The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Cloud computing and virtualization * Database systems and applications * Databases for emerging hardware * Dependability of distributed systems * Dependable communication networks * Distributed systems and algorithms * Energy-efficient data/network management * Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability in distributed systems * Internet-based systems and applications * Mobile systems * Parallel/distributed operating systems and database systems * Real-time systems * Security, privacy and trust