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The 22th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of
Distributed Systems (SSS 2020) will be held in Austin, Texas, USA on November
18-21, 2020.
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design
and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to
provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face
of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of
original contributions on fundamental research and practical applications
concerning topics in the four symposium tracks:
Track A. Self-Stabilization
Self-stabilizing systems, Variants of Self-stabilization, Topological
Stabilization, Autonomous Systems, Stabilization and self-* properties in
hardware, software, and middleware design, Self-stabilizing software defined
infrastructure.
Track B. Foundations of Concurrent and Distributed Computing
Distributed and concurrent algorithms and data structures, Synchronization
protocols, Shared and transactional memory, Formal Methods, validation,
verification, and synthesis, Peer-to-peer networks, Social networks,
Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing, Randomization in
distributed computing, Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks,
Dynamic networks, High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing.
Track C. Mobile and Robot Computing
Self-organization in mobile agents, mobile robots, mobile sensor networks,
mobile ad-hoc networks, population protocols, programmable particles, nanoscale
robots, biological systems, and related new models.
Track D. Fault tolerance, Security, and Privacy
Network security, Privacy, Internet-of-things Security, Secure cloud computing,
Mobile sensor networks/ad-hoc networks security, Verifiable/fault-tolerant
computing, Anomaly and networked malware detection, Blockchain technologies and
cryptocurrencies, Byzantine-fault tolerance and distributed consensus
protocols, Secure multi-party computation, Applied cryptography.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: July 27, 2020 (11:59 PM AoE)
Paper Submission: August 3, 2020 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance Notification: September 28, 2020
Camera-ready copy due: October 9, 2020
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2020
All submission must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS
series (see
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Each submission must be in English, in PDF format.
DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW
We will experiment the double-blind peer review in SSS 2020. All submissions
must be anonymous. We will use a somewhat relaxed implementation of
double-blind peer review this year: you are free to disseminate your work
through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work
as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or
affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in
the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the
paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identity of
the authors. Please feel free to ask the PC chairs if you have any questions
about the double-blind policy of SSS 2020.
SUBMISSIONS
There are two types of submission: regular paper and brief announcement.
- A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, authors,
abstract, figures, and references). Additional necessary details for an expert
to verify the main claims of the submission may be included in a clearly marked
appendix if extra space is needed.
- A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages and should not
include any appendix.
Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without
consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins
with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main
results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief
statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to
a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the
specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be
rejected without review. If requested by the authors on the cover page, a
regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be
considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect
consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
PUBLICATION
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference
proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
conference series.
SPECIAL ISSUE
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a
special issue of an international journal.
PAPER AWARD
Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper.
A regular paper is eligible for the best student paper if at least one of its
authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly
indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best
student paper award (e.g., using a \thanks in the title). The PC may decline
to confer awards or may split awards.
For further information, please refer to the website:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~sandeep/SSS2020
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