Call for Papers

The Eighth International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN 2009)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 26, 2009

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
in cooperation with IEICE Technical Committee on Information Networks and IEICE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing (Pending)

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009)

(http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs2009/ICDCS_2009.html)

The objective of the Workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks. Along with recent rapid growth of the Internet and ubiquitous networks, autonomous decentralized systems are connected with each other. In these distributed systems and networks, heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and the requirements themselves are frequently changing. Assurance in these distributed systems and networks is defined as capability of guaranteeing functional and nonfunctional system properties such as dependability, security, timeliness and adaptivity to heterogeneous and changing requirements. The workshop theme is critical in meeting ever more demanding requirements for assurance in systems and networks, especially in the future Internet and ubiquitous networks. Technologies supporting assurance including integration of various technologies such as real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility and intelligence will have to be incorporated in complex distributed systems and networks.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

· Agents technologies for assurance.

· Assurance of grid and cooperative systems.

· Heterogeneous coexistence techniques.

· Network control (QoS, CoS, etc) technologies for assurance.

· Real-time technology for assurance systems.

· Security issues for information warfare.

· Self-stabilization and sensor networks.

· Service-Oriented and Web service-based computing systems.

· Software and hardware technologies (E-commerce, Intelligent transport system, Train control, Space computer) for assurance.

· System life-cycle, specification, design, implementation, testing, verification, and validation techniques of assurance.

· System management techniques for assurance.

· Techniques for achieving high dependability in complex systems.

Papers and Submissions

Papers must be written in English, and they have to be Postscript, PDF, or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no more than 6 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. The following information must be provided on a cover sheet:

(1) paper title, full name, affiliation of the author(s)

(2) full name, affiliation, complete address, phone and fax numbers and email address of the author to be contacted, as well as

(3) an abstract (up to a 150 words).

To submit a paper, please send the manuscript to yinong.chen@asu.edu

Authors are expected to present their paper at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must register for ICDCS to be included in the workshop program.

Important Dates

     Paper Submission:            January 5, 2009 extended to January 24, 2009

     Paper Title Submission:     As Soon As Possible (Encouraged)

     Author Notification:          February 12, 2009 extended to February 24, 2009

     Final Manuscript Due:       March 20, 2009 (remain unchanged)

Committees

General Chair

Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Vice Chair

Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Program Chair

Yinong Chen, Arizona State University, USA, Email for Paper Submission: yinong.chen@asu.edu

Vice Program Chairs

Isao Kaji, Miyagi Univ., Japan

Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Jianli Sun, MITEL Canada

Program Committee

Masaki Aida, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Hossam Afifi, Institut Télécom, France

Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China

Renee Bryce, Utah State University, USA

Jordan Z. Cao, SAP, USA

Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China

Bruce C. Fan, Motorola, Inc., USA

Junichi Funasaka, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA

Kenji Ishida, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada

Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Xiaodong Lu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA

Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Masayuki Matsumoto, East Japan Railway Company, Japan

Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK

Mikhail Nesterenko, Kent State University, USA

Edgar Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Mariagiovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Janusz Sosnowski, University of Warsaw, Poland

Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada

Qingsheng Zhu, Chongqing University, China

Ying Zhu, UOIT University, Canada