• Architectures for Dependable Computer Systems
• Architectures and Protocols for Computer Security
• Dependability of High-Speed Networks
• Dependability Measurement, Modeling and Evaluation
• Dependability in VLSI
• E-commerce and Web services Dependability
• Fault Tolerance in Distributed & Real-Time Systems
• Fault Tolerance in Mobile Systems
• Fault Tolerance in Multimedia Systems
• Fault Tolerance in Transaction Processing
• Hardware and Software Testing, Verification and Validation
• Information Assurance, Survivability, and Intrusion Tolerance
• Internet Dependability and Quality of Service
• Safety-Critical Systems
• Software Reliability Engineering.

Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports.
Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables using 11-point type.
Practical Experience Reports (of 5-12 pages) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data.
The title page should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors’ names and address and include a line specifying whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. The full mailing address, phone, fax and email address of the correponding author should be specified.
All submissions must be made electronically.
Additional submission opportunities are also possible at a later deadline under the form of Fast Abstracts

Call for Paper in PDF format

Paper Submission Deadline Extended
New Deadline: September 15 (firm)

IMPORTANT DATES Submission: September 5, 2003                         Notification: November 14, 2003 Final version: December 15, 2003