Last Call for Papers --- DEADLINE APPROACHES


               * * *    HADIS 2006    * * *

             Second International Workshop on
         High Availability of Distributed Systems

              in conjunction with DEXA 2006

             5 September 2006, Krakow, Poland

       http://www.iti.upv.es/madis/hadis06/cfp.html


Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2006.

Scope

High availability (HA) and wide-area distribution of mission-critical 
IT services are becoming indispensable. HA is receiving rapidly increasing 
attention, since many web-based services need to be reachable and reliable 
at any place and any time.  System downtimes resulting in a lack of 
availability are undesirable or even intolerable,  due to ergonomic, 
economical and security reasons. HA has established itself as a benchmark 
for user acceptance,  market viability,  system dependability and 
trustworthiness of distributed systems.

In general, HA refers to the continuous availability and seamless recovery 
of resources in a computer system, particularly in the wake of component 
failures. HA is concerned with avoiding single points of failure. This can 
be achieved in a variety of ways,  ranging from vendor-specific support, 
redundant software and hardware, to solutions that provide distribution 
and consistent replication of data and processes,  reliable group 
communication, membership management, quorum subsystems, concurrency 
control, and various other forms of middleware support.

HADIS 2006 will provide a forum for discussing state-of-the-art, novel and 
on-going research and development in HA. We are calling for papers reporting 
original research results, work in progress, industrial experience, or case 
studies. Submitted contributions should highlight aspects of HA in topic 
areas including, but not limited to:

 * Distributed Databases and Information Systems 

 * Protocols for Communication, Replication and Recovery

 * Failure Resilience, Fault Tolerance and Failover
 
 * Replicated Data and Processes 
 
 * Dependability and Reliability 
 
 * Local and Wide Area Clustering 
 
 * Middleware Architectures 
 
 * P2P and GRID Computing 
 
 * Load Sharing and Load Balancing 
 
 * Software and Hardware Redundancy 
 
 * High Performance Computing 
 
 * Transparency of Distribution 
 
 * Distributed Storage Systems 
 
 * HA and Aspect Orientation 

 * HA and Formal Methods 
 
 * HA and Integrity 

 * HA and Security 
 
 * HA and Standardisation 

 * HA and Trust

 * HA and Ubiquity

 * HA in Wireless, Mobile and Nomadic Networks 

 * HA for Service Architectures and Applications


Authors are asked to submit an an electronic version (preferably .pdf) of 
original unpublished work by 3/03/2006. Full papers must currently be neither 
revised nor published elsewhere, contain an abstract of up to 200 words, be 
written in English and not exceed 5000 words. An electronic submission site 
is operational. Submissions can also be sent directly to the programme chair. 
We recommend to use the format of the final versions of accepted papers. 
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in a proceedings volume of the 
DEXA 2006 workshops. 


Important Dates

 * Paper Submission: 13 March 2006
 * Notification:     14 April 2006
 * Camera Ready:     15 May 2006
 * Workshop:          5 Sept. 2006


Organisers

 * Stephane Bressan, National Univ. Singapore (co-chair)
 * Hendrik Decker, Instituto Tecnol. de Informatica, Valencia, Spain (chair)
 * Francesc D. Munyoz, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain (programme chair) 

 
Programme Committee

 * Lorenzo Alvisi, Univ. Texas Austin, U.S.A.
 * Roberto Baldoni, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy 
 * Maria del Carmen Banuls, Max Planck Inst. Quantenoptik, Germany 
 * Stephane Bressan, National Univ. Singapore
 * Jesus Carretero, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 
 * Vicent Cholvi, Univ. Jaume I, Castellon, Spain 
 * Hendrik Decker, Inst. Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain
 * Pascal Felber, Univ. Neuchatel, Switzerland 
 * Christof Fetzer, Tech. Univ. Dresden, Germany 
 * Pablo Galdamez, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain 
 * Karl Goeschka, Tech. Univ. Vienna, Austria 
 * Hamidah Ibrahim, Univ. Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
 * Bettina Kemme, McGill Univ. Montreal, Canada
 * Marc-Olivier Killijian, CNRS Toulouse, France 
 * Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Univ., Spain 
 * Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain 
 * Jose R. Gonzalez de Mendivil, Univ. Publica Navarra, Spain
 * Anirban Mondal Univ. Tokyo, Japan 
 * Francesc D. Munyoz, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain 
 * Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping Univ., Sweden
 * Marta Patino-Martinez, Univ. Politec. Madrid, Spain
 * Rasmus Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 
 * Fernando Pedone, Univ. Lugano, Switzerland 
 * Luigi Romano, Univ. Napoli, Italy 
 * Juan-Carlos Ruiz-Garcia, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain
 * Jesus Villadangos, Univ. Publica Navarra, Spain

For submissions, please see instructions on
http://www.iti.upv.es/madis/hadis06/cfp.html
and
http://www.iti.upv.es/madis/hadis06/index.html 
for further information.

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