SSIRI 2008 will focus on integrating tools and approaches for developing reliable, secure, and trustworthy systems. All papers reporting innovative approaches, concepts and experiences throughout the entire product development cycle in software, hardware, and systems are encouraged. The conference will bridge theory, applications, experience reports, as well as best-of-breed practices. It enhances our situational awareness of developing trustworthy products in today's challenging and changing environment. Four state of the art, all day or half-day, tutorials will run concurrent to the conference and focus on new developments in: mechanical systems reliability and assurance, Six Sigma contributions to reliability, dependable and trustworthy systems, and electrically programmed fuse element: design, characterization, integration, reliability and applications.

Topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following

Panel sessions will be held in parallel with paper sessions and tutorials. A panel proposal should include organizer's contact information, the title, a 150-word scope statement, and a list of panelists with their affiliations.

Send you your proposal to Professor Shuichi Fukuda. at: [email protected]

Submit original papers (not published or submitted elsewhere) with a maximum of eight pages. Include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 8 keywords. The format of your submission must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines which are available at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/INSTRUCT.HTM and at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files

The authors of a number of selected papers of special merit will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special journal issue.

The submission is closed.

The objective of fast abstracts is to report on-going work, describe practical experience, introduce new ideas to provoke further validation, or state positions on controversial issues. Each fast abstract can have a maximum of two pages. The format must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines which are available at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/INSTRUCT.HTM and ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files

Click here for fast abstract submission.

General Chair
	Shuichi Fukuda
	Stanford University, USA
	Email: [email protected]

General co-Chair
	Philip Chen
	University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
	Email: [email protected]

General co-Chair
	Takao Terano
	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
	Email: [email protected]

Program Chair
	W. Eric Wong
	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	Email: [email protected]

Click here for the complete list of organizers and program committee.

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available in the IEEE digital library.

The conference will be held at Yokohama Symposia.

There is a direct Narita Airport Express to the conference venue.
There are also buses from the Haneda Airport or Tokyo Station to Yokohama Symposia.
Click on [link 1] [link 2]for more information.

Conference Attendees can make their reservations with the following Hotels:

Star Hotel Yokohama
	http://www.star-yokohama.com/plan/e-plan.html

Mielparque Yokohama
	http://www.mielparque.jp/ykh/eng.html

Rose Hotel Yokohama
	http://www.rosehotelyokohama.com/

Hotel Monterey Yokohama
	http://www.hotelmonterey.co.jp/yokohama/

Hotel New Grand
	http://www.hotel-newgrand.co.jp/

Hotel Yokohama Garden
	http://www.j-hotel.or.jp/hotel/HOTELYOKOHAMAGARDEN/en/index.html

Hotel JAL City Kannai Yokohama
	http://www.kannai-yokohama.jalcity.co.jp/en/index2.html

If you have further questions, please contact Professor Shuichi Fukuda at [email protected]

For Yokohama, visit

• http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/rtg/pdf/pg-306.pdf
• http://www.city.yokohama.jp/en/
• http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/eng/tourism
• http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2156.html

For Tokyo, visit

• http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/rtg/pdf/pg-305.pdf
• http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/tokyo/index.html
• http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/

For further information, please contact: Professor Shuichi Fukuda
E-mail: [email protected]

Vidroha Debroy
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
E-mail: [email protected]