Dependable and Secure Computing 2025

Special Issue on Dependable and Secure Computing 2025

This Special Call targets selected papers from the 14th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable and Secure Computing (LADC 2025) but accepts other submissions related to the symposium's theme.

LADC 2025

This Special Call for Papers is associated with the 14th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable and Secure Computing (LADC 2025), the major event in Latin America focused on the dependability and security of computer systems. LADC 2025 will take place in Valparaíso, Chile, co-located with the CLEI 2025 (51ª Conferência Latino-Americana de Informática) from October 27–31, 2025. Promoted by the Special Committee on Fault-Tolerant Systems (CE-TF) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), LADC 2025 features technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from international experts, and an industrial track. The symposium covers both original research papers and practical experience reports, emphasizing innovative solutions, significant research progress, and relevant industrial applications.

This special issue of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) invites extended versions of the best papers presented at LADC 2025. Submissions must provide at least a third of new content, a different title and abstract, and explicitly cite the original paper (i.e., a footnote or information in the acknowledgment section, including the complete reference to the original paper).

Topics of Interest

Software and Hardware

o Software frameworks and architectures for dependable systems
o Self-adaptive systems and model-driven engineering
o Security foundations, policies, protocols, and access control
o Intrusion detection, intrusion tolerance, incident handling, and response
o Testing, verification, validation (V&V), certification, and runtime verification
o Human–computer interaction and sociotechnical systems

Computing and Network Systems

o Fault-tolerant architectures, protocols, and algorithms for distributed and decentralized systems
o Models for systems performance and dependability evaluation
o Software-defined networking and network function virtualization
o Experimentation and assessment of dependable systems and networks

Computing Technologies

o Cloud, HPC, and Edge computing
o Embedded systems, systems on chip, and storage systems
o Autonomous and smart systems
o Secure, privacy-enhancing, and trusted computing technologies
o Quantum computing

Critical Infrastructure Protection

o Cyber-physical systems security
o Safety-critical systems
o Critical infrastructure protection
o Supply chain risk management

Artificial Intelligence

o AI for predictive modeling and anomaly detection in complex systems
o AI-driven network management and optimization
o AI for software and hardware reliability and security
o AI-driven threat detection and response in critical infrastructures
o Dependability and security of AI systems

Paper Submission

All papers must be written in English. All submissions are single-blind and must extend the conference's original paper with new material, discussions, and results.

Submissions must be in PDF format and follow the JISA LaTeX template (guidelines and checklist). Papers are expected to have 10 to 20 pages, including attachments and references. Papers outside this limit will be considered only in special cases. JISA is open access, free of charge for both authors and readers, and all papers published by JISA follow the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. 

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Selection process

This extended version must demonstrate significant originality (at least 35% new content) and include a different title and abstract from the original paper. This new paper should explicitly mention and cite the original paper (i.e., a footnote or information in the acknowledgment section, including the complete reference to the original paper). 

Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least 3 experts in the field. At least one of them must not have reviewed the original LADC 2025 submission. The review process will consider up to 3 review rounds for each manuscript: for the 1st and 2nd rounds, reviews will be sent to authors with an editorial decision: 1. Request a revised version for a new round, 2. Accept, or 3. Reject the manuscript. For the 3rd round, the editorial decision will be either 1. Accept or 2. Reject the manuscript. For each submission round, a cover letter must be included, presenting the paper and then indicating the improvements and answers to reviewers.

Important dates

● Submission deadline: 01 March 2026 
● Notification 1st round: 15 April 2026
● Submission of revised versions: 16 May 2026
● Notification 2nd round: 14 June 2026
● Submission of revised versions: 05 July 2026
● Notification 3rd round: 25 July 2026
● Submission of revised versions: 09 August 2026
● Final notification: 18 August 2026

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Rui Oliveira (INESC TEC and Universidade do Minho)
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=F1yyyrgAAAAJ
Prof. Rui Oliveira is an internationally recognized researcher in Distributed Systems, Dependability, Cloud Computing, and Large-Scale Data Management. He has co-authored several influential publications, including impactful works on consensus protocols, fault-tolerant algorithms, and privacy-preserving systems. He has extensive editorial experience, having served on program committees of major conferences such as DSN, SRDS, EuroSys, and LADC, and has edited special issues for journals published by IEEE and Springer.

Prof. Dr. Luiz Antonio Rodrigues (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná)
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=J719LwYAAAAJ
Prof. Luiz Antonio Rodrigues is a well-established researcher in Fault Tolerance, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networks. His work focuses on reliable broadcast protocols, hierarchical diffusion mechanisms, and distributed mutual exclusion. He has served as reviewer and organizer for key conferences such as LADC, SBRC, and SBESC. He is an active member of the Latin American dependable computing community and has contributed to the development of robust, fault-tolerant systems and protocols.