The 18th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks

The Eighteenth International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN2019) Fukuoka, Japan, August 5-8, 2019 Sponsored by the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IPSJ SIG-DPS and Kyushu Sangyo University in cooperation with the IEICE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Networks and the IEICE Information and Systems Society Technical Committee on Dependable Computing ADSN 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2019), Fukuoka, Japan, August5-8, 2019.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Assurance technologies for new generation networks - Assurance in cooperative embedded, grid, and cloud computing systems - Assurance in service-oriented and web-service based computing systems - Critical infrastructure protection - Heterogeneous systems coexistence and consistency technologies - Network control (QoS, QoE, CoS, etc) technologies for assurance - Self-stabilization and sensor networks assurance - Agents technologies for assurance - Assurance in safety-critical automotive and avionic systems - Software and hardware technologies for assurance in intelligent transportation systems, train control, and space computers - System life-cycle assurance in specification, design, implementation, testing, verification, and validation - Assurance in IoT systems - Security technologies for assurance - System management and proactive fault management technologies for assurance - Technologies for achieving high assurance in complex systems Papers and Submissions Papers must be written in English, and they have to be Postscript, PDF, or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no more than 6 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. The following information must be provided on a cover sheet: (1) paper title, full name, affiliation of the author(s) (2) full name, affiliation, complete address, phone and fax numbers and email address of the author to be contacted, as well as (3) an abstract (up to 150 words).