From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7566BC57 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:26:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhsBAMNq00zAbHMMmWdsb2JhbAChbhUBAQEBAQgLCgcRIrwsgnGCVgQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,301,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="77960105" Received: from coliposte.enst-bretagne.fr ([192.108.115.12]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2010 10:26:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by coliposte.enst-bretagne.fr (8.13.7/8.13.7/2009.11.10) with ESMTP id oA59QO92030771 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:26:24 +0100 Received: from courrier.enst-bretagne.fr (smtps.enst-bretagne.fr [10.29.90.4]) by coliposte.enst-bretagne.fr (8.13.7/8.13.7/2009.11.10) with ESMTP id oA59QJJj030741 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:26:23 +0100 Received: from sec10.secure.enstb.org (passerelle-interne.enst-bretagne.fr [192.108.117.210]) (user=fdagnat mech=PLAIN bits=0) by courrier.enst-bretagne.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/2010.02.22) with ESMTP id oA59QHQJ025933 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:26:17 +0100 From: Dagnat Fabien Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Call for Paper for HotSWUp 2011: Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:26:17 +0100 Message-Id: To: caml-list@inria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at enst-bretagne.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; co-located:01 bug:01 oopsla:01 pldi:01 dependencies:01 eder:01 cloud:98 carlo:98 universita:98 roma:98 brandeis:98 carlo:98 dependency:01 johann:01 data:02 The following call for paper may be of interest to some members of the = function community. The submission site is now open and the deadline is in 2 weeks Fabien Dagnat =20 CALL FOR PAPERS=20 HotSWUp 2011: Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades=20 (co-located with ICDE 2011)=20 Hannover, Germany=20 April 16, 2011=20 http://www.hotswup.org=20 Submission deadline: 15 November 2010=20 OBJECTIVES=20 Actively-used software systems are upgraded regularly to incorporate=20 bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with the evolving=20 requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they=20 significantly impact the system's performance and reliability.=20 Recently-introduced commercial products aim to address various aspects=20= of this problem; however, recent studies and a large body of anecdotal=20= evidence suggest that upgrades remain failure-prone, tedious, and=20 expensive.=20 The goal of the HotSWUp Workshop is to identify cutting-edge research=20 for supporting software system upgrades that are flexible, efficient,=20 robust, and easy to specify and apply. Many diverse research areas=20 are concerned with building large, evolving, highly-available systems.=20= As such, HotSWUp seeks contributions from all these areas, ranging=20 from databases to distributed systems, and from programming languages=20 to software engineering, and separately reflected in conferences such=20 as SIGMOD, ICDE, SOSP, OSDI, OOPSLA, PLDI, ICSE, and FSE. By seeking=20 contributions from both academic researchers and industry=20 practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine novel ideas with experience=20 from upgrading real systems. The present workshop aims to build on=20 the successes of HotSWUp'08 and HotSWUp'09 where the paper=20 presentations and lively discussions attracted a diverse audience of=20 researchers.=20 The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:=20 - Upgrading Information Systems under Schema Evolution.=20 - Programming language / operating system / database support for=20 software upgrades.=20 - Improving the reliability of upgrades (e.g., support for upgrade=20 validation and for rollback after failures).=20 - Support for system or data restructuring (e.g., evolving APIs,=20 changes to database schemas).=20 - Identifying dependencies between components and guaranteeing safe=20 interactions among mixed versions.=20 - Coordinating and disseminating upgrades in large-scale distributed=20 systems.=20 - Software upgrades and the Cloud Computing Infrastructure.=20 - Tools for preparing, testing, and applying software upgrades.=20 - Human factors in software upgrades (e.g., usability of upgrading=20 tools, common operator mistakes).=20 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES=20 We are interested in papers that address practical as well as=20 theoretical aspects of software upgrades from large scale to embedded=20 applications. Particularly welcome this year are submissions=20 concerning software upgrade issues in database systems. Preferably,=20 submissions should fall into one of the following categories:=20 - Suggest how a successful approach can be applied in a different = context=20 (e.g., static dependency analysis applied to distributed-system = upgrades).=20 - Refute an old assumption about software upgrades (e.g., by presenting=20= negative results).=20 - Describe a new problem or propose a novel solution to an old problem.=20= - Present empirical evidence related to the practical implementation of=20= software upgrades.=20 Papers must not exceed 5 pages, in IEEE camera-ready format (templates=20= at=20 = http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/...).= =20 Papers must be submitted electronically at http://www.hotswup.org.=20 IMPORTANT DATES=20 Submission deadline 15 November 2010=20 Acceptance notification 15 December 2010=20 Camera-ready deadline 3 January 2011=20 Workshop date 16 April 2011=20 PROGRAM COMMITTEE=20 Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, USA (co-organizer)=20 Carlo Aldo Curino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA=20 Fabien Dagnat, Telecom Bretagne, France=20 Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria=20 Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College park, USA (co-organizer)=20= Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK=20 George Papastefanatos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece=20= Paolo Papotti, Universit=E0 Roma Tre, Italy=20 Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA=20 Xin Qi, Facebook, USA=20 Mark Segal, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, USA=20 Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA=20 Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (co-organizer)=20= MORE INFORMATION=20 Visit the workshop's homepage at:=20 http://www.hotswup.org=20