Hosted by Wits PHDS Research Group, the next IFIP WG10.4 meeting will be held in Cape Town from 15 - 17 January 1998. As hosting country, up to 15 professionals from South Africa will be invited to attend the meeting.
If you are interested in attending the 10.4 meeting, please let me (yinong@cs.wits.ac.za) know and I will give the list to Prof. Kopetz, the chair of the IFIP WG10.4. He will then send you the formal invitation. If more than 15 people would like to attend the meeting, what I could do is to consider the coverage to different institutions.
Before the 10.4 meeting, a workshop and a tutorial will be held in Johannesburg from 12 - 14 January 1998.
About IFIP WG 10.4 Meetings
The first WG10.4 meeting took place in Portland, Maine, USA, on June 22-23,1981. In attendance were 29 founding members of the Working Group. Since then, the membership has grown to 50 members from 15 countries. Twenty five WG 10.4 meetings have been held from 1981 through 1993 in various locations, including USA (11 meetings), France (5), Canada (2), and Italy, Australia, Austria, India, Japan, Tunisia, England, (1 each). The last WG 10.4 meeting was held in Germany in 1996.
The main goal of WG 10.4 meetings is to conduct in-depth discussions of important technical topics. A principal theme since the first meeting has been the understanding and exposition of the fundamental concepts of dependable computing. Other major topics have been: distributed computing, parallel computing, real-time systems, certification of dependable systems, specification methods, design diversity, specification and validation of hard dependability requirements, methodologies for experiments, VLSI testing and fault tolerance, hardware-and-software testing and validation, fault tolerance in new architectures, communication networks, algorithms for distributed agreement, cars and computers, accidental vs. intentional faults, robotics and dependability, limits in dependability, avionics. Beside the key themes, research reports by members and guests are presented at every meeting, and business meetings are held to plan future activities.
About IFIP WG 10.4
The Working Group WG 10.4 of IFIP was established by the IFIP General Assembly in October 1980, and operates under IFIP Technical Committee TC-10, "Digital Systems Design". The charter of WG 10.4 (established 1980, revised 1988) states the aim and the scope of this Working Group as follows:
Aim
Increasingly, individuals and organizations are developing or procuring sophisticated computing systems on whose services they need to place great reliance. In differing circumstances, the focus will be on differing properties of such services e.g. continuity, performance, real-time response, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions. The notion of dependability, defined as the trustworthiness of a computing system which allows reliance to be justifiably placed on the service it delivers, enables these various concerns to be subsumed within a single conceptual framework. Dependability thus includes as special cases such attributes as reliability, availability, safety, security. The Working Group is aimed at identifying and integrating approaches, methods and techniques for specifying, designing, building, assessing, validating, operating and maintaining computer systems which should exhibit some or all of these attributes.
Scope
Specifically, the Working Group is concerned with progress in:
1) Understanding of faults (accidental faults, be physical,
design-induced, originating from human interaction; intentional faults)
and their effects.
2) Specification and design methods for dependability.
3) Methods for error detection and processing, and for fault treatment.
4) Validation (testing, verification, evaluation) and design for
testability and verifiability.
5) Assessing dependability through modelling and measurement.
The concept of WG 10.4 was formulated during the IFIP Working Conference on Reliable Computing and Fault Tolerance on September 27-29, 1979 in London, England, held in conjunction with the Europ-IFIP 79 Conference. Prof. A. Avizienis (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA) and A. Costes (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France), who organized the London Conference and proposed the formation of the Working Group were appointed as Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, of the new WG 10.4 in 1980 and served until 1986, when Dr. J.C. Laprie (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France) succeeded to serve as Chairman, and Profs J. Meyer (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), and Y. Tohma (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) became Vice Chairmen of the Working Group.
IFIP 10.4 Members
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