*************** Please excuse multiple postings and distribute to colleagues ************************* GI/ITG/GMA Technical Committee "Dependability and Fault Tolerance" Call for Papers 16thWorkshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE 2021) in conjunction with 34th ARCS 2021, virtual, June, 2021 Background and Focus: Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components has improved over decades, their increasing number causes severe problems. Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that an increasing number of devices are integrated into environments of other physical components such as automotive or digital systems. Here, the complexity and number of interactions with these components creates problems with regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in case of faults or external disturbances. While this is not a problem with microprocessors, shrinking feature sizes, higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock frequencies increase the probability of design, manufacturing and operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques in general purpose processors to be of crucial importance in the future. As simple solutions (such as TMR) can easily get too expensive, the ability to trade increased reliability against performance/power overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight fault tolerance techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from higher software layers. This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from the research area of depend- able and fault-tolerant computing in order to bring together scientists working in related fields. Topics: Contributions on the topic of "Dependable Embedded Systems" are of particular interest; contri- butions on general topics of dependability and fault tolerance are also welcome but not limited to: # dependable computer systems, networks and embedded systems # modeling, simulation and evaluation of fault-tolerant systems # dependability of mechatronic systems # reliability models for hardware and software # fault-tolerant systems and system components # validation and verification # safety-critical applications # fault models and fault abstraction # highly available systems # fault injection techniques # on-chip fault-tolerance # real-time and performance guarantees # software-controlled fault tolerance # testing of hardware and software # fault-tolerant processor architecture # fault detection and fault treatment # fault-tolerance in operating systems, storage and database systems # failure prediction The workshop will focus on research presentations as well as brainstorming sessions. Therefore, two kinds of contributions are welcome: # research papers documenting results of scientific investigations and # position papers proposing strategies or discussing open problems. Informations for Authors Accepted papers will be published by VDE and IEEExplore. Papers should be in English and formatted according to IEEE eXpress "conference mode". Selected papers will appear in the printed issue of the GI-FERS communications (ISSN 0724-5319). Deadlines: Submission: April 15th, 2021 (ext. abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (max. 8 pages), PDF) to: bernhard.fechner@fernuni-hagen.de Notification: May 10th, 2021 Camera-ready: May 24th, 2021 (max. 8 pages) Workshop site: https://arcs-conference.org/workshops Workshop Chairs Bernhard Fechner University of Hagen Germany Peter Sobe HTW Dresden Germany Karl-Erwin GrosspietschSt. Augustin Germany Program Committee (TBC) Lars Bauer Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany Fevzi Belli University of Paderborn Germany Greg Bronevetsky X the moonshot factory USA Rainer Buchty TU Braunschweig Germany Klaus Echtle University of Duisburg-Essen Germany Wolfgang Ehrenberger University of Fulda Germany Rolf Ernst TU Braunschweig Germany Michael Gössel University of Potsdam Germany Jörg Henkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany John Hursey Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA Jörg Keller University of Hagen Germany Hans-Dieter Kochs University of Duisburg-Essen Germany Miroslaw Malek USI-Lugano Switzerland Erik Maehle University of Lübeck Germany Edgar Nett University of Magdeburg Germany Dimitris Nikolos University of Patras Greece Francesca Saglietti University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany Toshi Sato University of Fukuoka Japan Martin Schulz TU Munich Germany Muhammad Shafique TU Vienna Austria Janusz Sosnowski University of Warsaw Poland Carsten Trinitis TU Munich Germany Peter Tröger TU Chemnitz Germany Heinrich Theodor Vierhaus TU Cottbus Germany Norbert Wehn TU Kaiserslautern Germany Josef Weidendorfer TU Munich Germany Sebastian Zug TU Freiberg Germany