DADS 2013 - DADS Dependable and Adaptive Distributed System

While computing is provided by the cloud and services increasingly pervade our daily lives, dependability is no longer restricted to mission or safety critical applications, but rather becomes a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous 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 systems and applications are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in 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 the demand for resource awareness (including green computing) and increasing cost pressure.
Among technical factors of dependability, software development methods, tools, and techniques contribute to dependability, as defects in software products and services may lead to failure and also provide typical access for malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide variety of fault and intrusion tolerance techniques available, including persistence provided by databases, redundancy and replication, group communication, transaction monitors, reliable middleware, cloud infrastructures, fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and trustworthy service-oriented architectures with explicit control of quality of service properties and service level agreements. Furthermore, adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to observed, or act upon expected changes of the system itself, the context/environment (e.g., resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) or users' needs and expectations. Provided without explicit user intervention, this is also termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, and often involves monitoring, diagnosis (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration (repair). In particular, adaptation is also a means to achieve dependability and security in a computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties.
Topics of Interest
The track provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on selected topics in dependable and adaptive distributed systems and services. The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Dependable, Adaptive, and trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS): E.g., massive scale, big data processing, scalable web applications; self-* properties and autonomous behaviour; mobility and sparse connectivity; adaptable and adaptive security; fault and intrusion tolerance; performance; context-awareness; integration and balancing of competing attributes; cross-organizational heterogeneity.
Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS: E.g., cloud systems and cloud-deployed applications; P2P, MANET, smartphone-based, and pervasive systems; event-based systems; service-oriented systems; component-based systems; control loop and MAPE pattern.
Protocols for DADS: E.g., consensus, group communication, replication, transaction, coordination, orchestration; failure detection, containment, and recovery; dynamic (re-)configuration.
Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS: E.g., MDA support; QoS and SLA; tool support; design patterns for DADS; abstractions and policies; quantitative approaches; run-time approaches.
Foundations and formal methods for DADS: E.g., rigorous approaches, verification, assurance cases.
Applications of DADS: E.g., safety critical systems; avionics and CNS (Communication, Navigation, Surveillance); VANETs (Vehicular adhoc networks); automotive systems; mission critical infrastructure; disaster scenarios.
Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS.
Holistic aspects of DADS: E.g., social, cultural, psychological, economical, managerial, and educational aspects.