Co-located with ENC 2007 - Mexican Annual Computing Conference
Morelia, Mexico - 26-28 September, 2007
LADC is the major Latin-American event dedicated to discussing the many issues related to computer system dependability. This symposium succeeds the well established Brazilian Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers.

ORGANIZED BY: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

CO-SPONSORED BY:
* SBC - Brazilian Computing Society
* SMCC - Mexican Society for Computer Science
* IEEE TC on Fault-Tolerant Computing (tentative)

IN COOPERATION WITH:
* IFIP Working Group 10.4 "Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance"
* SCCC - Chilean Computer Science Society
* SADIO - Argentine Society for Informatics and Operations Research

Website: http://www.sbc.org.br/ladc

Its objective is to provide a forum for international and Latin-American scientists and engineers to present their latest research results and application experience in this very dynamic field. The first LADC was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2003, while the second was held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2005. In its third edition the symposium is going to take place in Morelia, Mexico. The proceedings will be published by a major technical publisher; Springer Verlag was the publisher for LADC previous editions.

The LADC program will present technical sessions, tutorials and keynote talks from top international experts in the area. The symposium scope spans system, software, and hardware issues in all areas of dependable computing, including, but not limited to:

Critical Infrastructures Protection; Database and Transactional Systems; Dependability Benchmarking; Dependability Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation; Dependable Applications; Design for Testability; Distributed Systems; Experimental Dependability Evaluation; Fault-tolerant Algorithms; Information Assurance; Intrusion Tolerance; Critical Infrastructures Protection; Database and Transactional Systems; Dependability Benchmarking; Dependability Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation; Dependable Applications; Design for Testability; Distributed Systems; Experimental Dependability Evaluation; Fault-tolerant Algorithms; Information Assurance; Intrusion Tolerance; Networking and Mobile Computing; Parallel, Clustered and Grid Systems; Real-Time and Embedded Systems; Safety-Critical Systems; Security of Computing Systems; Software Engineering of Dependable Systems; Software Reliability; Software Testing, Validation and Verification; Storage; Survivability of Computing Systems; System Architecture;

Only original papers (not published or under review elsewhere) should be submitted.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Papers should be written in English and can be submitted in the following categories:

* Regular Papers describing original research, and Practical Experience Reports describing an experience or a case study.
* Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports should be no longer than 20 and 12 double-spaced pages, respectively, including figures, tables, references, and appendices. The font size should be 12 points. The first page should include an abstract, authors’ names, addresses and affiliations, and specify whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. The full mailing address, telephone and FAX numbers, as well as e-mail address of the contact author should also be indicated. Submissions significantly departing from the instruction (either in length or in format) will not be considered.

TUTORIALS

Proposals for full day and half-day tutorials are also requested.
Proposals should include the lecture outline, assumed background of audience, and CV of the presenter.

SUBMISSION ADDRESS

Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically, following the instructions described at the conference web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports Submission deadline: March 20, 2007
Author notification: May 26, 2007
Camera ready: June 23, 2007

Tutorials
Submission deadline: May 31, 2007
Author notification: June 30, 2007
Camera ready: July 31, 2007

GENERAL CHAIR

Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Co-Chairs:
Andrea Bondavalli (U Florence, Italy)
Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG, Brazil)

Members:
Jean Arlat (LAAS-CNRS, France); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, USA); Hector Cancela (U Republica, Uruguay); Jose Contreras (UTFSM, Chile); Bojan Cukic (West Virginia Univ, USA); Pedro D’Argenio (UNC, Argentina); Xavier Defago (JAIST, Japan); Elias Duarte Jr. (UFPR, Brazil); Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany); Joni Fraga (UFSC, Brazil); Roy Friedman (Technion - IIT, Israel); Fabiola Greve (UFBA, Brazil); Farnam Jahanian (U Michigan, USA); Ingrid Jansch-Porto (UFRGS, Brazil); Ricardo Jimenez-Peris (UPM, Spain); Henrique Madeira (U Coimbra, Portugal); Ricardo Marcelo-Jiménez (UAM, Mexico); Magnos Martinello (FUCAPE, Brazil); Eliane Martins (UNICAMP, Brazil); Keith Marzullo (UCSD, USA); Carlos Maziero (PUCPR, Brazil); Pedro Mejia-Alvarez (IPN, Mexico); Takashi Nanya (U Tokyo, Japan); Edgar Nett (Uni-Magdeburg, Germany); Rui Oliveira (U do Minho, Portugal); William Sanders (UIUC, USA); André Schiper (EPFL, Switzerland); Richard Schlichting (AT&T Research, USA); Jie Xu (Leeds University, UK); Avelino Zorzo, (PUCRS, Brazil);


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