WDDDM 2009 - Third Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management (WDDDM'2009)

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Category WDDDM 2009

Deadline: February 02, 2009 | Date: March 31, 2009

Venue/Country: Nuremberg, Germany

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

March 31, 2009, Nuremberg, Germany

http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/wdddm09/

ABOUT

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners

from systems, database and dependability communities to discuss the current

state of the art, pending challenges and trends, and novel solutions in the

design, implementation and deployment of distributed and dependable data

management systems.

SCOPE

Relational databases have been for a long time the keystone of information

systems' dependability. Database management systems offer a uniform

approach to data integrity, durability, and availability, using tried and

tested techniques based on a set of unanimously accepted and well

understood assumptions.

There is however a growing call for unprecedented levels of scalability

that challenges traditional data management architectures, namely, to cope

with cloud computing and peer-to-peer systems. A common principle in all

such emerging proposals, with a profound impact in dependability, is that

large scale distribution is a core assumption in their design. This

translates in very large number of nodes, wide area geographical

distribution, diverse administrative domains, and pervasive heterogeneity.

The current trend of specialized systems for social networking

applications, text indexing, data warehousing, stream processing, and

highly flexible data storage further push the envelope for radically

different data management solutions.

It is thus desirable to reevaluate time tested assumptions that underly the

dependability mechanisms in data management systems and explore different

performance and functionality tradeoffs, and the consequences on complex

information systems built on them.

TOPICS

The workshop targets research on databases systems, dependable, distributed

and mobile computing, distributed storage, management and security. Namely,

we seek contributions that tackle the following perceived challenges:

* Novel application scenarios, interface abstractions and consistency

requirements

* Scaling-out to very large number of nodes of data management

architectures and systems

* Software engineering for tailor-made data management

* Distributed and complex event processing systems

* System assumptions for dependability and performance

* Diversity and software reliability

* Self organizing data management systems

FORMAT

The workshop welcomes Short Position Papers with early and/or controversial

ideas that foster discussion but are not (yet) fully developed. Submissions

will not be refereed. They will be screened by the organizers for

relevance and accepted according to available presentation slots. The

maximum size is 4 pages in the ACM Conference Proceedings style.

Since submissions must strictly adhere to ACM Conference Proceedings style,

submitters are strongly encouraged to use the ACM SIG Proceedings

Templates. In order to get included in the EuroSys 2009 proceedings CD,

accepted contributions must be presented at the workshop and comply with

the ACM Copyright Policy.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission: February 2, 2009 (EXTENDED)

* Author notification: February 16, 2009

* Camera-ready due: March 2, 2009

* Workshop date: March 31, 2009

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs:

* Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

* Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands)

* Rui Oliveira (U. Minho, Portugal)

* Paul Murray (HP Labs, UK)

Organizing Chair:

* Jos? Pereira (U. Minho, Portugal)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information visit the workshop web site or contact the

organizers at wdddmlsd.di.uminho.pt.