9th DADS Track of the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

 The Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2014 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and is hosted by Seoul National University, Kyungpook National University, Soongsil University, and Dongguk University. The SRC Program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. 

Topics of Interest The track provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research findings on selected topics in dependable and adaptive distributed systems and services. The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Dependable, Adaptive, and trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS): E.g., massive scale, big data, scalable web applications; self-* properties and autonomous behaviour; mobility and sparse connectivity; adaptable and adaptive security; fault and intrusion tolerance; performance; context-awareness; power awareness and green computing; integration and balancing of competing attributes; cross-organizational heterogeneity. • Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS: E.g., cloud systems and cloud-deployed applications; P2P, MANET, smartphone-based, and pervasive systems; event-based systems; publish/subscribe systems; service-oriented systems; component-based systems; control loop and MAPE pattern. • Protocols for DADS: E.g., consensus, group communication, replication, transaction, coordination, orchestration; failure detection, containment, and recovery; dynamic (re-)configuration. • Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS: E.g., MDA support; QoS and SLA; tool support; design patterns for DADS; abstractions and policies; quantitative approaches; run-time approaches. • Foundations and formal methods for DADS: E.g., rigorous approaches, verification, assurance cases. • Applications of DADS: E.g., safety critical systems; avionics and CNS (Communication, Navigation, Surveillance); VANETs (Vehicular adhoc networks); automotive systems; mission critical infrastructure; critical infrastructure protection and disaster scenarios. • Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS. • Holistic aspects of DADS: E.g., social, cultural, psychological, economical, managerial, and educational aspects.   Track Program Co-Chairs Karl M. Göschka (Main contact chair)
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 664 180 6946
fax: +43 664 188 6275
dads@dedisys.org
Karl dot Goeschka (at) tuwien dot ac dot at

Rui Oliveira
Universidade do Minho
Computer Science Department
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga, Portugal
phone: +351 253 604 452 / Internal: 4452
fax: +351 253 604 471
rco (at) di dot uminho dot pt

Peter Pietzuch
Imperial College London
Department of Computing
South Kensington Campus
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
phone: +44 (20) 7594 8314
fax: +44 (20) 7581 8024
prp (the at sign goes here) doc (dot) ic (dot) ac (dot) uk

Giovanni Russello
University of Auckland
Department of Computer Science
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext. 86137
g dot russello at auckland dot ac dot nz
 Program Committee • Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy) • Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) • Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste (Italy) • Stefan Beyer, ITI Valencia (Spain) • Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) • Marco Casassa-mont, HP Labs - Bristol (UK) • Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) • Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy) • Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) • Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy) • Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK) • Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) • David Eyers, University of Otago (New Zealand) • Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle University (UK) • Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) • Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) • Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria) • Christina Gacek, City University (UK) • Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel (Germany) • Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut (Germany) • Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF (Norway) • Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) • Geir Horn, University of Oslo (Norway) • Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) • James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh (USA) • Rüdiger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig (Germany) • Marc-Ollivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) • Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain) • István Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) • Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK) • Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany) • Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria (Canada) • Francesc Daniel Muñoz-Escoí, UP Valencia (Spain) • Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain) • Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) • Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) • Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) • Barry Porter, University of St Andrews (UK) • Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) • Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal) • Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy) • Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France) • Felix Salfner, SAP Innovation Center (Germany) • Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Seden) • André Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland) • Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) • Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University (Finland) • Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) • Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) • Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) • Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) • Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) • Uwe Zdun, Vienna University (Austria)