[ecoop-info] Call for Papers: ACM SAC'08 Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems

Fri Jul 20 14:10:47 CEST 2007

Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track 

of the 23nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Published by ACM

March 16 - 20, 2008

Fortaleza, Ceara, Brasil

http://www.dedisys.org/sac08/

Submission Deadline: September 8, 2007

Author Notification: October 16, 2007

Call for Papers:

Distributed systems, services and databases are at the core of 

the information society and increasingly pervade many aspects of 

our daily lives. While mobility and pervasiveness require 

support for systems that adapt themselves to changing 

environments, the middleware infrastructures become more and 

more heterogeneous and complex.  This trend is further fueled by 

the emergence of service oriented computing.  In addition, we 

can see an increasing demand for dependability of such systems, 

taking into account the software as well as the surrounding 

environment.  This mismatch between increasing demand for 

dependability on one hand and a degradation of dependability 

caused by complexity, scale, and dynamics has recently been 

termed by Laprie as the "dependability gap". Generally, 

adaptiveness can either satisfy a change in user requirements or 

seek to fulfill the same requirements in a changing system 

context and environment.  In particular, adaptation is also a 

means to achieve dependability in a computing infrastructure 

with dynamically varying structure and properties.  

Dependability and adaptiveness can not simply be added to a 

system like a plug-in module. Therefore, the focus of this track 

is on middleware support for dependability and adaptiveness of 

distributed software systems and service environments of any 

kind and on methods on designing and engineering them. 

The topics of particular interest for our track include, but are 

not limited to:

Architectural and infrastructural principles for adaptive and 

dependable distributed systems.

* Adaptivity and dependability in service oriented 

  architectures.

* Dependability in complex service oriented environments, 

  GRIDcomputing, and P2P systems. Concertation, orchestration, 

  coordination, and context-awareness (context-modeling).

* Middleware support for reunification of network segments and 

  reconciliation of divergent replicas. Consideration of 

  alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or 

  reconfiguration.

* New middleware protocols, that are able to work in a 

  peer-to-peer manner in cross-organisational environments and

  to tackle the challenges of massive scale and mobility.

* Data replication strategies, interfaces, and standards. 

  Interaction of distributed databases with middleware systems.

* Adaptive, optimistic replication models and protocols.

* Group communication and group membership services in failure 

  scenarios with network partitions.

* Partial and probabilistic approaches for replication, group 

  membership, and distributed consensus in loosely-coupled and 

  ad-hoc environments to improve dependability.

* Support for dependability and adaptiveness in componentbased 

  systems (e.g. component frameworks, container services, 

  deployment, composition and substitution of components, 

  building trusted systems from untrusted components).

* Trading of dependability and adaptability with other 

  nonfunctional requirements like integrity (consistency) or 

  performance. Approaches to improve the scalability of 

  dependable and adaptive systems.

* Foundations and formal methods (e.g. rigorous development of 

  dependable systems, verification and refinement of fault 

  tolerant systems, techniques and mechanisms ensuring 

  application level fault tolerance).

* System design, modeling, development and tool support for  

  dependable and adaptive systems:

   - Software engineering methods and design patterns, including 

     UML and MDAsupport for dependability and adaptiveness.

   - Tool support for orchestration, choreography, and 

     coordination of complex services.

   - Design and programming abstractions to manage the 

     complexity of adaptive mechanisms.

   - Policies and decision making for adaptation.

   - Aspectoriented programming for dependability.

   - Metrics, measures, and parameters for quantitative 

     approaches to dependability.

* Evaluation and experience reports of dependable and adaptive 

  distributed systems and services:

   - Experience reports from various application areas such as 

     context-aware pervasive computing, safetycritical avionics

     and CNS systems (communication, navigation, and      

     surveillance), embedded systems (e.g.automotive), and 

     adaptive technologies in mobile and ad-hoc computing.

   - Comparison of detection, containment, recovery, and 

     fault tolerance strategies for distributed systems.

   - Analytical and/or experimental evaluation of replication 

     techniques.

   - Application of middleware techniques to support 

     reconfigurability and/or adaptability.

Track Program Co-Chairs: 

Karl M. Goeschka (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)

Svein O. Hallsteinse (Sintef, Norway)

Rui Oliveira (Univ. do Minho, Portugal)

Alexander Romanovsky (Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Programme Committee:

Enrique Armendariz 

    (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain)

Alberto Bartoli 

    (University of Trieste, Italy)

Stefan Beyer 

    (Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Valencia, Spain)

Michael Butler 

    (University of Southampton, UK)

Vicent Cholvi 

    (Universitat Jaume, Spain)

Frank Eliassen 

    (University of Oslo, Norway)

Jacqueline Floch

    (SINTEF, Norway)

Lorenz Froihofer 

    (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Matti Hiltunen 

    (AT&T Labs, USA)

Ricardo Jimenez-Peris 

    (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Marc-Ollivier Killijian 

    (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Mikel Larrea 

    (Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, Spain)

Istvan Majzik 

    (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Pietro Manzoni 

    (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

Francisco D. Munoz-Escoí 

    (Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Valencia, Spain)

Simin Nadjm-Tehrani 

    (Linkoping University, Sweden)

Marta Patino-Martinez 

    (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Jose Pereira 

    (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Fernando Pedone (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, 

    Switzerland)

Roland Reichle 

    (University of Kassel, Germany)

Luis Rodrigues 

    (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Luigi Romano 

    (University of Naples, Italy)

Juan Carlos Ruiz Garcia 

    (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

Dietmar Schreiner 

    (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Kaisa Sere 

    (Abo Akademi University, Finland)

Sara Tucci Piergiovanni 

    (Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)

Mario Zenha-Rela 

    (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Detailed information can be found at 

http://www.dedisys.org/sac08/

______________________________________

Johannes Osrael

Distributed Systems Group

Institute of Information Systems

Vienna University of Technology

Argentinierstraße 8/184-1

1040 Wien, Austria

Tel.:+43 (1) 58801 584 09

Mail:  <mailto:j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at> j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at

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