7:30 am- 8:30 am

Registration starts.

 8:30 am- 9:00 am

Chairs welcome.

 9:00 am-10:00 am

Keynote: The Lost Art of Abstraction

Richard Schlichting, AT&T Research.

10:00 am-10:30 am

Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm

Session 1: Mobile and Autonomous Computing.

Chair: Fernando Pedone

·        Consistency Management among Replicas in Peer-to-Peer Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by T. Hara, S. Madria

·        Architecture-Based Autonomous Repair Management: An Application to J2EE Clusters by S. Bouchenak, F. Boyer, D. Hagimont, S. Krakowiak, A. Mos,N. de Palma, V. Quema, J. Stefani

·        Automatic Model-Driven Recovery in Distributed Systems by K. Joshi, M. Hiltunen, W. H. Sanders, R. Schlichting.

12:00 pm- 1:30 pm

Lunch

 1:30 pm- 3:00 pm

Session 2: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.

Chair: S. Venkatesan

·        A Fault-Tolerant and Efficient Ad-hoc Routing Protocol, R. Melamed and I. Keidar and Y. Barel.

·        Self* Distributed Query Region Covering in Sensor Networks, by A.K. Datta, M; Gradinariu, P. Linga, P. Raipin-Parvedy.

·        Reliable Estimation of Influence Fields for Classification and Tracking in Unreliable Sensor Networks, by S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, A. Arora.

 3:00 pm- 3:30 pm

Break

 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm

Session 3: Distributed Transactions.

Chair: Dough Blough

·        Database Replication Using Generalized Snapshot Isolation, by S. Elnikety, F. Pedone, W. Zwaenepoel.

·        Consistent Main-memory Database Federations under Deferred Disk Writes, by R. Schmidt, F. Pedone.

·        Fault-tolerance for Stateful Application Servers in the Presence of Advanced Transactions Patterns, by H. Wu, B. Kemme.

·        LRRM: A Randomized Reliable Multicast Protocol for Optimizing Recovery Latency and Buffer Utilization, by N. Malhotra, S. Ranjan, S. Bagchi.

 6:00 pm- 7:30 pm

Reception

 7:30 am- 8:30 am

Registration starts.

 8:30 am-10:00 am

Session 4: Distributed Objects and Middleware.

Chair: Sergio Mena

·        From Static Distributed Systems to Dynamic Systems, by A. Mostefaoui, M. Raynal, C. Travers, S. Patterson, D. Agrawal and, A. El Abbadi.

·        Enforcing Enterprise-wide Policies over Standard Client-Server Interactions, by Z. He, T. Phan, T. D. Nguyen.

·        Thema: Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Middleware for Web-Service Applications, by M. Merideth, A. Iyengar, T. Mikalsen, S. Tai, I. Rouvellou, P. Narasimhan.

10:00 am-10:30 am

Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm

Panel: Wireless and Mobile Security for Distributed Systems

Chair: Dr. Janise McNair, U of Florida.

Members:
Matthew Perkins, Motorola Lab's Florida Communications Research Lab,
Plantation Florida.
Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Marco Carvalho, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition,
Pensacola, Florida.

12:00 pm- 1:30 pm

Lunch

 1:30 pm- 3:00 pm

Session 5: Dependability Evaluations.
Chair: Christian Cachin

·        Experience with Quorum-Based Data Replication Techniques for Adaptive Byzantine Fault Tolerance, by L. Kong, D. J. Manohar, A. Subbiah, M. Sun, M. Ahamad, D. M. Blough.

·        Distributed Construction of a Fault-Tolerant Network from a Tree, by M. K. Reiter, A. Samar, C. Wang.

·        Design and Performance-Study of Crash-Tolerant Protocols for Broadcasting and Supporting Consensus in MANETs, by E. Vollset and P. Ezhilchelvan.

 3:00 pm- 3:30 pm

Break

 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm

Session 6: Distributed Fault Tolerant Algorithms.

Chair: Sanjay Madria

·        Lazy verification in fault-tolerant distributed storage systems, by M. Abd-El-Malek, G. R. Ganger, G. R. Goodson, M. K. Reiter, J.  Wylie.

·        Asynchronous Verifiable Information Dispersal, by C. Cachin, S. Tessaro.

·        A new look at atomic broadcast in the asynchronous crash-recovery model by S. Mena and A. Schiper.

·        Distributed Path Restoration in Circuit Switched Telecommunication Networks, by  S. Venkatesan, M. Patel and N. Mittal.

 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm

Banquet