ROBUST 2025 Workshop

Resilient Operations - Byzantine Fault Tolerance and State-Machine Replication
@ KIT Karlsruhe, Germany — March 17 and 18, 2025

This workshop is a joint technical discussion (“GI Fachgespräch”) of the GI special interest groups on Communication and Distributed Systems (KuVS) and Operating Systems (FGBS). We look into protocols and frameworks that are robust against Byzantine faults. The focus is on necessary concepts and infrastructure to enable (Byzantine) fault tolerance, but can also include the operation of such systems. Selected areas in the field are given by the following, not necessarily complete, list:

Call for Contributions

We look for presentations on your work, including preliminary results and open questions. We plan with presentations of about 25min length joined by 15min of discussion, so that there is plenty of time for a substantial exchange.

If you want to give a presentation, please submit an abstract describing your talk before the deadline. We accept up to two pages in the Lecture Notes on Informatics (LNI) format (CTAN, Overleaf), including bibliography. Submissions are not blind. We recommend English submissions and English presentations, as far as possible. Accepted submissions will be made available in public on the workshop website, but would not be part of official proceedings. Submissions have to be sent to the following email address:

robust2025submission@mailinglists.kit.edu

Important Dates

Program Committee

Registration

If you intend to participate in the workshop, please briefly register here, tell us if you also like to join the social event (evening program) on Monday evening, and confirm your registration by using the link included in the confirmation e-mail.

Please register no later than March 2, 2025.

Venue

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
InformatiKOM 2 (Bldg. 50.28), Room SR2
Adenauerring 10
76131 Karlsruhe

Accommodation

For your accommodation during the workshop, we recommend considering hotels conveniently located near station “Durlacher Tor / KIT Campus Süd” (workshop venue), “Marktplatz” (city center), or “Rüppurrer Tor” (in between). Here are some options to choose from:

Program

The following program is tentative. The event is planned from lunch to lunch so that there is time to arrive and depart on the same days. In the evening, there will be a social event in form of a joint dinner.

Monday (2025-03-17)

12:00 Arrival

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch at Workshop Venue

13:15 – 13:30 Welcome (Chair: Hannes Hartenstein)

13:30 – 15:30 Session 1 (Chair: Tobias Distler)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00 Session 2 (Chair: Rüdiger Kapitza)

19:15 Social Event

Tuesday (2025-03-18)

08:30 – 10:00 Session 3 (Chair: Christian Berger)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Session 4 (Chair: Franz J. Hauck)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch at Workshop Venue

12:30 – 13:15 Wrap-Up / Discussion with Lunch (Chairs: Franz J. Hauck, Hannes Hartenstein)

13:15 Departure