ADSN 2012 - The Eleventh International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks

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:
Assurance technologies for new generation network
Agents technologies for assurance
Assurance in cooperative embedded, grid and cloud computing systems
Heterogeneous systems coexistence and consistency technologies
Network control (QoS, QoE, CoS, etc) technologies for assurance
Real-time technology assurance
Self-stabilization and sensor networks assurance
Service-oriented and web service-based computing systems
Software and hardware technologies (E-commerce, intelligent transport systems, train control, space computers) for assurance
System life-cycle, specification, design, implementation, testing, verification, validation, and security technologies for assurance
System management and proactive fault management technologies for assurance
Technologies for achieving high assurance in complex systems