Michel Raynal:
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Title: "Dynamic distributed systems"
Abstract:
La notion de système réparti dynamique  reste  encore empirique et se révèle être assez floue  dans la littérature consacré aux  systèmes.  L'exposé présentera la problématique associée ainsi que des  problèmes où la notion de "dynamicité"  est présente.
On examinera entre autres problèmes comment mettre en oeuvre une mémoire partagée, ainsi que les contraintes nécessaires pour la réaliser, dans un contexte où les processus peuvent a priori rejoindre et quitter le système à tout instant.

Professor Liuba Shrira:
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Title: "Long Running Transactions in Cloud Storage Systems"
Abstract:
Type-specific synchronization is a known approach to increase transaction concurrency and avoid conflicts by taking into account the semantics of  object types. Unfortunately, current techniques are limited because they cannot be used on generic ``commodity'' servers, an issue of concern in cloud storage systems.
This talk will discuss novel methods that provide flexible ways to implement type-specific synchronization that are appropriate for cloud systems.  We will consider both connected and disconnected mobile environments.


Gregor
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Title: "Service composition: Deriving Component Designs from Global Requirements"
Abstract:
Distributed systems are difficult to design because (1) message exchanges between the different system components must be foreseen in order to coordinate the actions at the different locations, and (2) the varying speed of execution of the different system components, and the varying speed of message transmission through the different networks through which the components are connected make it very hard to predict in which order these messages could be received. This presentation deals with the early development phases of distributed applications, such as communication systems, service compositions or workflow applications. It is assumed that first a global requirements model is established that makes abstraction from the physical distribution of the different system functions. Once the architectural (distributed) structure of the system has been selected, this global requirement model must be transformed into a set of local behavior models, one for each of the components involved. Each local behavior model, implemented on a separate device, realizes part of the system functions and includes the exchange of messages necessary to coordinate the overall system behavior.
The presentation will first review several methods for describing global requirements and local component behaviors, such as state machines, activity diagrams, Petri nets, BPEL, sequence diagrams, etc. Then a new description paradigm based on the concept of collaborations will be presented, together with some examples. The second part of the presentation will concentrate on the problem of how local component behaviors can be derived automatically from a given global requirements model. First it is assumed that the ordering between different activities is defined by explicit control flow relations. This is then generalized to the case where so-called weak sequencing is used to describe the ordering of activities. Weak sequencing is the natural ordering relation for the composition of sequence diagrams. Finally, an outlook at remaining problems and possible applications in the context of service compositions, workflow modeling, Web Services and Cloud Computing will be discussed.