Scope
Program
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Registration
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Travel Information
Attendee Information
Organizational Committee
Presentations & Materials
Important Dates

Submissions due

Aug 15

Notification of Acceptance Aug 29

Camera Ready

Sept. 5

LADIS 2008

Sept. 15-17

Presentations & Related Material
Monday, September 15
 
Gennaro Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP, WebSphere CTO
 

eBay's Scalability Odyssey: Growing and Evolving a Large eCommerce Site.  Franco Travostino and Randy Shoup, eBay Inc.

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Related Interview - audio interview:  Link
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Smoke and Mirrors: Shadowing Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance. Hakim Weatherspoon, LakshmiGanesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, and Ken Birman, Cornell
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A Novel Data Placement Model for Highly Available Storage Systems. VenugoplanRamasubramanian, MSR
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A Simple Totally Ordered Broadcast System. Benjamin Reed, Flavio P. Junqueira, Yahoo! Research

 
 

Paxos for System Builders: An Overview. Yair Amir, and Jonathan Kirsch, Johns Hopkins

 
 

Towards Distributed Software Transactional Memory Systems. Paolo Romano, Nuno Carvalho, INESC-ID/IST; Luis Rodrigues, U of Lisboa

 
 

Distributed Slicing. Anne-Marie Kermarec, INRIA

 
 

Experience with Gossip-Based Monitoring for Datacenter Management. Robbert van Renesse, Cornell

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Decentralized Real-Time Monitoring of Network-Wide Aggregates. Rolf Stadler, KTH

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Defining Weakly Consistent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services. Petr Kuznetsov, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Atul Singh, Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley; Pedro Fonseca, MPI-SWS
 
 
Low-latency Access to Robust Amnesic Storage.  Dan Dobre, Matthias Majuntke, and Neeraj Suri, TUD
 
 
Tuesday, September 16
 
James Hamilton, Microsoft Research, Data Center Futures Team
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BFT: the Time is Now. Allen Clement, Mirco Marchetti, Edmund Wong, Lorenzo, Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, UT Austin

 
 

Reducing the Costs of Large-Scale BFT Replication. Marco Serafini, and Neeraj Suri, TUD

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The Next 700 BFT Protocols. Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Vivien Quema, CNRS, Marko Vukolic, EPFL

 
 
Interest-Based Peer Clustering for Scalable Overlay-Based Multicast: SpiderCast and Gravity. Gregory Chockler, IBM Research; Sarunas Girdijauskas, EPFL; Roie Melamed, IBM Research; Yoav Tock, IBM Research; Roman Vitenberg, U of Oslo
 
 
Scalable Time-Critical Event Notification for Data Centers. Joe Hoffert, Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt; Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Cornell
 
 
Decentralized Approaches to Performance/Resource Optimization. Mike Spreitzer, IBM Research
 
 
Efficient On-Demand Operations in Dynamic Distributed Infrastructures. Steven Y. Ko, and Indranil Gupta, UIUC
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Configuration-Space Performance Anomaly Depiction. Christopher Stewart, Kai Shen, Rochester; Arun Iyengar, Jian Yin, IBM
 
 
Wednesday, September 17
 
Write Markers for Probabilistic Quorum Systems. Michael G. Merideth, CMU, Michael K. Reiter, UNC
 
 
Building distributed applications using Sinfonia. Marcos Aguilera, MSR
 
 
Content-Based Networking: Ideas for Scalable Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Communication (Some Old, Some New). Antonio Carzaniga, U of Lugano
 
 
Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability. Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Cornell, Yoav Tock, IBM Research
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Heterogeneous Gossiping. Davide Frey, INRIA, Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, Maxime Monod, EPFL, Vivien Quema, CNRS
 
 
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
 
NIST Special Publication on "Secure Web Services" - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-95/SP800-95.pdf