MONA 2011 - 4th International Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+)

The explosion of information and the ongoing trend towards dynamic large-scale systems demands for novel and innovative solutions for building and managing tomorrow's software systems. Software services have emerged as a key concept for building flexible and distributed systems. However, managing, changing and extending complex service-oriented systems is costly, time consuming and error prone. To overcome these issues they have to become drastically more flexible: they should be able to operate and evolve in highly dynamic environments and to adequately identify and react to various changes in these environments. In such a setting, adaptation becomes a key capability as it enables services and applications to continuously adjust themselves in order to satisfy new requirements and demands dictated by the environment. The adaptability relies on the presence of monitoring mechanisms and facilities to identify, detect, and predict critical events and situations that occur in the environment.
Workshop Scope
MONA+ 2011 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different communities and want to provide a platform for discussing the current state of ongoing research in the field of monitoring and adaptation of service systems. The scope of the workshop has been extended to accommodate the developments in the field of novel delivery approaches like Cloud Computing and Crowdsourcing.
Topics
We solicit high quality papers in the broader area of service-oriented systems. Relevant application domains include:
Service-oriented Architecture
Web Services
Cloud and Grid Computing
Large-scale Systems
Social Computing and Crowdsourcing
Contributions are sought that describe relevant aspects of monitoring and adaptation in service-oriented systems, such as:
Design and Engineering
Enabling Mechanisms for Monitoring and Adaptation
Management and Control
Prediction and Proactivity
Robustness and Dependability
Theories, Models, and Foundations
Experiences and Case Studies
Furthermore, the application of algorithms and concepts from various fields that enable for monitoring and adaptation in service-oriented systems is of relevance for the workshop. Examples include:
Machine Learning
Mathematical Optimization
Artificial Intelligence
Soft Computing
Nature-inspired approaches
Autonomic Computing