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Third ERSADS
European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems
Spring School and Workshop
Madeira Island - Portugal. 23-28 April 1999
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS and PARTICIPATION
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
To receive the ERSADS brochure, send e-mail to ersads99@di.fc.ul.pt, with Subject: ERSADS99, AND your (conventional) MAIL address.]
ORGANISED BY
University of Lisboa
BROADCAST (ESPRIT WG 22455)
IN COOPERATION WITH
CaberNet
ACM SIGOPS
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Câmara Municipal do Funchal
Secretaria Regional do Turismo, Cultura e Emigração da Madeira
ORACLE Portugal
The Seminar is both an Advanced School and a Research Workshop, combining tutorials by experts and presentations by participants.
TUTORIALS: As a school, it offers in-depth tutorials on advanced research relating to distributed computing systems. Five recognised experts in fields related with distributed systems lecture the advanced school, in half-day tutorials of hot practical or
theoretical interest.
WORKSHOP: The workshop programme is composed of presentations by the participants. Paper submission is not mandatory for attendance of the Seminar. However, participants researching in distributed systems, and particularly in the topic areas of the tutorials,
are encouraged to make a submission. The Scientific Committee's selection takes into account quality, innovation and potential to foster discussion. Relevance to the tutorial topics will also be considered. Selected papers will also appear in the ERSADS
proceedings.
Interested participants, whether or not they also submit a paper, should send in their registration within the appropriate deadlines.
The setting of the seminar favours cross-fertilisation and live discussion of viewpoints amongst all involved. The schedule leaves time for informal exchanges and outdoors activities, and we expect ERSADS to create informal links amongst researchers that last beyond
it.
ERSADS is now well established. The two previous editions took place in the French Alps in 1995, and in the Swiss Alps in 1997. Attendance has always been high, composed of high quality researchers, professionals and students. The tutorial topics
and speakers are renewed at each edition.
SEMINAR DIRECTOR
Paulo Veríssimo (U. Lisboa, PT)
STEERING COMMITTEE
André Schiper (EPFL, CH)
Marc Shapiro (INRIA, FR)
Sacha Krakowiak (IMAG, FR)
Paulo Veríssimo (U. Lisboa, PT)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Daniel Hagimont (IMAG, FR)
Guenter Heiner (Daimler Chrsysler Benz AG, DE)
Dag Johansen (U. Tromso, NO)
Mesaak Makpangou (INRIA, FR)
Michele Morganti (Italtel Research, IT)
Achour Mostefaoui (U. Rennes, FR)
Fabio Panzieri (U. Bologna, IT)
Luis Rodrigues (U. Lisboa, PT)
Liba Svobodova (IBM Zurich R&D Lab, CH)
Paulo Ver'issimo (chair)
Andy Wellings (U. York, UK)
LOCATION
ERSADS-99 will be held in Funchal, in the beautiful island of Madeira,Portugal, from Friday to Wednesday, 23rd to 28th of April.
The venue will be the
Hotel Savoy
Avenida do Infante
9000 FUNCHAL
Portugal
Tel.: +351.91 22 20 31 Fax: +351.91.22 31 03
Madeira (have a look at http://www.madeira-island.com/ ) is known for its excellent climate, and the combination of mountain and sea
environments. Many outdoor activities are enjoyed by visitors, such as swimming, snorkelling and scuba diving, spearfishing and angling, winsurfing and sailing, mountain trekking and hiking. An interesting indoor activity is wine- tasting, of the famous Madeira
wine.
Madeira has excellent direct plane connections from Lisboa and from sever al main cities in Europe. A route through Lisboa offers plenty alternative s as well: http://www.tap.pt, http://www.pga.pt.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions will be selected by the Scientific Committee, based on quality, innovation, ability to spawn discussion, and affinity with the tutorial areas. Selected papers will be presented at the Workshop, and will appear in the Seminar proceedings, to be published
by the BROADCAST WG. Please sub mit a paper up to 4000 words, exclusively in electronic form (PS, PDF or ASCII) by email. Longer papers will be rejected.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission deadline (workshop): 7 February 1999
- Acceptance notification: 1 March 1999
- Camera-ready due:
18 March 1999
- Early registration deadline (participation): 15 March 1999
- Seminar:
23-28 April 1999
OVERVIEW OF THE TUTORIALS:
Saturday, 24
Distributed Fault-Tolerance
David Powell (LAAS - France)
Sunday, 25
Real-time Programming Languages
Alan Burns (U. York - UK)
Monday, 26
Intrusion Detection
Roy Maxion (Carnegie-Mellon - USA)
Tuesday, 27
Mobile Computing: Beyond the Desktop Personal Computer
Randy Katz (Berkeley - USA)
Wednesday, 28
Construction of Distributed Applications based on Smart Cards
Jean-Jacques Vandewalle (GemPlus - France)
SKETCH of the PROGRAMME
Friday evening - Reception
Saturday
Morning - Tutorial 1 - David Powell
Long break
Aftnoon - Workshop Presentations
Discussion
Sunday
Morning - Tutorial 2 - Alan Burns
Aftnoon - Excursion
Monday
Morning - Tutorial 3 - Roy Maxion
Long break
Aftnoon - Workshop Presentations
Discussion
Evening - Banquet
Tuesday
Morning - Tutorial 4 - Randy Katz
Aftnoon - Workshop Presentations
Discussion
Wednesday
Morning - Tutorial 5 - Jean-Jacques Vandewalle
Panel Discussion
Aftnoon - Departure
SEMINAR CONTACTS
Check the Seminar Web page for further details
(including timetable) as they become available:
ERSADS99
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Bloco C5 - Campo Grande
1700 Lisboa - Portugal
Tel +(351) 1 750 00 87 (from 8:00-14:00 GET)
Fax +(351) 1 750 00 84
e-mail: ersads99@di.fc.ul.pt
The WWWeb: http://ersads99.di.fc.ul.pt
REGISTRATION FORM
Please fill in, and email/mail/fax to address above, together with payment:
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Seminar fee Before Mar.
15 After Mar. 15
[ ] Single room 180 000 PTE
225 000 PTE
[ ] Double room 150 000 PTE
205 000 PTE
[ ] Student (double rooms only) 125 000 PTE 180 000 PTE
[ ] I will be sharing the room with:
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Payment in Portuguese Escudos (PTE) only. One EURO approx. 200 PTE
Seminar fee includes: Tutorials; Workshop Proceedings; Accommodation from Friday evening until Wednesday noon; Seminar banquet and cocktail rece ption; Excursion; Lunches and coffee breaks until Wednesday included; taxes & service.
For written cancellation requests arriving not after 5 Mar., payment will be refunded deducted of a cancellation fee of 5000 PTE. For cancellations after the 31 Mar., 1998, only a 20% refund will be made.
There are a limited number of places available for the seminar, to ensure comfortable attendance, so registrations are on a first-come first-serve d basis.
Proof of studentship is required. The number of student registrations at the reduced fee is limited, and will be allocated on a first-come/ first-served basis.
The organisation reserves the right to cancel without prior notice if attendance is too reduced. Any amounts received will be returned in full.
PAYMENT
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DETAILED TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Distributed Fault-Tolerance
David Powell (LAAS -- France)
The tutorial will focus on distributed, software-implemented fault-tolerance techniques. Methods for achieving fault-tolerance in distributed systems will be discussed and illustrated by means of three practical examples: a fault-tolerant open distributed processing
platform, a generic fault-tolerant real-time architecture and a fail-safe duplex redunancy protocol.
Real-time Programming Languages
Alan Burns (U. York - UK)
Requirments for programming languages in concurrent real-time distributed systems. Provisions of Ada and JaVa. Operating Systems support and POSIX. Configuration/middleware support and CORBA. Design methodologies for real-time distributed systems.
Intrusion Detection
Roy Maxion (Carnegie-Mellon - USA)
A crucial problem of today's distributed systems is the level of risk of their operation, given that the growth of requirements for openess (e.g. electronic commerce, virtual enterprises) makes it difficult to base security on mere intrusion avoidance. The tutorial
will address the problem of detecting and reacting to intruders in distributed systems, both in networks and in data repositories. It will analyze the different approaches to the problem, and provide some insight on solutions and practical experiments.
Mobile Computing: Beyond the Desktop Personal Computer
Randy Katz (Berkeley- USA)
In this tutorial, we examine the challenges and opportunities presented by extending access to the interconnected world of desktop machines and servers to devices that can be mobile and connected over wireless links. Such devices, starting with laptop computers and
evolving towards portable information appliances like "smart" telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants, introduce new demands for mobility, connectivity, and applications partitioning. The new network protocol and middleware applications support
technologies will be the focus of this tutorial. The developments will be made concrete through the introduction of examples drawn from the Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN) project recently concluded at the University of California, Berkeley.
Construction of Distributed Applications based on Smart Cards
Jean-Jacques Vandewalle (GemPlus - FR)
With the advent of Java Card, smart cards can be considered as object servers in distributed applications. This tutorial focuses on the software engineering techniques and tools for building applications with smart cards. We will provide a
methodology for developing smart card-based applications, which accounts for both internal and external software production (i.e., on-card and client programs). This development methodology is based on the application of object-oriented distributed systems principles to
Java-based smart cards.
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