CALL FOR PAPERS - WoSAR 2011 3rd International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation
Co-located with 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering ISSRE 2011 (http://www.issre.org/) After more than sixteen years of research work in software aging and rejuvenation (SAR), this is the international event to bring together researchers and practitioners involved with the theoretical and experimental aspects of software aging and rejuvenation. As a satellite event of the premier symposium, ISSRE 2011, this workshop aims to provide an unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the state of the art and the new challenges in software aging and rejuvenation research, as well as providing a unique opportunity for establishing collaborations among several research groups interested in this research field. TOPICS OF INTEREST This call is an invitation to all researchers and practitioners with an interest about the following topics (but not limited to): - Modeling and characterization of the software aging phenomenon - Experimental and empirical software aging detection techniques - Modeling, analysis and implementation of rejuvenation scheduling - Design, implementation, and evaluation of rejuvenation mechanisms - Reports on the application of software monitoring and rejuvenation to large industrial systems - Prediction models for mean time to aging-related failures - Test strategies focused on aging-related faults - Novel applications for software rejuvenation - Aging-oriented reliability growth models - Control of software aging effects - Analysis of real case studies - Software aging metrics IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration (firm): 09/01/2011 Full paper submission (firm): 09/12/2011 Research paper notification: 09/21/2011 Submission of camera-ready copy: 09/28/2011 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors from academia, industry and government are invited to submit high quality unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental SAR research. After rigorous review, all the accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers in a Special Issue of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (jetc.acm.org). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE authoring guidelines [1]. Full papers should not exceed the size limit of six pages IEEE style. Paper submission will be done electronically through the workshop website [2]. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dr. Kenji Kono Title:Rejuvenating and Prolonging the Life of Operating System Kernels Abstract: Although operating systems (OSes) are crucial to achieving high availability of computer systems, modern OSes are far from bug-free. Rebooting the OS is simple, powerful, and sometimes the only remedy for kernel failures. Once we accept reboot-based recovery as a fact of life, we should try to ensure that the downtime caused by reboots is as short as possible. In this talk, ``phase-based'' reboot is introduced that shortens the downtime caused by reboot-based recovery. The key idea is to divide a boot sequence into phases. The phase-based reboot reuses a system state in the previous boot if the next boot reproduces the same state. In this talk, a new concept called ``life-prolonging'' is also introduced. Life-prolonging is a technique to mask a failure temporarily in the kernel. The simplest implementation of life-prolonging is the Linux BUG_ON macro. The validity of this simplest implementation is investigated in the talk. Bio: Kenji Kono received the BSc degree in 1993, MSc degree in 1995, and PhD degree in 2000, all in computer science from the University of Tokyo. He is an associate professor of the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University. His research interests include operating systems, systems software, and software dependablity. He is a member of the IEEE/CS, ACM and USENIX. Dr. Sagin Garg Title: Software rejuvenation - an industry perspective Abstract: Since starting as a promising and novel mechanism in 1995, software aging and rejuvenation has come a long way establishing itself as a bonafide technique for software fault tolerance and a full-fledged research area. In this talk, I will cover the impact of software aging and rejuvenation from an industry perspective. I shall pick three specific industries, viz telecom, internet and finance and describe how aging and rejuvenation have impacted the three, from the point of view of 'presence and effect of aging',. 'application of software rejuvenation' and the benefit from modeling and optimization. We will cover the broad landscape of past research in modeling, use real-world examples of systems from the three industries and join the two with respect to applicability. In the process, I will opine on the necessity and sufficiency of software rejuvenation for more recent internet applications like social networks, search, online advertising cloud computing and mobile payments etc. Bio: Sachin is currently Vice President and Head of Digital labs, American Express based in India. Prior to this, he served as Director of advertising Sciences in Yahoo! Labs, where he was responsible for developing machine-learning and IR based models for relevance, ranking and matching of online ads with web-scale data on large cloud computing platforms. Auction theory based pricing models for online ad-exchanges and optimization for recent digital marketing trends (social media marketing and the group-buy model) were other threads Sachin was pursuing. Sachin holds a Ph.D. in ECE from Duke University under Prof. Kishor Trivedi and is a senior member of IEEE. His Ph.D. was on stochastic modeling of software rejuvenation, which constitutes the first set of papers published in this area and helped popularize the technique amongst academicians and professionals. Before Yahoo! labs, in a short stint, Sachin managed a group in Motorola Labs (India), with the charter of creating novel mobile services for emerging markets. Before moving to India in 2007, Sachin lived in New Jersey for many years, working as a research scientist at Bell Labs and Avaya Labs on research problems in distributed systems and performance evaluation. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary General Co-Chairs: Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan General Co-Chairs: Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Program Committee Co-Chairs: Katinka Wolter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Rivalino Matias Jr., Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil Publication Co-Chairs: Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Paulo R. M. Maciel, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Stefano Russo, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Finance Co-Chairs: Fumio Machida, NEC Corporation, Japan Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Kalyan Vaidyanathan, Oracle Corporation, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University, Japan Javier Alonso, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Larry Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Workshop Operations: Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University, Japan Hiroshi Yamada, Keio University, Japan Mitsuhiro Kimura, Hosei University, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE (under construction) Larry Bernstein Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Andrea Bobbio Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Kai-Yuan Cai Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Michael Grottke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Rick Harper IBM Research, USA Yun Liu Boeing, USA Fumio Machida NEC Corporation, Japan Paulo Maciel Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Miroslaw Malek Humboldt-Universitaet zu, Berlin Rivalino Matias Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil Hiroyuki Okamura Hiroshima University, Japan Agapios Platis University of the Aegean, Grece DongSeong Kim Duke University, USA Kenichi Kourai Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Stefano Russo Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Kishor Trivedi Duke University, USA Kalyan Vaidyanathan Oracle Corporation, USA Katinka Wolter Freie Universität Berlin, Germany -- [email protected] www.modcs.org Phone: 55 81 2126 84 30, ext.: 4009 Center of Informatics Federal University of Pernambuco
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