Sunflower

IFIP Working Group 10.4
Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance

56th Meeting

Óbidos, Portugal

July 2-5, 2009

Previous Page

Meeting Host
  Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal


Program-at-a-Glance and Contents

Workshop on Experimental Methods

Workshop 
Coordinator
Roy Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7

Business Meeting

Research Reports

List of Attendees


Workshop  on Experimental Methods 

July 3 & 4, 2009 (Friday/Saturday)


Session 1
Roy Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Factors Relevant to the Validity of Experiments in Keystroke Forensics
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John McHugh, Dalhousie University, Canada
Other Peoples' Data: Pitfalls and Requirements
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Session 2
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems: Metrics and Methodology
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Session 3

Tiffany Frazier, BAE Systems, US
Lessons from 8 Years of Government Experiments in Computer Network Operations (CNO) Research and Development
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Session 4
Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, NIST, US
Counter Height and Fingerprint Scanner Angle: A Case Study on the Importance of Experimental Rigor
3.9 MB (ppsx)

Session 5
Elaine Weyuker, Tom Ostrand, AT&T Labs, US
Doing Empirical Software Engineering: Defect Prediction
Defect Prediction for Large, Long-Lived Software Systems
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Session 6 
Kevin Killourhy, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Scientific Benefits of a Shared Experimental Framework: On Developing Public Keystroke-Dynamics Resources
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Dan Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Multi-Year, Large-Scale Evaluation of an Integrated Intelligent System with Humans in the Loop
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Session 7  --  Round-Table Discussion
Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Walt Heimerdinger, Honeywell Laboratories, US
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Business Meeting

Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs, US
Overall Presentation and News
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Research Reports

July 5, 2009 (Sunday)

Phil Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University, US
On Understanding Emergence in the Context of System Safety
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Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
IFIP-SIG on Education in Resilient Computing
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Priya Narasimhan,  Carnegie Mellon University, US
Problem Diagnosis for Cloud Computing
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Brian Randell, Newcastle University, UK
Structured Occurrence Nets
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Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence, Italy
CHESS: Composition with guarantees for High-integrity Embedded Software componentS assembly
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Christof Fetzer, TU-Dresden, Germany
PAREXC: Parallel Execution Checking 
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Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK
Risk Communication
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Marco Vieira, Coimbra University, Portugal
Improving Failure Prediction Methods by Fault Injection
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Michael Paulitsch, EADS, Germany
Time-Triggered (Gigabit) Ethernet
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Kevin Driscoll, Honeywell Laboratories, US
Portrait of a Byzantine Assassin
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Mohamed Kaâniche, LAAS-CNRS, France
Dependability Evaluation of Mobile Applications
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Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, US
Achieving High Survivability in Distributed Systems through Automated Response
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List of Attendees

Names and Contact Information
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