IEEE DASC 2025: Call for Papers

The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2025) will be held from October 21-24, 2025, in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, Japan.

DASC 2025 is co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2025, IEEE PICom 2025, and IEEE CBDCom 2025.

Download the full CFP here

Tracks and Topics for Regular Papers

Track 1. Dependability, Reliability, and Fault Tolerance

• Fault-tolerant hardware and software architectures
• Hardware and software reliability, verification and testing
• Reliability modeling and prediction for complex systems
• Highly Reliable Systems achieving stable performance
• Resilience engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Redundancy design for critical infrastructure
• Dependability metrics and evaluation frameworks
• Simulation, verification, testing, and validation for autonomous systems

Track 2. Security, Privacy, and Trust in Systems and Networks

• Intrusion detection, prevention, and mitigation in networked environments
• Security modeling, auditing, and compliance in safety-critical systems
• Self-adaptive security architecture, techniques, and algorithms
• Security protocols for CPS, IoT, and autonomous systems (e.g., vehicles, drones, robots)
• Data protection for networked systems and storage systems
• Privacy-preserving techniques for distributed and autonomous system
• Blockchain for trustworthy and secure system design
• Cryptographic methods for secure computing, storage, and communication
• Post-quantum cryptography for future-proof security
• Trust management in distributed and autonomous systems

Track 3. Autonomic Computing and Self-Adaptive Systems

• Self-adaptive software architectures for autonomic computing
• Adaptive computing, communication, and resource allocation for autonomic systems
• Self-healing mechanisms for autonomic systems
• Autonomic decision-making under uncertainty
• Embodied AI for physical system adaptation
• Self-optimization for energy-efficient autonomic systems
• Modeling and STV & V of self-adaptive behaviors

Track 4. AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Computational Methods

• AI-driven threat prediction, anomaly detection, fault detection and diagnosis
• Large Language Models (LLMs) for system specification and verification
• Data platforms leveraging and powering AI
• Quantum computing applications in dependability analysis
• Generative AI for synthetic test case generation
• Explainable AI for trustworthy autonomic computing
• Trustworthy and safe AI-empowered systems

Track 5. Industrial Applications and Case Studies

• Dependability and security solutions in safety-critical control systems in transportation and aerospace industries
• Autonomous systems in industrial IoT deployments
• Case studies on CPS reliability in manufacturing
• Lessons learned from autonomous vehicle system deployments
• Real-world applications of trustworthy AI in various industrial sectors

WiP/Workshop/Special Session Papers

WiP (Work-in-Progress) Track

The track covers all the topics for regular papers but it is aimed at papers that have an original but not fully validated proposal (WiP).

Workshop/Special Session Tracks

DASC workshops and special sessions are listed here.

Submission System

The submission system for DASC Opens on April 7, 2025. Please refer to Paper Submission for instructions.

Important Dates

• Workshop/SS Proposal Due: May 20, 2025
• Regular Paper Due: July 11, 2025 (Extended)
• WiP/Poster/Workshop/SS Paper Due: July 15, 2025 (Extended)
• Author Notification: August 11, 2025
• Paper Registration Due: September 5, 2025
• Camera-ready Submission Due: September 12, 2025