<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:medium;"><div><div>We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2017 CFP.</div><div>We appreciate your help if you forward this CFP to your colleague and email lists.</div><div><br></div><div>==============CALL FOR PAPERS=================</div><div>The 15th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2017)</div><div>http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc2017/</div><div>Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017</div><div>==============================================</div><div><br></div><div>----------------</div><div>Special Issues</div><div>----------------</div><div>Authors of selected, high-quality papers of the symposium would be invited to submit their improved versions to one of high-impact SCI, SCI-E, &EI indexed Journals' Special Issues (confirmed): </div><div><br></div><div>(1) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor:6.764)</div><div>Special Issue on Applied Cryptography, Security, and Trust Computing for Industrial Internet-of-Things</div><div>http://tii.ieee-ies.org/</div><div><br></div><div>(2) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor:3.997)</div><div>Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Cyber Physical Systems</div><div>https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-security-and-privacy-in-cyber-physical-syst</div><div><br></div><div>(3) Security and Communication Networks (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.067)</div><div>Special Issue on Privacy Issues in Big Data Mining Infrastructure, Platforms and Applications</div><div>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1939-0122/homepage/special_issues.htm</div><div><br></div><div>(4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor:3.997)</div><div>Special Issue on Future Generation Computer Systems</div><div>https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/towards-smarter-cities-learning-from-internet-of-multimedia</div><div><br></div><div>(5) Information Sciences (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.832)</div><div>Special Issue on Innovative Smart Methods for Security: Emerging Trends and Research Challenges</div><div>https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-innovative-smart-methods-for-security-emerg </div><div><br></div><div>(6) IEEE Access (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.22)</div><div>Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things</div><div>http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/intelligent-systems-internet-things/</div><div><br></div><div>(7) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT Journal)</div><div>http://iot-journal.weebly.com/</div><div><br></div><div>(8) IEEE Cloud Computing</div><div>https://www.computer.org/cloud-computing</div><div>---------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------</div><div>INTRODUCTION</div><div>-----------------------</div><div>IEEE DASC 2017 will be held in November 6-10, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA, co-located with CyberSciTech 2017, IEEE DataCom 2017 and IEEE PiCom 2017 (the event location is very close to the Walt Disney World, which is in walking distance). </div><div><br></div><div>IEEE DASC 2017 aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. </div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div>SCOPE AND INTERESTS</div><div>---------------------------------</div><div>Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>- Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications</div><div>- Cloud Computing and Fog/edge Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment</div><div>- Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems</div><div>- Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms</div><div>- Dependable Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems</div><div>- Dependable Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems</div><div>- Self-improvement in Dependable Systems</div><div>- Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems</div><div>- Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing</div><div>- Software Engineering for Dependable Systems</div><div>- Safety-critical Systems in Transportation and Power System</div><div>- Security Models and Quantifications</div><div>- Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, and PaaS</div><div>- Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security</div><div>- DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection</div><div>- Context-aware Access Control</div><div>- Virus Detections and Anti-Virus Techniques/Software</div><div>- Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War</div><div>- Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems</div><div>- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing</div><div>- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Cyber-Physical System</div><div>- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Big Data, SDN, and IoT Systems</div><div>- QoS in Communications and Services</div><div>- Information and System Security</div><div>- Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing</div><div>- Wireless Emergency and Security Systems</div><div>- Information Technology in Biomedicine</div><div>- Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks</div><div>- Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design and Performance Evaluation</div><div>- Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems</div><div>- Software Engineering for Emerging Networks, Systems, and Mobile Systems</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------</div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>---------------------------</div><div>Paper Submission Due (Research Track): July 27, 2017 (HARD Deadline) </div><div>WiP/Poster/Demo Paper Submission Due: August 17, 2017</div><div>Special Session Paper Submission Due: August 17, 2017</div><div><br></div><div>Author Notification Due: August 27, 2017</div><div>Paper / Author Registration Due: September 17, 2017</div><div>Camera-ready Manuscript Due: September 21, 2017</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION</div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format and submitted via DASC 2017 website: </div><div>https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23308</div><div><br></div><div>- Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results.</div><div>- Demo/Poster papers (2~4 pages) must describe working systems and be within the scope of DASC and should be submitted to the Poster/Demo Chair. To submit a demo/poster abstract, please add “Poster/Demo:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title.</div><div>- WiP (work-in-progress) (2~4 pages). To submit a work in progress, please add “WiP:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title.</div><div>- Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. </div><div><br></div><div>* Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed). </div><div>* At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. </div><div>* Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for fast-track publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). </div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div>Organizing Committees</div><div>--------------------------------</div><div>Honorary Chair</div><div>Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univeristy, USA</div><div><br></div><div>General Chairs</div><div>Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan</div><div>Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's Uniersity, Canada </div><div><br></div><div>General Executive Chair</div><div>Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA </div><div><br></div><div>Program Chair</div><div>Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Program Co-Chairs</div><div>Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan (Dependable Computing Track)</div><div>Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Autonomic Computing Track)</div><div>Yier Jin, University of Central Florida, USA (Secure Computing Track) </div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs</div><div>Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University, USA</div><div>Kommy Weldemariam, IBM Research, Africa</div><div>Thaier Hayajneh, Fordham University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Demo/Poster Session Chairs</div><div>Zhihan Lv, University College London, UK</div><div>Farzana Rahman, James Madison University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>Christian Esposito, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy</div><div>Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA</div><div>Jianwen Xiang, Wuhan University of Technology, China</div><div>Jongmoon Baik, KAIST, Korea</div><div>Koji Iwata, Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan</div><div><br></div><div>Web Master</div><div>Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan </div><div>Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada </div><div>Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan </div><div>Yuanshun Dai, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China </div><div>Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA </div><div><br></div><div>Please visit the DASC 2017 Website </div><div>http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc2017/</div><div>for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>