About IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Scope of TDSC

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) publishes archival research results focusing on research into foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the achievement–through design, modeling, and evaluation–of systems and networks that are dependable and secure to the desired degree without compromising performance. The focus also includes measurement, modeling, and simulation techniques, and foundations for jointly evaluating, verifying, and designing for performance, security, and dependability constraints.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: View TDSC topics.

Additional Information

As noted in the Jan-Mar. 2009 editorial, please note the following additional clarification of our scope: "Our Editorial Board decided that papers of purely theoretical interest in the area of cryptography without a clear and manifest application to a specific problem of dependability or security would fall out of the purview of these Transactions; similarly, papers addressing generic systems-management problems, as opposed to specific dependability and security challenges, as well those solving device-level, as opposed to system-level, dependability and security concerns, would also be out of our publication's scope."

TDSC welcomes proposals for topic-oriented special issues. Guidelines are provided here.

In addition to policies specified at Instructions for Peer Review, TDSC specifically has the following policies: (1) Papers which require a major revision will not receive a second major revision recommendation. In such situations the paper will be rejected. Authors should not assume that a major revision will lead to eventual acceptance. (2) The scope of topics was clarified in the editorial of the Jan-Mar 2009 issue as follows. "Our Editorial Board decided that papers of purely theoretical interest in the area of cryptography without a clear and manifest application to a specific problem of dependability or security would fall out of the purview of these Transactions; similarly, papers addressing generic systems-management problems, as opposed to specific dependability and security challenges, as well those solving device-level, as opposed to system-level, dependability and security concerns, would also be out of our publication's scope." (3) TDSC requires meaningful technical novelty in submissions that extend previously published conference papers. Extension beyond the conference version(s) is not simply a matter of length. Thus, expanded motivation, expanded discussion of related work, variants of previously reported algorithms, incremental additional experiments/simulations, proofs of results/theorems, may provide additional length but will fall below the line for proceeding with review.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Jaideep Vaidya - Rutgers University

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Lorenzo Strigini - City, University of London

Associate Editors

Saurabh Bagchi - Purdue University

Gilles Barthe - IMDEA Software Institute

Dario Catalano - University of Catania, Italy

Xiaofeng Chen - Xidian University

Mauro Conti - University of Padua, Italy

Lorrie Cranor - Carnegie Mellon University

Maria Luisa Damiani - University of Milan

Manik Lal Das - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India

Sajal Das - Missouri University of Science and Technology

Vanesa Daza - Pompeu Fabra University

Srini Devadas - MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics

Salvatore Distefano - University of Messina

Elias P. Duarte Jr. - Federal University of Parana, Brazil

Sara Foresti - University of Milan

Michael Franz - University of California, Irvine

Roy Friedman - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Vinod Ganapathy - Indian Institute of Science

Gabriel Ghinita - Purdue University

Kwangjo Kim - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Farinaz Koushanfar - University of California, San Diego

Sanjay Kumar Jha - University of New South Wales

Florian Kerschbaum - SAP

Ashish Kundu - IBM T J Watson Research Center

Adam J. Lee - University of Pittsburgh

Jin Li - Guangzhou University

Jun Li - University of Oregon

Qi Li - Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University

Dan Lin - University of Missouri

Zhiqiang Lin - Ohio State University

Alex Liu - Michigan State University

Peng Liu - Penn State

Wenjing Lou - Virginia Tech

Bruce M. McMillin - Missouri University of Science and Technology

Francesco Palmieri - University of Salerno

Fernando Pedone - University of Lugano

Alessandro Piva - University of Florence

William Puech - University of Montpellier

Kui Ren - SUNY at Buffalo

Basit Shafiq - Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Evgenia Smirni - College of William and Mary

Anna Squicciarini - Penn State

Lorenzo Strigini - City University, London

Shamik Sural - IIT Kharagpur, India

Anand Tripathi - University of Minnesota

Marten van Dijk - University of Connecticut

Marco Vieira - University of Coimbra, Portugal

Alexey Vinel - Halmstad University, Sweden

Cong Wang - City University of Hong Kong

Lingyu Wang - Concordia University

Qian Wang - Wuhan University

XiaoFeng Wang - Indiana University at Bloomington

Danfeng (Daphne) Yao - Virginia Tech

Ting Yu - Qatar Computing Research Institute

Jianying Zhou - Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)