From: "A. Gupta" Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems - Call for Participation Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:07:23 -0400 Organization: Western Michigan University Message-Id: <3613D2EA.14A8CE83@wmich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------C8E6DD6459B04FF1C961FA98" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C8E6DD6459B04FF1C961FA98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------C8E6DD6459B04FF1C961FA98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="cfPartSymp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="cfPartSymp" My apologies, if you receive multiple copies. **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** SEVENTEENTH IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (In honor of Prof. C. V. Ramamoorthy) October 21-22, 1998, Stewart Center, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA Workshops on October 20, 1998 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing in cooperation with Purdue University and Ohio State University. Web Page: http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~joshi/ieeerds.html SRDS - TECHNICAL PROGRAM (All Sessions in STEWART CENTER - ROOM 202) TUESDAY, October 20, 1998 7:00-9:00 pm DINNER (BOMBAY RESTAURANT - Eastway Plaza on 52 Hwy between I-25 & I-26 (765)-446-1234) WEDNESDAY, October 21, 1998 7:30-8:00 am Registration 8:00-8:15 am Welcoming Remarks, Dean Harry Morrison 8:15-8:45 am Keynote Speaker: Professor C.V. Ramamoorthy, UC-Berkeley 8:45-10:00 am SESSION 1: Message Logging Chair: A. KSHEMKALYANI * A Non-Blocking Recovery Algorithm for Causal Message Logging. J. MITCHELL, V.K. GARG, University of Texas at Austin. * The Cost of Recovery in Message Logging Protocols. SRIRAM RAO, LORENZO ALVISI, HARRICK M.VIN, University of Texas at Austin. * An Efficient Algorithm for Causal Message Logging. BYOUNGJOO LEE, Seoul National University; TAESOON PARK, University; HEON Y. YEOM, Seoul National University; YOOKUN CHO, Seoul National and Sejong Universities (Korea). 10:00-10:20 am BREAK 10:20-12:00 pm SESSION 2: Replicated Objects Chair: P. SHEU * ROI: An Invocation Mechanism for Replicated Objects. FRANCESC D. MUNOZ-ESCOI, PABLO GALDAMEZ, JOSEP M. BERNABEU-AUBAN, University Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). * View Consistency for Optimistic Replication. ASHVIN GOEL, CALTON PU, OGI-Portland and GERALD J. POPEK, UCLA. * Semi-Passive Replication. XAVIER DEFAGO, ANDRE SCHIPER, and NICOLE SERGENT, EPFL (Switzerland). * Secure and Scalable Replication in Phalanx. DAHLIA MALKHI and MICHAEL REITER, AT&T Labs. 12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH (WEST FACULTY LOUNGE, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) 1:00-2:40 pm SESSION 3: Checkpointing Chair: M. RAYNAL * A VP-Accordant Checkpointing Protocol Preventing Useless Checkpoints. R. BALDONI, F. QUAGLIA, B. CICIANI, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy). * System-Level versus User-Defined Checkpointing. LUIS M. SILVA, JOAO GABRIEL SILVA, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). * Checkpoints-on-Demand with Active Replication. SAMPATH RANGARAJAN, SACHIN GARG, YENNUN HUANG, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. * Design and Analysis of a Hardware-Assisted Checkpointing and Recovery Scheme for Distributed Applications. BINA RAMAMURTHY, SHAMBHU UPADHYAYA, BHARAT BHARGAVA, SUNY-Buffalo and Purdue University. 2:40-3:00 pm BREAK 3:00-4:40 pm SESSION 4: Wireless Systems Chair: R. PRAKASH * Checkpoint-Recovery Protocol for Reliable Mobile Systems. HIROAKI HIGAKI, MAKOTO TAKIZAWA, Tokyo Denki University (Japan). * A Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Providing the Exactly-Once Property of Mobile Agents. KURT ROTHERMEL, MARKUS STRASSER, Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR), University of Stuttgart (Germany). * Tolerating Visitor Location Register Failures in Mobile Environments. SAAD BIAZ, NITIN H. VAIDYA, Texas A&M University. * An Active Transcoding Proxy to Support Mobile Web Access. HARINI BHARADVAJ, ANUPAM JOSHI, SANSANEE AUEPHANWIRIYAKUL, University of Missouri-Columbia. 4:40-6:20 pm SESSION 5: Distributed Software Environments Chair: J. PALSBERG * A Metaobject Protocol for Fault-Tolerant CORBA Applications. MARC-OLIVIER KILLIJIAN, JEAN CHARLES FABRE, JUAN-CARLOS RUIZ-GARCIA, LAAS-CNRS, (France); SHIGERU CHIBA, Institute of Information Science and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, (Japan). * Safe and Efficient Active Networks. SCOTT THIBAULT, GILLES MULLER, IRISA/INRIA, CHARLES CONSEL, Universite de Rennes 1 (France). * Patterns for Practical Fault Tolerant Software in JAVA. Golden G. RICHARD III, SHENGRU TU, University of New Orleans. * Evolving Distributed Software Development Environments. GEORGE COWAN, ROBERT REYNOLDS, Wayne State University. 6:20-6:50 pm IEEE Tech Committee on Distributed Processing Meeting (Joe Urban). 7:00-9:00 pm DINNER (NORTH BALLROOM, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) THURSDAY, October 22, 1998 8:00-9:40 am SESSION 6: Primary Backup Chair: S. UPADHYAYA * Failure Handling in an Optimized Two-Safe Approach to Maintaining Primary-Backup Systems. KEXIANG HU, SHARAD MEHROTRA, SIMON KAPLAN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC-Irvine. * An Integration of the Primary-Shadow TMO Replication (PSTR) Scheme with a Supervisor-based Network Surveillance Scheme and its Recovery Time Bound Analysis. KANE KIM, CHITTUR SUBBARAMAN, University of California at Irvine. * Optimization of a Real-Time Primary-Backup Replication Service. HENGMIN ZOU, FARNAM JAHANIAN, University of Michigan. * Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithm for Low Overhead Fault-Tolerance. KOJI HASHIMOTO, TATSUHIRO TSUCHIYA, TOHRU KIKUNO, Osaka University (Japan). 9:40-10:00 am BREAK 10:00-11:15 am SESSION 7: The Internet Chair: D. COMER * A Security Auction-like Negotiation Protocol for Agent-based Internet Trading. XUN YI, XIAO FENG WANG, KWOK YAN LAM, National University of Singapore (Japan). * Design and Verification of a Secure Electronic Auction Protocol. SRI SUBRAMANIAN, Ohio State University. * Transformation Based Reconstruction for Voice Transmissions over the Internet. BEN WAH, DONG LIN, University of Illinois. 11:15-12:30 pm SESSION 8: Process Groups Chair: A. MATHUR * Tolerating Communication and Client Failures in Distributed Groupware Systems. H.S. SHIM, ATUL PRAKASH, University of Michigan. * Fault-Tolerant Total Order Multicast to Asynchronous Groups. UDO FRITZKE, PH. INGELS, ACHOUR MOSTEFAOUI, MICHEL RAYNAL, IRISA/INRIA, Universite de Rennes (France). * Architecture for Group Communication in Mobile Systems, RAVI PRAKASH, ROBERTO BALDONI, University of Texas at Dallas, (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza".) 12:30-1:30 pm LUNCH (NORTH BALLROOM, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) 1:30-2:45 pm SESSION 9: Case Studies Chair: C. PU * AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture that Provides Dependable Distributed Objects. MICHEL CUKIER, JENNIFER REN, CHETAN SABNIS, WILLIAM H. SANDERS, DAVID E. BAKKEN, MARK E. BERMAN, DAVID A. KARR, RICHARD E. SCHANTZ, University of Illinois. * Speculation-based Distributed Simulation for Dependability Analysis: A Case Study. YIQING HUANG, ZBIGNIEW KALBARCZYK, RAVI K. IYER, University of Illinois. * Chameleon: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault-Tolerance. S. BAGCHI, K.WHISNANT, Z.KALBARCZYK, R.K. IYER, University of Illinois. 2:45-4:00 pm SESSION 10: Consensus Chair: M. SINGHAL * Survivable Consensus Objects. DAHLIA MALKHI and MICHAEL REITER, AT&T Labs. * Consensus in Asynchronous Systems Where Processes Can Crash and Recover. MICHEL HURFIN, ACHOUR MOSTEFAOUI, MICHEL RAYNAL, IRISA/INRIA, Universite de Rennes (France). * A Randomized Algorithm for Distributed Consensus. AKHIL KUMAR, University of Colorado, Boulder. 4:00-4:10 pm BREAK 4:10-5:00 pm SESSION 11: Database Systems Chair: Z. LI * A Distributed Version of the Sequence Language. DAN COOKE, VLADIK KREINOVICH, JOSEPH URBAN, UT-EPaso and Arizona State University. * Optimizing Join Index Based Join Processing - A Graph Partitioning Approach. SIVA RAVADA, SHASHI SHEKAR, University of Minnesota. 6:00-9:00 pm CELEBRATION PARTY (location to be announced) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE * GENERAL CHAIR, Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University * PROGRAM CHAIR: Mukesh Singhal, The Ohio State University * AWARDS CHAIR: P. Sheu, UC-Irvine * FINANCE and REGISTRATION CHAIR: John Fisher, Purdue University - jrfisher@cea.purdue.edu (765)-494-9499, Toll free 1-(800)-359-2968, ext 92F (contact person for Purdue arrangements.) * PUBLICITY Co-CHAIRS: B. Fleisch, UC-Riverside; S. Wang, Purdue University * LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Co-CHAIRS: A. Zhang, SUNY, Buffalo; Anjali Bhargava, Purdue University (For help, e-mail acm@cs.purdue.edu) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * * Arora, Ohio State University, USA * D. Avresky, Boston University, USA * R. Baldoni, University of Rome, Italy * F. Bastani, UT-Dallas, USA * G. Ciardo, William & Mary University, USA * M. Dal Cin, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * J. Dugan, University of Virginia, USA * S. Garg, Bell Labs, USA * S. Helal, MCC, USA * R. Iyer, University of Illinois, USA * K. Kim, UC-Irvine, USA * Kshemkalyani, University of Cincinnati, USA * T. Lawrence, Rome Lab, USA * D. Long, UC-Santa Barbara, USA * L. Moser, UC-Santa Barbara, USA * E. Nett, GMD, Germany * R. Prakash, UT-Dallas, USA * Pu, Oregon Research Institute, USA * M. Raynal, IRISA, France * S. Shatz, University of Illinois-Champaign, USA * Schiper, EPEL, Switzerland * P. Scheuermann, NSF, USA * M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan * K. Trivedi, Duke University, USA * Taylor, University of Waterloo, Canada * W. Tsai, University of Minnesota, USA * S. Upadhyaya, SUNY, Buffalo, USA * I-Ling Yen, UT-Dallas, USA WORKSHOP ON SECURITY IN LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems October 20-21, 1998, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA In cooperation with: The Purdue CERIAS The COAST Laboratory, Purdue University IFIP Technical Committee 11, Working Group 4 (Network Security) The President's NSTAC SECURITY - TECHNICAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, October 20, 1998 8:00-8:30 am Registration 8:30-8:45 am Welcoming Remarks (STEWART CENTER - ROOM 202) 8:45-9:30 am Keynote Address (speaker TBD) 9:30-10:30 am Panel Security Technology B. Mukherjee, UC Davis (Panel Moderator) Mike O'Dell, UUNe J.F. Mergen, BBN/GTE Sami Saydjari, DARPA 10:30-11:00 am BREAK 11:00-12:00 pm SESSION 1: Technology * An Efficient MPEG Video Encryption Algorithm. C. SHI, B. BHARGAVA, Purdue University. * Security in the Large: Is Java's Sandbox Scalable? Q. ZHONG, N. EDWARDS, HP Labs Bristol. 12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH and two 20-minute "Perspective talks" (WEST FACULTY LOUNGE, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) Theme: What are the problems, and what stands in the way of really fixing them? 1. A Perspective from Academia, E. SPAFFORD, Purdue University. 2. A Perspective from Business, D. GEER, CertCo. 1:30-3:15 pm SESSION 2: Policies & Management Issues * Enforcing Security Policies in Large Scale Communication Networks. T. APOSTOLOPOULOS, et al., Athens University & University of the Aegean. * Managing Network Security - A Pragmatic Approach. R. FALK, M. TROMMER, TU Munchen. * Requirements for a True Enterprise-Wide Security Infrastructure. D. MERRILL, et al., Price Waterhouse. * Security in Mobile Systems. V. SUBRAMANYAM and V. JOSHI, University of Missouri. 3:15-4:00 pm BREAK 4:00-5:15 pm SESSION 3: Incidents and Investigation * Local Area Detection of Incoming War Dial Activity. E. AMOROSO, et al. AT&T Labs. * Incident Response for Large Scale Systems. D. BRACKNEY, NSA. * Legal Reliability in Large Scale Distributed Systems. P. SOMMER, London School of Economics. 5:15 pm Adjourn 7:00 pm DINNER (BOMBAY RESTAURANT - Hwy 52 between I-25 & I-26, Eastway Plaza; (765)-446-1234) WEDNESDAY, October 21, 1998 Working session with NSTAC. By invitation only. (STEWART CENTER - ROOM 314) CHAIRMAN: Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University PROGRAM CHAIR: Gene Spafford, CERIAS http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/, Purdue University PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Dan Geer, CertCo LLC * Terry Mayfield, IDA * J.F. Mergen, GTE Internetworking/BBN * Biswanath Mukherjee, UC-Davis * Rolf Oppliger, Swiss Federal Office of Info. Technology & Systems * Joseph Pasquale, UC-San Diego * Sami Saydjari, DARPA * Christoph Schuba, Sun Microsystems WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING Held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems October 20-21, 1998, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA MULTIMEDIA - TECHNICAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, October 20, 1998 8:00-8:30 am Registration 8:30-8:45 am Welcoming Remarks (STEWART CENTER - ROOM 202) 9:00-10:30 am SESSION 1: Multimedia Protocols * End to End Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol Requirements for Collaborative Multimedia Systems. N. KAUSER, J. CROWCROFT, University College. * An Efficient Scheme to Reduce Handoff Dropping in LEO Satellite Systems. S. KALYANASUNDARAM, E.K.P. CHONG, N.B. SHROFF, Purdue University. * A Fragmentation Scheme for Multimedia Traffic in Active Networks. SHENG-YIH WANG, B. BHARGAVA, Purdue University. 10:30-11:00 am BREAK 11:00-12:00 pm SESSION 2: Compressed Media Communication * CORBA Evaluation of Video Streaming wrt QoS Provisioning. W. LEE, J. SRIVASTAVA, University of Minnesota. * Evaluation of Filtering Mechanisms for MPEG Video Communications. S. SEDIGH, J. JOSHI, A. BASHANDY, A. GHAFOOR, Purdue University. * Pixel Level Interleaving Schemes for Robust Image Communications. R. HASIMOTO, A. KHOKHAR, University of Delaware. 12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH (WEST FACULTY LOUNGE, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) 1:30-3:15 pm SESSION 3: Multimedia Synchronization and Internet Communication * Interactive Image Retrieval over the Internet. J. VASS, J. YAO, A. JOSHI, K. PALANIAPPAN, X. ZHUANG, University of Missouri and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. * Issue on Multimedia Synchronization over Broadband Networks. S. BAQAI, M.F. KHAN, S. SHEIKH, Widener University. * A Data Allocation Algorithm for Distributed Hypermedia Documents. SIU-KAI SO, I. AHMAD, K. KARLAPALEM, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. * An Object-Relational Database for Brain Aging Research. T. WANG, P. SHEU, B. CUMMINGS, C. COTMAN, UC Irvine. 3:15-4:00 pm BREAK 4:00-5:00 pm Panel (TBA) 7 :00 pm DINNER (BOMBAY RESTAURANT - Hwy 52 between I-25 & I-26, Eastway Plaza; (765)-446-1234) CHAIRMAN: Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University PROGRAM CHAIR: Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology * Melli Annmalia, Oracle * Bruce P. Berra, Write State University * Anupam Joshi, University of Minnesota * Aurel Lazar, Columbia University * Tom Little, Boston University * Peiya Liu, Siemens Corporate Research * Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois-Urbana * Venkat Rangan, UC-San Diego * Ness Shroff, Purdue University * Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota * Satish K. Tripathi, UC-Riverside * Faramak Vakil, Bellcore * Harrick Vin, University of Texas-Austin * Miae Woo, Sejong University, Korea * Zhang, Aidong, SUNY, Buffalo WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems October 20-21, 1998, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA APADS - TECHNICAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, October 20, 1998 8:00-8:30 am Registration 8:30-8:45 am Welcoming Remarks (STEWART CENTER - ROOM 202) SESSION 1: Session Chair: Ananth Grama 8:45- 9:15 am Invited Talk KIRK SCHLOEGEL, GEORGE KARYPIS, VIPIN KUMAR, University of Minnesota. Load Balancing of Dynamic and Adaptive Mesh-Based Computations. 9:15- 9:40 am L. WITTIE, G. SAZAKLIS, Y. ZHOU, D. ZINOVIEV, SUNY Stony Brook. High Thruput Nets for Petaflops Computing. 9:40-10:05 am WEI-MING LIN, CHUNHUI ZHAO, University of Texas, San Antonio. Look-Ahead Traffic Distribution in Wormhole-Routed Networks. 10:05-10:30 am SHAHZAD ALI, ASHFAQ KHOKHAR, University of Delaware. Distributed Center Location Algorithm for Fault-tolerant Multicast in Wide-Area Networks. 10:30-11:00 am BREAK SESSION 2: Session Chair: (TBA) 11:00-11:25 am T. BRAUN, M. MAHESWARAN, H.J. SIEGEL, N. BECK, L. BOLONI, A. REUTHER, J. ROBERTSON, M. THEYS, B. YAO, Purdue University. A Taxonomy for Describing Matching and Scheduling Heuristics for Mixed-Machine Heterogeneous Computing Systems. 11:25-11:50 am ALEKSANDAR MILENKOVIC, VELJKO MILUTINOVIC, University of Belgrade. Cache Injection on Bus-based Multiprocessors. 12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH (WEST FACULTY LOUNGE, PURDUE MEMORIAL UNION) SESSION 3: Session Chair: HJ Siegel 1:30-2:00 pm Invited Talk DENNIS GANNON, Indiana University. Programming the Grid: Component Systems for Distributed Applications. 2:00-2:25 pm HIROSHI INAMURA, NTT Inf. and Comm. Systems Lab. Extending the Coda File System to Handle Cache Misses on Isolated Clients. 2:25-2:50 pm KARAN BHATIA, KEITH MARZULLO, University of California, San Diego, LORENZO ALVISI, University of Texas, Austin. The Relative Overhead of Piggybacking in Causal Message Logging Protocols. 2:50-3:15 pm MILENA PETROVIC, IGOR TARTALJA, VELJKO MILUTINOVIC, University of Belgrade. Influence of Context Switch on Branch Predictor Design. 3:15-4:00 pm BREAK SESSION 4: Session Chair: Ajay Gupta 4:00-4:25 pm OUM-EL-KHEIR BENKAHLA, CHANTAL ROBACH, LCIS/ESISAR-INPG. Off-line Diagnosis of Parallel Systems. 4:25-4:50 pm FRANK DEHNE, Carleton University, SILVIA GOETZ, University of Paderborn. Practical Parallel Algorithms for Minimum Spanning Trees. 4:50-5:15 pm NIRAV KAPADIA, CARLA BRODLEY, JOSE FORTES, MARK LUNDSTROM, Purdue University. Resource-Usage Prediction for Demand-Based Network-Computing Off-line Diagnosis of Parallel Systems. 7:00 pm DINNER (BOMBAY RESTAURANT - Hwy 52 between I-25 & I-26, Eastway Plaza; (765)-446-1234) CHAIRMAN: Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University PROGRAM CHAIR: Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Tech * Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University * Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University (publicity chair) * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden * Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Delaware * Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota * Virginia Lo, University of Oregon * Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh * Dan Reed, University of Illinois * HJ Siegel, Purdue University REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Symposium + Workshop Symposium Workshop IEEE Members $575 $425 $275 Non-IEEE Members $650 $525 $275 Students $425 $275 $275 Proceedings $60.00 NAME: ________________________________________________________________________ IEEE MEMBERSHIP #: (If applicable): ______________________________________________ E-MAIL: _______________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION: _________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________________________ CITY, STATE, ZIP, COUNTRY: ____________________________________________________ Credit card registration is acceptable. 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