SAC 2008 - Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems

Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems 3^rd DADS Track of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing	Previous years: 2^nd DADS 2007 1^st DADS 2006
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/ March 16 - 20, 2008 Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil The University of Fortaleza and Federal University of Ceara

Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and is hosted by the University of Fortaleza and the Federal University of Ceara.

Program - Track Committee

Track Overview

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, resources, and user needs, 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 and security 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 are cross-cutting concerns, driven by architectural decisions, design, and flexibility. 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.

This is the third year for the DADS track and 36 submitted papers show the importance of the topic. 31 reviewers performed our double-blind review process, where each paper has been reviewed by three reviewers. Finally, ten regular papers have been accepted resulting in an acceptance rate of 28%. Three more submissions have been accepted as poster papers.

Program

The DADS track provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry for their latest research findings on selected topics in dependable and adaptive distributed systems and complex service infrastructures. The track is structured in two sessions:

Session DADS-1: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 10:30-12:10

The first session focuses on the dependability and security properties of complex systems and how these properties can be maintained and balanced in an adaptive way. In particular, the following papers comprise this session:

Performability Evaluation of Mobile Client-Server Systems
(O. Das and A. Das)
A framework for dependable QoS adaptation in probabilistic environments
(A. Casimiro, P. Lollini, M. Dixit, A. Bondavalli, and P. Verissimo)
Improving Denial of Service Resistance using Dynamic Local Adaptations
(G. Badishi and I. Keidar)
Serpentine: Adaptive Middleware for Complex Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
(M. Matos, A. Correia Jr., J. Pereira, and R. Oliveira)
Providing Dependability for Web Services
(J.L.R. Souza and F. Siqueira)

Session DADS-2: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 13:30-15:10

The second session focuses first on questions regarding replication and ordering guarantees in group communication as underlying technologies for dependable systems. Second, this session focuses on the questions of modeling and adaptivity. In detail, the following papers are part of this session:

Conflict-Aware Load-Balancing Techniques for Database Replication
(V. Zuikeviciute and F. Pedone)
SIPRe: A Partial Database Replication Protocol with SI Replicas
(J.E. Armendariz-Inigo, A. Mauch-Goya, J.R. Gonzalez de Mendivil, and F.D. Munyoz-Escoi)
Total Order Broadcast on Pervasive Systems
(L.A. Steffenel, M. Kirsch Pinheiro, and Y. Bebers)
Model-Driven Development of Component-based Adaptive Distributed Applications
(A. Phung-Khac, A. Beugnard, J.-M. Gilliot, and M.-T. Segarra)
Modelling Adaptive Services for Distributed Systems
(L. Rosa, A. Lopes, and L. Rodrigues)

Poster sessions: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Finally, three poster papers have been accepted:

SSCM: Middleware for Structure-based Service Collaboration
(D. Ma, M. Liu, Y. Zhao, and C. Hu)
On the Control of Adaptation in Ubiquitous Computing Systems
(L.C. da Silva, C.A. da Costa, C. Geyer, I. Augustin, and A.C. Yamin)
A Pattern-Driven Security Process for SOA Applications
(N.A. Delessy and E.B. Fernandez)

Track Program Co-Chairs

Karl M. Göschka (Chair)
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 664 180 6946
fax: +43 664 188 6275
Karl dot Goeschka (at) tuwien dot ac dot at

Svein O. Hallsteinsen
SINTEF ICT
Software Engineering Department
Andersens vei 15 b
NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
phone: +47 7359 3010
fax: +47 7359 3350
Svein dot Hallsteinsen (at) sintef dot no

Rui Oliveira
Universidade do Minho
Computer Science Department
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga, Portugal
phone: +351 253 604 452 / Internal: 4452
fax: +351 253 604 471
rco (at) di dot uminho dot pt

Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
School of Computing Science
Office: Room 1008 , Claremont Tower
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
phone: +44-191-222- 8135
fax: +44-191-222- 8788
Alexander dot Romanovsky (at) newcastle dot ac dot uk

Organisational Chair

Johannes Osrael
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 58801 58409
fax: +43 1 58801 18491
dads@dedisys.org

Program 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).
Antonio Casimiro Costa, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
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-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS (France).
Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain).
Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).
Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).
Francisco D. Muñoz-Escoí, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Valencia (Spain).
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University (Sweden).
Marta Patino-Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain).
Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
Fernando Pedone, Università 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 Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).
Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria).
Kaisa Sere, Åbo Akademi University (Finland).
Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy).
Mario Zenha-Rela, University of Coimbra (Portugal).

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