Workshop on Field Failure Data Analysis
Call for Papers:
Workshop on Field Failure Data Analysis
F2DA 2009
co-located with the 28th International Symposium on
Reliable Distrubuted Systems (SRDS 09)
Sept. 27, 2009 - Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A.
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/F2DA.html
Submission deadline: July 26, 2009 (EXTENDED)
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SCOPE:
Since early days of computing systems, researchers and engineers have recognized
the crucial role of Field Failure Data Analysis (FFDA) in characterizing the failure
behavior of systems and guiding the design of error detection and recovery
mechanisms. The information on spontaneous occurrences of systems/applications
failures is usually collected in a variety of error logs. Analysis of this data can
provide useful insight into understanding of error propagation patterns, enables
identification of dependability bottlenecks, and quantification of metrics such as
reliability, availability, or sensitivity to malicious attacks. Despite of the many
studies analyzing failure data from variety of computing systems, a number of
research and practical questions remain unanswered. For instance, it is well-
understood that the quality of the analysis heavily depends on the quality of the
available field failure data (i.e., system logs or failure reports). However, there are
no commonly accepted criteria and/or methodologies to define how (what sources
to use) to gather high quality data and how to process the data to obtain the
meaningful unbiased results. Also, it is not clear whether traditional FFDA
techniques are suitable to conduct the dependability evaluation of current and future
generation systems, e.g., autonomic and/or ubiquitous systems, embedded systems,
and mashup web applications.
Goals : This workshop aims to foster lively discussion and advance the state-of-the art
in filed failure data analysis of current and future systems. The event provides an open
forum to industry practitioners and academia to share experience and ideas on open
issues and future trends in analyzing and using the field failure data.
The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Methods, tools, and infrastructures for field data gathering and management
- Data formats and data archiving
- Methodologies and tools for failure data processing, e.g., efficient algorithms for
data filtering and correlation analysis
- Failure data driven design of dependable systems and applications
- Challenges in collecting and analyzing failure data from emerging systems/applications,
e.g., smart handheld devices or sensor networks
- Dependability evaluation using field data
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Chair: Domenico Cotroneo, University of Napoli, Italy
Co-Chair: Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Bianca Schroeder, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research,UK
Marcello Cinque, Univ. of Naples Federico II, Italy
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Miroslaw Malek Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Paolo Lollini, University of Florence, Italy
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: July 26, 2009 (EXTENDED)
Author notification: Aug 10, 2009
Camera-ready: Aug 31, 2009
Workshop: Sept. 27, 2009
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please visit the workshop website: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/F2DA.html
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