Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE Conference Ranking Process IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE conference Ranking process IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Mohamed KAANICHE

Conference Details

Conference

Title: IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Acronym : DSN Rank: A

Requested Rank

Rank: A*

Recent Years

Proceedings Publishing Style

Proceedings Publishing: self-contained Link to most recent proceedings: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9145511/proceeding Further details: The main proceedings of the conference include papers selected by the Program Committee of the main research track. Papers presented in the other tracks of the conference (Workshops, industry track, student forum, Fast abstracts, etc.) are published in a supplemental volume.

Most Recent Years

Most Recent Year

Year: 2020 URL: http://2020.dsn.org/ Location: Valencia, Spain (Virtual) Papers submitted: 291 Papers published: 48 Acceptance rate: 16 Source for numbers: https://www.dependability.org/dsn-summary-stats.html

General Chairs Name: Pedro Gil-Vicente Aﬃliation: Universitat PolitÃĺcnica de ValÃĺncia, Spain Gender: M H Index: 23 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Zdaz6SAAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/85/3580.html Name: Juan Carlos Ruiz-Garcia Aﬃliation: Universitat PolitÃĺcnica de ValÃĺncia Gender: M H Index: 15 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IwVJRWUAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/80/536.html

Program Chairs

1 Name: Haining Wang Aﬃliation: VirginiaTech, US Gender: M H Index: 49 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=tmOInzMAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/81/4036.html Name: Kaustubh Joshi Aﬃliation: AT&T Labs - Research Gender: M H Index: 25 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qV8kf28AAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/33/2232.html

Second Most Recent Year

Year: 2019 URL: http://2019.dsn.org/ Location: Portland, USA Papers submitted: 252 Papers published: 54 Acceptance rate: 21 Source for numbers: https://www.dependability.org/dsn-summary-stats.html

General Chairs Name: Cristian Constantinescu Aﬃliation: AMD, USA Gender: M H Index: 14 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=th&user=1A0i5YEAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/06/6040.html?q=cristian%20constan

Program Chairs

Name: Karthik Pattabiraman Aﬃliation: University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Gender: M H Index: 36 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p_V9YWgAAAAJ&hl=en DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/91/5344.html Name: Fernando Pedone Aﬃliation: University of Lugano, CH Gender: M H Index: 34 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=BexX9vYAAAAJ&hl=th DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/90/2612.html

Third Most Recent Year

Year: 2018 URL: http://2018.dsn.org/ Location: Luxembourg Papers submitted: 228 Papers published: 62 Acceptance rate: 27 Source for numbers: https://www.dependability.org/dsn-summary-stats.html

General Chairs Name: Paulo Verissimo Aﬃliation: University of Luxembourg, LU Gender: M H Index: 51 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=aMHx8aUAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/v/PauloVerissimo.html

Program Chairs

2 Name: Gilles Muller Aﬃliation: INRIA, France Gender: M H Index: 39 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=uXvp1gQAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/27/4405.html Name: Marco Vieira Aﬃliation: University of Coimbra, Portugal Gender: M H Index: 31 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=l3cF0LoAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/14/6260.html

Policies

Chair Selection: The selection of the General chair of a DSN edition is discussed and voted on during the business meeting of the Technical Committee on Fault Tolerance and Dependable Computing that takes place at the last session of the ongoing DSN edition. All DSN participants are invited to attend this meeting. All proposals for hosting future editions of the conference are presented by the General chairs oﬀering to organize the conference. A vote takes place during the business meeting to decide on the location and General chairs for edition to be organized two years ahead (Y+2) Policy name: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Code of conduct Policy url: http://dsn2021.ntu.edu.tw/resource/page/id/67.html Policy name: Ethical Considerations, Conﬂicts of Interests and Submission Policy for PC and Organizing Committee Members Policy url: http://dsn2021.ntu.edu.tw/resource/page/id/66.html

(Senior) Program Committee

Link to (s)pc: http://dsn2021.ntu.edu.tw/resource/page/id/39.html File: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_spc_file/DSN2021_PC_formatted_v5U5Fks.txt H-index plot: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_hindex_plots/hindex_buckets_1519.png Information Contained within this graph is derived using the Elsevier Scopus Database 2021.

Data and Metrics

3 Google Scholar Metrics

Sub-category url: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_computingsystems Position in sub-category: 20+ Image of top 20: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/changes_h5/higherrank1519_gscholar_minh5.png

h5-index for this conference: 32

ACM Metrics

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Aminer Rank

Aminer rank: 12 Aminer name: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Acronym / shortname: DSN h-5 index: 32 CCF level: B THU level: B Top Aminer Cites: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_citations/higherrank1519_aminer_top_cite.png

4 Other Rankings URL: https://academic.microsoft.com/search?q=dependability&qe=%40%40%40Composite(F.FN%3D%3D%27dependability%27)&f= &orderBy=4&skip=0&take=10 Description: DSN is ranked ﬁrst conference in dependability Rank: 1 URL: https: //www.guide2research.com/conference/dsn-2021-ieeeifip-international-conference-on-dependable-systems-and-networks Description: DSN is ranked 31 for Software engineering and programming category and 36 for Networks & communication category Rank: 31 Conferences in area: DSN is the ﬂagship conference in dependable and resilient computing. In the second, we mention A* conferences which are relevant to the topics that we are addressing including, distributed systems, security, hardware and system architecture, software reliability, Performance and dependability measurement, etc. In the third, we list conferences ranked as A or B Core conferences which are relevant to our community

5 1) DSN 2) PODC, RTSS, OSDI, SIGMETRICS, HPCA, ISCA, IEEE S&P, NDSS, CCS, Usenix Security, INFOCOM, WWW, ICSE, USENIX 3) SRDS, ISSRE, PRDC, Eurosys, Safecomp, EDCC, LADC, HASE, SAC, Middleware, RAID, IoLTS, ICDCS, IPDPS, DISC, ICPE

Top People Publishing Here name: Ravishankar K. Iyer justification: Top Contributor to the conference since its creation (63 papers) Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS (American Academy for the Advancement of Science) (2005) Awards : IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, ACM Outstanding Contributions award (2011) Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Research contributions: dependability measurements, experimental assessment and fault tolerant architectures ( https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/rkiyer) Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 2 1 1 0 2 Attendance: ALWAYS name: William Sanders justification: 2nd Top contributor to the conference in number of papers published (34) Fellow of IEEE (2000), ACM (2004), AAAS (2014) Awards : IEEE Technical Field Award, Innovation in Societal Infrastructure (2016) Major contributions is dependability and security modeling and evaluation based on Stochastic Activity networks Hindex: 51 #citations : 10773 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=FClnlsgAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 1 1 2 2 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Zbigniew Kalbarczyk justification: 3rd Top contributor to the conference in number of papers published (34) Research contributions: Reliable computer systems design and dependability measurement Hindex : 46 #citations : 6933 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=OARk6ssAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 2 1 1 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Pascal Felber justification: Top contributor in the last 5 year Research contributions : Dependable, concurrent and distributed systems, cloud computing, trustworthy computing Index : 50 #citations 14672 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Rl7te6EAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 4 0 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Karthik Pattabiraman justification: 2nd Top contributor in the last 5 years Awards : Rising Star Award in Dependability (2020), UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize (2018), Carter Award (2008) Research contributions : error resilient applications and fault injection, web applications reliability, IoT security Hindex : 36 #citations 3663 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=p_V9YWgAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 2 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Saurabh Bagchi justification: Top 5 contributor since 1988 (20 papers) Awards : Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2018), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2013). 7 best paper awards Research contributions: Dependable computing and Distributed Systems Hindex : 50, #citations : 8278 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3EfsOvYAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 1 1 0 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Christof Fetzer justification: 3rd Top contributor in the last 5 years, Top 7 since 1988 (19 papers) Awards : Carter award (1997, best paper award (SRDS, DSN, Cloud Computing, Usenix LISA, âĂę) Research contributions : Dependable and sceure distributed systems, fault tolkerance Hindex : 47, #citations: 8940 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=H7v4UbgAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 1 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS

6 name: Michael Lyu justification: 3rd contributor in the last 5 year, 10 papers in total Fellow of the IEEE (2004), AAAS (2007) Crouncher Senior Research (2008), ACM (2015), Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award (2020) Research contributions : Software reliability engineering, software fault tolerance, dependable distributed systems and networks Index : 94 #citations 38971 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uQnBgK0AAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 1 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Nuno Neves justification: 3rd contributor in the last 5 year, Top 20 since 1988 (13 papers) Awards : Carter award (1998), IBM scientific prize (2004), Best papers (Middleware 2019, DISC 2009, âĂę ) Research contributions : dependable systems, software security, distributed systems Index : 36 #citations 4098 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DKjzXc8AAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 1 2 2 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Peng Liu justification: 3rd Top contributor in the last 5 year DOE Early Carreer principal Investigator Award Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Computer Security, Associate Editor (IEEE TDSC Best paper awards (ACSAC 2017, CNS 2016, SecureComm 2014, ISC 2011, âĂę) Associate Editor (IEEE TDSC, ACM ToMPECS, Research contributions : IoT Security, Edge computing, AI for security Index : 47 #citations 9913 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qVOHi9cAAAAJ Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 1 3 1 Attendance: OFTEN

Where People Publish

Top (Senior) Program Committee Members

Generated Report Name: conf submissions top spc/higherrank1519 top spc.csv WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/higherrank1519_spc_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/higherrank1519_spc_graph.png

7 Reference item: \\ 1. Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) ______

This conference was published at 88 times by 28 of 36 experts in the last 5 years.

The experts that publish at this conference are: Dimitris Gizopoulos(3), Peter Buchholz 0001(2), Onur Mutlu(5), Susanna Donatelli(1), Marko Vukolic(2), Evgenia Smirni(2), Alysson Neves Bessani(6), Boudewijn R. Haverkort(2), Michel Cukier(1), Saurabh Bagchi(3), Gilles Muller(3), Xiapu Luo(2), Pascal Felber(6), Nuno Neves 0001(6), Vincent Gramoli(1), Dong Seong Kim(4), Xiaohui Gu(1), Paulo Verssimo(2), Domenico Cotroneo(4), Rdiger Kapitza(7), Michael R. Lyu(5), Fernando Pedone(4), Christof Fetzer(7), Ashish Tiwari 0001(2), Haining Wang(4), Zhiqiang Lin(2), Karthik Pattabiraman(8), Joo Sousa 0002(1)

In 2015, there were 14 publications by 9 experts: Zhiqiang Lin, Onur Mutlu, Gilles Muller, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Karthik Pattabiraman, Christof Fetzer, Haining Wang, Domenico Cotroneo, Paulo Verssimo In 2016, there were 11 publications by 10 experts: Fernando Pedone, Xiapu Luo, Onur Mutlu, Evgenia Smirni, Karthik Pattabiraman, Pascal Felber, Christof Fetzer, Michel Cukier, Nuno Neves 0001, Michael R. Lyu In 2017, there were 17 publications by 12 experts: Vincent Gramoli, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Fernando Pedone, Dong Seong Kim, Christof Fetzer, Gilles Muller, Nuno Neves 0001, Rdiger Kapitza, Saurabh Bagchi, Karthik Pattabiraman, Haining Wang, Michael R. Lyu In 2018, there were 29 publications by 20 experts: Dimitris Gizopoulos, Ashish Tiwari 0001, Marko Vukolic, Alysson Neves Bessani, Susanna Donatelli, Dong Seong Kim, Peter Buchholz 0001, Pascal Felber, Christof Fetzer, Saurabh

8 Bagchi, Domenico Cotroneo, Joo Sousa 0002, Rdiger Kapitza, Xiapu Luo, Evgenia Smirni, Haining Wang, Karthik Pattabiraman, Nuno Neves 0001, Michael R. Lyu, Fernando Pedone In 2019, there were 17 publications by 16 experts: Christof Fetzer, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Alysson Neves Bessani, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Peter Buchholz 0001, Dong Seong Kim, Saurabh Bagchi, Domenico Cotroneo, Ashish Tiwari 0001, Rdiger Kapitza, Zhiqiang Lin, Onur Mutlu, Xiaohui Gu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Pascal Felber, Michael R. Lyu

28 out of the 36 experts published at this conference in 1 or more years 21 out of the 36 experts published at this conference in 2 or more years 13 out of the 36 experts published at this conference in 3 or more years 3 out of the 36 experts published at this conference in 4 or more years 2 out of the 36 experts published at this conference in 5 or more years

Top People Report

Method of selection: The proposed names are selected based on their hindex, number of citations and coverage of the main relevant topics of the conference. This selection is also based on Google Scholar search with several keywords reﬂecting the topics addressed by the conference (dependability, fault tolerance, distributed systems, computer security, computer architecture, etc. The Top 10 authors listed in Section C5 are not included. Keyword: name h-index gscholar url Sushil Jajodia 107 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=lOZ1vHIAAAAJ Kishor Trivedi 103 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=fEVXhhAAAAAJ Onur Mutlu 95 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7XyGUGkAAAAJ Kang G. Shin 109 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=vY7MdLYAAAAJ Michael K. Reiter 86 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=GaRxukMAAAAJ Andrew S. Tanenbaum 76 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=TvjaNqkAAAAJ Wenke Lee 88 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=nfkH5V4AAAAJ Patrick McDaniel 76 https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=AMGqrI0AAAAJ Nancy Lynch 75 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=LPTkkxUAAAAJ Rachid Guerraoui 71 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=_TR-7CEAAAAJ Maurice Herlihy 70 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=Ezrt3pkAAAAJ Willy Zwaenepoel 68 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=KfI_FL4AAAAJ Kenneth P. Birman 66 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=sxjynOsAAAAJ Peter Steenkiste 62 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=DK7TEvkAAAAJ Joost-Pieter Katoen 66 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yjjO5_oAAAAJ Robert van Renesse 64 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=uJbM58UAAAAJ Jiannong Cao 63 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=q2jH Sarita V. Adve 62 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5m-oAesAAAAJ Michael Waidner 62 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=AyRNYLoAAAAJ Paulo Verissimo 55 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aMHx8aUAAAAJ Rami Melhem 57 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=017pCpkAAAAJ Herbert Bos 52 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=KHMut54AAAAJ Tzi-cker Chiueh 56 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=ENEeB4AAAAAJ Anne-Marie Kermarrec 52 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=aIAy-qcAAAAJ Engin Kirda 72 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=ZfDtNpUAAAAJ Michel Raynal 61 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=d3BBqmgAAAAJ Chita R. Das 58 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2kXsgI4AAAAJ Gernot Heiser 55 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=0e0Vw3kAAAAJ Dahlia Malkhi 55 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A_VZ7N0AAAAJ Dongyan Xu 53 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=CQcd1cQAAAAJ Lorenzo Alvisi 48 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K_-KJi8AAAAJ Christian Cachin 47 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=c8zferMAAAAJ Franck Capello 52 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=z5u02kIAAAAJ Holger Hermanns 55 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=lWMIeCAAAAAJ Andrea-Arpaci-Dusseau 60 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=8VkvOEEAAAAJ Sy Yen Kuo 48 https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=fr&user=NuPxDGQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate Haining Wang 49 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=tmOInzMAAAAJ Guofei GU 51 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=SRC3O-4AAAAJ Ion Stoica 135 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vN-is70AAAAJ

Reference item: \\

1 : Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/higherrank1519_top_people_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/higherrank1519_top_people_graph.png

9 Other Information

Comparator Comparison

Comparator

Real Time Systems Symposium

Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: See also general argumentation in the document provided in the next section 2. Other relevant Information: ——– DSN has a higher h5 index (32 compared to 21 for RTSS). It also has higher submission statistics with relatively lower acceptance rates. RTSS is definitely an excellent conference each in its specific computer science area addressing real-time systems design and analysis. However, this conference has a much more limited scope than DSN which covers dependability and resilience related challenges and solutions in all the layers of systems design, from the hardware and low level operating systems and storage layers, through network and communication layers to service and application upper layers. Indeed, DSN covers all the 4606 FoR subcategories. Note that real-time is a major characteristic of the type of critical systems and applications investigated by the dependability community and many seminal concepts in this area has been published by the dependability community. DSN is widely recognized as the flagship international conference on dependable computing. The concepts behind dependable computing and major results in this area have been developed by the dependability community. This position is also reflected by the Microsoft Academic ranking system which ranks DSN as the top conference when using dependability as a keyword as well as when combining dependability with real-time systems. DSN has also a better ranking according to guide2Research web site overall and for software engineering and programming category (31 compared to 85 for RTSS) Finally DSN is the first preferred venue in WPP for the selected Top 20+ researchers whereas RTSS is 108th

10 Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1519_723.pdf

Comparator

ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: See also general argumentation in the document provided in the next section 2. Other relevant Information: ——– DSN has a higher h5 index (32 compared to 28 for PODC). It also has higher submission statistics with relatively lower acceptance rates. PODC is definitely an excellent conference in its specific computer science area addressing distributed systems and algorithms. However, this conference has a much more limited scope than DSN which covers dependability and resilience related challenges and solutions in all the layers of systems design, from the hardware and low level operating systems and storage layers, through network and communication layers to service and application upper layers. Indeed, DSN covers all the 4606 FoR subcategories. Note that distributed computing is a major characteristic of the type of critical systems and applications investigated by the dependability community and many seminal concepts in this area have been published by the dependability community. DSN is widely recognized as the flagship international conference on dependable computing. The concepts behind dependable computing and major results in this area have been developed by the dependability community. This position is also reflected by the Microsoft Academic ranking system which ranks DSN as the top conference when using dependability as a keyword as well as when combining dependability with distributed systems. DSN has also a better ranking according to guide2Research web site overall and for software engineering and programming category (31 compared to 50 for PODC) Finally DSN is the first preferred venue in WPP for the selected Top 20+ researchers whereas PODC is 18th. Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1519_1085.pdf

Comparator

Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: See also general argumentation in the document provided in the next section 2. Other relevant Information: ——– DSN has competitive statistics compared to OSDI in terms of h5 index (32 compared to 35 for OSDI) as well as regarding the number of submissions. OSDI is an excellent conference in its specific computer science areas addressing operating systems software design and implementation. However, DSN addresses a larger scope of topics and covers dependability and resilience related challenges and solutions in all the layers of systems design, from the hardware and low level operating systems and storage layers, through network and communication layers to service and application upper layers. Indeed, DSN covers all the 4606 FoR subcategories. DSN is widely recognized as the flagship international conference on dependable computing. This position is also reflected by the Microsoft Academic ranking system which ranks DSN as the top conference when using dependability as a keyword as well as when combining dependability with other keywords. DSN has celebrated its 50th edition in 2020 and maintained a high number of submissions through the years (median around 230 for the last 10 years). Note that the number of submissions continuously increased during the last five years illustrating the attractiveness and vitality of the conference. Also, DSN (and its earlier incarnation FTCS (Int. symp. on Fault Tolerant computing)) counts among its authors several key researchers who are IEEE and ACM Fellows, or have received prestigious awards such as the IEEE Emmanuel R. Piore Award, the Turing award, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, âĂę or served as Editors in Chief or associate Editors of major journals such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing or IEEE Transactions on Computers. Finally DSN is the first preferred venue in WPP for the selected Top 20+ researchers whereas OSDI is 20th. Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1519_1086.pdf

Other Relvant Info

Other relevant information: See attached ﬁle for a general argumentation to support the DSN application to core A* ranking

Attachments http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/request_attachment/DSN-Argumentation-30Dec20.pdf

Proposers

First name: Mohamed Last name: KAANICHE Aﬃliation: LAAS-CNRS Email: [email protected]

Submitted By

Name: Kaaniche Mohamed Email: [email protected]