CFP

SSS2025: International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal, October 9-11, 2025

Conference website	http://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2025

SSS 2025 Call for Papers

27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security ofDistributed Systems

October 9-11, 2025

Kathmandu, Nepal

https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr

SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on both fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the symposium tracks.

[Important Dates]

1st Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)

1st Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2025

1st Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 10, 2025

2nd Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)

2nd Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2025

2nd Camera-Ready Copy Due: July 10, 2025

3rd Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)

3rd Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2025

3rd Camera-Ready Copy Due: September 10, 2025

Track A. Stabilization and Locality in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Peter Robinson, Augusta University, USA)

Stabilizing Systems
Proof labelling schemes
Graph Algorithms
Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks
Social and Peer-to-Peer Networks
LOCAL/CONGEST models
Communication complexity
Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
Dynamic networks, time-varying graphs, evolving graphs

Track B. Time, Safety, and Security in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Silvia Bonomi, Sapienza University, Italy)

Concurrent and fault-tolerant algorithms
Synchronization protocols
Shared and transactional memory
Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
Formal methods, semantics and verification of distributed systems
Secure multi-party computation and cryptographic distributed protocols
Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
Post-quantum and information theoretic cryptography and security

Track C. Moving and Computing (Track Chair: Partha Sarathi Mandal, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Mobile agents
Autonomous mobile robots
Mobile sensor networks
Mobile ad-hoc networks
Population protocols
Nature-inspired computing
Programmable particles, nanoscale robots, biological systems, and related new models

[New Conference Model]

We experiment with a new conference model. There will be THREE non-overlapping deadlines, and thus three submission rounds. Papers that are rejected at an early round (1 or 2) may be reworked, corrected, enhanced, and resubmitted at a later round (2 or 3), if wished by the authors. Of course, accepted papers at an early round are definitely accepted and should not be submitted again at a later round. In case of resubmission, reviews from the previously submitted round will be transmitted to the reviewers of the resubmission round.

[Paper Submission]

Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2025 All submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Each submission must be an original work written in English, in PDF format.

[Double-blind Review]

All submissions must be anonymous. We use a somewhat relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review: you are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identities of the authors. Please feel free to ask the general co-chairs if you have any questions about the double-blind policy of SSS 2025.

[Submissions]

There are two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.

A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, abstract, figures, and excluding references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify the main claims of the submission may be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed.
A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages including everything.

Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected without review. For the third round only, if requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.

[Publication]

Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS conference series.

[Special Issue]

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of an international journal (under negotiation).

[Paper Award]

Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student regular paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best student regular paper award (e.g., using a \thanks in the title). The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.

[Organization]

General Co-Chairs

Gokarna Sharma (Kent State University, USA)
Sébastien Tixeuil (Sorbonne University, France)

Local Organization Committee

Shree Bhadra Wagle (Chair) (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Keshar Prasain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Rabindra Khati (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Prahlad Chapagain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Sahadeep Thapa (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Saroj Sharma (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
Suman Shrestha (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Treasurer

Kamal Khadga (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Proceedings Chair

Pavan Poudel (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)

Registration Chair

Ramesh Adhikari (Augusta University, USA)

Track Chairs

Track A: Peter Robinson (Augusta University, USA)
Track B: Silvia Bonomi (Sapienza University, Italy)
Track C: Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Steering Committee

Anish Arora (Ohio State University, USA)
Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Sayaka Kamei (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA)
Toshimitsu Masuzawa (The University of Osaka, Japan)
Franck Petit (Sorbonne Université, France)
Elad Michael Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Sébastien Tixeuil (Chair) (Sorbonne Université, France)

Advisory Committee

Sukumar Ghosh (University of Iowa, USA)
Ted Herman (University of Iowa, USA)