CFP: The 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware
Date: 01 Jun 2004 21:58:46 -0600
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd Workshop on
Reflective and Adaptive Middleware (RM2004)
in conjunction with
the 5th International Middleware Conference 2004
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday October 19, 2004
http://www.txcorp.com/~nanbor/RM2004/
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Overview
Most of the middleware used and developed today is characterised by its inflexibility in adapting to different target environments and application areas. This lack of adaptability usually comes from the fact that middleware is traditionally built as a single monolithic entity. This inflexibility usually can be characterised by either the inability to adapt the behaviour of the platform, the inability to adapt its structure, or even both. In application domains such as mobile computing, distributed multimedia, and distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems, where resources are both constrained and variable in time, having the ability to reconfigure the middleware in order to optimise the resource usage and/or provide the desired quality of service (QoS) becomes a key feature.
Applying reflective techniques to middleware in order to "open up" the implementation, is one of the ways to provide a greater degree of configurability and dynamic adaptability at the middleware level. In the past few years, researchers have been experimenting with the use of reflection, component-based software engineering, software architecture design patterns and component frameworks, to achieve these goals.
Following the success of the past two workshops, RM2004 aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and with the challenging problems that remain unsolved. This workshop permits researchers from around the world investigating middleware adaptation to interact and share ideas. It will provide the platform to further the application of adaptive middleware techniques to a variety of domains, such as medicine, command and control, homeland security, entertainment and commerce.
Submission Guidelines
Attendance to the workshop is based on the submission of a position paper, poster, or demo. Position papers should not exceed 6 pages of text using 10 point size type on letter/A4 paper in ACM format. Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Poster submissions should be accompanied with a 2-page abstract summarizing the poster. Similarly, demo submissions should be in the form of 2-page abstract.
Papers and extend abstracts should be emailed to Nanbor Wang at <nanbor_at_txcorp.com> with subject line clearly identifying "RM2004 submission" before submission deadline. All papers and abstracts should be in either PS, PDF or Microsoft Word, format.
All workshop papers will be published via ACM's Digital Library. Selected extended, enhanced papers will be invited for publishing in the IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but not limit to the following:
- Design and performance of adaptive reflective middleware platforms
- Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability
- Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve separation of concerns
- Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for adaptive and reflective middleware
- Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in suitable application domains e.g., real-time systems, mobile computing, etc.
- Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as it relates to middleware
- Experience with existing mechanisms, such as CORBA portable interceptors, or the OMG Meta- Object Facility
- Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or reconfiguration
- Examination of potentially complementary techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming
- Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective techniques
- Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies
- Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware
- Combination of RM and software development techniques, such as design patterns, component frameworks and software architectures
- Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of reflective and adaptive mechanisms
- Composition of systemic aspects and adaptive behaviours into component middleware applications
- Abstraction, specification, and modelling of composable systemic aspects and behaviours in component middleware framework.
Important Dates
Paper and abstract submission Saturday, July 10, 2004
Acceptance notification Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Final papers due Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Workshop Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Program Committee
. Gul Agha..................... University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA . 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 . Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK . Edward Curry................. National University of Ireland, Ireland . Alan Dearle.................. University of Saint-Andrews, Scotland . Frank Eliassen............... University of Oslo, Norway . Kurt Geihs................... TU Berlin, Germany . Christopher Gill............. Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Pilar Herrero................ Unisersidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain . Jadwiga Indulska............. University of Queensland, Australia . Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil . Joseph Loyall................ BBN Technologies, USA . Sara Tucci Piergiovanni...... University La Sapienza, Italy . Catalin Roman................ Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Corrado Santoro.............. Universita' di Catania, Italy . Douglas Schmidt.............. Vanderbilt University, USA . Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway . Carolyn Talcott.............. SRI International, USA . Gautam Thaker................ Lockheed Martin, USA . Emiliano Tramontana.......... Universita' di Catania, Italy . Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA . Steve Vinoski................ IONA Technologies, USA . Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA
Organizers (* Primary contact)
. Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University at St. Louis, USA . Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil . Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK . Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA * Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA <nanbor_at_txcorp.com>
. Renato Cerqueira............. PUC-Rio, Brazil . Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 05:58:46 CEST