[Tccc] CFP: Extreme Distributed Systems: From Large Scale to Complexity

Alberto Montresor alberto.montresor
Wed Sep 28 06:46:23 EDT 2011


EXTREME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: FROM LARGE SCALE TO COMPLEXITY

Modern distributed systems may nowadays consist of hundreds of
thousands of computers, ranging from high-end powerful machines to
low-end resource-constrained wireless devices. We label them as
"extreme distributed systems," as they push scalability and complexity
well beyond traditional scenarios.

Such extreme distributed systems are often still organized along
traditional lines with more or less hierarchical, centralized control
planes. However, things are changing and increasingly more fully
decentralized organizations are emerging, as witnessed by, for
example, peer-to-peer systems.  Decentralized organizations often
combine local decison-making with dissemination of information in
order to improve the decision-making process, exemplified by many
epidemic-based and other bio-inspired approaches. In this light, we
are witnessing that the design of a distributed system is fully
integrated with the design of application-level algorithms.

As a next step, we envisage that system and algorithm design will go
hand-in-hand by means of a partly bottom-up approach in which
computing elements are glued together into a full-fledged system that
can scale beyond imagination.

This new kind of systems exhibits emergent complex behavior where
self-organization, optimization, and adaptation on-the-fly are
inherent properties. This poses unprecedented challenges for the
design and management of such systems.

For this special issue of Springer Computing, we are seeking original
contributions in the field of extreme distributed systems, where
decentralization is used as the fundamental approach to reach
unprecedented scales, towards millions or even billions of elements.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- decentralized algorithms for extreme distributed systems
- epidemic-based systems design
- fully decentralized bio-inspired algorithms
- peer-to-peer systems
- wireless networks
- scalable decentralized algorithms for
   self-organization, adaptation, and optimization
- programming models for extreme distributed systems
- design and engineering techniques for extreme distributed systems

Submissions should be uploaded on to the electronic submission system
at www.comp.edmgr.com and marked under the category select article
type: SI: Extreme distributed system.

ORGANIZERS:

Maarten van Steen   VU University Amsterdam (steen at cs.vu.nl)
Gusz Eiben          VU University Amsterdam (gusz at cs.vu.nl)
Alberto Montresor   University of Trento (alberto.montresor at unitn.it)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission:	01 November 2011
Submission deadline:	15 November 2011
Notification:		01 February 2012




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