[Acpc-l] DARES'2004 CFP

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:02:37 +0200

                           Call for Papers

  		   The 4th International Workshop on

"Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems" (DARES'2004) 
        	http://dares.enst-bretagne.fr/dares2004/

                         in conjunction with 
 The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
                            (ICDCS'2004)

                  	     Tokyo, Japan,
			  March 23-26, 2004.

DARES is the fourth workshop on the new and rapidly growing area of
auto-adaptive computing and reconfigurable systems aimed at providing an
up to date run-time environment for applications and services facing
evolving and/or fluctuating execution conditions.

The development of this area is a natural outcome of the tremendous
advances in software development using component composition and aspect
oriented modeling, design and programming in conjunction with distributed
computing. DARES 2004 will discuss this new dimensions in terms of
adaptability,
integration of behaviors, system extensibility, software platform
reconfiguration
and system management.

The goals of this workshop are to bring together users and researchers to
present their recent work related to diverse aspects of distributed
auto-adaptive
and reconfigurable systems, their fundamental issues, their paradigms and some
appropriate approaches and experiments. The workshop will thus present
opportunities for discussing further evolutions and their expected benefits.
Research papers to introduce technologies of specific application problems,
frameworks for constructing distributed auto adaptive applications, or
commercial
systems and tools are welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to following:

- Auto-adaptive ad hoc protocols and architectures                      
- Models and methodologies for auto adaptation                 
- Knowledge domain and meta modeling                                     
- Controlability and observability

- Separation of concerns and composition
- Specification of adaptability aspects
- Specification of distribution and reconfiguration aspects
- Composability anomalies
- Management of adaptive architectures                                    
- Management and monitoring of composed services                   
- Discovery and computability of services                                  
- Verification and conflict resolution

- Quality notions : correctness, adaptiveness, …                          
- Quality and behavioral concerns
- Dynamic composition formal logic                                            
- Aspect Oriented Modeling

- Programming styles : AOP, BF, SOP, VOP, ...                         
- Programming techniques

- Languages and notations for composition                                  
- Operations and protocols for auto-adaptiveness                         
- Model checking, theorem proving, superposition                        
- Introspection and intercession to support metamorphism
- Languages for auto-adaptive systems
- Tools and platforms for auto-adaptive systems
- Composition operators : run-time, compile-time, installation-time
- Secure, reliable, trustworthy computing environments
- Scalable, flexible and rapid deployments and changes
- Architectures for next generation multimedia services
- Architectures for next generation wireless and mobile services

IMPORTANT DATES 
	Paper submission due :	September 26, 2003
	Notification :		October 27, 2003
	Camera ready :		December 19, 2003

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. papers should focus on one
of the relevant topics or related issues and will be evaluated based
on originality, significance, technical aspects, and clarity.
Papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will
be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the
ICDCS'2004 workshops.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions (in Postscript or PDF file) should be sent
to zied.choukair@enst-bretagne.fr.
Mail body should include name, address, affiliation and a brief
biography along with paper's title, about 200-250 word abstract
and five keywords.
Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would
be smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number
them: smith1.ps, smith2.ps, ...etc.

The papers should be about 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society
proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including
figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page.
The format should be compliant to the instructions at the editor
URL http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the
conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and
submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of
acceptance.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

The workshop will follow the following format: The morning and part of the
afternoon will be dedicated to presentations of accepted papers for each
major topic.
Topics will end with a discussion session chaired by a senior person of the
domain.
The afternoon will end with a panel session to wrap up the workshop and stress
the issues and the perspectives. The organizers will then elaborate a
summary of
the workshop based upon a summary of the papers and the major outlined
points of
the discussion.

Discussion sessions and wrap up of the previews edition set up new trends and
expectations concerning adaptivity and reconfigurability of distributed
computing
systems which led to this new edition proposed topics. DARES 2004 will
provide a
forum for researchers and engineers alike to present and discuss their latest
research in this area.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

	- Mehmet Aksit, Twente University, NL
	- Peter Arato, Technical University of Budapest, HU
	- Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, DE
	- Guy Bernard, INT, FR
	- Zièd Choukair, ENST Bretagne, FR
	- Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
	- Tzilla Elrad, Illinois Institute of technology, USA
	- Erik Ernst, University of Aalborg, DK
	- Robert Filman, NASA, USA
	- Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, DE
	- Janusz Górski, Technical University of Gdansk, PL
	- Michel Hurfin; IRISA - INRIA Rennes, FR
	- Sven Lämmermann, University of Kista, S
	- Philip K. McKinley, Michigan State University , USA
	- Hafedh Mili, UQAM, CA
	- Lambert Nieuwenhuis, KPN, NL
	- Erik Putricks, NRC, CA
	- Antonio Rito Silva, University of Lisbon, PT
	- Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, TW
	- Sami Tabbane, SupCom, TN
	- Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, JP
	- Guy Vidal-Naquet, Université Paris-Sud, FR
	- Chengke Wu, Xidian University, CN

For any further questions or inquiries please contact: 
	Zièd Choukair
      Department of Computer Science
      ENST Bretagne
      BP 832 - 29285 Brest cedex – France
      Fax  (+33) 2 29 00 12 82
      Email: Zied.Choukair@enst-bretagne.fr