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

The 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'09)
December 1st 2009, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA collocated with
Middleware 2009
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http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~gracep/ARM2009/

Call For Papers

Important Dates
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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
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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
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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
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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-t...

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
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* Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK

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

Technical Program Committee
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* 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
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* 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