paris@cs.uh.edu (Jehan-Francois Paris) (10/12/90)
ADVANCE PROGRAM
Workshop on the Management of Replicated Data
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society-TC on Operating Systems
The Houstonian Hotel, Houston, TX
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1990
Tutorial on Replication in Distributed Systems (9:00-12:00 and
1:00-4:00)
Ken Birman (Cornell University)
RECEPTION (7:00- 10:30)
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1990
REGISTRATION (8:30- 9:00)
Welcome (9:00 AM). Luis-Felipe Cabrera (IBM Almaden) and Jehan-
Francois Paris (University of Houston)
Session 1: Implementations (9:30-10:50)
Chair: M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie-Mellon-University)
Granularity and Semantic Level of Replication in the echo Distri-
buted File System, Andy Hisgen, Andrew Birrell, Chuck Jerian
and Timothy Mann (Digital Equipment Corporation)
Replication in Ficus Distributed File Systems. Gerald J. Popek,
Richard G. Guy and Thomas W. Page, Jr. and John S.
Heidemann (University of California at Los Angeles)
A Replicated Unix File System. Barbara Liskov, Robert Gruber,
Paul Johnson and Liuba Shrira (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Position Paper for Deceit: A Flexible Distributed File System.
Alex Siegel, Kenneth Birman and Keith Marzullo (Cornell
University)
Session 2: Kernel Support for Replicated Data (11:10-12:00)
Panel Chair: Kenneth Birman (Cornell University)
Panelists: Flaviu Cristian (IBM Alamaden), Barry Gleeson
(UNISYS), Jerry Popek (UCLA), and Paulo Verissimo
(IST-INESC)
LUNCH
Session 3: Weak Consistency and Semantics (2:00-3:20)
Chair: Kenneth Birman (Cornell University)
OSCAR: A System for Weak-Consistency Replication. Alan R. Down-
ing, Ira G. Greenberg, and John M. Peha (SRI International)
Lazy Replication: Exploiting the Semantics of Distributed Ser-
vices. Rivka Ladin (Digital Equipment Corporation), Barbara
Liskov and Liuba Shrira (Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy)
The Case for Controlled Inconsistency in Replicated Data. Daniel
Barbara and Hector Garcia-Molina (Princeton University)
Managing Replicated Copies in Very Large Distributed Systems.
Luis Cova and Rafael Alonso (Princeton University)
Session 4: Replication Control I (3:50-4:50)
Chair: Timothy Mann (DEC SRC)
The Siphon: Managing Distant Replicated Repositories. Francis J.
Prusker and Edward P. Wobber (Digital Equipment Corporation)
Efficient Techniques for Replicated Data Management. Divyakant
Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa
Barbara)
Replicated Objects in Arjuna. Mark Little and Santosh Shrivas-
tava (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Session 5: Replication Control II (5:00-6:00)
Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Princeton University)
Coping with Conflicts in an Optimistically Replicated File Sys-
tem. Puneet Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Transparent Disconnected Operation for Fault-Tolerance. James J.
Kistler (Carnegie Mellon University)
Specific Replication Algorithms. Maurice Herlihy (Digital Equip-
ment Corporation)
BUFFET RECEPTION (6:30-10:30)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8
Session 6: Replication Strategies (9:00-10:20)
Chair: Jehan-Francois Paris (University of Houston)
Valued Redundancy. Calton Pu, Avraham Leff, Frederick Kortz and
Shu-Wie Chen (Columbia University)
Replicated Data Management in the Gamma Database Machine. Hui-I
Hsiao and David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)
Implicit Replication in a Network File Server. Anupam Bhide (IBM
Watson Research Center), Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy (Rice
University) and Stephen P. Morgan (IBM Watson Research
Center)
Highly Redundant Management of Distributed Data. Gerhart A.
Schloss and Michael Stonebraker (University of California,
Berkeley)
Session 7: The Future of Replication Control (10:50-11:40)
Panel Chair: Jehan-Francois Paris (University of Houston)
Panelists: B. S. Bacarisse (University College London), Mustaque
Ahmad (Georgia Institute of Technology), Narayanan
Natarajan (Pennsylvania State University), David
Mutchler (University of Tennessee), Darrell D. E.
Long (University of California, Santa Cruz), and
Danco Davcev (University of Skopje, Yugoslavia)
LUNCH
Session 8: Special Issues (1:30-3:10)
Chair: Douglas Terry (Xerox PARC)
Asynchronous Broadcast Protocols. Flaviu Cristian (IBM Almaden)
Communication Substrate for Maintaining Replicated Data.
Shivakant Mishra, Larry L. Peterson and Richard D. Schlicht-
ing (University of Arizona)
Consistency Control of Replicated Data in Federated Databases.
Gio Wiederhold and Xiaolei Qian (Stanford University)
Managing Interdependent Data: Specifying Dependency and Con-
sistency Requirements. Amit Sheth and Marek Rusinkiewicz
(Bell Communication Research)
An Analysis of Replication Strategies for X.500-like Distributed
Directories. M.A. Bauer and J.M. Bennett (University of
Western Ontario)
Session 9: Conclusions (3:30-4:30)
Chair: Luis Felipe Cabrera (IBM Almaden)