Deadline extension, December 16: PESARO 2012 || April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish 
original scientific results to PESARO 2012.
The submission deadline is extended to December 16, 2011.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: 
http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== PESARO 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

PESARO 2012: The Second International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications
April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/PESARO12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPPESARO12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitPESARO12.html

Submission deadline: December 16, 2011

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, 
implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete 
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, 
topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, 
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
 

PESARO 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Fundamentals
Fundamentals on system safety; Robustness technology and evaluation; Metrics for risk assessment; Performance-oriented 
design; Safety-oriented system design; Performance metrics and dependable metrics ; Active and passive safety; Performance 
warning delay

Methodologies, techniques and algorithms
Systems modeling; Hazard analysis; System measurement and monitoring; Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and 
prevention strategies; Model verification and validation; Fault-tolerant systems; Simulation, statistical analysis, and 
experimental design analysis; Language and runtime systems

Performance
Performance basics; Performance-oriented design; Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for analytic modeling; 
System measurement and monitoring; Model verification and validation, simulation, statistical analysis;  Experimental 
design, and reliability analysis; Performance evaluation of various technologies and systems (mobile devices and wireless 
networks, distributed and parallel systems, file and storage systems, power management, database systems, computer 
networks and architectures, operating systems, fault-tolerant systems, and language and runtime systems). Performance in 
dedicated service systems (Web services, Financial services, Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications services, 
Industrial Manufacturing, Education services, Transportation services, Energy and utilities)

Safety in industrial systems
Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for 
critical systems; Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission critical systems; Safety-oriented 
system design; Human tasks and error models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety; Verification and 
validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of  safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control 
and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards; Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk 
Assessment; Contingency Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry specific safety systems 
(Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)

Robustness
Basic concepts and applications; Theory and mechanisms for robustness; Uncertainty and robustness; Statistic robustness; 
Computation and optimization of robustness; Robustness estimation and approximation; Robustness correction;  Robust 
systems; Robustness tests and benchmarking

Applications and services
Mobile Web performance; Multiple data center management; Network latency and impact on performance/robustness; Performance 
and robustness of cloud-based solutions; Scalable safe and robust solutions; Mobile devices and wireless networks; Mission 
critical systems and applications; Industry specific safety systems (medical devices, aerospace, chemical industry, 
nuclear power plants, public health, biological systems)


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComPESARO12.html
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