MVDA 2016 - 5th IEEE Workshop on Modeling and Verifying Distributed Applications

Distributing applications and service applications among cloud systems offer many potential
benefits. However, implementing robust, efficient, and flexible 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 on the cloud and the different possibilities for constructing
an application from matching services. We need an abstract view of the application using
modeling approaches. In addition, we need an ontological description to retrieve and compose
automatically this kind of applications. 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
Topics of Interest
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 cloud applications
* Models and frameworks for cloud applications
* Methods, processes and patterns for developing cloud applications
* Ontology engineering and similarity,
* Model Driven Engineering
* Semantic composition of cloud service applications
* Model driven composition of cloud service applications
* Modeling formalisms, languages and notations for cloud service workflow applications
* Tools, techniques and methodologies for verifying and validating cloud application models
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to 6 pages (IEEE Proceedings style) with up to 2 additional
pages (with charges for each additional page) printed on 10-12 point fonts. Authors must follow IEEE CS Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required
to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop in person.
Program Committee
- Hong Zhu, ( Oxford Brookes University, UK)
- Cristina Seceleanu, (Mälardalen University- Sweden)
- Sumi Helal, (University of Florida, USA)
-Tolga Ayav (Izmir Institute of Technology ? Turkey)
- Hanen Ben Abdallah (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
- Lee Moon-Kun (Chonbuk National University- Korea)
-Eun-Sun Cho (Chungnam National University ? Korea)
- Jamal Bentahar (Concordia University -Montréal- Canada)
- Ahmed Hadj Kacem (University of Sfax ? Tunisia)
- Christine Choppy (Laboratory LIPN ? University of Paris Nord, France)
- Mohamed Jemni (Laboratory LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia)
- Mohamed Jmaiel (University of Sfax ? Tunisia)
- Afef Kacem (Laboratory LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia)
- Ali Mili (New Jersey Institute of Technology - USA)
- Zakaria Maamar ( Zayed University, Dubai-United Arab Emirates)
- Sandeep Shukla (Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg ? USA)
- Issam Mabrouki ( Tunisia Polytechnic School-University of Carthage, Tunisia)
- Daniel Calegari Garcia ( Instituto de Computación Facultad de Ingeniería, Uruguay)
- Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University -Montréal- Canada)
- Mohamed Moez Yeddes (University of la Manouba ? Tunisia)
- Hamdi Yahyaoui ( Kuwait University, State of Kuwait)
- John Mullins ( École Polytechnique de Montréal - University of Montreal- Canada)