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Theme of the Workshop:

The Second International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2007) is a workshop which focuses on dependability and sustainability of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, with respect to their designs, operations, applications and social impacts.

P2P can be a promising technology on which we can depend lives of ours and our children, upon which we can build sustainable societies.

Designs of P2P systems are characterized by their usage of overlay networks such that there is symmetry in the roles among participants. This implies distribution of authorities, not only preventing introduction of single points of failure, but also assuring a level of autonomy which allows many of us to spontaneously start, maintain, or recover from failures of, such systems.

Although difficulties exist, such as uncertainty in the trust among participants, one needs to be aware that such difficulties are, in many parts, due to our own human nature; depending on P2P is, in fact and literally, depending on ourselves and our friends, who seem to be the only ones we can trust anyway, when it comes to our own survival.

The goal of this workshop is to share experiences, insights and new ideas, and set forth research agendas and suggestive future directions by collaborations among researchers with different disciplines and with similar interests toward dependability and sustainability.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:
* Designs and operations of dependable and sustainable P2P systems

• Self-organization and emergence
• Attack-resistance
• Fault tolerance
• Mobility
• Sustainable operations
• Sustainable mutual trust
• Sustainable reciprocal relationships

• Sustainable economy
• Sustainable governance
• Sustainable lifestyles
• Rescue activities
• Post-catastrophic recovery
• Tackling environmental problems

The workshop invites your contributions of previously unpublished papers, which will be selected based on their originality, technical merit and topical relevance. Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to interesting and fruitful discussions at the workshop.

Detailed instruction is TBD.

See the workshop web site (http://das-p2p.wide.ad.jp/) for the submission procedure.

Registration:

It is the IEEE policy that accepted papers can be published only when IEEE recognized that at least one author has registered for presentation. So, authors will be requested to register along with the final manuscript. SAINT Conference Registration fees include a copy of the Conference proceedings, a copy of the Workshop proceedings, admission to the Conference/Workshop sessions.

Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Paper submission due: September 22, 2006
• Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2006
• Camera-ready copies due: November 1, 2006
• Author registration due: TBD
• Workshop: January 15-19, 2007 (exact date is TBD)

• Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Roger Dingledine, The Free Haven Project, USA
• Yusuke Doi, TOSHIBA Corporation, Japan (co-chair)
• Claudiu Duma, Linkoping University, Sweden
• Debojyoti Dutta, University of Southern California, USA
• Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
• Achmad Nizar Hidayanto, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
• Youki Kadobayashi, Nara Instritute of Science and Technology, Japan (co-chair)
• Anirban Mondal, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Elizabeth Ogston, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Akiko Orita, Keio University, Japan
• Omer F Rana, Cardiff University, UK
• Kenji Saito, Keio University, Japan (co-chair)
• Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy
• Ben Y. Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Sheng Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA