Service availability : 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008, Tokyo, Japan, May 19-21, 2008 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in May 2008. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise system dependability, software service availability, service availability platform, and service dependability analysis. Front Matter....Pages I-XII The Italian e- Government Enterprise Architecture: A Comprehensive Introduction with Focus on the SLA Issue....Pages 1-12 Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science in Services Science....Pages 13-16 Predictive Algorithms and Technologies for Availability Enhancement....Pages 17-19 Achieving and Assuring High Availability....Pages 20-25 Optimizing Security Measures in an Intrusion Tolerant Database System....Pages 26-42 The Impact of Unavailability on the Effectiveness of Enterprise Information Security Technologies....Pages 43-58 Interaction Faults Caused by Third-Party External Systems — A Case Study and Challenges....Pages 59-74 User-Perceived Software Service Availability Modeling with Reliability Growth....Pages 75-89 Execution Path Profiling for OS Device Drivers: Viability and Methodology....Pages 90-109 Analysis of a Software System with Rejuvenation, Restoration and Checkpointing....Pages 110-128 A Platform for Cooperative Server Backups Based on Virtual Machines....Pages 129-141 Platform Management with SA Forum and Its Role to Achieve High Availability....Pages 142-154 Automatic Generation of AMF Compliant Configurations....Pages 155-170 Dependability Evaluation of a Replication Service for Mobile Applications in Dynamic Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 171-186 Ten Fallacies of Availability and Reliability Analysis....Pages 187-206 Analytical Availability Assessment of IT Services....Pages 207-224 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in May 2008.

The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise system dependability, software service availability, service availability platform, and service dependability analysis.