You can download ISAS 2005 advance program.

2nd International Service Availability Symposium

25-26 April 2005, Berlin

Advance Program

Monday, April 25

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome Address
Miroslaw Malek and Neeraj Suri

9:15 – 10:15


Session 1:
Keynote Address
Session Chair: Neeraj Suri

TTA-supported Service Availability
Hermann Kopetz, Vienna University of Technology


10:15 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:15


Session 2: Data and Computation Availability
Session Chair: Christof Fetzer

The Value of Conformance Testing and a Look at the SAF Test Project
Bob Spencer, Intel Corporation

Building Highly Available Application using SA Forum Cluster: A Case Study of 3G GGSN Application
Ajay Kamalvanshi, Timo Jokiaho, Nokia 

Using Logical Data Protection and Recovery to Improve Data Availability
Wei Hu, Oracle Corporation
 

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
 
13:30 – 15:00

Session 3: Specifying, Modeling and Verifying Service Availability
Session Chair: Aad van Moorsel

Contract-based Web Service Composition Framework with Correctness Guarantees
Nikola Milanovic
Humboldt University Berlin
 
Practical Approach to Specification and Conformance Testing of Distributed Network Applications
Victor Kuliamin, Alexander Petrenko, Nickolay Pakoulin
Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences 
 
Model-based Optimization of Enterprise Application and Service Deployment
András Balogh, Dániel Varró, András Pataricza 
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session 4:
Panel Discussion
Panel Moderator: Miroslaw Malek

"
Are Service-oriented Architectures the Panacea for a High-Availability Challenge?"
Roger Kilian-Kehr (SAP), Brendan Murphy (Microsoft Research),
Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle), Guido Laures (Hasso Plattner Institute)
 
19:30 Boat Cruise and Dinner

Tuesday, April 26
 
8:30 – 10:30

Session 5 (Invited papers): Modeling and Composition
Session Chair: Guenter Heiner

Modeling User-Perceived Service Availability
Dazhi Wang, Kishor Trivedi
Duke University
 
Dependable Distributed Computing using Free Databases
Christof Fetzer, Trevor Jum
Technical University of Dresden
 
A Compositional Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems
Insup Lee, Insik Shin
University of Pennsylvania
 
Composability of Ad Hoc Mobile Middleware and Trust Management for  Critical Infrastructures
Dave E. Bakken, Ovidiu-Valentin Drugan, Ioanna Dionysiou, 
Thomas Plagemann, Deborah Frincke, Carl Hauser
University of Oslo

10:30 – 11:00
 

Break
11:00 – 11:45

Session 6: Invited talk
Session Chair: Manfred Reitenspiess

The SAF Availability Management Framework: Towards Standardized HA Middleware
David Penkler, HP
 

11:45 - 13:15 Session 7: Service Availability Forum Special Session
Session Chair: Francis Tam
 
Transparent Checkpointing on Linux in Comparison with 
App-oriented/app-directed ckpt (as in AIS)
Jan-Thomas Czornack, TU Munich
 
HPI as an Interface to ATCA and Other Blade-based Servers
Adam Schmidt, Motorola
 
Service Availability; Its not just Technology!!
Jon Kenton, Motorola
 
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
 
14:30 – 16:00

Session 8: Verification and Availability Assessment
Session Chair: Kishor Trivedi

Proof-Based Systems Engineering Using Virtual System Models 
Gerard Le Lann, INRIA Rocquencourt
Martin Biely, Ulrich Schmid, Vienna University of Technology
 
Evaluation of the Impact of Congestion on Service Availability in GPRS infrastructures
Paolo Lollini, Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI - CNR
 
Characterizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Network Performance and Reliability 
Vijay Gurbani, Lalita Jagadeesan, Veena Mendiratta
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies