About Ersads
Tutorial Program
Workshop Program
Time Table
Call for Papers
Important Dates
Registration Information
Location
Shuttle Bus Information
Organization and Contact Address

About Ersads

Ersads is both an Advanced School and a Research Workshop, combining five half-day tutorials on advanced research topics in distributed systems with presentations of recent research results by the participants.  The setting of the Seminar favors cross-fertilization and discussion of differing viewpoints on distributed system issues.  The schedule leaves lots of time for informal exchanges and activities outside of the lecture room.  One of the objectives of Ersads is to create informal links amongst young researchers that may foster future collaborations.

This fourth edition of Ersads follows the tradition set by three previous editions that took place in the French Alps (1995), in the Swiss Alps (1997) and in the Madeira Island (1999).  Attendance is limited to 50 participants and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Tutorial Program

Exploiting Transparent Middleware to Provide Fault Tolerance for Distributed Object Systems
Prof. Michael Melliar-Smith - Eternal Systems, Inc. and UC Santa Barbara, USA

Supporting Business Processes at a Large Scale
Prof. Dr. Frank Leymann and Dr. Dieter Roller - IBM Boeblingen, Germany

The Join Calculus: a Language for Distributed and Mobile Programming
Dr. Cedric Fournet - Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Distributed Computing with Plan 9
Drs. Sape Mullender and Dave Presotto - Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA

Optimistic Approaches to Replication and their Application in the IceCube System
Dr. Marc Shapiro - Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Workshop Program

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Call for Papers

Even though paper submission is not mandatory for attending Ersads, interested participants are encouraged to submit papers describing their on-going work on distributed systems, even if the results are preliminary and fall outside of the topics covered by the tutorials. The Scientific Committee will consider quality, innovation and potential to foster discussion in making its selection.  Selected papers will be presented at the Workshop and will appear in the Ersads proceedings.

Papers must be submitted by email to the address ersads@cs.unibo.it in electronic form. Acceptable formats are limited to PDF, PS or simple ASCII. Papers should be limited to 4000 words (approximately 6 pages) including figures and bibliography.  Submissions that are longer or that are in a different format will be rejected. Selected papers will be presented at the Workshop, and will appear in the Seminar proceedings.

Important Dates

Registration

Please consult the Registration Page for fee schedules and application forms.

Location

Ersads 2001 will take place at the University Residential Center of the University of Bologna, located in Bertinoro.  The Residential Center is an ex convent and Episcopal fortress that have been transformed into a modern conference facility with computing services and Internet access.  Bertinoro lies approximately half-way between Bologna and the Adriatic coast town of Rimini. Bertinoro is perched on the foothills of the Appenine Mountains overlooking the Po Valley to the North and the Tuscan-Emilian hills to the South.
 

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Organization

Organized by

Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

Sponsored by

CaberNet (Distributed Computing Systems Architectures) Esprit Network of Excellence

With Support from

Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì
Ser.In.Ar. SpA

Seminar Director

Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy

Steering Committee

Sacha Krakowiak, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Marc Shapiro, Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK
André Schiper, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paulo Veríssimo, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Scientific Committee

Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy (Chair)
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Yigal Hoffner, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Sape Mullender, Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, USA
Luis Rodrigues, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Marc Shapiro, Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Santosh Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK

Local Organization

Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy
Ser.In.Ar. SpA

Contact address

ersads@cs.unibo.it