[hpc-announce] ACM Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems

[Karl M. Goeschka]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 21st Track on Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems  |
| (DADS) of the 41st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'26)      |
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March 23-27, 2026
Thessaloniki, Greece

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Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and 
will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: September 26, 2025
author notification: October 31, 2025
Camera-ready copies: December 5, 2025

Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, 
nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf 
format using the link to the submission site at 
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with more than 8 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge 
of 80USD per extra page.

Call details
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While computing is provided by the cloud and services increasingly 
pervade our daily lives, dependability, adaptiveness and security become 
a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, most innovative 
systems and applications (Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, smart 
environments, microservices, NewSQL, blockchains) suffer from a lack of 
dependability and security, which is fueled by global scale and AI usage.

Among technical factors, software development methods, tools, and 
techniques contribute to dependability and security, as defects in 
software products and services may lead to failure and also provide 
typical access for malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide 
variety of fault and intrusion tolerance techniques available, including 
data stores, redundancy and replication, group communication, 
transactions, reliable middleware, cloud infrastructures, microservice 
mashups, light-weight virtualization (docker), and trustworthy 
service-oriented and microservice architectures with explicit control of 
quality of service and monitoring of service level agreements.

Furthermore, adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to observed, or 
act upon expected changes of the system itself, the context/environment 
(e.g., resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) or users' needs 
and expectations. Provided without explicit user intervention, this is 
also termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, and often involves 
monitoring, diagnosis (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration 
(repair). Finally large language models are increasingly used in 
engineering but pose their own unique challenges for dependability and 
security, e.g., hallucination, bias, accuracy, privacy, scalability, 
cost-efficiency.

Topics of interest
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* Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems (DADS)
* Large Language Models (LLM) and AI for DADS
* Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS
* Protocols for DADS
* Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS
* Foundations and formal methods for DADS
* Applications of DADS
* Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS
* Holistic aspects of DADS

Track program co-chairs
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Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
(main contact: dads at dedisys.org)
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA)
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)

Program committee
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Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy)
Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy)
Nicola Bena, University of Milan (Italy)
Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy)
Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova (Italy)
Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Paulo Coelho, Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK)
Antonella Del Pozzo, CEA - LIST, Saclay (France)
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Ankit Gangwal, International Institute of Information Technology (India)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain)
Mark Little, Redhat (UK)
István Majzik, Budapest UTE (Hungary)
Odorico Mendizabal, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany)
Barry Porter, Lancaster University (UK)
Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal)
Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Alirio Sá, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
Valerio Schiavoni, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Matheus Torquato, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)