[hpc-announce] *** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** 11th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE’15) in conjunction with ARCS 2015, Porto, Portugal, March 24th – 27th, 2015

[Fechner, Bernhard]

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         11th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE’15)
                    Focus topic “Dependable Embedded Systems”
   in conjunction with ARCS 2015, Porto, Portugal, March 24th – 27th, 2015
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Background and Focus
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Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components has improved
over decades, their increasing number causes severe problems. Moreover, in
recent years it can be observed that in an increasing number of devices, e.g.
cars, digital components are integrated into environments of other physical
components.
Here, the complexity and number of interactions with these components creates
problems with regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system
in case of faults or external disturbances.

While this is not a problem with microprocessors there, shrinking feature
sizes, higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock frequencies increase
the probability of design-, manufacturing-, and operational faults, making
fault tolerance techniques in general purpose processors to be of crucial
importance in the future. As simple solutions (such as TMR) easily can get too
expensive, the ability to trade increased reliability against
performance/power overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight
fault tolerance techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from
higher software layers.

This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from the
research area of dependable and fault tolerant computing in order to bring
together scientists working in related fields.

Topics
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Contributions on the topic of “Dependable Embedded Systems“ are of particular
interest;
contributions on general topics of dependability and fault tolerance are
also welcome but not limited to:

* reliability models for hardware and software
* modeling and simulation of fault-tolerant systems
* fault-tolerant systems and system components
* formal verification of systems
* testing of hardware and software
* fault treatment
* detection and correction of transient faults
* quantitative assessment of reliability improvements
* safety-critical applications
* timeliness problems
* dependability of networks
* dependability of embedded systems
* highly available systems
* dependable organic computing
* self-organization within redundant systems
* dependable ubiquitous and pervasive computing
* composability of dependable systems
* dependable mechatronic systems / micro systems
* dependability of mobile and wireless systems
* robustness and robustness metrics
* validation and verification
* fault models and fault model abstraction
* fault-injection techniques
* software-controlled fault tolerance
* on-chip backward recovery techniques (e.g. pipeline flush and re-execution)
* forward recovery techniques (notification of higher layers)
* fault-tolerant caches
* dynamic re-use of unused resources in processors for fault-tolerance

Information for Authors
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The workshop will focus on research presentations
as well as brainstorming sessions.
Therefore, two kinds of contributions are welcome:
* research papers documenting results of scientific investigations and
* position papers proposing strategies or discussing open problems.

The proceedings of the Workshop will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society,
through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Deadlines
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Submission:     EXTENDED
                December 19, 2014 (extended abstracts (3-4 pages) or
                full papers, PDF) to: bernhard.fechner at fernuni-hagen.de
Notification:   January 5, 2014
Camera-ready:   January 20, 2015 (max. 8 pages in IEEE format A4);
                will appear in ARCS 2015 Workshop Proceedings.
Workshop:       March 24, 2015

VERFE'15 Workshop site: http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/arcs2015/verfe
Further information about ARCS 2015: http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/arcs2015/


Workshop Chairs
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   B. Fechner, Univ. of Hagen, DE
   K.-E. Großpietsch, St. Augustin, DE

Program Committee
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L. Bauer, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE
F. Belli, Univ. of Paderborn, DE
R. Buchty, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE
K. Echtle, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE
W. Ehrenberger, Univ. of Fulda, DE
R. Ernst, TU Braunschweig, DE
B. Fechner, Univ. of Hagen, DE
M. Gössel, Univ. of Potsdam, DE
E. Gramatova, Univ. of Bratislava, SK
J. Hülsemann, Siemens AG, Karlsruhe, DE
K.-E. Großpietsch, St. Augustin, DE
J. Henkel, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE
J. Hursey, Oak Ridge National Lab., US
J. Kaiser, Univ. Magdeburg, DE
J. Keller, Univ. Hagen, DE
H.-D. Kochs, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE
P. Limbourg, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE
M. Malek, Univ. of Lugano, IT
E. Maehle, Univ. of Lübeck, DE
M. Mock, Fraunhofer, St. Augustin, DE
E. Nett, Univ. of Magdeburg, DE
D. Nikolos, Univ. of Patras, DE
A. Pataricza, Univ. of Budapest, HU
F. Saglietti, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE
T. Sato, Univ. of Fukuoka, JP
M. Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., US
M. Shafique, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE
P. Sobe, HTW Dresden, DE
J. Sosnowski, Univ. of Warsaw, PL
A. Stopp, Daimler AG, Berlin, DE
C. Trinitis, TU Munich, DE
P. Tröger, TU Chemnitz, DE
T. Vierhaus, TU Cottbus, DE
M. Walter, Siemens AG, Nuremberg, DE
H. Wedde, TU Dortmund, DE
N. Wehn, TU Kaiserslautern, DE
J. Weidendorfer, TU Munich, DE
H.-Y. Youn, Univ. of Sungkyunkwan, KR
T. Yoneda, Univ. of Tokyo, JP