See: http://www.ida.liu.se/~calcu/iisw04/

International Infrastructure Survivability Workshop (IISW'04)

Overloads, Attacks and Failures: the Trade-off against Time

in conjunction with the 25th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
(RTSS04) December 5-8, 2004 Lisbon, Portugal


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

   Society today is increasingly dependent on critical infrastructures
   that constitute the backbone for delivery of its essential services.
   Many critical services such as power supplies, public transport,
   telecommunications, banking and finance, and defence will be
   increasingly relying on information infrastructures, not only for
   management and control but also for monitoring outages and recovery.
   Combinations of wireless and ad hoc networks with fixed networks are
   becoming a reality in many domains.

   Traditional solutions in dependable systems build in robustness at the
   production stage. Using redundancy, feedback mechanisms, and careful
   sensitivity analysis the system is shown to stay in its characterised
   operational profile and shows graceful degradation when components
   fail. In today's networked infrastructures it is more difficult to
   achieve these goals due to the following developments:
     * New infrastructures are built as partial overlays with old
       infrastructures making the emerging system of systems irregular in
       its architecture.
     * Introduction of new services, emerging trends and deregulation
       contribute to unbalancing phenomena: operational conditions may
       change abruptly creating traffic/flow patterns not foreseen by
       operators.
     * Prevalence of software brings with it the weaknesses of COTS,
       making systems more susceptible to "normal" failures and malicious
       attempts to bring down a service.

   Tomorrow's networked systems will have to face the challenge of
   survivability: delivering critical services in a timely manner in
   presence of overloads, attacks and failures.

   In this workshop we intend to bring together research that addresses
   the above issues by incorporating metrics that represent the use of
   scarce resources, reflecting timing performance, anticipating outages
   and mobilising system reconfigurations to stall outages or recover
   from partial failures. Practical experience reports are highly
   encouraged. Papers that describe original unpublished work are
   solicited and selected papers will be published in a special issue of
   the International Journal on Critical Infrastructures (IJCIS). The
   topics of interest cover, but are not limited to, the following areas:
     * Models and architectures for network survivability
     * Network fault-tolerance: wireless networks, sensor networks, IP
       networks
     * Interoperability between hybrid wireline/wireless networks
     * Fraud and intrusion Detection, Prediction, and Countermeasures
     * Survivable architectures for e-commerce
     * Security and availability of web services
     * Support for QoS
     * Adaptive systems theory and practice
     * Quality metrics in open systems
     * Availability/Performance trade-offs
     * Security/Performance trade-offs
     * Case studies and experimental studies


Program Committee
   	

Workshop Chair:
   Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
   Linköping University, Sweden
   simin@ida.liu.se

Organisation Chair:
   Calin Curescu
   Linköping University, Sweden
   calcu@ida.liu.se

Program Committee:
   Calin Curescu, Linköping University, Sweden
   Marc Dacier, Eurécom, France
   Teresa A. Dahlberg, UNC Charlotte, USA
   Luiz A. DaSilva, VirginiaTech, USA
   Valérie Issarny, INRIA, France
   John Knight, University of Virginia, USA
   Håkan Kvarnström, TeliaSonera, Sweden
   Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden
   Heinz Thielmann, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
   Lonnie Welch, Ohio University, USA

   	

Important dates

Submission deadline: 4 September 2004
Acceptance notification: 4 October 2004
Final version due: 4 November 2004