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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:
- Agreement protocols (e.g., broadcast, consensus)
- State machine replication and other replication protocols
- Checkpointing, recovery, and reconfiguration protocols
- Frameworks for aforementioned protocols
- Hybrid fault models
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:
robust2026@lists.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: 31 August
- Notification: 14 September
- Registration Deadline: 24 September
- Workshop: 7-8 October
Program Committee
- Franz J. Hauck, Ulm University (Chair)
- Rüdiger Kapitza, FAU, Erlangen
- Hannes Hartenstein, KIT, Karlsruhe
- Tobias Distler, University of Bamberg
- Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau
- Christian Berger, FAU, Erlangen (Local Organizer)
- Hein Meling, University of Stavanger
- Leander Jehl, University of Stavanger
Registration
If you intend to participate in the workshop, please briefly register here TODO, tell us if you also like to join the social event (evening program) on Wednesday evening, and confirm your registration by using the link included in the confirmation e-mail.
Please register no later than 24 September.
Venue
Chair of Computer Science 4 (Systems Software)
Martensstraße 1
91058 Erlangen
Wednesday: Room number 0.031-113 Thursday: Room number 0.031-113
Accommodation
For your accommodation during the workshop, we recommend considering hotels conveniently located near the Technische Fakultät (workshop venue) or Erlangen Altstadt / Zentrum. Here are some options to choose from:
Hotels near Technische Fakultät (workshop venue):
Erlangen Altstadt / Zentrum (city center):
- NH Hotel Erlangen
- Hotelchen am Theater
- Hotel Rokohaus Erlangen
- Altstadthotel Grauer Wolf
- Novotel Erlangen
Program (TBA)
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.