Middleware 2007, Newport Beach, CA, USA
The 6th Workshop on
Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
(ARM2007)
Monday
November 26, 2007
Newport Beach, CA, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Overview
It is now widely acknowledged that middleware systems of the future must flexibly adapt to the increasing heterogeneity of devices and access networks, and deal with dynamic changes at different levels of the system architecture. The prior workshops in this series (RMW00, RMW03, RMW04, ARM05, ARM06) have explored a range of techniques to support such adaptivity, and have also focused strongly on approaches to self-adaptivity.In the early days of the workshop series, much of the focus was on the application of reflective techniques. However, as reflection became mainstream, the scope of the workshop has increasingly diversified to encompass a wider range of adaptivity approaches and techniques. In the 2007 edition we plan to continue this trend by considering a broad range of relevant techniques including software componentization, design patterns in support of adaptation, software architecture, aspect-orientation, and control theory.
We also want to acknowledge strong trends towards diversification in middleware environments leading to such areas peer-to-peer middleware, network-centric middleware, grid environments, sensor networks, and pervasive and mobile environments. This essentially implies considering domain specific adaptation approaches (e.g. generalized fault-tolerance in peer-to-peer middleware).
Finally, we want to recognize that developing comprehensively-adaptive middleware requires us to consider the nuances of system layers (e.g. devices, OSs, networks, applications) other than the middleware 'layer' itself.
Goal and Contributions
Following the success of the past workshops in this series, ARM2007 aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware.The goal of the workshop is to gather active researchers in the field to pool insight, and to share and develop new approaches to middleware adaptivity. As indicated above, our aim is to also bring in researchers involved in designing adaptive software at the architectural, OS and network layers. We believe that a forum that includes experts from these various communities will be extremely useful in fostering a more holistic approach to future research in adaptive middleware.
Workshop Format
The workshop will be organized as a one-day event, consisting of a series of sessions, each devoted to the presentation of papers belonging to a common domain. Each session will end with a mini-panel between the presenters, led by the session chair or a pre-selected devil's advocate. In past years this format has been found to lead to lively and productive discussions.The workshop will include a special session for the presentation of posters and demos of ongoing research efforts and software prototypes.
The workshop will conclude with a panel, moderated by one of the organizers, to discuss open issues and future trends in the field, with the aim of wrapping up the overall contributions of the event.
Submission Guidelines
Attendance to the workshop is based on the submission of a position paper, poster or demo. In addition, other participants may be invited by the organizing committee.
Papers will be peer-reviewed, and selected based on
their originality, technical strenght and topical relevance. Papers
should not exceed 6 pages of
text on letter paper in ACM format without page numbers. Document
templates for most popular document processing tools can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
All papers and abstracts should be in either PDF or PSformat. Poster and Demo submissions should be accompanied with a 2-page abstract. Papers and abstracts should be submitted through the ARM07 EasyChair online submissions website: http://www.easychair.org/ARM07.
All workshop papers will be published via ACM's Digital Library as part of the "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series" (AICPS). A few selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but not limit to the following:
- Design and performance of adaptive and/or reflective middleware platforms.
- Application of adaptive and reflective middleware
techniques to achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability.
- Application of techniques to achieve separation of
concerns in middleware environments.
- Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for adaptive
and reflective middleware.
- Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms
including network, OS and device level techniques.
- Adaptation and reflection in execution
environments such as P2P networks, ad-hoc networks and network-centric
computing.
- Incorporation of non-functional properties such as
real-time, fault-tolerance, security, etc. into middleware.
- Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies
in
specific application domains e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and
pervasive computing, mobile computing, etc.
- Fundamental developments in the theory and practice
of reflection, as it relates to middleware.
- Experience with adaptive middleware technologies in specific application domains; e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, mobile computing, grid computing etc.
- Fundamental developments in the theory and practice
of adaptation and reflection, as it relates to middleware.
- Examination of how complementary techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, solve problems in the design, implementation and use of adaptive middleware.
- Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive middleware.
- Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability
of adaptive middleware techniques.
- Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and
reflective technologies.
- Tools support for adaptive middleware to support
areas such as development, deployment, debugging or modeling.
- Hardware reconfigurability as it relates to middleware.
Important Dates
| Paper, poster and demo submissions (extended) | August 12th, 2007 |
| Acceptance notification | September 1st, 2007 |
| Camera-ready papers due | October 1st, 2007 |
| Workshop | November 26th, 2007 |
Program Chairs
| Fábio Costa | Federal University of Goiás, Brazil |
Publicity Chair
| Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco | University of California at Irvine, USA |
Publications Chair
| Fabian E. Bustamante | Northwestern University, USA |
Technical Program Committee
| Anders Andersen | University of Tromso, Norway |
| Gordon Blair | Lancaster University, UK |
| Roy Campbell | University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA |
| Renato
Cerqueira |
PUC-Rio, Brazil |
| Marcello Cinque | University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| Yvonne Coady | University Victoria, Canada |
| Angelo Corsaro | Alenia Marconi System, Italy |
| Fábio Costa | Federal University of Goiás, Brazil |
| Geoff Coulson | Lancaster University, UK |
| Jose Cunha | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Edward Curry | National
University of Ireland, Ireland |
| Frank Eliassen | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Christopher Gill | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Jadwiga Indulska | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Fabio Kon | University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Joseph Loyall | BBN Technologies, USA |
| Priya Narasimhan | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Manish Parashar | Rutgers University, USA |
| Omer F. Rana | Cardiff University, UK |
| Corrado Santoro | University of Catania, Italy |
| Douglas Schmidt | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Francisco Silva e Silva | Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil |
| Richard Staehli | Independent Consultant, Norway |
| Alexandre Sztajnberg | State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Carolyn Talcott | SRI International, USA |
| Gerry Tesauro | IBM T.J.Watson Labs, USA |
| Nalini Venkatasubramanian | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Nanbor Wang | Tech-X Corporation, USA |
| Mazin Yousif | Intel Research Labs, USA |
Organizing Committee
| Fabian E. Bustamante | Northwestern University, USA |
| Renato Cerqueira | PUC-Rio, Brazil |
| Fábio Costa | Federal University of Goiás, Brazil |
| Geoff Coulson | Lancaster University, UK |
| Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Omer F. Rana | Cardiff University, UK |
| Nalini Venkatasubramanian | University of California at Irvine, USA |
Contact Info: <arm07 (at) easychair (dot) org>