DEPEND 2009
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The Second International Conference on Dependability
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| Subevent of | NetWare 2009 |
| Dates | 2009/06/18 (iCal) - 2009/06/23 |
| Homepage: | www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ComDEPEND09.html |
| Location | |
| Location: | Athens, Greece |
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| Important dates | |
| Abstracts: | 2009/01/20 |
| Submissions: | 2009/01/20 |
| Notification: | 2009/02/25 |
| Camera ready due: | 2009/03/20 |
| Table of Contents | |
The Second International Conference on Dependability
- DEPEND 2009
- June 18-23, 2009 - Athens, Greece
Most of critical activities in the areas of communications (telephone, Internet), energy & fluids (electricity, gas, water), transportation (railways, airlines, road), life related (health, emergency response, and security), manufacturing (chips, computers, cars) or financial (credit cards, on-line transactions), or refinery& chemical systems rely on networked communication and information systems. Moreover, there are other dedicated systems for data mining, recommenders, sensing, conflict detection, intrusion detection, or maintenance that are complementary to and interact with the former ones.
With large scale and complex systems, their parts expose different static and dynamic features that interact with each others; some systems are more stabile than others, some are more scalable, while others exhibit accurate feedback loops, or are more reliable or fault-tolerant.
Inter-system dependability and intra-system feature dependability require more attention from both theoretical and practical aspects, such as a more formal specification of operational and non-operational requirements, specification of synchronization mechanisms, or dependency exception handing. Considering system and feature dependability becomes crucial for data protection and recoverability when implementing mission critical applications and services.
Static and dynamic dependability, time-oriented, or timeless dependability, dependability perimeter, dependability models, stability and convergence on dependable features and systems, and dependability control and self-management are some of the key topics requiring special treatment. Platforms and tools supporting the dependability requirements are needed.
The international conference on dependability, DEPEND 2009, is based on the positive participation and feedback at DEPEND 2008 workshop that addressed new approaches dealing with today's limitations and potential solutions.
As a particular case, design, development, and validation of tools for incident detection and decision support became crucial for security and dependability in complex systems. It is challenging how these tools could span different time scales and provide solutions for survivability that range from immediate reaction to global and smooth reconfiguration through policy based management for an improved resilience. Enhancement of the self-healing properties of critical infrastructures by planning, designing and simulating of optimized architectures tested against several realistic scenarios is also aimed.
To deal with dependability, sound methodologies, platforms, and tools are needed to allow system adaptability. The balance dependability/adaptability may determine the life scale of a complex system and settle the right monitoring and control mechanisms. Particular challenging issues pertaining to context-aware, security, mobility, and ubiquity require appropriate mechanisms, methodologies, formalisms, platforms, and tools to support adaptability.
Improvement of the risk and crisis management in critical infrastructures is achieved by the design of new models, countermeasures, and incident management tools. These new models will help to mitigate the cascading and escalading effects induced by different kind of dependencies present in communication and information systems. Development of decision support tools for critical infrastructures should be validated by scenarios based on different case studies.
We are looking for contributions on the actual trends in coping with these new challenges within the research community and industry. We expect some lessons learnt and description of the results coming from different R&D projects (e.g., like ones in the EC 6th Framework Program), or any other worldwide initiatives. We hope we will be able to identify the gaps between the needs and today's available solutions along with new challenges and potential for future directions.
DEPEND 2009 will provide a forum for detailed exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences with the goal of understanding the academia and the industry trends related to the new challenges in dependability on critical and complex information systems.
Researchers, designers and administrators, product and service developers, and other interested persons from academia, industry, and the government are welcome and encouraged to participate with unpublished contributions in areas including, but not limited to:
Topics
- Dependability facets
- Fundamentals on dependability
- Formalisms for dependability
- Managing and control in dependable systems
- Inter-system and intra-system dependability
- Operational and non-operational requirements
- Software and hardware dependability
- Dependability design and specification
- Synchronization mechanisms and dependency exception handing
- Data protection, recoverability, fault-tolerance
- Trust and dependability
- Static and dynamic dependability
- Time-oriented or time-agnostic dependability
- Dependability perimeter and dependability models
- Stability and convergence on dependable features and systems
- Dependability discovery
- Dependability control and self-management
- Dependability degradation of running software and services
- Adaptability and (self)adaptability
- Fundamental models and adaptability mechanisms
- Principles of (self)adaptability
- Adaptive replication models and protocols
- Adaptable structures and behaviors
- Context-aware adaptability
- Perceived dependability and adaptability
- Adaptive and reflexive models and protocols
- Management and control of (self)adaptable systems
- Platforms and tool supporting (self)adaptability
- Autonomic and autonomous adaptation
- Adaptability and dependability
- Dependability and adaptability for functional and non-functional features
- Adaptability and dependability gap
- Adaptability and dependability as complementing features
- Context-aware adaptable and dependable design
- Inter- and intra-systems transactions
- Enforcing mechanisms for application level fault tolerance
- Explicit and implicit control of quality of service and contracts
- Dependability and adaptability in cloud and autonomic computing
- Verification and validation of highly adaptable and dependable systems
- Scalability aspects in dependable and adaptable systems
- Research projects and topics on dependability and adaptability
- Standards on system dependability and adaptability
- Dependability and security
- Integration of security, dependability, and adaptability concepts
- Building and preserving scalable, secure and resilient architectures
- Security models/architectures and threat models
- Trade-off and negotiation of dependability and security properties
- Dependability modeling and dynamic management policies
- Verification and validation (including model checking) of dependable software architectures
- Real time detection and recovery capabilities against intrusions, malfunctions and failures
- Redundancy and reconfiguration architectures
- Integrated response architectures
- Planning of optimal configurations for anticipated operational modes
- Modeling of networks and Information Systems
- Simulation of modeled configurations
- Fast reconfiguration with priority to critical services
- Incident (including intrusion) detection and quick containment
- Trust and system dependability
- Semantics and models of trust
- Dynamics of trust
- Trust negotiation and management
- Trusted systems from untrusted parts
- Trust-based secure architectures
- Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis
- Trust in peer-to-peer and open source systems
- Trust in mobile networks
- Trust management, reputation management, and identity management
- Trust, security, and dependability
- Dependability, adaptability, and new technologies
- Dependability and adaptability in service oriented architectures
- Principles for adaptive and dependable distributed systems
- Dependability and adaptability in P2P and overlay systems
- Middleware protocols and mechanisms to support adaptability and dependability
- Adaptability and dependability in mobile and pervasive systems
- Service composition in highly dependable and adaptable environments
- Dynamic, loosely-coupled, and ad-hoc environments
- Group membership services in failure scenarios with network partitions
- Social networks and dependability in dynamic communities
- Cross-organization heterogeneity
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The DEPEND 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Important deadlines
- Submission (full paper) January 20, 2009
- Authors notification February 25, 2009
- Registration March 15, 2009
- Camera ready March 20, 2009
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
Poster Forum
Posters on work-in-progress are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Contributors are invited to submit up to four-page papers, following the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics.
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference�??s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
Committees
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DEPEND 2009 Industry Research Chairs
- Ramendra K. Sahoo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Hawthorne, USA
- Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research - Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
- Hans P. Zima, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, USA // University of Vienna, Austria
DEPEND 2009 Technical Program Committee
- Chairs
- Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
- Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan
- Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Members
- Marco Domenico Aime, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- José Enrique Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University - West Lafayette, USA
- Stefan Beyer, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Andrea Bondavalli, Università di Firenze, Italy
- Vicent Cholvi, Universitat Jaume I – Castellón, Spain
- António Casimiro Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA
- Rubén de Juan-Marín, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Changyu Dong, Imperial College London, UK
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Nuno Ferreira Neves, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Desprez Frédéric, ENS-Lyon / INRIA, France
- Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Germany
- Lorenz Froihofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Cristina Gacek, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut-Potsdam, Germany
- Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
- Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Artur Hecker, TELECOM ParisTech, France
- Bjarne E. Helvik, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) – Trondheim, Norway
- Michael Hobbs, Deakin University - Geelong, Australia
- Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Wenjian (William) Jiang, Orange Labs Beijing, China
- Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Wuhan, China
- Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan
- Mani Krishna, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
- Inhwan Lee, Hanyang University - Seoul, Korea
- Clement Leung, Victoria University - Melbourne, Australia
- Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Shyue-Kung Lu, Fu-Jen Catholic University - Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
- Henrique Madeira, Coimbra University, Portugal
- Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
- Nikola Milanovic, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
- Francesc D. Munoz-Escoi, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Jogesh K. Muppala, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Syed Naqvi, CETIC, Belgium
- Mats Neovius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
- Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University, USA
- Aljosa Pasic, ATOS Origin, Spain
- Paolo Carlo Pomi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Sergio Pozo Hidalgo, University of Seville, Spain
- Wolfgang Pree, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
- Ramendra K. Sahoo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Hawthorne, USA
- Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
- Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
- Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille 1, France
- Arun K Somani, Iowa State University, USA
- Kuo-Feng Ssu, National Cheng Kung University - Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Vladimir Stantchev, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
- Kymie Tan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research - Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
- Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University – Durham, USA
- Ian Troxel, SEAKR Engineering, Inc., USA
- Timothy Tsai, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Japan
- Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
- Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
- Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Szu-Chi Wang, National Ilan University - Yilan, Taiwan
- Hee Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University - Suwon, Korea
- Wojciech Zamojski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Hans P. Zima, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, USA // University of Vienna, Austria
