Final Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud and Big Data Systems and Applications, 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction IEEE DependSys 2023 conference is the next event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems oftentend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. Scope and Topics Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2 : Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security - Blockchain-based systems Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, transportation applications - Energy, smart city, smart grid - IoT, CPS and industrial application Track 4 : Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith - Levels and assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling - Dependability evaluation - Software reliability and verification - Hardware reliability and verification - Evaluations and tools Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper. submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Program Chairs Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Kai Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia