The strong growth in mobile devices, pervasive networked embedded systems, and wireless sensors provide a flexible and cheap infrastructure for collecting and monitoring real-world data nearly everywhere. This is complemented by the rapid increase in information and computing power offered by computing clusters, emerging cloud systems, and information services over stationary and dynamic networks. The integration of network computing and mobile systems presents new challenges with respect to the dependability of integrated applications: accepted measures of availability, costs, and quality of service for high-bandwidth, high-quality stationary systems have to be re-thought facing possibly new dependability paradigms for cheap, resource restricted, unreliable mobile systems with low-bandwidth communication facilities. On the other hand, the proliferation of devices, which are able to directly connect to the Internet has led to a new computing and communication paradigm known as Internet of Things (IoT), where things are expected to autonomously monitor and control several aspects of our daily lives in almost all sectors such as transportation, community, home, environment, education, to name a few.
At the same time, new threat vectors have emerged that leverage and magnify traditional hacking methods, enabling large scale and intelligence-driven attacks against a variety of platforms, including, mobile, cloud, IoT, as well conventional networks.
The consequence of such fast evolving environment is the pressing need for effective and efficient paradigms, approaches, and tools for building, maintaining, and managing secure and dependable systems.
This conference solicits papers addressing issues related to the design, analysis, and implementation, of dependable and secure infrastructures, systems, architectures, algorithms, and protocols that deal with network computing, mobile/ubiquitous systems, cloud systems, and IoT systems.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their paper formatting according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer guidelines at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-793332-0
Short papers should be 8 pages including references AND regular papers should be up to 20 pages including references. All accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in EI and SCOPUS. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready and copyright form. Selected papers at ISDDC 2018 will be considered for publication in a Special Issue in a Cybersecurity Journal to be announced.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwoungan@ryerson.ca