Kings College chapel

“The backs” along the Cam River

Microsoft Research Cambridge lab 

Reliability Analysis of System Failure Data March 1-2 2007, Cambridge, UK www.deeds.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/RAF07 Organized by Microsoft Corporation and TU Darmstadt, Germany

Program

Thursday 1^st March

1. "Empirical testing of Open Source Operating System Reliability: Failure analysis by co-relating event logs and crashes" + Presentation
   Anandeep Pannu, John Kew
   Microsoft (USA)

2. "Application of Data Mining in Failure Data Analysis"
   Gergely Pinter, Istvan Majzik, Andras Pataricza
   Budapest Univ. (Hungary)

3. "Towards Sustainable Failure-related Field Data Analysis"
   Guenther Hoffmann, Mirek Malek
   Humboldt Univ. (Germany)

4. "Failure Analysis of Windows Device Drivers" + Presentation
   Andreas Johansson, Brendan Murphy
   TU Darmstadt (Germany), Microsoft Research (UK)

5. "ODC Measurement and Analysis - The Industrys Experience"
   Ram Chillarege
   Chillarege Inc (USA)

6. "Use of Software Failure Data in Large Space Systems" + Presentation
   Myron Hecht
   Aerospace Co (USA)

7. "Using Real-World Software Failure Data" + Presentation
   Veena Mendiratta, Jorge Souza, Gus Zimmerman
   Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (USA)

8. "Effective analysis of runtime failures in group communication systems" + Presentation
   Alex Krits, Benny Mandler, Roman Vitenberg, Oren Rubin, Gabriel Kliot, Yoel Krasny
   IBM (Israel), Technion (Israel), NYU (USA)

9. "Characterizing Switching System Outage Durations"
   D. A. Hoeflin, Venna Mendiratta
   AT&T Research (USA) and Alcatel-Lucent (USA)

10. "Typical uses of defect records in Cisco"
    Mod Marathe
    Cisco Systems (USA)

11. "Assessing End-User Reliability Before Product Ship" + Presentation
    Mujtaba Khambatti, Mingtian Ni, Mario R. Garzia
    Microsoft (USA)

12. "Leak and Deadlock Detection and Diagnosis"
    Baskar Sridharan, Stephan Doll, Jason Wohlgemuth, Solom Heddaya
    Microsoft (USA)

13. "Estimation of Software Reliability Growth Model Parameters" + Presentation
    Claes Wohlin
    Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)

14. "Bridging model-based design for dependability methodologies and empirical observations" + Presentation
    Andras Pataricza, Peter Laszlo Pasztor, Imre Kocsis
    Budapest Univ. (Hungary)

15. "Improving Failure Analysis by Exploiting Execution Guaranties"
    Andreas Reuter, Nikolas Nehmer
    TU Kaiserslautern (Germany)

16. "Predicting Fault-Proneness: Do We Finally Know How?" + Presentation
    Bojan Cukic, Yan Ma
    West Virgina Univ. (USA)

17. "Failure Analysis: lets take a step back and get a big-picture look" + Presentation
    Luigi Coppolino, Luigi Romano
    Univ. of Naples (Italy)

18. "Runtime error reporting: Current and future trends"
    Avi Mendelson
    Intel

19. "Tools and Techniques for Failure Data Collection and Analysis" + Presentation
    Archana Ganapathi
    Univ. of California, Berkeley (USA)

20. "Development and Analysis of a Software Failure Data Repository" + Presentation
    Charles Weinstock, David Zubrow, Robert Stoddard
    SEI (USA)

21. "The computer failure data repository (CFDR)" + Presentation
    Bianca Schroeder, Garth Gibson
    CMU (USA)

22. "Automatic Collection of Failure Traces" + Presentation
    Christof Fetzer
    TU Dresden

23. "The Role of Data in Creating Next Generation Enterprise Systems" + Presentation
    Aad Van Moorsel, Katinka Wolter, Aad Van Moorsel, Philipp Reinecke Humboldt Univ (Germany), Univ. of Newcastle (UK)

24. "Data Collection and Analysis for the Reliability Prediction and Estimation of a Safety Critical System" + Presentation
    Ying Shi, Wende Kong, Carol Smidts
    Univ. of Maryland (USA)

25. "Quality of Failure Data: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" + Presentation
    Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova
    West Virginia Univ. (USA)

26. "Harvesting Error Reports From Windows Systems" + Presentation
    Vince Orgovan
    Microsoft (USA)

27. "On Increasing System Test Effectiveness Though a Test Case Prioritization Model Using$ Static Metrics and System Failure Data"
    Laurie Williams, Will Snipes, Andrew Meneely
    North Carolina State Univ. (USA)

28. "Systematic evaluation of test failure results" + Presentation
    Bertrand Meyer, Ilinca Ciupa, Lisa (Ling) Liu, Manuel Oriol, Andreas Leitner, Raluca Borca-Muresan
    ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

"If a computer recovers and no one knows it, did it really fail?"
Lisa Spainhower
Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation, NY (USA)

"Measurement to Action"
Peter Carr
Sun Microsystems

Friday 2^nd March