The Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, security, trust, and real-time. We welcome Research Papers describing original research as well as design, development and experimental results of operational systems, and Practical Experience Reports describing on-going industrial projects, prototype systems and exploratory or emerging applications.

Topics of interest

The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
• Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service
• Dependability benchmarking
• Dependability of distributed databases and transaction processing
• Dependability of distributed multimedia systems
• Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment
• Dependable cooperative mobile systems: ad hoc networks, sensor networks, robot networks
• Dependability in cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things
• Distributed algorithms
• Distributed objects and middleware systems
• Experimental or analytical evaluations of dependable distributed systems
• Fault tolerance, reliability and availability in distributed systems
• Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
• High-assurance and safety-critical distributed system design and evaluation
• Internet-based systems and applications
• Parallel and distributed operating systems
• Privacy-assuring large-scale data management systems
• Resilience in distributed infrastructures (vehicular networks, power grids, etc.)
• Secure and trusted distributed systems
• Self-stabilization and fault recovery in distributed systems