DSN 2011 Workshop on Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance (PFARM)

Sheraton Hong Kong – Hotel & Towers, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, June 27th, 2011
For more details, please see the workshop web page at http://confman.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pfarm/2011/

Over the last decade, research on dependable computing has undergone a shift from reactive towards proactive methods: Traditionally, fault tolerance was reacting to errors or component failures in order to prevent them to turn into system failures, and maintenance was following fixed, time-based plans. However, due to an ever increasing system complexity, use of commercial-off-the-shelf components, virtualization, cloud computing, ongoing system patches and updates, etc., such approaches have become difficult to apply. Therefore, a new area in dependability research has emerged focusing on proactive approaches that start acting before a problem arises in order to increase time-to-failure and/or reduce time-to-repair. These techniques frequently build on the anticipation of upcoming problems based on runtime monitoring. Industry and academia has come up with several terms for such techniques, each focusing on different aspects, including self-* computing, self-adaptive software, autonomic computing, proactive fault management, trustworthy computing, software rejuvenation, or preventive/ proactive maintenance. It is the goal of this workshop to increase collaboration among researchers from various communities all over the world working on the topic of PFARM. We want to provide a stimulating, and fruitful forum to foster collaboration, to discuss ideas, exchange experiences and to find new answers to the overall challenge of improving system dependability in contemporary computing and communication systems by an order of magnitude or more.

TOPICS

We seek submissions from industry and academia. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Runtime dependability assessment and evaluation (reliability, availability, etc.)
• Runtime monitoring for online fault detection and diagnosis, including monitoring data processing
• Prediction methods to anticipate failures, resource exhaustion or other critical situations in complex systems, distributed systems, adaptive or peer-to-peer networks.
• Predictive diagnosis and fault location as well as root-cause analysis
• Hardware installation and software deployment (non-intrusive, online recovery, updates and upgrades, etc.)
• Proactive maintenance strategies (short-term as well as long-term)
• Optimal decision algorithms and policies to manage recovery actions

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2011
• Author notification: April 15th, 2011
• Camera-ready version: May 1st, 2011

FURTHER INFORMATION

• Workshop webpage: http://confman.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pfarm/2011/
• Workshop email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

13th European Workshop on Dependable Computing
Pisa, Italy, 11-12 May 2011

http://ewdc2011.isti.cnr.it/index.htm

This workshop aims to be a European forum for researchers and practitioners who are working in the field of dependable computing (call for papers).

Special theme: Resilience of Evolving Software Systems.

EWDC 2011 will focus on the resilience of evolving software systems. This is a challenging theme, especially when considering that information systems are more and more composed of complex, heterogeneous, evolving networked systems and infrastructures characterized by dynamic requirements and changes in the environment and in the systems themselves. Issues of interoperability in presence of dependability guarantees, as well as efficient and scalable modelling and experimental techniques to assess the impact of accidental or malicious threats on dependability and security attributes, are among the crucial aspects to be addressed. Accordingly, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Architecture, design and management of resilient evolving systems
2. Specification and design methodologies, e.g., model-based, component-based, refinement-based approaches
3. Metrics for quantifying the dependability of resilient evolving systems
4. Model verification and validation for dependability and security evaluation
5. Formal verification, testing, analytical and experimental evaluation
6. Off-line versus on-line dependability assessment
7. Case studies illustrating challenges and solutions in resilient evolving systems
8. Design and use of supporting tools

Authors are invited to submit either short papers (2 pages) or full papers (5-6 pages), 10 pt font, single space, double column format. This should offer the greatest flexibility to present novel work/ideas at varying degrees of maturity. Please, see proceedings template here for detailed instructions. The papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be published in a workshop volume of the ACM Digital Library with the ISBN 978 1 4503 02845.

Fifth Latin American Symposium on Dependable Computing LADC

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, BRAZIL
http://www.inpe.br/ladc2011

Call for Contributions

LADC is the major Latin-American event dedicated to discussing the many issues related to computer system dependability. The symposium
scope spans system, software, and hardware dependability research and technological challenges. Major topics include, but are not limited to:

• Engineering dependable systems: hardware, networking, software, deployment, and maintenance
• Dependability of hardware: fault tolerant architectures, multi-core systems, virtualization, nanoscale computers, hardware
  dependability assessment
• Dependability of software: frameworks and software architectures for dependability, runtime monitoring, adaptation,
  model driven dependability engineering, testing, verification, software certification
• Dependability of networks: LAN, WAN, mobile, ad-hoc, sensor networks, protocols
• Dependability of data: storage, databases
• Dependability of maintenance: tuning performance and availability, security configuration
• Dependability and human issues: human-computer interaction, management of complex systems
• Security: foundations, policies, protocols, access control, intrusion detection, intrusion tolerance
• Safety: incidents & accidents, risk perception and analysis, safety-critical applications and systems
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Algorithms and methods for dependable and secure computing
• Dependability and security modeling, measurement and benchmarking

Tere will be an award for the best paper of the Conference. The five best papers of the Conference will be invited to submit extended and
revised versions for publication in a special issue of the Journal of the Brazilian Computing Society (JBCS). The Conference proceedings will
be published by IEEE CS.

Instructions for authors and other information can be found on the Conference Web Site.