8:30 - 10:15 Dependability Evaluation and Software Design

• Dependability benchmarking:  making choices in an n-dimensional problem space,  H. Madeira, Univ. of Coimbra and P. Koopman, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
• To err is human, A. Brown and D. Patterson, Univ. of California at Berkeley
• Designing for high availability and measurability, G. Candea and A. Fox, Stanford Univ.
• Using distributed data structures for constructing cluster-based services, R. Martin, K. Nagaraja, T. Nguyen, Rutgers Univ.

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Hardware Design Techniques

• A processor framework for high-performance and high-dependability, S. Patel, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. Iyer, W. Magda, and N. Nakka, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Evaluation and design of dependable systems with design diversity, S. Mitra, N. Saxena and E. McCluskey, Stanford Univ.
• An immune system paradigm for the design of fault tolerant systems, A. Avizienis and R. Avizienis, A. Avizienis and Associates, Inc.

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:45 Clustered and Distributed Systems

• Measuring and managing end-to-end quality of service (QoS) provided by linked chains of application and communications services, A. Robinson, S/TDC, and D. Lounsbury, The Open Group
• The shape of failure, T. Heath, R. Martin and T. Nguyen, Rutgers Univ.
• Domain-specific reliability modeling, V. Mendiratta, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories

14:45 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:30 Breakout Discussions

16:30 - 17:30 Breakout Discussion Summary and Wrap-up