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Resilience Assessment and Evaluation |
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Resilience Assessment and Evaluation
(Dagstuhl Seminar 10292, 18.-23. July 2010)
Resilience of computing systems includes their dependability as well as their fault tolerance and security. Resilience defines the ability of a computing system to perform proper service in the presence of disturbances of all kinds and to recover from any service degradation. These properties are extraordinarily important in a world where many aspects of daily life depend on the correct, reliable and secure operation of computing systems. Considered systems include, but are not limited to, infrastructures, computer networks, pervasive, adhoc and mesh networks, web-based systems, service-oriented architectures, embedded systems, manufacturing systems, control systems and more.
Much research progress has been made in modelling, measuring and evaluating performance and dependability of systems but many challenges remain. Aspects such as benchmarking performability, assessing security and trading off security and performance require further research breakthroughs. Similarly, applications and systems continue to change over time, as do their characteristics, usage patterns and deployment. This creates the need to continue and expand work in resilience assessment.
The seminar will address methods and tools to describe, measure, evaluate, benchmark, guarantee and improve resilience as well as case-studies and experimental work concerning resilience of computing systems. We aim at collecting existing work into a text book with profound investigation of the subject, that may be used for teaching the subject, as well as discuss open problems and research directions for the future.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:46 |
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Automotive Safety and Security |
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Automotive Safety & Security 2010
21.-23. Juni 2010 - Stuttgart, Germany
Invitation to participate
Automotive Safety & Security 2010 addresses the core topics Reliability, Dependability and Security of software based functions in automotive environments. The technical program is complemented by an extensive exhibition.
Key Lectures by
Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup
Prof. Harald Heinecke, BMW Car-IT
Tom De Marco
Prof. Bernd Hindel, Method Park
Details, latest news as well as registration under: http://www.automotive2010.de/ |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 20:59 |
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ISAS 2008, the 5th International Service Availability Symposium, was hosted by Prof. Takashi Nanya at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo in May 2008. Close to 80 participants from industry and academia showed the importance of the conference, which celebrated its 5th anniversary.
The program committee co-chairs, Andras Pataricza, Budapest University, and Fumihiro Maruyama, Chairman Fujitsu Laboratories Europe, had put a very diversified program together, giving room for presenting new research results and industry reports. A panel from implementors of Service Availability Forum standards showed high interest from academia to work closely with industry parnters. The program was rounded out by two embedded tutorials (Miroslaw Malek on predictive algorithms and Kishor Trivedi on assuring high availability), a tool and demo session and a fast abstracts session (Andras Kövi) as well as a short paper session with practical results presentations. In two special sessions, a European cooperation program on ICT trust, security and dependability (INCO-TRUST) and the Japanese Service Innovation Research Initiative were introduced. Last but not least, two keynotes (Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome, Italy on the Italian e-Government Enterprise Architecture and Hiroshi Maruyama, IBM Japan on Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science in Service Science) provided an excellent start for two of the three conference days.
The proceedings containing the refereed papers are published by Springer under "Service Availability", Proc. 5th INternational Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008, TOkyo, Japan, May 2008; Takashi Nanya, Fumihiro Maruyama, Andras Pataricza, Miroslaw Malek (Eds.); LNCS 5017; Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008; online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-68128-1/.
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PFARM: Proactive Failure Avoidance |
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Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance
(PFARM)
DSN Workshop at Fairmont Chicago
Millennium Park, Chicago, June 28th, 2010
FOCUS of PFARM
Over the last decade, research on dependable computing has undergone a shift from reactive towards proactive methods: In classical fault tolerance a system reacts to errors or component failures in order to prevent them from turning into system failures, and maintenance follows fixed, time-based plans. However, due to an ever increasing system complexity, use of commercial-off-the-shelf components, virtualization, ongoing system patches and updates and dynamicity 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
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 20:58 |
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IWODSS: Dependable Services and Systems |
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Results of The First International Workshop On Dependable Services and Systems
(IWODSS 2010)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - May 17-18, 2010
The goal of the workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from the academia and the industry to discuss theoretical and practical problems of the field of dependability and expose research findings and solutions. The workshop focus was on the different aspects of dependable services and systems, including software and hardware systems, methods and tools ranging from modeling and design to monitoring and management.
Topics include:
- Robust services and infrastructure – modeling, design, evaluation
- Dependability, security and QoS requirements, modeling and validation
- Availability/reliability models and evaluation
- Availability standards for service implementation, certification, support
- Service management – certification, rating, service agreements, support
- Implementing and monitoring dependability and security of integrated information and communication services
- Virtualization technologies for dependable services
- Formal methods for dependability design and analysis
- Implementations and compliance to availability standards
- High Availability (HA) standards middleware implementations and deployment of applications
- Tool support for HA application development, deployment and management
For the full conference program and the proceedings including presentations, please check out the IWODSS web site:
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~colombo/iwodss-10/ |
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