Dear Colleague We at SERE 2013 (The 7th IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability), co-sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), are pleased to announce the following lineup of exciting panel and lectures: * Plenary Panel "Who Trumps Who: Security or Reliability?" Jeff Voas (Director, IEEE Division VI & NIST) * Half-Day Tutorial "Programming on Android: Best Practices for Security & Reliability" Angelos Stavrou (2013 Engineer of the Year, IEEE Reliability Society) * Distinguished Lecture "Rethinking the Formal Specification, Validation, and Verification Process: Making it an End-to-End Process that is Scalable" Bret Michael (2010 Engineer of the Year, IEEE Reliability Society) * Keynote Speakers - Constance Heitmeyer (Head, Software Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) - Nihal Sinnadurai (CEO and Chief Technologist, ATTAC, UK) - Ravi Sandhu (Chair Professor, UT San Antonio) - Zili Wang (Dean & Professor, Beihang University, China) In addition, we cordially invite you to submit your papers to the following co-located workshops. The deadline is March 1, 2013. Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to a special section of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability. * TC 2012: International Workshop on Trustworthy Computing (http://sense.cs.nctu.edu.tw/tc/) * SSCPS 2012: International Workshop on Safety and Security in Cyber-Physical Systems (http://seg.nju.edu.cn/sscps13/) * IA 2012: International Workshop on Information Assurance (http://paris.utdallas.edu/IA-2013/ISA-Workshop-2012-11-15.pdf) * Special session on Software Testing Contact: Professor Renee Bryce at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Student Doctoral Program and Fast Abstracts Please visit http://paris.utdallas.edu/sere13 for more details. W. Eric Wong (UT Dallas), Steering Committee Chair Jeff Voas (NIST), General Chair Shiuhpyng Shieh (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Program Chair Fei-Ching Kuo (Swinburne University of Technology), Publicity Chair