union, you do NOT have to tick that box.
Equally, the box for US Government employees should only be ticked by US Government employees.
To download the LNCS Consent to Publish form, please click here.
Publication.
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings.
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the journal Information and Computation.
Paper awards.
Prizes will be given to the best paper and best student paper. A paper is eligible for the best student paper if at least one of its authors is a
full-time student at submission time. This must be indicated in the cover page. The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards
Proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Call for Papers