MVDA 2013 - The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Modeling and Verifying Distributed Applications

Distributing service applications among networks of computers offer many potential benefits. However, implementing robust, efficient, and extensible distributed applications is more complex than building stand-alone applications. A significant portion of this complexity is due to the fact that developers must consider new design alternatives and must acquire many new skills. The problem of building such applications requires finding and orchestrating appropriate services that are frequently non trivial for a developer. This is due to the very large number of available services and the different possibilities for constructing an application from matching services. We need an abstract view of the application using modeling approaches. This abstraction allows in one hand the reuse of the elaborated application and on the other hand reduces the complexity and saves the users from the detail of the low level of the environment. Proposed modeling approaches need a standard verification step against required properties to analyze and correct built applications as early as possible in order to avoid any costly maintenance delays due to runtime errors.
Theme and Scope of the Workshop
Papers may address one or more of the topics listed below. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main areas:
? Architecture and design principles for distributed applications
? Models and frameworks for distributed applications
? Methods, processes and patterns for developing distributed applications
? Modeling formalisms, languages and notations for service workflow applications
? Tools, techniques and methodologies for verifying distributed application models
Submission
Papers must be submitted electronically via the MVDA 2013 Submission Page once it becomes available.
Follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submissio....
All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2013) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by an author.