[ecoop-info] CFP - 12th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM 2013)

Wed Jul 17 15:30:48 CEST 2013

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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th   Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM 2013)
held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX ACM International Middleware Conference, Beijing, China, 9-13 December, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/arm-mw-2013
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IMPORTANT DATES (GMT/UTC-12)
August 23, 2013 - Paper Submission
September 30, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance
October 11, 2013 - Camera-ready paper due
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Workshop Scope
The 12th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM 2013) follows on the success of a decade of previous editions exploring how reﬂective approaches can be combined with complementary perspectives to support the complete life-cycle of highly adaptive middleware platforms. It provides researchers with a forum to address the need of currently available middleware systems to support various levels of flexibility in order to adapt and tailor their behavior and properties to the increasing dynamism and scale of new models of computation and new classes of applications (such as networked and cloud applications, cyber-physical systems and many others).
Applying reﬂective techniques to middleware, and related software platforms for interoperability, one-to-many deployment, and adaptability, in order to ”open up” their implementation, was explored in the previous workshops in this series [1–11] and proved particularly successful and inﬂuential. Reﬂection by itself is today considered a baseline, yet it is insufficient to deliver the ﬂexibility demanded by today’s ever diversifying middleware environments, requiring higher and higher degrees of adaptability and resilience. The 12th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware aims to follow on the success of previous editions by providing researchers with a forum to address this technological gap and explore how reﬂective approaches can be combined with complementary perspectives to support the complete life-cycle of highly adaptive middleware platforms.

ARM2013 aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reﬂective and adaptive middleware, and on the challenging problems that remain unsolved. The goal is to gather active researchers in this important ﬁeld, so as to gain insight on their experiences and the new approaches being proposed. This edition follows the path initiated in the 2006 edition, by bringing together a wider group of researchers that are involved in designing and reusing adaptive systems at diﬀerent system layers, including architectural, OS, virtualization technology, and network layers, as well as using diﬀerent techniques that are complementary to reﬂection. The workshop will provide an exciting environment in which to leverage cooperation among researchers, contributing to the development of middleware technology.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
•	Design and performance of adaptive and/or reﬂective middleware platforms;
•	Experiences  with  adaptive  and  reﬂective  technologies  in  speciﬁc  domains  (e.g.,  sensor  networks, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile computing, cloud/grid computing, P2P, Systems-of-Systems, etc.);
•	Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms including network, OS, VM & device level techniques;
•	Adaptation and reﬂection in heterogeneous execution paradigms (e.g., P2P networks, network-centric computing);
•	Application of adaptive and reﬂective middleware techniques to achieve: reconﬁgurability and/or adaptability and/or separation of concerns; reuse and reification of adaptation techniques and strategies;
•	Incorporating non-functional properties into middleware: realtime, fault-tolerance, security, trust, privacy;
•	Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reﬂection, adaptation and control, as it relates to middleware and its interaction with other layers;
•	Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reﬂective techniques;
•	Evaluation methodologies for adaptive and reﬂective middleware; guidelines, testbeds and benchmarks;
•	Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reﬂective technologies; convergence of adaptation.
•	Tool support for adaptive and reﬂective middleware;
•	Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive and reﬂective mechanisms;
•	Software engineering methodologies for the design and development of adaptive middleware;
•	Methods for reasoning and storing knowledge about services provided by adaptive/reﬂective middleware;
•	The role of techniques such as learning in the design of long-lived adaptive middleware;
•	Methods for asynchronous, distributed control, coordination/cooperation among components providing middleware services.
•	Metrics on properties such as cost-of-adaptation, quality-of-adaptation, consistency-of-adaptation, yields

Workshop Chairs
Paulo Ferreira - INESC-ID Lisboa / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
paulo.ferreira at inesc-id.pt

Luís Veiga - INESC-ID Lisboa / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal,
luis.veiga at inesc-id.pt

Program Committee (in progress)

Gul	Agha	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Anders	Andersen	University of Tromso, NO
Paolo	Bellavista	DEIS - University of Bologna, IT
Sonia	Ben Mokhtar	CNRS Lyon, FR
Gordon	Blair	Lancaster University, UK
Yérom-David	Bromberg	LabRI
Renato	Cerqueira	Computer Science Department, PUC-Rio, BR
Edward	Curry	Digital Enterprise Research Institute, IR
Didier	Donsez	Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1, FR
Frank	Eliassen	University of Oslo, NO
Markus	Endler	 PUC-Rio, BR
Paulo	Ferreira	INESC ID / Technical University of Lisbon, PT
Nikolaos	Georgantas	INRIA, FR
Paul	Grace	University of Southampton, UK
Fabio	Kon	University of São Paulo, BR
Thomas	Ledoux	Ecole des Mines de Nantes, FR
Philippe	Merle	INRIA, FR
Romain	Rouvoy	University Lille 1 - INRIA, FR
Richard	Schantz	BBN Technologies, USA
Francisco	Silva	Universidade Federal do Maranhão, BR
Alexandre	Sztajnberg	UERJ, BR
Francois	Taiani	Université de Rennes 1 / IRISA, FR
Luis	Veiga	INESC ID / Technical University of Lisbon, PT
Ian	Wakeman	University of Sussex, UK

Submission and Publication
Research papers should not exceed 6 pages of text on letter paper in ACM format. Content should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Poster and demo submissions should submit a 2 pages abstract in ACM format; this oﬀers the opportunity to present and receive feedback at the workshop about work still in its early stages; we are particularly interested in reports on adaptive middleware tools and solutions.

Accepted papers will appear in a Middleware 2013 companion proceedings including all workshop papers, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library.  At least one of the authors will have to register for the workshop and present the paper.

This workshop has its own ISBN and will be included in the ACM digital library. Extended versions of the best workshop papers will be invited to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (Springer), with Fabio Kon and Gordon Blair as editors-in-chief.

Submissions are done through EasyChair. More details to be announced soon.

References
1.  MW 2000. Workshop on Reﬂective Middleware (RM2000).http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/rm2000
2.  MW 2003. The 2nd Workshop on Reﬂective Middleware (RM’03).http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~corsaro/RM2003
3.  MW 2004. The 3rd Workshop on Reﬂective Middleware (RM’04).http://www.txcorp.com/~nanbor/RM2004
4.  MW 2005. The 4th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’05).http://www.txcorp.com/~nanbor/ARM2005
5.  MW 2006. The 5th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’06).http://www.ics.uci.edu/~arm06
6.  MW 2007. The 6th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’07).http://www.ics.uci.edu/~arm
7.  MW 2008.  The 7th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’08).http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/  computing/arm2008
8.  MW 2009. The 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’09).http://middleware2009.cs.uiuc.edu
9.  MW 2010. The 9th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’10).http://www.ics.uci.edu/~arm2010
10. MW 2011. The 10th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’11).http://  http://arm11.lifl.fr/
11. MW 2012. The 11th Workshop on Adaptive and Reﬂective Middleware (ARM’12).http://tinyurl.com/arm2012