Local Chair
Scott Valcourt (U New Hampshire,
US)

Program Co-Chairs
Aad van Moorsel (U Newcastle, UK)
Asif Naseem (GoAhead, US)

Program Committee
A. Avritzer (Siemens, US)
D. Bakken (Washington S., US)
S. Benlarbi (Alcatel, Canada)
K. Birman (Cornell, US)
A. Birolini (ETH, Switzerland)
A. Bondavalli (U Florence, Italy)
A. Burghelea (Cisco, US)
J. Carrasco (UPC, Spain)
I. Chen (Virginia Tech, US)
T. Dohi (Hiroshima U, Japan)
C. Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany)
R. Fricks (Motorola, US)
M. Garzia (Microsoft, US)
A. Gokhale (Vanderbilt, US)
S. Gokhale (U Connecticut, US)
M. Hasan (Cisco, US)
B. Haverkort (U Twente,
Netherlands)
S. Hunter (IBM, US)
Y. Kakuda (Hiroshima CU, Japan)
A. Krings (U Idaho, US)
V. Loll (Nokia, Denmark)
X. Lu (Tokyo I. Tech., Japan)
M. Lyu (Chinese University, HK)
M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany)
R. Mansharamani (Tata, India)
V. Mendiratta (Lucent, US)
K. Mori (Tokyo I. Tech., Japan)
B. Murphy (Microsoft, UK)
P. Murray (HP, UK)
E. Nett (U Magdeburg, Germany)
D. Penkler (HP, France)
A. Rindos (IBM, US)
A. Rodriguez-Vargas (Siemens,
Germany)
A. Romanovsky (U Newcastle, UK)
H. Sun (Sun Microsystems, US)
N. Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
H. Szczerbicka (U Hannover,
Germany)
S. Tai (IBM, US)
F. Tam (Nokia, Finland)
K. Trivedi (Duke U, US)
B. Vashaw (IBM, US)
E. Vollset (Cornell, US)
K. Wolter (Humboldt U, Germany)
A. Wolski (Solid Tech., Finland)
J. Xu (U Leeds, UK)
S. Yajnik (Avaya, US)

Steering Committee
F. Tam (Nokia, Finland)
M. Reitenspieß (Fujitsu Siemens
Computers, Germany)
D. Penkler (HP, France)
M. Malek (Humboldt U., Germany)
T. Dohi (Hiroshima U., Japan)
S. Benlarbi (Alcatel, Canada)

ISAS 2007 was a very successful event! Thanks to all who participated!

Information on the ISAS 2008 Conference is located at http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/.

Keynote Presentations:

• Tom Leighton, Akamai

Akamai is running thousands of servers worldwide; Mr. Leighton will address the performance, reliability, and availability issues.

• Professor Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Prof. Mori will address on an Autonomous Decentralized System for Service Assurance and its Application.

What are the issues?
- Robust services and infrastructure design/modeling/evaluation
- Dependability requirements in service oriented (SOA) architectures
- Design and test of services and SOA’s
- Development and design tools for dependable services
- Evolving dependability standards for heterogeneous integrated systems
- Certified dependability in consumer’s systems and devices

Who should attend?
The objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different
“service” related areas within both industry and academia. We specially encourage original papers
addressing problems of service availability at all layers, including experience on:

• Dependability in Service Oriented Architectures: What dependability requirements are imposed
  by users and law? How are these requirements addressed in the SOA architecture?
• Dependability in heterogeneous integrated systems: what is the state of the art in dependable
  heterogeneous systems? Do we need new standards?
• Development and design tools for dependability: how can we support the day to day design,
  implementation, deployment and maintenance of dependable systems? Can we automatically “create”
  dependable solutions?
• Certified dependability: How can we certify SLA agreements and dependability properties in
  ongoing development work? How can we integrate dependability properties in common
  development environments?

Topics:
All areas of service availability are solicited, including but not limited to:

• Availability/reliability models for composable systems
• Service development, analysis, testing - models, environments, tools
• SOA and dependability and reliability requirements
• Dependable solutions based on Java
• Availability standards for service implementation, certification, support
• Service management – certification, rating, service agreements, support
• Interfaces for service implementers – usability, security and availability
• Modeling, measuring and implementing dependability and security of integrated information
  and communication services
• User aspects of service availability – dependability, performance, security, privacy
• Dependability tools integrated in Eclipse environment