DESEC4LCCI 2012 - Workshop on Dependable and Secure Computing for Large-scale Complex Critical Infrastructures

Workshop on Dependable and Secure Computing for Large-scale Complex Critical Infrastructures
Chairs:
Christian Esposito, Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), Italy
Marco Platania - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Francesco Brancati - Resiltech, Italy
Scope:
This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products in the area of dependable and secure computing in large-scale critical systems both from a theoretical and practical perspective. Its ultimate goal is to envision new trends and ideas about aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating dependable and secure solutions for the next generation critical networked infrastructures. In particular, the workshop aims at presenting the advancement of the state of art in the fields of distributed systems, hardware and software diagnosis, and software engineering, crucial for improving trustworthiness on ICT facilities, and spreading their adoption in very critical scenarios involving main infrastructures for modern society.
A workshop on dependable and secure computing for LCCI is motivated by the unsuitability of the current approaches due to the novel challenges imposed by LCCI. In fact, several works exist in the literature about these research themes. However, existing solutions are usually applied to simpler and closed system. The innovative and challenging aspect is to apply these strategies, or to define novel ones, in the context of complex, evolvable, and extremely heterogeneous systems, which will compose future LCCI systems. It is needed to define novel middleware technologies, models, and methods to assure and assess the resiliency level of current and future OTS-based LCCIs, to diagnose faults in real time, and to tolerate them by means of dynamic reconfiguration. Assuring the resiliency level of LCCIs is crucial to reduce, with known probabilities, the occurrence of catastrophic failures, and consequently, to adopt proper diagnosis and reconfiguration strategies.
Topics:
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Distributed architectures for LCCIs, their components (OTS and legacy), and their resiliency requirements
Middleware architectures for improving dependability attributes of future LCCIs
Strategies for on-line diagnosis and reconfiguration OTS-based LCCIs
Methods for improving the dependable and secure characteristics of ICT platforms used to build LCCI
Tools and techniques for modeling and evaluating LCCIs
Use cases of Future Critical Networked Systems.
Program Committee:
Marco Vieira - University of Coimbra
Paulo Verissimo - University of Lisbon
Luigi Romano - Parthenope University of Naples
Michele Colajanni - University of Modena
Felicita di Giandomenico - ISTI-CNR
Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni - CEA
Abdelmajid Khelil - Technical University of Darmstadt
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris - Technical University of Madrid
Catello di Martino - University of Urbana-Champaign
Edgar Nett - University of Magdeburg
Bojan Cukic - West Virginia University
Nuno Silva - Critical Software
Angelo Corsaro - Prismtech
Francesco Flammini - Ansaldo