IPDS98 - Call for Participation
Gabriele Kotsis
gabi@poseidon.ani.univie.ac.at
Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:02:35 +0200
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IPDS '98
IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium
Durham, NC -- Sept. 7-9, 1998
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Conference Registration:
See web site: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~shambhu/ipdspage.html
Early registration is in effect BEFORE 7/31/98.
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Conference Site
Regal University Hotel
2800 Campus Walk
Durham, NC 27705-4479
Tel: 919-383-8575
Fax: 919-383-8495
Reservations: 800-633-5379 (Hotel direct)
Ask for IPDS'98 rate ($84 / $99) BEFORE 8/14/98.
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Monday, September 7, 1998
8:15 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
* Kishor Trivedi, IPDS '98 General Chair
* Robert Geist, Guenter Haring, Program Co-Chairs
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Session
* Performance Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems
Ed Coffman, Lucent Technologies
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Poster Session with authors, Conf Rooms 602 & 604, 2nd Floor
10:30 - 12:00 Software Reliability
Chair: Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University
* Fine Grained Software Rejuvenation Models
Andrea Bobbio and Matteo Sereno
* An Analytic Approach to Architecture-Based Software
Reliability Prediction
S.S. Gokhale, W.E. Wong, K.S. Trivedi, and J.R. Horgan
* Coordinated Checkpointing Without Direct Coordination
Nuno Neves and W. Kent Fuchs
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch - 2nd Floor Balcony
1:30 - 3:00 Petri Nets
Chair: Reinhard German, Technische Universitat Berlin
* Efficient approximate transient analysis for a class of
deterministic and stochastic Petri nets
Gianfranco Ciardo and Guangzhi Li
* Supplementary variable approach applied to the transient
analysis of age-MRSPNs
Miklos Telek and Andras Horvath
* Kronecker Representation of Stochastic Petri Nets with
Discrete and Continuous PH Distributions
Marco Scarpa and Andrea Bobbio
3:00 - 3:30 Break
Poster Session with authors, Conference Rooms 602 & 604, 2nd Floor
3:30 - 5:00 Networks
Chair: Andy Rindos, IBM
* Stop & Go ABR in ATM LANs: Performance Analysis with GSPNs
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Khalid Begain, and Rossano Gaeta
* A Case Study of the Trade-offs in a Parallel Protocol Processing
Architecture Under Transient Link Failures
Dipak Ghosal
* Performance Evaluation of Algorithms for Wireless Medium Access
Vaduvur Bharghavan
7:00 - 9:00 pm Student Presentation Session
* Contact: Lorrie Tomek, tomek@us.ibm.com
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Tuesday, September 8, 1998
8:15 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Panel
Chair: Rick Harper, Stratus Computer, Inc.
* Viewpoints on the State of the Art of Dependable Systems
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Poster Session with authors, Conference Rooms 602 & 604, 2nd Floor
10:30 - 12:00 Distributed Systems
Chair: Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida
* On the propagation of updates in distributed replicated systems
M. Misra and I. Mitrani
* A Unified Framework for Design and Performance Analysis of
Distributed Systems
Henk Jonkers, Wil Janssen, Anneke Verschut and Erik Wierstra
* Action models: A reliability modeling formalism for fault-
tolerant distributed computing systems
Aad van Moorsel
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch - 2nd Floor Balcony
1:30 - 3:00 Queueing Networks
Chair: Raymond Marie, University of Rennes
* The fault-tolerant layered queueing network model for
performability of distributed systems
Olivia Das and Murray Woodside
* Interval Matrices for the Bottleneck Analysis of Queueing
Network Models with Histogram-Based Parameters
Johannes Luethi
* Product Form Solution for a class of PEPA Models
Jane Hillston and Nigel Thomas
3:00 - 3:30 Break
Poster Session with authors, Conference Rooms 602 & 604, 2nd Floor
3:30 - 5:00 File Systems
Chair: Sunil Santha, Texas A&M University
* Adaptive File System Consistency for Unreliable Mobile
Computing Environments
Dane Dwyer
* Design of a Fault Tolerant Realtime Storage System for
Multimedia Applications
Richard Muntz, Jose Renato Santos, and Frank Fabbrocino
* Performance Analysis of Distributed Real-Time Databases
R. Fricks, A. Puliafito, and K. Trivedi
6:30 - 9:00 pm Banquet, R. David Thomas Center, Duke University
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Wednesday, September 9, 1998
8:15 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Session
* Challenges in High Availability -- An Industrial Vision
Ram Chillarege, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Applications
Chair: Darrel Suggs, Data General
* On-Board Preventive Maintenance for Long-Life Deep-Space
Missions: A Model-Based Analysis
Ann T. Tai, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Chau
* Dependability Evaluation of An Air Traffic Control
Computing System
Nicolae Fota, Mohamed Kaaniche, Karama Kanoun
* Making Benchmarks Uncheatable
Jin-Yi Cai, Ajay Nerukar and Min-You Wu
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - 2nd Floor Balcony
1:00 - 3:00 Large Systems Evaluation
Chair: Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo
* State-Space Support for Path-Based Reward Variables
W. Douglas Obal II and William H. Sanders
* A Practical Approach for Approximating Steady-state Measures
in Large, Repairable, Highly-Dependable Systems
P. Shahabuddin, P. Glynn
* Hierarchical Approach to Accurate Fault Modeling for System
Evaluation
G. Ries, M. Lee, Y. Xiao, Z. Kalbarczyk, J. Patel, R. Iyer
* Bounding Steady-state Availability Models with Phase type
Repair Distributions
Juan A. Carrasco
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Poster Sessions
Hotel Conference Rooms 602 & 604, 2nd Floor
Authors present during breaks
A Novel Redundancy Technique for Mobile Networks
Li Li and Dharma P. Agrawal
RODA IN: A Highly Available Real-Time Main-Memory Database System
Tiina Niklander and Kimmo Raatikainen
Technique and Tool for Symbolic Representation and Manipulation
of Stochastic Transition Systems
Markus Siegle
Virtual Waiting Time in Queues Obtained from Second Order FSPNs
Katinka Wolter
A Fault Injection Methodology for Embedded Systems
R. Bulusu, N. Krishnamurthy, and J. Abraham
Chamelion: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault Tolerance,
S. Bagchi, K. Whishnant, Z. Kalbraczyk, and R. Iyer
Fault Coverage Design and Analysis Tools for Fault Tolerant Systems
G. Turconi, E. di Perna, E. Marchetti, and S. Pistorio
Exploiting the Background Debugging Mode in a Fault Injection System
Paolo Prinetto, Marizio Rebaudengo, and Matteo Sonza Reorda
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Banquet:
Tuesday, September 8, 1998
at: R. David Thomas Center
Duke University
time: 6:30 pm
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