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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEC2BBAF for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:12:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjIEAP/Bx0yACH+RhWdsb2JhbAChbgEBAQoLChgis3qIZ4JzglUE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,246,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="85588431" Received: from router-304.cs.umd.edu (HELO bacon.cs.umd.edu) ([128.8.127.145]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 27 Oct 2010 15:12:26 +0200 X-CSD-MailScanner-Watermark: 1288789938.48773@w2KduppgAloOt5zGal15Ag Received: from bigmac.cs.umd.edu (bigmac.cs.umd.edu [128.8.126.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by bacon.cs.umd.edu (8.13.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o9RDCG2m006129 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:12:16 -0400 From: Michael Hicks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Call for papers: HotSWUp III Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:12:16 -0400 Message-Id: To: caml-list@inria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (bacon.cs.umd.edu [172.24.3.34]); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:12:16 -0400 (EDT) X-CSD-Milter-Status: Skipped o9RDCG2m006129 on bacon (user authenticated to SMTP server) X-CSD-MailScanner-Information: Please email staff@cs.umd.edu for more information X-MailScanner-ID: o9RDCG2m006129 X-CSD-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSD-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-50, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -50.00) X-CSD-MailScanner-From: mwh@cs.umd.edu X-Spam: no; 0.00; erlang:01 ocaml:01 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 [Many functional languages support some form of dynamic upgrade, e.g., = Erlang, and researchers have used OCaml as a testbed for this sort of work. = Research on package management, upgrade distributions, etc. are also very = welcome. --Mike]=20 CALL FOR PAPERS HotSWUp 2011: Third ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (co-located with ICDE 2011) Hannover, Germany April 16, 2011 http://www.hotswup.org Submission deadline: 15 November 2010 SUBMISSION SITE NOW OPEN OBJECTIVES Actively-used software systems are upgraded regularly to incorporate bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with the evolving requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they significantly impact the system's performance and reliability. Recently-introduced commercial products aim to address various aspects of this problem; however, recent studies and a large body of anecdotal evidence suggest that upgrades remain failure-prone, tedious, and expensive. The goal of the HotSWUp Workshop is to identify cutting-edge research for supporting software system upgrades that are flexible, efficient, robust, and easy to specify and apply. Many diverse research areas are concerned with building large, evolving, highly-available systems. As such, HotSWUp seeks contributions from all these areas, ranging from databases to distributed systems, and from programming languages to software engineering, and separately reflected in conferences such as SIGMOD, ICDE, SOSP, OSDI, OOPSLA, PLDI, ICSE, and FSE. By seeking contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine novel ideas with experience from upgrading real systems. The present workshop aims to build on the successes of HotSWUp'08 and HotSWUp'09 where the paper presentations and lively discussions attracted a diverse audience of researchers. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Upgrading Information Systems under Schema Evolution. - Programming language / operating system / database support for software upgrades. - Improving the reliability of upgrades (e.g., support for upgrade validation and for rollback after failures). - Support for system or data restructuring (e.g., evolving APIs, changes to database schemas). - Identifying dependencies between components and guaranteeing safe interactions among mixed versions. - Coordinating and disseminating upgrades in large-scale distributed systems. - Software upgrades and the Cloud Computing Infrastructure. - Tools for preparing, testing, and applying software upgrades. - Human factors in software upgrades (e.g., usability of upgrading tools, common operator mistakes). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We are interested in papers that address practical as well as theoretical aspects of software upgrades from large scale to embedded applications. Particularly welcome this year are submissions concerning software upgrade issues in database systems. Preferably, submissions should fall into one of the following categories: - Suggest how a successful approach can be applied in a different = context (e.g., static dependency analysis applied to distributed-system = upgrades). - Refute an old assumption about software upgrades (e.g., by presenting negative results). - Describe a new problem or propose a novel solution to an old problem. - Present empirical evidence related to the practical implementation of software upgrades. Papers must not exceed 5 pages, in IEEE camera-ready format (templates at = http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confe= renceTemplates.html). Papers must be submitted electronically at http://www.hotswup.org. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 15 November 2010 Acceptance notification 15 December 2010 Camera-ready deadline 3 January 2011 Workshop date 16 April 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, USA (co-organizer) Carlo Aldo Curino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Fabien Dagnat, Telecom Bretagne, France Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College park, USA (co-organizer) Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK George Papastefanatos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Paolo Papotti, Universit=E0 Roma Tre, Italy Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA Xin Qi, Facebook, USA Mark Segal, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, USA Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (co-organizer) MORE INFORMATION Visit the workshop's homepage at: http://www.hotswup.org