NETYS 2024

For the 12th consecutive year, NETYS (The International Conference on Networked Systems) aims to bring together researchers and engineers from the theory and practice of distributed and networked systems. The scope of the conference covers all aspects related to the design and the development of these systems, including, but not restricted to, cloud systems, formal verification, concurrent and distributed algorithms, data management, data science, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, distributed machine-learning, multi-core architectures, networks, and security.

NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices, novel algorithms, results, and techniques on networked systems. Original research contributions and experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, verification and application of networked systems are solicited. Topics of interest are broadly divided into three categories: networked systems, distributed computing and distributed machine-learning. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):  

1-Networked systems 

• Cloud systems and data centers
• Cyber-physical systems
• Distributed database, embedded and operating systems
• Multi-core architectures and multithreaded applications
• Distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies
• Internet of Things, 5G, URLLC
• Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Social networks
• Overlay and peer-to-peer infrastructures

2-Distributed Computing

• Concurrency, synchronization and persistence
• Distributed and concurrent data structures
• Languages, verification and formal methods for distributed systems
• Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
• Lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing
• Game theory, mechanisms design
• Fault-tolerance, reliability, self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems
• Collaborative intelligent systems

3-Distributed Machine-Learning 

• Collaborative/federated learning
• Learning on peer-to-peer architecture
• Privacy preserving distributed learning
• Byzantine-robustness
• Communication-efficiency
• Personalized learning
• Federated ensembling
• Model compression

Guidelines for submission:

Submissions must be original papers that contain sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. NETYS welcomes papers on theory, case studies and comparisons with existing experimental research tools, as well as combinations of new theory with experimental evaluation.

NETYS is soliciting two forms of submission: full and short papers. Full papers are allowed a maximum of 15 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, excluding bibliographic references, and will be allowed at least 15 minutes for presentation at the conference, whereas short papers are allowed a maximum of 5 pages (in the same format) and will be allowed at least 5 minutes for presentation at the conference. A full paper submission might be accepted as such, as a short paper or a poster. A short paper may be accepted as such or as a poster.

Posters will be presented at the conference to reflect work in progress and will not lead to a publication in the proceedings. Authors are given the option to accept or not the type in which their paper is selected for acceptance.

All submissions must be written in English, follow the LNCS template, and adhere to the page limits. Papers exceeding these limits may be rejected without review. A clearly marked appendix can be included for supplementary materials but the appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers; therefore, the main body of the paper should contain sufficient details to assess its contributions.

Awards:Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission. This should be indicated in the submission.

Publication:It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. 

Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: February 29, 2024

Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2024

Accept/Reject notification: April 22, 2024

Camera ready copy due: May 12, 2024

Conference: May 29-31, 2024

Venue:

The conference will be organized in Rabat, the capital of Morocco.