Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems DADS Track of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/ March 8 - 12, 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu

Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and is hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Chaminade University of Honolulu.

Call for Papers

Dependability is no longer restricted to critical applications, but rather becomes a cornerstone of the information society. Dependability clearly is a holistic concept: Contributing factors are not only technical, but also social, cultural (i.e. corporate culture), psychological (perceived dependability), managerial (information management and processes), and economical. Fostering learning is a key, and simplicity is generally an enabler for dependability.

Unfortunately, heterogeneous, large-scale, and dynamic software systems that typically run continuously often tend to become inert, brittle, and vulnerable after a while. The key problem is, that the most innovative mobile and pervasive systems and applications are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in (deterministic) dependability when compared to traditional critical systems, where dependability and security are fairly well understood as complementary concepts and a variety of proven methods and techniques is available today. In accordance with Laprie we call this effect the dependability gap, which is widened in front of us between demand and supply of dependability, and we can see this trend further fueled by an ever increasing cost pressure.

Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges such as cross-organisational heterogeneity, massive scale, and mobility. Of course, dependability and adaptiveness can not simply be added to a system like a plug-in module. Rather, for databases, services, middleware, and software development, application developers need tools, sound methodologies, common practices, standards, architectural principles, and middleware services, to tackle the inherent complexity and emerging behavior of distributed systems and to ensure trustworthy services. Therefore, the vision of this track is on the convergence of software development tools with middleware, traditional dependability, fault tolerance, security, and adaptivity concepts, together with social and psychological aspects, to compensate for dependability degradation of running software and services.

Topics of Interest

Karl M. Göschka (Chair)
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 664 180 6946
fax: +43 664 188 6275
Karl dot Goeschka (at) tuwien dot ac dot at

Svein O. Hallsteinsen
SINTEF ICT
Software Engineering Department
Andersens vei 15 b
NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
phone: +47 7359 3010
fax: +47 7359 3350
Svein dot Hallsteinsen (at) sintef dot no

Rui Oliveira
Universidade do Minho
Computer Science Department
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga, Portugal
phone: +351 253 604 452 / Internal: 4452
fax: +351 253 604 471
rco (at) di dot uminho dot pt

Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
School of Computing Science
Office: Room 1008 , Claremont Tower
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
phone: +44-191-222- 8135
fax: +44-191-222- 8788
Alexander dot Romanovsky (at) newcastle dot ac dot uk

Organisational Chair

Lorenz Froihofer
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 58801 18417
fax: +43 1 58801 18491
dads09@dedisys.org

Program Committee

• Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain).
• Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy).
• Stefan Beyer, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Valencia (Spain).
• Michael Butler, University of Southampton (UK).
• Emmanuel Cecchet, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).
• Vicent Cholvi, Universitat Jaume (Spain).
• Xavier Defago, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technologies (Japan).
• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria).
• Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway).
• Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
• Jacqueline Floch, Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning - SINTEF (Norway).
• Christina Gacek, University of Newcastle (UK).
• Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel (Germany).
• Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut (Germany).
• Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA).
• Marc-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS (France).
• Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain).
• Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK).
• Marin Litoiu, IBM (Canada).
• Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).
• Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).
• Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle (UK).
• Francisco D. Muñoz-Escoí, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Valencia (Spain).
• Marta Patino-Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain).
• Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland).
• Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
• Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA).
• Roland Reichle, University of Kassel (Germany).
• Luis Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
• Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy).
• Giovanni Russello, Imperial College London (UK).
• Andre Schiper, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
• Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria).
• Kaisa Sere, Åbo Akademi University (Finland).
• Stefan Tai, University of Karlsruhe (Germany).
• Jan Tretmans, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).
• Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy).
• Paolo Verissimo, University of Lisboa (Portugal).
• Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway).
• Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Technology (Austria).

Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Submission to multiple tracks is prohibited. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Alternate Style. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information For your convenience, we have defined a \selfcite{myref} Latex command for self-references. Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere). Five pages maximum with up to three additional pages at a certain cost per page are allowed. (The extra page charge has not been finalized yet.) Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The template provides space for this indexing. The ACM Computing Classification scheme can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/#. The author kit containing the Latex templates for the required style can be found here: dads_author_kit.zip.


Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the submission site. If you encounter any technical problems with the submission site, please contact Jeff Allen (jallen@cs.iupui.edu).

For general information about SAC, please visit: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: dads09@dedisys.org