Workshop on Environment-System Symbiosis

June 23, 2025

Co-located with the 55th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025)
Naples, Italy

A wide spectrum of computer systems, such as cyber-physical systems (CPS), datacenters, edge and cloud systems, autonomous systems, database systems machine learning-based systems, and real-time control systems, are playing critical roles in our society. This workshop advocates a drastically different perspective on designing, analyzing, and deploying computer systems – viewing these systems as an integral component of our environment. The focus of the workshop is on the study and investigation of the symbiotic (or complement) relationship between environment and computer systems.

Many computer systems are becoming long-living, autonomous, and “organic,” and often interacting with the surrounding environments in a delicate and unexpected way. Thus, in order to trust a computer system will “do no harm” to society, it is necessary to study the interaction and relationship between the system and the environment in a scientific and systematic manner. EnvSys seeks to provide an international venue to discuss how the environment and computer systems interact or even coevolve together, and tackle the challenges of designing, implementing, deploying, and analyzing computer systems that will become an integral part of the environment.

We envision the workshop to be a forum to encourage thought-provoking discussion between the DSN and system communities and the environmental engineering community and related communities such as agriculture, biology and civil engineering. On one hand, the DSN and system communities can learn from the environmental engineering community about sustainability issues and the impacts of natural disasters or extreme environments. On the other hand, the environmental engineering community can learn from the DSN and system communities about emerging use cases, design/development considerations, and modern computer systems. The workshop is designed to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration through lively and interactive activities such as ice-breaking session, poster session, hands-on tutorial and roundtable discussion.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: April 13 2025 (AoE) March 31st 2025 (AoE)

• Notification: May 3 2025 (AoE) April 30th 2025 (AoE)

• Poster deadline: May 3 2025 (AoE)

• Poster notification: May 7 2025 (AoE)

• Camera ready: May 10th 2025 (AoE)

Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dsnw2025