ARM'09 2009 - The 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'09)

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Category ARM'09 2009

Deadline: August 01, 2009 | Date: December 01, 2009

Venue/Country: Illinois, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

December 1st 2009, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA collocated with

Middleware 2009

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~gracep/ARM2009/

Call For Papers

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM GMT-8 (US Pacific Time)

* Paper, poster and demo submissions: August 1st, 2009

* Acceptance notification: September 15th, 2009

* Camera-ready papers due: October 8th, 2009

* Workshop: December 1st, 2009

Theme

Next generation middleware systems will require a high degree of

flexibility with regards to the diversity of situation they can be used

for (from wireless sensor networks to large-scale grids). The challenges

for these middleware solutions therefore consists in adapting to the

diversity of platforms and networks as well as the fluctuating operating

conditions while preserving their quality of service.

The goal of the ARM workshop series ( RM2000, RM2003, ARM ?04, ARM?05,

ARM?06, ARM ?07, ARM?08) is to bring together researchers working on

techniques and middleware platforms to engineer dynamic adaptations in

distributed systems. In particular this 8th incarnation welcomes

contributions about the following issues related to adaptive middleware

in the face of increasing scale and complexity of distributed systems

(e.g. from the emergence of Systems of Systems and Cloud computing):

* Heterogeneity: middleware solutions enabling the adaptation of

systems-of-systems, i.e., systems spanning different technologies and

environments, and/or covering the system layers (e.g., devices, OSs,

networks, applications);

* Dependability: middleware techniques enabling adaptive dependability

and/or dependable adaptations to improve the resilience of adaptive

systems to software and/or hardware faults;

* Sustainability: middleware platforms enhancing the sustainability of

systems to support the diverse evolutions of a system. This topic also

includes the definition of reusable methodologies and techniques for

adapting various systems;

* Scalability: middleware techniques to support the large-scale

adaptations of systems, including: peer-to-peer platforms; network-

centric systems; grid computing; cloud computing; sensor networks; and

pervasive and mobile applications.

* Security: middleware mechanisms tackling the issues related to the

security of adaptive systems. This topic encloses mechanisms to improve

the security of adaptive systems or to apply adaptation technics to

enhance security solutions.

For each of these issues, the workshop is interested in contributions to

the scenario, the indicators, and in particular the metrics used to

assess the quality of the proposed solutions.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Design and performance of adaptive and/or reflective middleware platforms;

* Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in specific

domains-e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing,

mobile computing, grid computing, P2P, Systems-of-Systems etc;

* Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms including network,

OS and device level techniques;

* Adaptation and reflection in heterogeneous execution paradigms e.g.

P2P networks, network-centric computing;

* Incorporating non-functional properties into middleware-real- time,

fault-tolerance, security, trust, privacy, etc.;

* Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as

it relates to middleware;

* Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and

reflective techniques;

* Evaluation methodologies for adaptive and reflective middleware;

* Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective

technologies;

* Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware;

* Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of

adaptive and reflective mechanisms;

* Software engineering methodologies for the design and development of

adaptive middleware.

Submission Guidelines

We invite the following three types of submission to the workshop:

* Research papers should not exceed 6 pages of text on letter paper in

ACM format without page numbers.

* Poster submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract

describing the poster content in ACM format without page numbers; this

offers the opportunity to present and receive feedback at the workshop

about work still in its early stages.

* Demo submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract in ACM

format without page numbers describing the contribution and content of

the demo; we are particularly interested in demonstrations of adaptive

middleware tools and solutions.

Papers will be peer-reviewed (by at least 3 reviewers), and selected

based on their originality, technical strength and topical relevance.

One of the authors of an accepted submission must attend the workshop

and present their work as a condition of publication. A dedicated

session of the workshop will be held for the presentation of posters and

demos.

Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be

found at:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All papers and abstracts should be submitted in either PDF or PS format

to the ARM'09 EasyChair online submission website:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arm2009.

Program Chairs

* Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway

* Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK

Contact: p.grace(at)lancaster (dot) ac (dot) uk

Technical Program Committee

* Anders Andersen, University of Troms?, Norway

* Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK

* Licia Capra, University College London, UK

* Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil

* Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias, Brazil

* Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK

* Edward Curry, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland

* Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway

* Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, NASA Ames Research Center, USA

* Francisco Jose da Silva e Silva , Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil

* Peter Komisarczuk, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

* Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

* Thomas Ledoux, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Ecole des Mines de

Nantes, France

* Joseph Loyal, BBN Technologies, USA

* Philippe Merle, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France

* Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

* Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France

* Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA

* Richard Staehli, Expeditors International, Seattle, Washington, USA

* Alexandre Sztajnberg, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

* Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK

* Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA

* Luis Veiga, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal

* Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA

* Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA

* Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK

Organising Committee

* Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil

* Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK

* Fabio M. Costa, Federal U. of Goias, Brazil

* Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK

* Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

* Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA