Final Program for the
Second Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY (EASY)

http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/EASY/

Sunday, 6 October 2002, San Jose, California, U.S.A.

Immediately precedes the Tenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X)

Click here PDF of the proceedings to be handed out to participants.

8:45-9:00	Welcome and Introduction
9:00-10:00	Session I: Evaluating Dependability
	"Failure from the Field: Complexity Kills" George Herbert Basis Inc. and Retro Aerospace
	"Practical Issues in Dependability Benchmarking" David Oppenheimer, Aaron B. Brown, Jonathan Traupman, Pete Broadwell, and David A. Patterson University of California at Berkeley
10:00-10:30	Morning Break
10:30-12:00	Session II: Architecting Dependability
	"When Does Fast Recovery Trump High Reliability?" Armando Fox, Stanford University David A. Patterson, University of California at Berkeley
	"Quality Improvement by Integrating Non-Functional Properties in Software Architecture Specification" Lars Grunske and Roland Neumann University of Potsdam
	"Robustness Hinting for Improving End-to-End Dependability" Michael W. Bigrigg Carnegie Mellon University
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	Session III: Fault Propagation and Management
	"Using Fault Model Enforcement to Improve Availability" Kiran Nagaraja, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, and Thu D. Nguyen Rutgers University
	"Determining Acceptance Tests for Application-Level Fault Detection" Eric Ciocca, Israel Koren, and C. Mani Krishna University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	"Architecture Support for Defending Against Buffer Overflow Attacks" (Invited Talk) Jun Xu, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Sanjay Patel, and Ravishankar K. Iyer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:00-3:30	Afternoon Break
3:30-5:30	Industry Session: Best Practices, Future Dilemmas, and Discussion
	"HP NonStop Server: Overview of an Integrated Architecture for Fault Tolerance" (Invited Talk) Wendy Bartlett Hewlett-Packard, NonStop Enterprise Division
	"A Systematic Approach to SER Estimation and Solutions" (Invited talk, monochrome copy) Hang Nguyen Intel
	"Reliability on the Cheap: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cheap PCs" (Invited talk) Anurag Acharya Google
	Discussion