Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers __________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers: Third Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2009 In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'09), to be held in London, UK, July 13-17, 2009 ( ICPS '09 web site : [1]http://http://icpsconference.org/2009/ ADAMUS web site : [2]http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 CfP pdf : [3]http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ CFP_adamus09.pdf ) WORKSHOP SCOPE __________________________________________________________________ Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the services offered to and provided by mobile systems at any time and in any place. This new scenario asks for effec- tive solutions to design, develop, and maintain novel ubiquitous services notwithstanding abrupt changes and challenging depend- ability requirements imposed by the highly heterogeneous and er- ror-prone mobile provisioning environment. However, currently de- ployed mobile systems are often too inflexible and unable to rapidly adapt to change and this in turn leads to situations where quality-of-service and quality-of-experience are strongly and negatively affected. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and envi- ronments, a variety of research studies have produced supporting methods, proof-of-concept prototypes, and disciplines. As an ex- ample, Resilience, or "the ability of the network to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various faults and challenges to normal operation", is being recognized more and more as a fundamental attribute for truly effective mo- bile and ubiquitous services of today and tomorrow. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the chal- lenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emerg- ing mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. The ambition and mission of ADAMUS is to put on the foreground all above issues and to foster the exchange of ideas and lively discussion in order: to devise conceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop mobile ubiquitous systems; to provide analytical and sim- ulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost-effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mo- bile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last two editions, ADAMUS 2009 aims at serving as a meeting ground and common platform of dis- cussion for research and industrial bodies in the field of adap- tive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. In particular, the focus of this Workshop edition will be on service continuity de- fined as the ability to grant continuous distribution of mobile ubiquitous service despite the occurrence of potentially signifi- cant and sudden changes or faults in the infrastructure and the surrounding environment. Researchers and practitioners are en- couraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Resilience software engineering for mobile systems and services; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependa- ble and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infr- astructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and standards for heter- ogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiquitous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement studies of mobile systems and services. PAPER SUBMISSION __________________________________________________________________ ADAMUS 2009 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in ACM double-column proceedings style. All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site ([4]http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Submis- sion implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer re- views and reviews by program committee members. All papers will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, tech- nical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and de- pendable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 27th, 2009. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by April 13th, 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the ICPS'09 proceedings published on CD by the ACM and in the ACM Portal. Contacts are ongoing with editors of high- ly respected scientific journals for post workshop publication of selected best papers into a special issue. __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: February 23, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2009 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 6, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ DEMO PROPOSALS __________________________________________________________________ ADAMUS 2009 also encourage authors to submit demo proposals of the works presented to the workshop to the demo session organized by the main conference; for more information please refer to ICPS'09 Call for Demonstrations ([5]http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab/tmp/ICPS/demos.php). __________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZERS __________________________________________________________________ Workshop Co-Chairs: - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group,University of Antwerp, Belgium - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Organizing Committee: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Joe McCarthy, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK - Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain (to be approved & confirmed) - Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS s.p.a., Italy (to be approved & confirmed) - Augusto C. Redolfi, IMEC, Belgium (to be approved & confirmed)

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