ozalp@ishtar.cs.cornell.edu (Ozalp Babaoglu) (03/05/90)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
F O U R T H A C M S I G O P S E U R O P E A N W O R K S H O P
FAULT TOLERANCE SUPPORT IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
September 3--5, 1990
Palazzo Malvezzi, University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
It is often argued that distribution and fault tolerance are two faces
of the same medallion--any system that can tolerate failures must be
distributed, and any system that is distributed must be capable of
surviving partial failures. The fourth meeting of the ACM SIGOPS
European Workshop will examine fault-tolerance support in distributed
systems. Specifically, the issues to be addressed include:
o How reliable should distributed systems be for applications like
telephone switching, funds transfer, air-traffic control, etc.?
o What formal methods are appropriate for specifying the
fault-tolerance requirements for applications?
o What are appropriate models (transactions, process groups, client/server,
etc.) for fault-tolerant computations in a distributed system?
o What are appropriate paradigms for supporting fault-tolerant
applications and how can they be implemented efficiently?
o How should fault-tolerance primitives be packaged? As new
language constructs, extensions, libraries, etc.?
o To what extent can fault tolerance be retrofitted into existing
applications automatically?
o How do hard real-time and fault-tolerance requirements interact
or conflict in a distributed system?
o What lessons can be learned from existing implementations of
fault-tolerant and distributed systems?
Workshop attendance is limited to 50 people and will be held at the
University's historic Palazzo Malvezzi, in the heart of Bologna. The
University of Bologna just celebrated its 900th anniversary, making it
the oldest university in the western world. If you wish to
participate, please submit by April 6, 1990 a position paper of not
more than FOUR pages addressing one or more of the above questions.
Please send SEVEN copies of your position paper to the Workshop Chairman:
Prof. Ozalp Babaoglu
Department of Mathematics
University of Bologna
Piazza Porta S. Donato, 5
I-40127 Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 51 354430; e-mail: ozalp@dm.unibo.it
Notification of acceptance will be mailed by May 18, 1990. Please include
an electronic mailing address (if you have one) in your position paper.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ozalp Babaoglu, Bologna, Italy (Chair) Jim Gray, Tandem, USA
Hermann Kopetz, Vienna, Austria Roger Needham, Cambridge, UK
Fabio Panzieri, L'Aquila, Italy Fred B. Schneider, Cornell, USA
Marc Shapiro, INRIA, France
Ozalp Babaoglu E-mail: ozalp@dm.unibo.it
Univ. of Bologna, Dept. of Mathematics
Piazza di Porta S. Donato, 5 TEL: +39 51 354430
40127 Bologna ITALY FAX: +39 51 354490