20th European Dependable Computing Conference
8-11 April 2025
Lisbon, Portugal

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Fast Abstracts

What we are looking for?

Fast Abstracts are lightly-reviewed 2-page manuscripts describing unpublished, in-progress, novel work, opinions or ideas that address any issue relevant to EDCC topics. Thus, Fast Abstracts are a good opportunity for authors to share preliminary results, speculate on new directions to open problems or to present challenging or controversial issues.

Submission deadline for Fast Abstracts is purposedly set after the Notification deadline of the main track of the conference and workshops. This allows resubmitting a rejected paper as a Fast Abstract, to present it in a way other than a full research paper, which may better suit your work.

More in detail, contributions for fast abstract can fall in one of the following categories:

  • Report on current work that may or may not be complete;
  • Introduce new ideas to the community;
  • State positions on controversial issues or open problems;
  • Share lessons learnt from real-word dependability engineering;
  • Debunk or question results from other papers based on contra-indications.

Topics of Interest

Topics are the same of those of the main EDCC research track, and include, but are not limited to:

  • Hardware and software architecture of dependable systems;
  • Dependability and security modelling, evaluation, benchmarking, and tools;
  • Safety-critical systems design and analysis;
  • Artificial Intelligence for dependability and security;
  • Fault-tolerant networks, protocols and systems;
  • Time-sensitive networks and ultra-reliable low-latency communication;
  • Mixed-criticality systems design and evaluation;
  • Testing and validation methods;
  • Dependability and security of:
    • Artificial Intelligence systems;
    • Cyber-physical systems, e.g. smart grids, intelligent vehicles, (Industrial) Internet of Things;
    • Cloud, fog, and edge computing systems;
    • Data analytics application;
    • Databases and distributed ledgers (including blockchains);
  • Data protection and data privacy.

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

Fast Abstracts will be lightly screened, to seek for:

  1. Relevance to the EDCC Community
  2. Quality
  3. Clarity of the Written Presentation

Authors are requested to send their submission by the deadline. We are willing to accept as many Fast Abstracts as possible, provided that there is enough time for presenting papers at the conference.

By submitting a Fast Abstract, you are committing yourself or one of your colleagues to present it at the conference.

Fast Abstracts must be written in English and must be limited to 2 pages (following the IEEE conference proceedings A4 template in two-column camera-ready format, ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates).

Submissions must be emailed directly to the fast abstracts chair, Geert Deconinck (Geert.Deconinck@kuleuven.be). Please phrase the subject as “[EDCC-FA] Submission of paper ”

Publication and Post-Conference

Accepted papers will be included in the conference companion proceedings managed by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and submitted to Xplore and the CSDL. Instructions regarding the procedure will be sent to authors of accepted papers in due time.

Important dates

Fast Abstract Submission Jan 27th, 2025 
Fast Abstract notification Feb 21st, 2025 
Camera-ready papers (HARD deadline) Mar 5th, 2025
Conference Apr 8th-11th, 2025

Program Committee

Name & Surname Affiliation
Geert Deconinck KU Leuven, Belgium
Klaas Thoelen KU Leuven, Belgium
Hussain Kazmi KU Leuven, Belgium