ADAMUS 2009 - Third Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2009

Third Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2009

Third Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble
Mobile Ubiquitous Systems

ADAMUS 2009

In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on
Pervasive Services (ICPS'09), to be held in London, UK,
July 13-17, 2009


( ICPS '09 web site : http://http://icpsconference.org/2009/
ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/
ADAMUS'08 CfP pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/
CFP_adamus09.pdf )



WORKSHOP SCOPE
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Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and
enhancing the services offered to and provided by mobile systems
at any time and in any place. This new scenario asks for effec-
tive solutions to design, develop, and maintain novel ubiquitous
services notwithstanding abrupt changes and challenging depend-
ability requirements imposed by the highly heterogeneous and er-
ror-prone mobile provisioning environment. However, currently de-
ployed mobile systems are often too inflexible and unable to
rapidly adapt to change and this in turn leads to situations
where quality-of-service and quality-of-experience are strongly
and negatively affected.

To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and envi-
ronments, a variety of research studies have produced supporting
methods, proof-of-concept prototypes, and disciplines. As an ex-
ample, Resilience, or "the ability of the network to provide and
maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various
faults and challenges to normal operation", is being recognized
more and more as a fundamental attribute for truly effective mo-
bile and ubiquitous services of today and tomorrow. However, it
is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the chal-
lenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emerg-
ing mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless
control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance.

The ambition and mission of ADAMUS is to put on the foreground
all above issues and to foster the exchange of ideas and lively
discussion in order: to devise conceptual models and paradigms
for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and
develop mobile ubiquitous systems; to provide analytical and sim-
ulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and
to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable,
maintainable, cost-effective middleware infrastructures able to
support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mo-
bile ubiquitous services.

Building on the success of the last two editions, ADAMUS 2009
aims at serving as a meeting ground and common platform of dis-
cussion for research and industrial bodies in the field of adap-
tive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. In particular, the
focus of this Workshop edition will be on service continuity de-
fined as the ability to grant continuous distribution of mobile
ubiquitous service despite the occurrence of potentially signifi-
cant and sudden changes or faults in the infrastructure and the
surrounding environment. Researchers and practitioners are en-
couraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify
open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing
solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for
adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments.
The main topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to
the following:

* Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for
mobile ubiquitous systems;
* Resilience software engineering for mobile systems and services;
* Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependa-
ble and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems;
* Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infr-
astructures;
* Human-machine interaction and usability;
* Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems;
* Cross-layer adaptation techniques;
* End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile
services;
* Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability;
* Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and standards for heter-
ogeneous wireless networks;
* Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiquitous
systems;
* Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation
to networks conditions;
* Dependability measurement studies of mobile systems and services.



PAPER SUBMISSION
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ADAMUS 2009 invites authors to submit original and unpublished
work. Papers must be written in