SSS 2021: 23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems Virtual Göteborg, Sweden, November 17-20, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~elad/SSS2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 20, 2021 |
Submission deadline | August 20, 2021 |
Acceptance Notification | September 19, 2021 |
Camera-ready copy due | September 29, 2021 |
Keynote speakers
- Idit Keidar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Michael Luby, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Nancy Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
- Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University, USA
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. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the four symposium tracks:
Track A. Self-stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice
Self-stabilizing systems; Self-stabilizing protocols and algorithms; Practically-stabilizing systems; Variants of Self-stabilization; Topological Stabilization; Stabilization and self-* properties in hardware, software, and middleware design; Self-stabilizing software-defined infrastructure
Track B. Foundations of Concurrent and Distributed Computing
Distributed and concurrent algorithms and data structures; Shared and transactional memory; Synchronization protocols; Distributed graph algorithms; Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks; Peer-to-peer networks and dynamic networks; High-performance, cluster, cloud, and grid computing; Game theory and economical aspects of distributed computing; Formal methods, validation, verification, and synthesis.
Track C. Mobile and Robot Computing
Self-organization in mobile agents; mobile robots; mobile sensor networks; mobile ad-hoc networks; population protocols; programmable matter; nanoscale robots; biologically-inspired systems; and related new models.
Track D. Fault tolerance, Security, and Privacy
Network security; Privacy; Internet-of-things security; Cloud security; Mobile sensor networks/ad-hoc networks security; Verifiable/fault-tolerant computing; Anomaly and networked malware detection; Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies; Byzantine-fault tolerance and distributed consensus protocols; Secure multi-party computation; Applied cryptography.
Submission Guidelines
Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2021
All submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series(see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Each submission must be in English, in PDF format.
Double-blind Review
All submissions must be anonymous. We will use a somewhat relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review this year: you are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identity of the authors. Please feel free to ask the PC chairs if you have any questions about the double-blind policy of SSS 2021.
Submissions
There are two types of submission: regular paper and brief announcement.
- 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 may 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 any appendix.
Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins 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 the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
Committees
Program Committee
- Track A. Self-stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice
- Lelia Blin, Sorbonne University, France (track co-chair)
- Fukuhito Ooshita, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (track co-chair)
- Alkida Balliu, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Silvia Bonomi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Dianne Foreback, Kent State University, USA
- Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
- Sayaka Kamei, Hiroshima University, Japan
- Anissa Lamani, University of Strasbourg, France
- Mikhail Nesterenko, Kent State University, USA
- Stephane Rovedakis, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
- Yuichi Sudo, Hosei University, Japan
- Track B. Foundations of Concurrent and Distributed Computing
- Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland (track co-chair)
- Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada (track co-chair)
- Hagit Attiya, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Leonid Barenboim, The Open University of Israel, Israel
- Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Michigan State University, USA
- Sebastian Brandt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
- Laurent Feuilloley, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France
- Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Paris Diderot University, France
- Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
- Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Christoph Lenzen, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
- Rotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- Seth Pettie, University of Michigan, USA
- Track C. Mobile and Robot Computing
- Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France (track co-chair)
- Xavier Defago, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (track co-chair)
- Quentin Bramas, Strasbourg Univesity, France
- Jérémie Chalopin, Aix-Marseilles University, France
- Xavier Urbain, Lyon 1 University, France
- Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Paderborn University, Germany
- Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya, Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Giuseppe Prencipe, Pisa University, Italy
- Gianlorenzo d'Angelo, GSSI, Italy
- Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, Sapienza University, Italy
- Giovanni Viglietta, JAIST, JapanMichiko Inoue, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Koichi Wada, Hosei University, Japan
- Yoshiaki Katayama, Nagoya Tech, Japan
- Gokarna Sharma, Kent State University, USA
- Track D. Fault-tolerance, Security, and Privacy
- Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany (track co-chair)
- Moti Yung, Google Research, USA (track co-chair)
- Gregory Chockler, University of Surrey, Great Britain
- Ashish Choudhury, IIIT Bangalore, India
- Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Christoph Lenzen, University of Saarbrücken, Germany
- Daniel Xiapu Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Antonis Michalas, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Benny Pinkas, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Jared Saia, University of New Mexico, USA
- Alexander Spiegelman, Novi Research, Israel
- Thorsten Strufe, KIT, Germany
- Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA
Organizing committee
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General Chair: Elad Michael Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Program Chairs:
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Colette Johnen, Université de Bordeaux, France
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Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
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Publicity Co-chairs:
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Doina Bein, California State University, Fullerton, USA
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Yuichi Sudo, Osaka University, Japan
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Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
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Publication Chairs
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Iosif Salem, University of Vienna, Austria
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Ioannis Marcoullis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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Publication
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS conference series.
Special Issue: Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
Paper Award: Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best student paper award (e.g., using a \thanks in the title). The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Elad Michael Schiller (elad@chalmers.se)
For further information, please refer to the website: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~elad/SSS2021/