-------- Original Message -------- Subject: DARES'2004 CFP Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:23:55 +0200 From: zied.choukair@enst-bretagne.fr To: dares-announcement@enst-bretagne.fr

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