<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><font face="Courier New">-- [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] -- </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> Call for Workshop Proposals - SRDS 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*****************************************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> The 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2024) </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> September 30 - October 04, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> Charlotte, USA</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://srds-conference.org/</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*****************************************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">The 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2024) is a forum </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">and evaluation, with an emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, dependability, </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">security, verification, and real-time aspects. The organizing committee of SRDS 2024 is </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">welcoming workshop proposals. </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Important dates</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*****************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">(All deadlines are at 23:59 AOE)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">* Workshop Proposal Submission: May 3rd, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">* Workshop Acceptance Notification: May 10th, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Proposal Submission</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*********************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Proposals must be sent to SRDS'24 workshop co-chairs, and have the following structure:</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Title of the workshop;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * A 150- to 200-word abstract, suitable for the conference website;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Themes and goals, and relevance to the SRDS community;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Information about the procedure for selecting papers and/or presentations, plans </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> for dissemination and publication, and expected number of participants;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Preference for a half- or one-day format;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Information about previous editions of the same workshop, if any;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Names, affiliations and brief bios of organizers, including their past experience in </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> organizing workshops and/or conferences in the field;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * A list of possible Program Committee members and their affiliations;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Proposals must not exceed three pages in PDF. </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">SRDS'24 workshop co-chairs:</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Michel Cukier: mcukier@umd.edu</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Anne Remke: anne.remke@wwu.de</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Evaluation Criteria</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">********************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Relevance to SRDS;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Timeliness and expected interest in the topic;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Organizers’ ability to lead a successful workshop;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Balance and synergy with other SRDS events;</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">For any questions regarding workshops, please email the workshop chairs: </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">For further information, please see:</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">https://srds-conference.org/cf_workshop_proposals.html</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Topics of Interest</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">********************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">The major areas of interest include the following topics:</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Dependability, security and privacy of distributed systems including, but not limited to, </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">cloud, high-performance, fog, and edge computing; distributed data storage and processing; </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">distributed machine learning and AI; safety-critical distributed systems; Internet of Things, </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">vehicular, robotic, cyber-physical and mobile systems.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Techniques and algorithms advancing the state-of-the-art in fault tolerance, fault recovery, </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">robustness, self-stabilization, self-healing, scalability, and real-time for distributed </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">systems. These include but are not limited to, coordination, replication, failure prediction </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">and detection, micro-services, transactions, and blockchains.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Methods and tools for designing, implementing, verifying, validating, and operating dependable </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">and secure distributed applications, middleware, operating systems, virtual machines and hardware.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Analytical, simulative and experimental assessment of dependable and secure distributed systems,</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">particularly when in real-world settings or with real-world data and in large-scale and complex </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">environments.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div></body></html>