International Service Availability Symposium 2004
Final Session Presentations

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The ISAS 2004 Final Presentations can be found below as links to the appropriate session titles below.

Thursday, May 13

8:00am-9:00am	Registration
9:00am-9:15am	Welcome Address Manfred Reitenspiess & Miroslaw Malek
9:15am-10:15am	Session 1: Technical Keynote Address Bertrand Meyer, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland "Levels of Component Contracts for Quality of Service"
10:15am-10:45am	Break
10:45am-12:15pm	Session 2: Database / Internet Architecture of Highly Available Databases Sam Drake, TimesTen, Inc.; Wei Hu, Oracle Corp.; Dale M. McInnis, IBM Corp.; Martin Skold, MySQL AB; Alok Srivastava, Oracle Corp.; Lars Thalmann, MySQL AB; Matti Tikkanen, Nokia Corp.; Oystein Torbjornsen, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Antoni Wolski, Solid Information Technology Corp. Data Persistence in Telecom Switches S.G. Arun, Force Computers Distributed Redundancy or Cluster Solutions? An Experimental Evaluation of Two Approaches for Dependable Mobile Internet Services T. Renier, H.P. Schwefel, M. Bozinovski, K. Larsen, R. Prasad Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark; R. Seidl, Siemens AG.
12:15pm-14:00pm	Lunch & Press Conference
14:00pm-15:00pm	Session 3: Invited Talk: e-Government Minister Erwin Huber, Head of Bavarian State Chancellery, Germany
15:00pm-15:30pm	Break
15:30pm-17:00pm	Session 4: High Availability with SAF Specifications OpenHPI - An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface Sean Dague, IBM Linux Technology Quality of Service Control by Middleware Heinz Reisinger, Siemens AG Benefit Evaluation of High Availability Middleware Jurgen Neises, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
19:00pm	Reception & Dinner

Friday, May 14

9:00am-10:30am	Session 5: Measurement, Management & Methodology A Measurement Study of the Interplay Between Application Level Restart and Transport Protocol Philipp Reinecke, Aad P.A. van Moorsel, Katinnka Wolter, Humboldt University, Berlin Service Level Management of Adaptive Distributed Network Applications K. Ravindran, City University of New York A Methodology on MPLS VPN Service Management with Resilience Constraints Jong T. Park, Min-Hee Kwon, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Kyungpook National University Daegu, Korea
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Special Session: The NOMADS (Networks of Mobile Adaptive Dependable Systems) Republic Coordinator: Miroslaw Malek Highly Available Location-based Services in Mobile Environments Peter Ibach, Matthias Horbank, Humboldt University, Berlin On Enhancing the Robustness of Commercial Operating Systems Andreas Johansson, Adina Sarbu, Arshad Jhumka, Neeraj Suri, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt A Modular Approach for Model-based Dependability Evaluation of a Class of Systems Stefano Porcarelli, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Paolo Lollini, Andrea Bondavalli, Italian National Research Council ISTI, University of Florence
12:30pm-14:00pm	Lunch
14:00pm-15:00pm	Panel Discussion: Highly Available Composable Services: Reality or Wishful Thinking? Moderator: Neeraj Suri, TU-Darmstadt
15:00pm- 15:30pm	Invited Talk: Resilience in Ambient Intelligence Angelo Marino, European Commission
15:30pm-16:00pm	Break
16:00pm-17:30pm	Session 6: Standards & Solutions for High Availability Rolling Upgrades for Uninterruptible Services Antoni Wolski, Solid Information Technology First Experience of Conformance Testing an Application Interface Specification Implementation Francis Tam, Kari Ahvanainen, Nokia Research Center On the Use of the SA Forum Checkpoint and AMF Services Stephane Brossier, Frederic Herrmann, Eltefaat Shokri, Sun Microsystems