Technical Program of IWSOS 2006

Final Flyer

Sunday, September 17, 2006 "Early bird activities"

14:30-17:00

Guided tour through the old city of Passau -

Meeting point in front of "Audimax (AM)" building at 14:30

(Directions to the Conference Place)

14:00-15:30

Tutorial Session 1: Resilient and Survivable Networks

By James P.G. Sterbenz

University of Kansas (US) and Lancaster University (UK)

Part 1 (Tutorials fees need to be paid separately)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Tutorial Session 1:

Part 2

17:30-19:30

Opening of Exhibition and Registration
Location: University of Passau, "Audimax (AM)" Building,
Lecture Room "HS 9" (
Directions to the Conference Place)

18:00-19:30

Get-Together and Welcome Reception Party
Location:
University of Passau, "Audimax (AM)" Building,
Lecture Room "HS 9" (
Directions to the Conference Place)


Monday, September 18, 2006

08:00-08:30

Registration

08:30-09:00

Get-Together Coffee
(and late registration)

09:00-09:30

Welcome Address and Opening Session
Hermann de Meer (Passau University, Germany)
James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, and Lancaster University, UK)

09:30-10:30

Keynote: "Making Self-Organizing Systems Secure" (slides)
Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University, USA)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session 1: "Dynamics of Structured and Unstructured Overlays"

  • The Challenges of Merging Two Similar Structured Overlays: A Tale of Two Networks (slides)
    Anwitaman Datta, Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de
    Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
    Received Best-Paper Award!
  • Self-protection in P2P Networks: Choosing the Right Neighbourhood (slides)
    Ivan Martinovic (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany),
    Christof Leng (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany),
    Frank A. Zdarsky (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany),
    Andreas Mauthe (University of Lancaster, UK),
    Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany),
    Jens B. Schmitt (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Panel Session: "Self-Organising Networks: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?"

Panel Convener: James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas,
Lawrence, USA, and Lancaster University, UK)

Panelists:

  • James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, and Lancaster University, UK) (slides)
  • Herman De Meer (Passau University, Germany)
  • Karl Aberer (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) (slides)
  • Poul Heegaard (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) (slides)
  • Paul Müller (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany) (slides)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break
(with poster presentation)

15:30-17:30

Poster Session, Euro-NGI Poster Session, and Open Discussion

17:30-18:15

Break

18:15-18:30

Meeting for Bus Transfer to Conference Dinner

Location: University of Passau, next to the "Audimax (AM)" Building,
(
Directions to the Conference Place)

19:00

Conference Dinner at Neuburg Castle


Tuesday, September 19, 2006

09:00-10:30

Short Paper Session

  • Ubiquitous Zone Networking Technologies for Multi-hop based Wireless Communications (slides)
    Namhi Kang, Ilkyun Park, Younghan Kim (Soongsil University, South
    Korea)
  • Proposal for Self-Organizing Information Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks (slides)
    Arne Handt (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
  • Autonomic Security for Home Networks (slides)
    Mohamad Aljnidi, Jean Leneutre (CNRS, ENST, Paris, France)
  • Hovering Data Clouds: A Decentralized and Self-Organizing
    Information System
    (slides)
    Axel Wegener (University of Lübeck, Germany),
    Elad M. Schiller (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany),
    Horst Hellbrück (University of Lübeck, Germany),
    S´andor P. Fekete (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany),
    Stefan Fischer (University of Lübeck, Germany)
  • Defending Grids Against Intrusions (canceled)
    Alexandre Schulter, Kleber Vieira, Carlos Becker Westphall, Carla
    Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  • ORCA – Towards an Organic Robotic Control Architecture (slides)
    Florian Mösch, Marek Litza, Adam El Sayed Auf, Erik Maehle
    (University of Lübeck, Germany),
    Karl E. Großpietsch (Fraunhofer Institute of Autonomous Intelligent
    Systems, St. Augustin, Germany),
    Werner Brockmann (University of Osnabrück, Germany)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break
(with poster presentation)

11:00-13:00

Session 2: "Self-Organization in Peer-to-Peer Networks"

  • Modelling the Population Dynamics and the File Availability in a BitTorrent-like P2P System with Decreasing Peer Arrival Rate (slides)
    Riikka Susitaival, Samuli Aalto (Helsinki University of Technology,
    Finland)
  • Combining Virtual and Physical Structures for Self-Organized Routing (no slides available)
    Thomas Fuhrmann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
  • Optimizing Locality for Self-Organizing Context-based Systems (slides)
    Mirko Knoll, Torben Weis (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:20

Session 3: "Self-Organization in Wireless Environments"

  • Randomized Self-Stabilizing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks (slides)
    Volker Turau, Christoph Weyer (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
  • The Case for Virtualized Wireless Access Networks (slides)
    Frank A. Zdarsky, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

15:20-15:50

Coffee Break
(with poster presentation)

15:50-17:50

Session 4: "Self-Organization in Distributed & GRID Computing"

  • Job Scheduling for Maximal Throughput in Autonomic Computing Systems (slides)
    Kevin Ross (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
    Nicholas Bambos (Stanford University, USA)
  • Investigating Global Behavior in Computing Grids (slides)
    Kevin L. Mills, Christopher Dabrowski (National Institute of Standards
    and Technology, USA)
  • Using Decentralized Clustering for Task Allocation in Networks with Reconfigurable Helper Units (slides)
    Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf, Alexander Scheidler (University of
    Leipzig, Germany)

18:20-18:50

Organ Concert in St. Stephan's Cathedral (meeting point at 17:50 at the "Audimax" building), followed by short guided tour of the old city

PC meeting and dinner (Program Committee only) at "Heilig-Geist-Stiftschenke"

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

08:30-10:15

Session 5: "Self-Organization for Network Management and Routing"

  • Self-tuned Refresh Rate in a Swarm Intelligence Path Management System (slides)
    Poul E. Heegaard, Otto J. Wittner (Norwegian University of Science
    and Technology, Norway)
  • Cross-layer Approach to Detect Data Packet Droppers in Mobile
    Ad-hoc Networks
    (slides)
    Djamel Djenouri (CERIST Center of research, Algeria),
    Nadjib Badache (USTHB University, Algeria)
  • On-demand Distributed Energy-Aware Routing Algorithms with
    Limited Route Length
    (slides)
    Cheolgi Kim (Information and Communications University, South
    Korea),
    Kisoo Chang (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South
    Korea),
    Joongsoo Ma (Information and Communications University, South
    Korea)

10:15-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:30

Session 6: "Self-Managing & Autonomic Computing"

  • Automatic Data Locality Optimization through Self-Optimization (slides)
    Rainer Buchty, Jie Tao, Wolfgang Karl (University of Karlsruhe,
    Germany)
  • A Bio-Inspired Approach for Self-Protecting an Organic Middleware with Artificial Antibodies (slides)
    Andreas Pietzowski, Benjamin Satzger, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo
    Ungerer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  • Autonomic Management of Edge servers (slides)
    Mikael Desertot (Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, and Bull SA,
    Echirolles, France)
    Clement Escoffier, Philippe Lalanda, Didier Donsez (Laboratoire
    LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, France)

12:30-13:00

Wrap-Up and Closing Session