Japan-Switzerland Joint Seminar on Reliable and Efficient Internet Large-Scale Systems
REILS 2004

Our society has become highly reliant on Internet technologies, a tendency that will continue to increase in the future. Given this importance, it is fundamental that Internet systems be made significantly more reliable, secure, and efficient. In large-scale settings, these characterictics are very difficult to realize, verify, and evaluate. In particular, designing large-scale Internet systems has to deal with aspects usually overlooked in small contexts such as algorithm scalability, heterogeneity of the components forming the Internet, and user trustworthiness. Overcoming these difficulties can only be accomplished by the collaboration of researchers with varied backgrounds working toward a common goal.

The seminar has the following objectives:

• Providing an opportunity for scientists from different research centers to meet and understand their research interests and current research projects.
• Creating a common background for all participants on the seminar themes.
• Identifying problems of interest for researchers of both countries, sketching common directions for future research involving members from Japanese and Swiss institutions, and determining how each researcher's domain of expertise can play a role in the design of Internet systems.
• Establishing contacts for future long-term visits of scientists working in Japan to Swiss research institutions, and scientists working in Switzerland to Japanese research institutions.
• Laying the basis for exchange programs for PhD and Master Students of Japanese and Swiss institutions.