Scope

More and more mission-critical governmental, institutional and commercial services are being implemented as distributed systems on the internet. Thus, catering for the high availability of many such services is becoming indispensable. High Availability (HA, for short) is increasingly in demand, since no one wants services to be unreliable or unreachable. System downtimes resulting in a lack of availability are undesirable or even intolerable, due to ergonomic, economical and security reasons. Hence, HA is establishing itself as a benchmark for user acceptance, market viability, system reliability and trustworthiness of distributed systems.

In general, HA refers to the continuous availability and seamless recovery of resources in a computer system, particularly in the wake of component failures. HA is concerned with avoiding single points of failure in a system. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, ranging from vendor-specific support, redundant software and hardware, to solutions that provide consistent replication of data and processes, reliable group communication, membership management, quorum sub-systems, concurrency control, and various other forms of middleware support.

HADIS 2005 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing state-of-the-art, novel and on-going research and development in HA.

Topics

We are calling for papers reporting original research results, work in progress, industrial experience, or case studies. Submitted contributions should highlight aspects of High Availability in topic areas including, but not limited to:

• Distributed Databases and Information Systems
• Protocols for Communication, Replication and Recovery
• Failure Resilience, Fault Tolerance and Failover
• Wireless, Mobile and Nomadic Networks
  
• Replicated Data and Processes
• Dependability and Reliability
• Local and Wide Area Clustering
• Middleware Architectures
• P2P and GRID Computing
• Consistency and Integrity
• Load Sharing and Load Balancing
• Software and Hardware Redundancy
• High Performance Computing
• Transparency of Distribution
• Distributed Storage Systems
• HA and Distributed Querying
• HA and Distributed Objects
• HA and Component Services
• HA and Infrastructure Services
  
• HA and Software Standards
• HA and Aspect-Orientation
  
• HA and Formal Methods
• HA and Ubiquity
  
• HA and Security
  
• HA Applications

Proceedings

All papers submitted to HADIS 2005 have been peer-reviewed by at least two members of the proramme committee. Accepted papers will be published in a DEXA 2005 Workshop proceedings volume.

 

Steering Committee
Local Chair	Rasmus Pedersen	Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Workshop Co-Chair	Stéphane Bressan	National Univ. Singapore
Workshop Chair	Hendrik Decker	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
Publicity Manager	Javier Martí	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
Programme Chair	Francesc D. Muñoz	Univ. Politécnica Valencia, Spain
Program Committee
	María del Carmen Bañuls	Univ. Valencia, Spain
	José Bernabéu	Microsoft, Redmond, U.S.A.
	Philippe Bonnet	Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark
	Omar Boucelma	Univ. Aix-Marseille III, France
	Stéphane Bressan	National Univ. Singapore
	Jesús Carretero	Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
	Vicent Cholvi	Univ. Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
	Hendrik Decker	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Aykut Firat	Northeastern Univ., Boston, U.S.A.
	Pablo Galdámez	Univ. Politécnica Valencia, Spain
	Karl Göschka	Technical Univ. Vienna, Austria
	Hamidah Ibrahim	Univ. Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
	Luis Irún	Univ. Politécnica Valencia, Spain
	Bettina Kemme	McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada
	Gabriele Kotsis	Univ. Linz, Austria
	Javier Martí	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
	José R. González de Mendívil	Univ. Pública Navarra, Spain
	Anirban Mondal	Univ. Tokyo, Japan
	Francesc D. Muñoz	Univ. Politécnica Valencia, Spain
	Rui Oliveira	Univ. Minho, Portugal
	Henrikas Pranevicius	Kaunas Univ. of Technology, Lithuania
	Luis E. T. Rodrigues	Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
	Cyrus Shahabi	Univ. Southern California, U.S.A.
	David Taniar	Monash Univ., Clayton, Australia
	Jesper Träff	NEC Research Labs, St. Augustin, Germany
	Jesús Villadangos	Univ. Pública Navarra, Spain

Important Dates
Notification of Acceptance	April 25, 2005
Camera Ready Version	May 25, 2005