The current age of pervasive communication,
worldwide networked systems, and converged networks brings the areas of
fault tolerance, fault management and quality guarantees to the
forefront of today's research topics. Of special importance are
cross-domain techniques, distributed fault management architectures,
and autonomic protocols for improving the reliability, dependability,
and manageability of network-centric systems.
IEEE DANMS 2007 provides an opportunity to bring
together a broad range of researchers from network management,
distributed systems, dependable systems, and autonomic computing, to
exchange ideas and promote discussion on research topics in these
areas. The workshop will be comprised of technical presentations, a
panel session with representatives from industry and academia, and will
provide ample opportunities for free discussions on the ideas presented.
Novel papers are invited from both academic and
industrial environments, describing original research, new theoretical
and practical results, innovative techniques, and in-depth user studies
on topics such as:
- Dependability issues in designing and
managing communicating networks
- Self-healing, self-repairing and
self-stabilizing systems
- Architectures that enable efficient
monitoring and fault detection
- Fault modelling, isolation,
correlation and prediction
- Fault detection and recovery
- Stability and coherent behaviour
guarantees in the presence of faults and inconsistency
- Adaptation of classic fault diagnosis
for network management
- Impact of fault occurrence on
degraded services, SLAs and QoS
- Automatic / policy-based systems for
recovery and isolation of faults
- Policy models for QoS adaptation
- Models that expose the relationship
between fault management and performance management
- Distributed fault detection,
monitoring and fault management
- Redundancy and diversity management
- Fault propagation and injection
- Verification and validation protocols
- Experience reports from real,
deployed fault-management systems
Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of this
workshop, we are open to papers that cover any aspect of fault
tolerance, reliability, and dependability in mobile, distributed and
real-time systems, such as: network configuration, operation, and
management, performance enhancement, real-time response of wireless,
ubiquitous, optical communication networks, radio access and transport
networks, dependability in high-speed networks, service reliability.
The papers will be selected based on their
originality, relevance, clarity, technical merit, correctness, and the
likelihood that their presentations will lead to insightful technical
discussions at the workshop.
Instructions for authors:
Authors are invited to submit papers of max. five
pages (including figures, tables, and references), in the standard
2-column, 10 pt font conference paper format. At most one
additional page can be accepted at an extra charge of USD 200.
The work submitted must be original, not
previously published or under submission at any other venues. For each
accepted paper, at least one author must be registered and present the
paper at the workshop.
Important dates:
Paper submission:
July 31, 2007 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: September
1, 2007
Camera-ready
paper:
September 15, 2007
Contact address:
danms2007[AT]danms.org
