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IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), with its roots dating back to 1970's, is the leading annual event in which academic and industry leaders exchange research ideas and tools, and discuss emerging practices. Modern societies rely upon properly performing technical systems and infrastructures. The conference is the most prestigious international forum to present advances in knowledge and practices of building and maintaining robust, resilient, safe and secure systems and networks.

Please join us in Charlotte, North Carolina, in June 2026, for the 56th edition of DSN.

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DSN 2026 Awards
DSN Best Paper Award
DSN 2026 William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
DSN 2026 Rising Star in Dependability Award
DSN 2026 Test-of-Time Award
DSN 2026 Distinguished Artifact Award
DSN 2026 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
DSN 2026 Best Paper Award
DSN attributes three Best Paper Awards to three of the accepted scientific papers. One of these papers, based on the quality of its oral presentation, will also receive the Distinguished Best Paper Award. All three Best Papers are presented in a special Best Paper Session at the conference.

The selection of the candidate papers for the awards is carried out as a three-step process. First, the Program Committee picks 6 to 7 of the accepted papers based on the review and revision process & committee discussion. Second, the Steering Committee, in consultation with the Program Chairs, chooses among these papers the 3 Best Papers to be presented in the Best Paper Session at the conference. These 3 papers all receive the Best Paper Award. Finally, the audience at the conference votes among these Best Papers to select the one that should receive the Distinguished Best Paper Award.

DSN 2026 William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
The award aims at recognizing an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable and secure computing throughout his or her PhD dissertation.

To be eligible for the award, the nominee’s PhD defense must be completed prior to the nomination deadline and must have occurred no more than 16 months prior to the nomination deadline.

Nominations must be submitted by email to the DSN Steering Committee Chair (SC_chair@dsn.org) and are due on January 15, 2025. Make sure the words Carter Award are in the subject line. The winner will be announced by April, 2026.

The committee Chair and the committee members will be appointed by the DSN Steering Committee Chair after the nomination deadline to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

For complete information about the award and nomination procedure, please visit http://www.dependability.org/carter-award.html

DSN 2026 Rising Star in Dependability Award
The Rising Star in Dependability Award recognizes a junior researcher, from academia or industry, who demonstrates outstanding potential for creative ideas and innovative research in the field of dependable and resilient computer systems and networks.

The IEEE TC on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT) and IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (WG 10.4) jointly sponsor the DSN Rising star in Dependability Award.

The award recipient is required to attend DSN to receive the award and will be invited to give a presentation to DSN attendees. His/her conference registration will be borne by the conference.

To be eligible for the award, the candidate must have graduated no more than 10 years before the nomination deadline.

Nominations must be submitted by email to the DSN Steering Committee Chair (SC_chair@dsn.org) and are due on January 15, 2025. Make sure the words Rising Star in Dependability Award are in the subject line. The winner will be announced by Mid April, 2026.

The Rising star committee Chair and the committee members will be appointed by the DSN Steering Committee Chair after the nomination deadline to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

For complete information about the award and nomination procedure, please visit http://www.dependability.org/rising-star.html

DSN 2026 Test-of-Time Award
The Test-of-Time Award was instituted to recognize two papers published 10 years ago in DSN, in the regular paper, the practical experience report or the tool demonstration category. DSN has several areas under its umbrella and with two awards there are conditions to recognize more than one area.

Nominations can be made by any person who is familiar with the paper. Nominations must be submitted by email to the DSN Steering Committee Chair (SC_chair@dsn.org) and are due on January 15, 2025. Make sure the words Test-of-Time Award are in the subject line. The winning work will be announced by April, 2026.

The supporting material for the nomination should include:

Name, affiliation and contact information of the nominator
Title and authors of the paper
Rationale for the nomination
The Test-of-Time committee Chair and the committee members will be appointed by the DSN Steering Committee Chair after the nomination deadline to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

For complete information about the award and nomination procedure, please visit http://www.dependability.org/test-of-time.html

DSN 2026 Distinguished Artifact Award
DSN supports open science, where authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make their tools and datasets publicly available to ensure reproducibility and replicability by other researchers. New this year, DSN 2026 will offer a separate artifact evaluation track to all accepted papers from all three categories of the research track. The goals of the artifact track are to (1) increase confidence in a paper’s claims and results, and (2) facilitate future research via publicly available datasets and tools.

All artifacts submitted will compete for a “Distinguished Artifact Award” that is sponsored by TBD, to be decided by the committee. This will be awarded to the artifact that (1) has the highest degree of reproducibility as well as ease of use and documentation, (2) allows other researchers to easily build upon the artifact’s functionality for their own research, and (3) substantially supports the claims of the paper. We anticipate that at most one artifact (paper) would get the award, though the committee reserves the right not to award any artifact in a given year if none of them meet the criteria for the award.

For complete information about the award, please visit DSN 2026 Artifact CFP

DSN 2026 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
The Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing is awarded annually by the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance in his honor. The award recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of Dependable Computing. It takes the form of a memorial plaque presented to the author(s) at the Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

Any paper relating to dependable and secure computing and published at least 10 years prior to the award year (i.e., 2016 or earlier for the 2026 award) is eligible. The award seeks to recognize papers that have had a significant impact in the intervening years in one or more of the three following categories:

Technical/scientific research impact
Industrial/commercial product impact
Broad impact on the dependable computing community
The award may be given to more than one paper.

Nominations must be submitted no later than January 30th, 2026. Award to be announced in April, 2026.