[ecoop-info] CFP: ACM SAC 2008 Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems

[Johannes Osrael]

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 (Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning - 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/

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