WRSM 2003
Program Chair
Priya Narasimhan
Carnegie Mellon University
Publicity Chair
Pascal
Felber
Institut Eurecom, France
Program Committee
Dave Bakken Washington State University, Pullman, USA
Isabelle Rouvellou IBM Research, New York, USA
Jean-Charles Fabre LAAS, France
Nuno Ferreira Neves Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Paul Ezhilchelvan University of Newcastle, UK
Roberto Baldoni University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Roy Friedman Technion, Israel
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Reliable and Secure Middleware
November 3-7, 2003
Sicily, Italy
Proceedings published by Springer LNCS
Middleware technologies,
such as CORBA, Java, EJB and Jini, are becoming increasingly popular for
building both embedded and enterprise applications. While middleware
infrastructures exhibit attractive features (such as portability,
interoperability, etc.) from an application development perspective, they are
still lacking in reliability and security. Thus, while middleware is gaining
adoption is most application domains, there is still some reluctance in
deploying middleware in mission-critical systems with high dependability requirements.
This has led, over the past few years, to several academic and industrial
research efforts aimed at correcting this deficiency. For the most part,
these research efforts have been independent of each other, and have often
focused on specific pieces of the dependability puzzle. However, the puzzle
is far from complete; for example, issues such as non-determinism in
middleware are yet to be dealt with. Our aim, in this Workshop, is to bring
researchers and practitioners (and therefore, some of the pieces of the
puzzle) together, to further our insights on reliable and secure middleware,
and to investigate collectively the challenges that remain.
Future research on
middleware systems will focus on not just reliability and/or security, but
many other "-ilities", such as adaptability, scalability, availability,
mobility, security, real-time, etc. Marrying fault tolerance and/or security
with any other "-ility" is a non-trivial task, and requires
analyzing various trade-offs; for instance, how can we reconcile the very
different multi-threading, scheduling and ordering requirements of fault
tolerance and real-time, respectively, within a single middleware infrastructure?
Research on dependable middleware will have to address such challenges in
composing reliability and security with several other "-ilities" in
order to build useful real-world systems.
The purpose of this
one-day workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from
both industry and academia to discuss the latest practices in building
reliable and secure distributed object infrastructures, to explore ways of
making today's middleware technologies more robust, and to investigate the
enhancement of existing reliable, secure middleware with other
"-ilities".
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The
Workshop solicits contributions on topics related to, but not limited to, the
following:
- Experiences with
reliability and security in middleware infrastructures (e.g., CORBA,
DCOM, Java RMI, EJB, .NET, Web Services)
- Coping with non-determinism
in reliable and secure middleware systems
- Lessons learned in
building/using dependable middleware: what works, what doesn't
- Integrating dependable
embedded and enterprise middleware systems
- Trade-offs in adding other
features (adaptability, scalability, availability, mobility, security,
real-time, live upgrades, etc.) to reliable and secure middleware
infrastructures
- Integration of reliability
and security into formal distributed object models
- Algorithms and mechanisms
for intrusion tolerance and dependability
- Shaping/enhancing standards
for reliable and secure middleware
- Metrics, benchmarks and
performance studies in evaluating reliability and security for
middleware applications
- Limitations of existing
fault tolerance and security technologies in the context of middleware
applications
- Combining different
dependability strategies, e.g., replication with transactions
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Papers
must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point type and 1-1/2
line spacing, and can be one of two possible types:
- Papers presenting research
results, of 5-15 pages in length, including figures
- Papers presenting position
statements, of 3-5 pages in length, from potential participants, who
prefer to serve as panelists or commentators.
Accepted
workshop contributions (written material) will be published by
Springer-Verlag as a part of the Proceedings of the 2003 International
Conference on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA).
Authors are
requested to submit an electronic version (PostScript or PDF) of their paper
before July 25, 2003 to the following address: priya@cs.cmu.edu
Authors will be
notified of the acceptance of their papers by August 5, 2003.
IMPORTANT DATES
- July 25, 2003 : Deadline for submission
of paper
- August 5, 2003 : Notification of
acceptance
- August 20, 2003 : Deadline for manuscripts
of accepted papers
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