ARMOR 2012 - 1st European Workshop on AppRoaches to MObiquiTous Resilience (ARMOR)

Recently, mobile computing and wireless communication technologies made so much progress that we can finally acknowledge the emergence of the mobile/ubiquitous computing paradigm we anticipated. A new generation of mobile devices (such as smartphones, handheld GPS, laptops, tablets, etc.) will probably lead revolutionary changes in the information society. These devices benefit from an amazing number of sensors, communication interfaces and networking capabilities. Their interconnection results in huge heterogeneous and distributed systems and we can already forecast that this will lead to revolutionary applications, services and usages.

Among other specific features, what makes mobile and ubiquitous systems different and interesting from a research viewpoint is :
- the mobility of users, applications and devices,
- how they produce and handle geo-localized information,
- the heterogeneity among the nodes and the services,
- their intrinsic need of adaptation to changes in their execution environment,
- their limited energy/computing/storage/communication resources,
- their need for cooperation and intermittent connection to the Internet,
- the potential impact, as personal devices that travel with their user and carry personal information, that the devices and their applications may have on privacy.

It is still unclear today whether mobiquitous solutions will be able to achieve the resilience levels necessary for user transparency and acceptance. It seems obvious that such solutions will require :

- New types of dependability mechanisms to cope with the intrinsic dynamics of mobile systems,
- New approaches to evolvable fault tolerance and security in order to adjust their resilience features according to the set of system requirements and available resources.
- Management of adaptation with acceptable levels of performance, energy consumption, trustworthiness, privacy and cost.

These considerations are especially true for emerging applications such as smart urban transportation systems, body area systems, ambient assisted living, environmental monitoring, and vehicular ad hoc networks. Building such resilient mobiquitous systems is a first challenge, but the being able to assess their resilience level and capacity of adaptation is also of utmost importance.

The ambition and mission of ARMOR is to put on the foreground all above issues and provide a forum of discussion to interested researchers.