SELFMAN@SASO09 2009 - Workshop on ARCHITECTURES AND LANGUAGES FOR SELF-MANAGING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SELFMAN@SASO09)

Workshop on ARCHITECTURES AND LANGUAGES FOR SELF-MANAGING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SELFMAN-AT-SASO09)
September 15, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
In conjunction with SASO 2009, September 14-18, 2009

This call for papers can also be found at:
http://www.ist-selfman.org/wiki/index.php/SelfmanW...

Important dates:
* Submission of position paper: July 10, 2009 (required for attendance)
* Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2009
* Final copy: August 19, 2009
* Workshop: September 15, 2009

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners
interested in the construction of self-managing distributed systems.
It will place the emphasis on software engineering (especially,
software architecture
and component-based software engineering) aspects of this
construction, including
models, architectures, languages, control techniques, middleware and
tools
that can be used to support the modular and principled building of
self-* distributed systems.
Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
- Component models and architectures for self-management.
- Generative and reflective (including aspect-oriented) techniques for
self-management.
- Languages for self-managing systems, including formal specification,
architecture description, programming, and domain specific languages.
- Control techniques for self-managing systems, including control-
theoretic and decision-theoretic techniques.
- Coordination and decentralized architectures of control.
- Analysis and verification techniques for self-managing systems.
- Middleware and tool support for self-managing distributed systems.
- Algorithms for distributed self-management, including event
detection, distributed control, etc.

Application areas of interest to the workshop include (but are not
limited to):
Web services, social networks, cloud computing, P2P systems and
applications, pervasive computing.

To attend the workshop, you must submit a position paper of no more
than 5 pages to the workshop organizers at the following address
(preferably by email in pdf format):

Jean-Bernard Stefani
INRIA Grenoble-Rh?ne-Alpes
655 Avenue de l'Europe - Montbonnot
38334 St Ismier Cedex
France
Email: jean-bernard.stefani-AT-inria.fr

Each position paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
The review will focus not only on the paper's quality but also on
its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions. All
authors of accepted position papers are invited to attend the
workshop. Note that workshop attendees must register both to the
conference and the workshop. Workshop PC members are also
encouraged to submit position papers and these papers will be
reviewed to the same standards as outside submissions.

This workshop is sponsored by the European project Selfman <http://www.ist-selfman.org/
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Organizing committee

Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Peter Van Roy, Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium


Program committee

Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Pierre Cointe, Ecole des Mines, Nantes, France
Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs, France
Jean-Charles Fabre, Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Tom Holvoet, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Mark S. Miller, Google Research, USA
Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute, Berlin, Germany
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Alexander Wolf, Imperial College, London, UK
Peter Van Roy, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium