| FuDiCo 2002: International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing
3-7 June 2002 |
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| FuDiCo 2002: International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing
3-7 June 2002 |
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| Presentation |
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The distributed systems research community knows a great deal about reliability and security. Yet, our tools often scale poorly, rarely are seen as practical, and even more rarely have any significant impact on general commercial practice. Nonetheless, the need for distributed systems offering strong guarantees has never been more acute. This Bertinoro workshop will endeavor to identify the conceptual and practical cornerstones for a new generation of distributed computing technologies. Our interest is in solutions combining strong properties (reliability, security, scalability, consistency), practical embedding (J2EE, .NET, CORBA, etc), and theoretical guarantees needed to enable a significant advance in the state of the art. Participants will include researchers from many levels of the hierarchy: network quality of service and routing, middleware and protocol design, object-oriented architectures, and developers of applications revealing important new challenges.
Authors are invited to submit three-page position papers by emailing pdf/ps format files to any one of the three organizers. These should report original research relating to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of distributed computing systems. We seek submissions of high quality, describing current work that also points to a new agenda for future work, or that has the potential to significantly enlarge the knowledge and understanding of the community. The organizing committee will invite participation (either as an attendee or a presenter) based on the submissions received.
We are currently negotiating with Springer-Verlag to produce a post-conference proceedings and summary.
Topics of specific interest include:
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The workshop will be held in the University Residential Center located in the small medieval hilltop town of Bertinoro. This town is in Emilia Romagna about 50km east of Bologna at an elevation of about 230m. It is easily reached by train and taxi from Bologna and is close to many splendid Italian locations such as Ravenna, Rimini on the Adriatic coast, and the Republic of San Marino (all within 35km) as well as some less well-known locations like the thermal springs of Fratta Terme and the castle and monastic gardens of Monte Maggio. Bertinoro can also be a base for visiting some of the better-known Italian locations such as Padua, Ferrara, Vicenza, Venice, Florence and Siena.
Bertinoro itself is picturesque, with many narrow streets and walkways winding around the central peak. The meeting will be held in an archiepiscopal fortress that has been converted by the University of Bologna into a modern conference center with computing facilities and Internet access. From the fortress you can enjoy a beautiful vista that stretches from the Tuscan Apennines to the Adriatic coast and the Alps over the Po Valley.
One full day of the week will be devoted to an excursion visiting nearby Ravenna and surroundings. Ravenna is a city of art and culture that has been the capital of Western Roman and Byzantine Empires. Numerous buildings dating from these periods decorated with superb mosaics have been declared ``patrimony of humanity'' by UNESCO. The day will end with a dinner at the coast town of Cesenatico. The workshop fee of €1000 (approximately $850) covers all lodging, food, entertainment and registration costs.
| Important Dates |
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| Position papers due: | 10 March 2002 (Expired) |
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| Notification of participation: | 30 March 2002 (Expired) |
| Camera-ready version of position papers due: | 29 April 2002 (Expired) |
| Advance Registration Deadline: | 3 May 2002 (Expired) |
| Workshop: | 3-7 June 2002 |
| Workshop Schedule at a Glance |
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| June 2 | June 3 | June 4 | June 5 | June 6 | June 7 | |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 07.30-08.30 | Breakfast | |||||
| 08.30-10.30 | Welcome Book Project 0 |
Technical Session 4 |
Book Project 1 | Technical Session 6 |
Technical Session 10 |
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| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | Excursion to Ravenna |
Coffee break | |||
| 11.00-13.00 | Technical Session 1 |
Work in Progress |
Technical Session 7 |
Panel 2 | ||
| 13.00-15.00 | Lunch | Lunch | ||||
| 15.00-17.00 | Technical Session 2 |
Technical Session 5 |
Technical Session 8 |
Book Project 2 | ||
| 17.00-17.30 | Arrivals | Coffee break | Coffee break | Departures | ||
| 17.30-19.30 | Technical Session 3 |
Panel 1 | Technical Session 9 |
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| 20.00- | Welcome Reception |
Dinner | Workshop Banquet |
Dinner | ||
| Organization and Sponsorship |
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| Organizing Committee | Ozalp Babaoglu University of Bologna |
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| Ken Birman, Cornell University | |
| Keith Marzullo University of California, San Diego | |
| Local Organization | Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna |
| Andrea Bandini, Ce.U.B. | |
| Elena della Godenza, Ce.U.B. | |
| Publicity | Alessandro Amoroso, University of Bologna |
| Sponsored by |  BICI: Bertinoro International Center for Informatics |
