Fault Tolerance and Dependable Systems Track


    Track Chairs:

  • Brian Coan, Telcordia Technologies, USA,
  • Sergio Rajsbaum, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico


    • Track Program Committee:

  • Yehuda Afek, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
  • Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research, USA
  • Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, USA
  • Xavier Défago, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • Hugues Fauconnier, Université Denis Diderot, France
  • Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  • Felix C. Freiling, Universität Mannheim, Germany
  • Seth Gilbert, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Fabíola Greve, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
  • Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
  • Jonathan Kirsch, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Michael Merritt, AT&T Labs, USA
  • Lucia Draque Penso, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany


    • This track of SSS seeks original contributions in the area of fault-tolerance, dependability and reliability of distributed systems.

    Topics of interest of this track include, but are not limited to:
  • Reliable and dependable systems
  • Dependability issues and solutions in autonomic computing, and adaptive and     self-managing systems
  • Replication
  • Safety-critical systems
  • Hard real-time systems
  • Reliability analysis
  • System dependability modeling and prediction
  • Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems
  • Fault-tolerant systems, robustness, and failure recovery
  • Byzantine fault-tolerance
  • Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
  • Complexity and lower bounds
  • Parallel and distributed operating systems
  • Distributed objects and middleware systems
  • Distributed databases and fault-tolerant transaction processing
  • Shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, and     concurrent programming