[cap-talk] Workshop on Decentralized Coordination of Distributed Processes (DCDP2010)

[Tom Van Cutsem]

The following event may be of interest to this community:

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, 2010, 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, UniversitŽ 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 as a volume in Electronic
Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science [ http://eptcs.org ].

== 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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