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

[Rob Meijer]

A few of my co-workers at the dutch national police, a few times a year,
organize a bi-monthly gathering for computer forensic law enforcement
specialists in the Netherlands (DEX). The audience is composed of
representatives of nearly all branches of law enforcement of the
Netherlands, as well as forensic personnel employed by other government
agencies.Attendees of the Dex conference are expected to have a solid
understanding of basic forensic and IT technologies. The next DEX event
will take place on June 8th 2010. In the past I've been trying to use this
platform to raise awareness on some of the technologies that might impact
the possibilities of cybercrime and computer forensics. Given that the Dex
conference will be taking place very close to your event, both in terms of
time and location, I would like to ask anyone speaking or participating at
this event with a talk that is also relevant either to cybercrime or
computer forensics, that would be interested in speaking at the next DEX
to contact my colleague Felix through me.

T.I.A.

Rob J Meijer


On Thu, February 4, 2010 22:24, Tom Van Cutsem wrote:
> 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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