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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">The 18th IEEE Int'l Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2020)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">June 22-26, 2020, Calgary, Canada </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">http://cyber-science.org/2020/dasc/</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">INTRODUCTION</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">IEEE DASC 2020 will be held in June 22-26, 2020, Calgary, Canada , co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2020, IEEE PICom 2020 and IEEE CBDCom 2020. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">IEEE DASC 2020 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. Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Track 1. Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Fundamentals, including Dependability Evaluation, Dependable Sensors, QoS, SOA, etc.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Dependable & Fault-tolerant Computing in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time System</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Dependability & Fault-tolerance in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, and Pervasive Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Human Aspects, and Education </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Software Engineering in Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Safety-critical Systems, Mission-critical Systems</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Track 2. Network and System Security and Privacy</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Fundamentals, including Intrusion-Detection, Digital Forensics, (Counter-)Surveillance, etc.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Security and Privacy in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time Systems </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Security and Privacy in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Network and System Security and Privacy</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Human Aspects, and Education </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Biometric Issues in Security and Privacy</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Track 3. Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Fundamentals, including Agents, Real-Time Perception, Decision, Control, Self-healing, etc. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Pervasive Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Self-Organization and Organic Computing, </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Cognitive Computing and Self-Aware Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Energy Management in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Software Engineering in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Human Aspects, and Education</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Track 4. Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Software/Apps/Tools Development for Dependable and Secure Applications</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Autonomous Robotics, Vehicles, Machines, and Various Systems </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - IoT and Sensor Network, Big Data, Smart Grid, Aerospace, Transportation Applications</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Safety Care, Medical Care and Services, IoT-based Healthcare</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Other Applications and Emerging Techniques</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;"> - Social Aspects of Applying Systems </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: Nov 30, 2019</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2020</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Demo/Poster/WiP Submission Due:<span style="white-space:pre;"> </span> Mar 10, 2020</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Author Notification: Apr 01, 2020</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Camera-ready Paper Due: May 10, 2020</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Authors are invited to submit their original research work using IEEE CS Proceedings format via DASC 2020 website: http://cyber-science.org/2020/dasc/sub/. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Work-in Progress (WiP) Papers (4~6 pages) and Demo/Poster papers (2~4 pages) must describe working systems within the scope of DASC. Workshop & Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to corresponding workshops & special sessions. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">* Accepted papers will be included into the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed). </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">* At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">* Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast-track publication in some prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">* Best Paper Awards will be given for the best papers in DASC 2020. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">ORGANIZING COMMITTEES</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Honorary Chairs </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Pamela Hawranik, Athabasca University, Canada</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">General Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Rossitza Marinova, Concordia Univ. of Edmonton, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">General Executive Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Henry Leung, The University of Calgary, Canada </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University,Canada</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Program Chairs </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Bo Yang, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Aniello Castiglione, Univ. of Naples Parthenope, Italy</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Program Vice-Chairs (Track Chairs)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Liang Luo, Univ.of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China,China </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Alireza Jolfaei, Federation University, Australia </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Lunke Fei, Guangdong Univ. of Technology, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Fengyu Wang, Shandong University, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Behrouz Far, The University of Calgary, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Ismail Hamieh, National Research Council, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Mohammad Moshirpour, Univ. of Calgary, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Workshop/Special Session Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Michele Nappi, Università di Salerno, Italy</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Inst. of Info. Tech. & Mngt. Kerala, India</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">WiP/Poster/Demo Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Yanmei Hu, Chengdu Univ. of Technology, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">S. M. Kamruzzaman, Humber College, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Federico Tramarin, University of Padova, Italy<span style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Junggab Son, Kennesaw State University, USA</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Special Issue Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Zhihan Lv, Qingdao University, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Abbas Haider, Nat’l Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Pakistan</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Publicity Chairs</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Hau-San Wong, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Weizhi Meng, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Demark</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Sk Md Mizanur Rahman, Centennial College, Canada</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">International Advisory Committee (alphabetical)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Yew-Soon Ong, Nayang Technological University, Singapore</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Simon X. Yang, University of Guelph, Canada</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Steering Committee</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham Univ., USA</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Please visit the DASC 2020 Website </span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">http://cyber-science.org/2020/dasc/</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.</span><br>