MOSPAS 2014

5th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of
Peer-to-Peer and Autonomic Systems
(MOSPAS 2014)

As part of

The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014)
http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

High Performance Computing at extreme scale sets new challenges which have to be faced to guarantee fault tolerance and reliability. The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigms have emerged as highly appealing, scalable solutions to tackle the above issues and the growing complexity of such software and hardware technologies. While P2P solutions put the emphasis on decentralization and sharing of resources, AC solutions are based on equipping computational entities with autonomic (self-*) features. These approaches are, of course, complementary and are often combined together in modern distributed systems that avoid central coordination and human intervention. The design, implementation, and analysis of these complex systems pose several challenges, both with functional and non-functional properties, depending on network size, churn rate and application context.

This workshop has the goal of providing an international forum for researchers and practitioners willing to present, discuss and exchange innovative research results and advanced topics that combine theoretical and practical approaches to modeling and high performance simulation, but also modeling and simulation of high performance (extreme scale) systems.

The MOSPAS Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Modeling and Simulation of P2P & Autonomic High Performance Systems
• High Performance M&S
• Formal Modeling and Analysis
• Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation
• Agent-based Simulation
• Novel Techniques for M&S
• M&S-Based Development Methods
• High Performance Fault Tolerance / Resilience at Extreme Scale
• Evaluation of Combined P2P and AC Systems
• Overlay Schemes Performance Evaluation
• Analysis of P2P/AC-based Applications and Services
• Workload Characterization and Simulation
• Analysis of Emergent Behaviors
• Evaluation of Trust and Reputation Systems
• Verification at Runtime of AC Systems
• Real-Time Aspects, including Timing Violations for Multimedia and Other Real-Time Traffic
• Analysis of novel network services supporting P2P such as RELOAD and ALTO
• Impact of P2P Traffic on the Network Infrastructure

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop International Program Committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2014.

• Marco Aldinucci, Universita di Torino, Italy
• Carlo Bertolli, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
• Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Bruno Ciciani, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
• Gerhard Hasslinger, T-Systems ENPS Darmstadt, Germany
• Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wurzburg, Germany
• Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Lucca, Italy
• Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University, MS, USA
• Javier Rubio Loyola, CINESTAV, Mexico
• Marco Picone, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
• Dominik Stingl, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
• Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK
• Andrea Vandin, University of Southampton, UK
• Francesco Zanichelli, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy