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The rapid evolution of computing is reshaping the landscape of defect and fault tolerance. Emerging computing paradigms, including AI and intelligent computing, open and heterogeneous processor architectures, memory-centric computing, neuromorphic systems, and quantum and other non-classical computing, introduce fundamentally different architectures, workloads, data representations, and hardware–software interactions. These changes are giving rise to new manifestations and propagation mechanisms of defects and faults, as well as new requirements for ensuring dependable operation that cannot always be adequately addressed by conventional fault models, testing strategies, and redundancy-based techniques.
This Special Section aims to explore novel approaches to defect and fault tolerance for addressing the dependability challenges of emerging computing. Particular emphasis will be placed on new fault behaviors and their impacts on computation; fault modeling, vulnerability analysis, test and diagnosis tailored to emerging computing architectures; and efficient mechanisms for fault detection, mitigation, tolerance, and recovery at the hardware, architecture, software, and system levels for emerging systems and applications. The Special Section will also address emerging security and trustworthiness challenges associated with new computing paradigms, including new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities introduced by evolving architectures and workloads, as well as the increasingly important interplay between security and dependability. By bringing together advances across emerging computing paradigms and different levels of the computing stack, this Special Section seeks to identify common dependability challenges, stimulate new approaches beyond conventional defect and fault tolerance solutions, and provide a forum for emerging research toward computing systems that remain reliable and robust in the presence of defects, faults, and related threats.
Authors are invited to submit a manuscript to the special section. Relevant topics of interest to this special section include (but are not limited to):
Submitted papers must include new significant research-based technical contributions in the scope of the journal. Purely theoretical, technological or lacking methodological-and-generality papers are not suitable to this special issue. The submissions must include clear evaluations of the proposed solutions (based on simulation and/or implementation results) and comparisons to state-of-the-art solutions. For additional information please contact the Guest Editors by sending an email exclusively to tetcdft@gmail.com. Papers under review elsewhere are not acceptable for submission. Extended versions of published conference papers (to be included as part of the submission together with a summary of differences) are welcome but there must have at least 40% of new impacting technical/scientific material in the submitted journal version and there should be less than 50% verbatim similarity level as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef).
For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, please visit the Author Information Page. Please submit papers through the IEEE Author Portal, and be sure to select the "Toward Dependable Emerging Computing: Advances in Defect and Fault Tolerance" subject. As per TETC policies, only full-length papers (10-16 pages with technical material, double column – papers beyond 12 pages will be subject to MOPC, as per CS policies) can be submitted to special sections. The bibliography should not exceed 45 items and each Author’s bio should not exceed 150 words.
