Call for Participation DECOR’04

[Didier Donsez <didier.donsez@xxxxxxx>]

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                           Call for Participation
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                                 DECOR’04
                        1st French Conference on
                Software Deployment and (Re) Configuration


                     October 28-29th, Grenoble, France
                             Maison Jean Kuntzmann
                  (Campus Universitaire de Saint Martin d'Hères)

               
                  Conference web site: http://decor.imag.fr/

                             Organized by LSR


Scope:
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Software deployment deals with a set of activities from installation
to uninstallation through updating, reconfiguration, activation and
disabling of pieces of software. Large scale software deployment
requires efficiency and coordination. A well-accomplished deployment
allows to singnificantly increase productivity.

Internet growth induced the necessity to be able to deploy client-side
applications, through the network, directly from the producer. Since
there is a huge amount of client hosts, an automated environment is
consequently required in order to both identify and deploy the most
appropriate software. One must indeed take into account enterprise
organisation aspects that allow defining useable strategies. Also, one
must take into account characteristics (software and hardware) of each
target machine as well as technical aspects related to the deployment
process, at various complexity levels.

Software deployment is becoming one of the major issue in software
engineering area, particularly since the emergence of component-based
approaches. Although several deployment systems already exist, underlying
principles and concepts are just beginning to be investigated.

DECOR’04 aims at offering to the European computing community
(researchers, teachers, engineers, industrials and students) a chance to
discuss on research and practice in software deployment. It focuses on
understanding how an large-scale automated deployment environment can be
designed, where deployment applies to any kind of software: legacy
applications, component-based applications, operating systems, ...




Preliminary program, as well as registration, travel and accommodation
information is available on <http://decor.imag.fr>

Steering committee :

Noureddine Belkhatir, Université Grenoble 2, LSR/ADELE
Didier Donsez,        Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE
Sébastien Jean,       Université Grenoble 2, LSR/SARDES, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Vivien Quéma,         INPG, LSR/SARDES, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Vincent Lestideau,    Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE


Program committee :

Noureddine Belkhatir (coordinateur), Université Grenoble 2, LSR/ADELE
Alexander L. Wolf, Université du Colorado
André Schiper, Laboratoire de Systèmes Répartis (LSR), EPFL
Chantal Taconet, INT Evry
Charles Consel, INRIA Bordeaux
Claude Godart, INRIA Lorraine/ECOO
Didier Donsez, Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE
Dominique Rieu, Université Grenoble 2, LSR/SIGMA
Eric Bruneton, France Telecom R&D
Flavio Oquendo, Université de Savoie - LISTIC
François Exertier, BULL
Françoise Baude, Université de Nice
Frantisek Plasil, Université Charles, Pragues
Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Guy Bernard, INT Evry
Houari Sahraoui, Université de Montréal- Canada
Isabelle Borne, Université de Bretagne-Sud, VALORIA
Jacky Estublier, CNRS, LSR/ADELE
Jean-Bernard Stéfani, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, LSR/SARDES
Jean-Marc Andreoli, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jean-Marc Geib, INRIA Futur, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de 
Lille,
Jean-Pierre Giraudin, Université Grenoble 2, LSR/SIGMA
Jose Luis Ruiz Revuelta, DIT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Judith Bishop, Université de Pretoria, Afrique du Sud
Lionel Seinturier, Université Paris 6 - LIP6 / INRIA Futurs - JACQUARD
Marc Shapiro, MicroSoft Research, Cambridge
Michel Riveill, ESSI, Laboratoire I3S
Noël De Palma, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, LSR/SARDES
Philippe Lalanda, Schneider Electric
Philippe Merle, INRIA Futur, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de 
Lille,
Pierre Yves Cunin, Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE
Richard Hall, Université Grenoble 1, LSR/ADELE
Rudolf K. Keller-Tao, Zühlke Engineering AG, Suisse
Sébastien Jean, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, LSR/SARDES
Stéphane Frénot, INSA de Lyon, CITI

DECOR’04 is sponsored by:

- L’Institut de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (IMAG)
- Le Laboratoire Logiciels, Systèmes et Réseaux (LSR, UMR 5526)
- L’Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique 
(INRIA, UR Rhône-Alpes)
- L’Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble 1)
- La Région Rhône-Alpes
- Le Conseil Général de l’Isère
- Grenoble-Alpes Métropole