SRDSPSDS 2013 - IEEE International Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems (PSDS 2013)

The goal of the Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems (W-PSDS) is to bring together international researchers and practitioners from the large-scale distributed systems communities to discuss the current state of the art, emerging challenges and trends, as well as novel solutions, implementation and deployment of large scale, and in particular of planetary-scale, distributed systems and applications. The workshop aims both at discussing new contributions and also to discuss work in progress and recent advances achieved in these fields, as a way to stem interesting and dynamic discussion and foment new collaborations to arise.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data Storage for large scale systems (e.g., NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, geo-replicated systems)
Consistency, reliability, and fault models for large scale distributed systems
Data recovery: online and disaster recovery
System assumptions for dependability and performance
Scaling-out and elasticity with large number of nodes
Fully decentralized versus central control architectures
Robust and efficient protocols for unstructured overlay networks (epidemic-based dissemination, aggregation, slicing)
Peer-to-Peer systems, protocols, and applications
Large-scale infrastructure technologies (locking, group membership services)
Security for large-scale distributed systems
Cloud computing
Grid Computing