Resilience Assessment and Evaluation

Motivation

Resilience of computing systems includes their dependability as well as their fault tolerance and security. Resilience defines the ability of a computing system to perform proper service in the presence of disturbances of all kinds and to recover from any service degradation. These properties are extraordinarily important in a world where many aspects of daily life depend on the correct, reliable and secure operation of computing systems. Considered systems include, but are not limited to, infrastructures, computer networks, pervasive, adhoc and mesh networks, web-based systems, service-oriented architectures, embedded systems, manufacturing systems, control systems and more.

Much research progress has been made in modelling, measuring and evaluating performance and dependability of systems but many challenges remain. Aspects such as benchmarking performability, assessing security and trading off security and performance require further research breakthroughs. Similarly, applications and systems continue to change over time, as do their characteristics, usage patterns and deployment. This creates the need to continue and expand work in resilience assessment.

The seminar will address methods and tools to describe, measure, evaluate, benchmark, guarantee and improve resilience as well as case-studies and experimental work concerning resilience of computing systems. We aim at collecting existing work into a text book with profound investigation of the subject, that may be used for teaching the subject, as well as discuss open problems and research directions for the future.