StoDiS 2005 - Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems

Program

Registration (takes you to IEEE CollaborateCom page - you can register for the workshop only if you wish)

Original Call For Papers: [text] [doc] [pdf]

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the TPC, we would like to extend a warm invitation to you for participation in the StoDiS 2005 workshop, to be held on December 19, 2005 in San Jose, CA.

In the past decade, distributed systems such as the Internet, the Grid, peer to peer systems, sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, etc., have grown to be very complex and very large. Stochasticity has emerged as an important principle in both building, as well as understanding better, such systems.

The first workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems - StoDiS 05 - brings together a collection of research white papers that originate from a diverse range of distributed systems topics, but are all centered around the theme of stochasticity. The white papers are on topics that range from design and study of sensor networks and overlays, to rationality and social networks, to the use of nature-inspired ideas and design methodologies for building real systems.

The response to StoDiS 05 workshop was beyond expectations - the PC received a very large number of submissions and discussed them at length (and within a very short time-frame). We eventually had to turn down many good papers in order to converge on to a short-list of 9 excellent papers that would fit into the day-long workshop. Our acceptance rate was 34%, which we believe is an extremely competitive rate for a workshop that is only in its first year.

StoDiS 05 features keynote speeches by two prominent researchers in the field. The reader will notice that although the keynotes themselves cover diverse areas (hardware and software), they both deal with the central theme of stochasticity.

In summary, we believe that besides proposing new avenues of distributed systems research, StoDiS 05 has also opened up new channels of research dialogue that were until now either absent in the community or were scattered across multiple other conferences and workshops.

We hope to see you in San Jose on December 19th.

    - Indranil Gupta (UIUC) and Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna)

Scope

Focus distributed systems of interest include (but are  not limited to) the Internet, the Grid, peer to peer overlays, embedded systems, sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, and wireless computing. Focus issues include (but are not limited to):

• Systems design
• Foundations, theory, and modeling
• Empirical studies and practical experiences
• Scalability, Reliability, Security, Mobility
• Complex Adaptive Systems, biologically-inspired, swarm and quantum algorithms
• Economics and rationality
• Science of design of distributed systems
• Stochasticity in end-user applications

Important dates

Instructions for Authors of Accepted Papers

Publication

Co-located with IEEE CollaborateCom in San Jose, CA. The workshop proceedings will be printed as a part of the CollaborateCom 2005 proceedings.

stochastic [etymonline.com]: "pertaining to conjecture," from Gk. stokhastikos "able to guess, conjecturing," from stokhos "a guess, aim, target, mark".