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Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability

This page contains details on the HotDep '08 conference. Further details are available at http://www.usenix.org/event/hotdep08/.

Description

Authors are invited to submit position papers to the Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '08). The workshop will be co-located with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08), to be held December 8–10, 2008. The programs of prior instances of HotDep are available at http://hotdep.org/. The goal of HotDep '08 is to bring forth cutting-edge research ideas spanning the domains of fault tolerance/reliability and systems, and to impact the two associated research communities (e.g., researchers who attend traditional "dependability" conferences such as DSN and ISSRE, and those who attend "systems" conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, and EuroSys) by building linkages between them and sharing ideas and challenges. HotDep will center on critical components of the infrastructures touching our everyday lives: operating systems, networking, security, wide-area and enterprise-scale distributed systems, mobile computing, compilers, and language design. We seek participation and contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners to achieve a mix of long-range research vision and technology ideas anchored in immediate reality. Position papers of a maximum length of 5 pages should preferably fall into one of the following categories: describing new techniques, algorithms, or protocols for building dependable systems that represent advances over prior options or might open new directions meriting further study revisiting old open problems in the domain using novel approaches that yield demonstrable benefits debunking an old, entrenched perspective on dependability articulating a brand-new perspective on existing problems in dependability describing an emerging problem (and, possibly, a solution) that must be addressed by the dependable-systems research community The program committee will favor papers that are likely to generate healthy debate at the workshop, and work that is supported by implementations and experiments or that includes other forms of validation. We recognize that many ideas will not be 100% fleshed out and/or entirely backed up by quantitative measurements, but papers that lack credible motivation and at least some evidence of feasibility will be rejected.

Key Dates

Papers due:	18 Jul 2008
Conference held:	7 Dec 2008

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