COSYS 2012 - ACM SAC 2012 technical track on Cooperative Systems in Heterogeneous Environments (COSYS)

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Deadline: August 31, 2011 | Date: March 25, 2012-March 29, 2012

Venue/Country: Trento, Italy

Updated: 2011-06-18 09:32:20 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Cooperative Systems in Heterogeneous Environments

(COSYS)

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rza/cosys/cosys12/

Technical Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

(SAC 2012)

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/

Trento, Italy, March 25-29, 2012

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM

Scope

The deployment of many applications in distributed systems is often underpinned

by cooperative schemes. These are required to address the pressing need to harness

and marshal resources across dynamic and heterogeneous environments. Cooperative

systems create spaces where entities can interact with each other and their environments,

and provide services in order to help achieve specific goals. They are characterised

by their level of distribution, the underlying mode of interaction and the degree

of autonomy of the entities. Client-server architectures, P2P systems, GRID systems

and multi-agent systems (MAS) identify different models of cooperative behaviour.

Within the scope of cooperation, architectural frameworks in e-commerce, e-government,

e-learning and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) have been successfully

introduced to generate synergy between humans and systems. While hypermedia and

personalisation systems represent specific instances of direct adaptation,

software agents have ushered in proxy interventions on behalf of users.

It is in pervasive environments that cooperation between different entities

is finding its full expression; symbiotic relationships are being embedded

and seamless transitions initiated and sustained.

Effective cooperation demands that autonomous entities and systems overcome

their environmental heterogeneity and resolve their syntactic and semantic differences.

By adhering to common abstractions and models the participating entities are insulated

from the complexity of the environments of their protagonists. This facilitates

the unfolding of processes such as data and system integration, coordination of behaviour,

resource access and sharing, and participation in complex activities.

In managing the differences between entities, systems and environments a range of methods

and techniques were introduced in order to support interoperation and facilitate

semantic interoperability. Resource and process management, configuration, adaptation

and negotiation define a wide spectrum of cooperation, from reactive behaviour

to proactive intervention. These tasks are being enhanced by ontologies, context awareness

and adaptivity.

Topics of interest

The track seeks original contributions on cooperative behaviour

and cooperative systems related but not limited to the following topics:

- Resource management and brokering in cooperative systems

- Data and process mediation in cooperative systems

- Personalisation and recommendation systems

- Implicit and explicit profile generation in cooperative schemes

- Modes of interaction in cooperative systems

- Role of mediation in cooperative systems

- Ontologies and ontology mapping in cooperative systems

- Arbitration and negotiation in cooperation

- Hypermedia systems in cooperation

- Context-awareness in cooperative systems

- Self-configuration and adaptivity in cooperative systems

- Autonomous and emergent behaviour in cooperative systems

- Service management in cooperative systems

- Heterogeneity management in cooperative systems

- Aggregation of cooperative services

- Security, trust and reputation in cooperative systems

- Patterns of cooperative behaviour

- Formal aspects of cooperation

- Information management models in cooperative systems

- Policy management in cooperative systems

- Protocol management in cooperative systems

- Models and model transformation in cooperative systems

- Domain specific languages (DSL) in cooperative systems

- Load sharing in cooperative systems

- Cooperation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments.

- Cooperation in social and P2P community systems

- Cooperation in foundational systems

- Mobile contexts for cooperation

- Architectural frameworks for cooperation

- Cooperative systems in e-science, e-commerce, e-government and e-learning

- Case studies and experiences of cooperative systems

Important Dates

- Submission deadline: August 31, 2011

- Author notification: October 12, 2011

- Camera-ready copies: November 2, 2011

- Symposium/Track dates: March 25-29, 2012

Program Committee

Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK

Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK

Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Sandford Bessler, Telecommunications Research Center, Austria

Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany

Nick Blundell, University of Birmingham, UK

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada

Christian Glasner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany

Nathan Griffiths, Warwick University, UK

Robert J. Hendley, University of Birmingham, UK

Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy

Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy

Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK

Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Hongyang Qu, Oxford University, UK

Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Stefan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK

Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain

Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada

Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan

Georgios Theodoropoulos, University of Birmingham, UK

Torab Torabi, La Trobe University, Australia

Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Hamdi Yahyaoui, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, USA

Track Co-Chairs

For any inquiries please contact the track organisers:

Rachid Anane

Faculty of Engineering and Computing

Coventry University, UK

r[dot]anane[at]coventry[dot]ac[dot]uk

David Parker

Department of Computer Science

Oxford University, UK

david[dot]parker[at]cs[dot]ox[dot]ac[dot]uk