[afnog] PESARO 2011 | Call for Papers

[Miguel Garcia]

INVITATION: 

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. 
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============== PESARO 2011 | Call for Papers =============== 

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS 

PESARO 2011:  The First International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications 

April 17-22, 2011 - Budapest, Hungary 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/PESARO11.html 

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPPESARO11.html 

Submission deadline: December 10, 2010 

Technical co-sponsor: Poznan University of Technology
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org 

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org 
Please, note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options. 

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. 

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. 

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html 

PESARO 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) 

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions. 

Fundamentals 
Fundamentals on system safety; Robustness technology and evaluation; Metrics for risk assessment; Performance-oriented design; Safety-oriented system design; Performance metrics and dependable metrics ; Active and passive safety; Performance warning delay 

Methodologies, techniques and algorithms 
Systems modeling; Hazard analysis; System measurement and monitoring; Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Model verification and validation; Fault-tolerant systems; Simulation, statistical analysis, and experimental design analysis; Language and runtime systems 

Performance 
Performance basics; Performance-oriented design;  Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for analytic modeling; System measurement and monitoring; Model verification and validation, simulation, statistical analysis;  Experimental design, and reliability analysis; Performance evaluation of various technologies and systems (mobile devices and wireless networks, distributed and parallel systems, file and storage systems, power management, database systems, computer networks and architectures, operating systems, fault-tolerant systems, and language and runtime systems). Performance in dedicated service systems (Web services, Financial services, Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications services, Industrial Manufacturing, Education services, Transportation services, Energy and utilities) 

Safety in industrial systems 
Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems; Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety; Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of  safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards; Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety) 

Robustness 
Basic concepts and applications; Theory and mechanisms for robustness; Uncertainty and robustness; Statistic robustness; Computation and optimization of robustness; Robustness estimation and approximation; Robustness correction;  Robust systems; Robustness tests and benchmarking 

Applications and services 
Mobile Web performance; Multiple data center management; Network latency and impact on performance/robustness; Performance and robustness of cloud-based solutions; Scalable safe and robust solutions; Mobile devices and wireless networks; Mission critical systems and applications; Industry specific safety systems (medical devices, aerospace, chemical industry, nuclear power plants, public health, biological systems) 

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PESARO Advisory Chairs 
Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Naoki Wakamiya, University of Osaka, Japan
Piotr Zwierzykowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 

PESARO Industry/Research Chair 
Juong-Sik Lee, Nokia Research Center - Palo Alto, USA
Chi Harold Liu, IBM Research, China 

PESARO Publicity Chair 
Miguel Garcia Pineda, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain 

Program Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComPESARO11.html 
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