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/