[tahoe-dev] CFP: DCDP 2010

[Toby Murray]

Dear all tahoe-dev folks,

I thought some on this list might be interested in the following workshop on
decentralised and distributed computing, specifically focusing on
decentralised coordination of distributed processes. Please feel free to
forward on to anyone or to anywhere that might be interested. Apologies for
the unsolicited email.


First workshop on Decentralized Coordination of Distributed Processes (DCDP
2010)
[ http://soft.vub.ac.be/events/dcdp ]
Hosted at the 5th International Federated Conferences on Distributed
Computing Techniques (DisCoTec 2010)
[ http://discotec.project.cwi.nl ]
June 10th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

== Workshop Theme ==

The central theme of the workshop is the decentralized coordination of
distributed processes:
- decentralized: there is no single authority in the network that everything
is vulnerable to.
- coordinated: processes need to cooperate to achieve meaningful results,
potentially in the face of mutual suspicion.
- distributed: processes are separated by a potentially unreliable network.

== Context ==

Today, distributed computing has become a ubiquitous technology, mainly
thanks to the infrastructure of the global Internet. A major trend in
distributed computing is the move towards the provision of software as a
service via the network (cloud or utility computing, "Software as a
Service"). As more software gets provided as a service, the question of how
to coordinate this software without a common trusted computing base will
grow in importance. Also, as the web continues to expand, reaching out to
mobile devices and even everyday physical objects (the so-called "Internet
of Things"), it will become more and more decentralized and global
connectivity cannot always be assumed.

This workshop provides a forum to discuss the implications of the above
trends on distributed software. We solicit constructive ideas, novel
coordination abstractions, domain-specific or general-purpose distributed
languages, calculi, frameworks and architectures to support the
decentralized coordination of distributed processes. We are equally
interested in approaches that apply or modify existing coordination models
(e.g. based on actors or tuple spaces) to address decentralized
coordination.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Decentralized coordination
- Security
- Attributing responsibility
- Service discovery and advertising
- Reliability
- Availability
- Fault-tolerance
- Replication
- ...

== Keynote ==

The workshop will open with a Keynote speech by Tyler Close (Google), author
of the secure Waterken web server, titled "You *can* get there from here.
Using the Web for secure decentralized coordination."

== Program Committee ==

- Fred Spiessens, Evoluware, Belgium
- Carl Hewitt, MIT EECS (Emeritus), USA
- Ben Laurie, Google, UK
- Alan Karp, Hewlett-Packard, USA
- Peter Van Roy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Dean Tribble, Microsoft, USA
- Toby Murray, University of Oxford, UK
- Tyler Close, Google, USA
- Mark Miller, Google, USA (organizer)
- Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Google, USA
(organizer)

== Attendance ==

Prospective participants are invited to submit a position paper of maximum 5
pages or a technical paper of maximum 15 pages. All submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee primarily based on relevance and
originality.

== Publication ==

Accepted papers will be published online. We are investigating the
possibility of publishing the workshop proceedings as Electronic Proceedings
in Theoretical Computer Science [ http://eptcs.org ]. Please visit the
workshop web site [ http://soft.vub.ac.be/events/dcdp ] for updates.

== Important Dates ==

Submission deadline: April 12, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2010
Early registration deadline: May 17, 2010
Camera-ready copy: May 31, 2010
Workshop: June 10, 2010
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