WDDDM 2009 - Third Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2009)

affiliated with EuroSys 2009 Conference
March 31, 2009, Nuremberg, Germany

http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/wdddm09/

ABOUT

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from systems, database and dependability communities to discuss the current
state of the art, pending challenges and trends, and novel solutions in the
design, implementation and deployment of distributed and dependable data
management systems.

SCOPE

Relational databases have been for a long time the keystone of information
systems' dependability. Database management systems offer a uniform
approach to data integrity, durability, and availability, using tried and
tested techniques based on a set of unanimously accepted and well
understood assumptions.

There is however a growing call for unprecedented levels of scalability
that challenges traditional data management architectures, namely, to cope
with cloud computing and peer-to-peer systems. A common principle in all
such emerging proposals, with a profound impact in dependability, is that
large scale distribution is a core assumption in their design. This
translates in very large number of nodes, wide area geographical
distribution, diverse administrative domains, and pervasive heterogeneity.
The current trend of specialized systems for social networking
applications, text indexing, data warehousing, stream processing, and
highly flexible data storage further push the envelope for radically
different data management solutions.

It is thus desirable to reevaluate time tested assumptions that underly the
dependability mechanisms in data management systems and explore different
performance and functionality tradeoffs, and the consequences on complex
information systems built on them.

TOPICS

The workshop targets research on databases systems, dependable, distributed
and mobile computing, distributed storage, management and security. Namely,
we seek contributions that tackle the following perceived challenges:

* Novel application scenarios, interface abstractions and consistency
requirements
* Scaling-out to very large number of nodes of data management
architectures and systems
* Software engineering for tailor-made data management
* Distributed and complex event processing systems
* System assumptions for dependability and performance
* Diversity and software reliability
* Self organizing data management systems

FORMAT

The workshop welcomes Short Position Papers with early and/or controversial
ideas that foster discussion but are not (yet) fully developed. Submissions
will not be refereed. They will be screened by the organizers for
relevance and accepted according to available presentation slots. The
maximum size is 4 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style.

Since submissions must strictly adhere to ACM Conference Proceedings style,
submitters are strongly encouraged to use the ACM SIG Proceedings
Templates. In order to get included in the EuroSys 2009 proceedings CD,
accepted contributions must be presented at the workshop and comply with
the ACM Copyright Policy.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission: February 2, 2009 (EXTENDED)
* Author notification: February 16, 2009
* Camera-ready due: March 2, 2009
* Workshop date: March 31, 2009

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs:

* Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
* Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands)
* Rui Oliveira (U. Minho, Portugal)
* Paul Murray (HP Labs, UK)

Organizing Chair:

* Jos? Pereira (U. Minho, Portugal)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information visit the workshop web site or contact the
organizers at wdddm-AT-lsd.di.uminho.pt.