Call for Fast Abstracts

Fast Abstracts at PRDC are short oral presentations, either on new ideas or work in progress, or opinion pieces that can address any issue relevant to dependable systems and networks. Because they are brief and have a later deadline, Fast Abstracts enable their authors to:

Thus, they provide an excellent opportunity to introduce new work, or present radical opinions, and receive early feedback from the community. Contributions are particularly solicited from industrial practitioners and academics that may not have been able to prepare full papers due to time and work pressures, but nevertheless seek an opportunity to engage with the PRDC community.

Submission Guidelines

Fast Abstracts should be at most two pages in length, must be formatted using standard two-column IEEE format. The submitted Fast Abstracts must be in .pdf format and completely ready for printing.

To upload your paper, please use the submission site.

Selection and Notification

Submissions will be lightly-reviewed primarily on the basis of relevance to PRDC, but also on their capacity to stimulate and intrigue the reader. An author of an accepted contribution will deliver a short talk (five to ten minutes) in the Fast Abstracts track at the conference. Submission of a contribution to the track indicates agreement to have one author present the work, if accepted, at the conference.

Important Dates

Fast Abstract Deadline: July 15, 2013 July 29, 2013
Notification of Acceptance for Fast Abstract: August 22, 2013