Internetware 2014 - Sixth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware

Internet provides a global open infrastructure for exchanging and sharing of various resources for the people all over the world. The rapid development and the wide application of Internet make it become a new mainstream platform for software to be used, developed, deployed and executed. With the vision of “Internet as computer”, many application styles such as pervasive computing, grid computing, service computing and cloud computing occur on this open and dynamic environment. In order to support various new application styles and accommodate the fundamental change of the underlying supporting platform, many specific software technologies such as service-oriented architecture are proposed for current practices. However, although these technologies are useful and popular, they are far from systematic and complete because no uniformed software methodology and technology system like the object-oriented one is provided.
Conceptually speaking, in order to adapt the software system to such a new environment, its structure model should be autonomous, cooperative, situational, evolvable, emergent, trustworthy, etc. The software entities dispersed on distributed nodes over the Internet, which evolved from objects in object-oriented methodology to software components (component-based software development), now are further turned into self-contained, autonomous and adaptive software services in service-oriented computing of state-of-arts. These software entities are coordinated statically and dynamically in various kinds of interaction styles (passively and actively) such as integration, cooperation, and orchestration to achieve flexible design objectives. So a so-called “software-web” instead of information-web is weaved. This software-web as a whole is able to perceive the changes of open, dynamic, and uncertain environment and respond them in the way of transforming architectures. Furthermore, the flexible design objective of the software-web is reflected by its exhibiting several compatible goal-directed behaviors according to its up-to-date knowledge about the outside environment. A portmanteau term “Internetware” is used to denote the future software-web in open and dynamic environment, which can be defined as follows: an Internetware system is a software system consists of the self-contained, autonomous entities situated in the distributed nodes of Internet and the coordinators connecting these entities statically and dynamically in various kinds of interaction styles (passively and actively). As a whole, an Internetware system is able to perceive the changes of open and dynamic environment such as Internet, respond to the changes in the way of architectural transformation, and exhibit context-aware, adaptive and trustworthy behaviors in the open and dynamic environment in order to meet its flexible design objectives. Internetware challenges many aspects of software technologies, from operating platforms, programming models, to engineering approaches, etc.
Objective
This symposium aims to provide an interactive forum where researchers and professionals from multiple disciplines and domains meet and exchange ideas to explore and address the challenges brought by Internetware.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Novel software paradigm for Internetware
2. Modeling and implementation of Internetware
3. Requirements engineering for Internetware
4. Software analysis, verification and testing
5. Mining software repositories
6. Software dependability, trustworthiness and confidence
7. Software architecture and design
8. Socio-technical models and techniques
9. Software ecosystem practices and experience
10. Software models and techniques for dominant and emerging Internet-based systems such as Cloud Computing, Service Computing, Social Computing, Mobile Internet, Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems
11. Big data
12. Killer applications, case studies, experience reports of the above aspects
Steering Committee
CoChair
Hong Mei, Peking University
Jian Lv, Nanjing University
Members
Zhi Jin, Peking University
Tao Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Daoxu Chen, Nanjing University
Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University
General Chair
Hong Mei, Peking University
Jian Lv, Nanjing University
Program Committee
Chair
Minghui Zhou, Peking University
Charles Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Members (nominees)
Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wei Zhang, Peking University
Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University
Yingfei Xiong, Peking University
Chang Xu, Nanjing University
Xiaoxing Ma, Nanjing University
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University
Jun Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoguang Mao, National University of Defense Technology
Hailong Sun, Beihang University
JianJun Zhao, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Xin Peng, Fudan University
(to be complete)