<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><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 Papers - PhD Forum - 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.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">The Ph.D. Forum provides an opportunity for graduate students working in research areas </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">related to reliable distributed systems to present their problem statement, research </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">methods and planned contributions, and to receive high-quality feedback and guidance from </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">established researchers and other graduate students joining the forum. The forum consists </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">of two poster sessions and we also plan short presentation slots in the main conference </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">program. </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><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">* Paper Submission: July 15th, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">* Notification to Authors: July 31st, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">* Camera-Ready and author registration: August 15th, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">* Conference dates: September 30 - October 4, 2024</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*NEW FOR 2024: AWARD*</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">*********************</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">All Ph.D. Forum attending students presenting at the poster sessions and at the short </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">presentations in the main track will be considered for a new “SRDS Ph.D. Forum Award”. </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Evaluation criteria will include quality of the presentation and quality of the posters.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Paper 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 not exceed three pages in IEEE two-column format (excluding references) and </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">be in PDF format. The only author of the paper must be a student. For more information, </font></div><div><font face="Courier New">please refer to the following link: https://srds-conference.org/cf_phds.html</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Proposals must be submitted by email to phd.forum.srds2024@gmail.com.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">For more information, please contact the SRDS'24 Ph.D. forum co-chairs: </font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Valerio Schiavoni (valerio.schiavoni@unine.ch)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"> * Elias Duarte (elias@inf.ufpr.br)</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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></body></html>