EXTENDED DEADLINE - AVYTAT 2010 (Adaptation in Service Ecosystems and Architectures)

Our excuses for multiple receptions.

Extended deadline: July 6th

Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended Paper Submision Deadline.

First International Workshop on  Adaptation in serVice EcosYsTems and 
ArchiTectures (AVYTAT 2010)

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/avytat2010

In conjunction with  OTM Conference 2010.
Crete, Greece; October 25-29, 2010

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WORKSHOP GOALS

The goal of this workshop is to explore adaptive systems, supported by 
open, dynamic architectures, particularly as expressed in the 
non-exclusive case of service ecosystems. In general, it intends to 
determine the synergies between architectural evolution and adaptation, 
and the influence of the underlying structure in their self-adaptive
properties and attributes. Adaptivity is considered as an 
architecture-level feature, and therefore it cannot be
dissociated from architectural specification.

DESCRIPTION

Traditionally, handling changing requirements, faults, or upgrades on 
different kinds of software-based systems have been tasks performed as a 
maintenance activity conducted by human operators at design/development 
time. However, factors such as uncertainty in the operational 
environment, resource variability, or the critical nature of some 
systems that cannot be halted in order to be changed, have lead to the 
development of systems able to re-plan and reconfigure their structure 
and behaviour at run time in order to improve their operation without 
any human intervention.

The increasing size and complexity of software systems has emphasized 
the importance of Software Architectures, conceived as complex composite 
structures. The same complexity leads to consider the need of 
self-management (Autonomic Computing) and to an increased interest in 
Software Adaptation, i.e. system-level reactions to changes in the 
environment. This has fostered new directions of research focused on the 
study of self-adaptive systems, that include autonomic structures and 
patterns, or self-organizing systems obtained by using control-oriented 
feedback mechanisms. Adaptivity is achieved as either a programmed or 
emerging property in the context of complex, open systems.

This workshop intends to explore this approach from an architectural 
perspective, considering a high-level scale. Indeed, the architectural 
approach for self-adaptation is one of the most promising lines of work 
in the field, where adaptive architectures present themselves as one of 
the most complex and interesting problems to solve from an architectural 
point of view. Adaptive architectures provide the only way to guarantee 
system-wide properties in a changing environment.

At the same time, component-based architectures are evolving towards 
service ecosystems, which can be described as open, evolutionary and 
adaptive architectures. Such service ecosystems present a number of 
special features which are of great interest from an architectural 
perspective. Hence, one of the purposes of the workshop is to achieve a
better comprehension of software ecosystems as adaptive architectures.

Although most research efforts in these approaches have been isolated 
and lacked specific forums for discussion until recently, there is a 
thriving international community currently involved in the study of 
self-* systems, laying out the foundations that will enable their 
systematic development.  Likewise, the goal of this workshop is
gathering software engineering researchers from fields related to the 
development of adaptive architectures and service ecosystems in order to 
identify critical research challenges, as well as discussing models, 
techniques, tools, industrial cases, and methodologies for the 
development of those complex systems able to dynamically adapt their 
behaviour. Moreover, the aim of the workshop is addressing all these 
topics stressing the importance of integrating different achievements 
and devising generic approaches.

Further details can be found in the specific AVYTAT 2010 workshop site: 
http://quercusseg.unex.es/avytat

TOPICS

We are therefore interested in submissions in all topics related to 
these issues. These include, but would not be limited to:

•    Adaptive, autonomic and self-* architectures.
•    Service ecosystems as dynamic adaptive architectures (and vice versa).
•    Self-adaptation issues in the context of service ecosystems.
•    Language support and for self-* architecture and designs.
•    Language support for adaptive service composition and/or coordination.
•    Formal notations for modelling and analysis of adaptive 
architectures and ecosystems.
•    Composition, evolution and adaptation models and frameworks.
•    Computational reflection in the context of self-* systems.
•    Dependability and autonomy in service ecosystems and architectures.
•    Autonomic structures and adaptive roles in self-* architectures and 
ecosystems.
•    Model-driven approaches for adaptive and self-* systems and ecosystems.
•    Middleware for adaptive architectures and/or service ecosystems.
•    Agent-based architectures as the basis for adaptive service ecosystems.
•    Aspects and service discovery as catalysts of self-* properties.
•    Non-invasive composition schemes as the basis for self-* properties.
•    Case studies and experience reports.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers submitted to AVYTAT 2010 must not have been accepted for 
publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or 
conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. 
Submissions should be in PDF format using the LNCS style, according to 
the detailed formatting instructions at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Contributions will be received using the On The Move (OTM) Paper 
Reviewing system, at:

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper

Two kinds of paper (in English) are invited both from academia and industry:

•    Position papers: maximum 5 pages
•    Technical papers: maximum 10 pages

Position papers can describe authors' knowledge in the area, or 
interesting experiences in topics related to adaptive architectures, 
self-* systems, and/or service ecosystems. Authors must submit their 
contributions by to the designated submission site, written in English. 
The file has to be named with the first author's name and the first
main word of the title. Every contribution must include the authors' 
affiliations, contact author and the topics of interest covered by the work.

The contributions will be formally reviewed by a Program Committee and 
the organizers of the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by 
Springer Verlag within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 
series, along with other workshops in the OTM federated conferences.

In addition to the workshop proceedings, and depending on the scientific 
quality of the contributions, a post-workshop journal publication with a 
selection of the presented papers will be considered.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 22 (not necessary anymore)
Paper Submission Deadline: July 06

Acceptance Notification: July 30, 2010
Camera Ready Due: August 13, 2010

Registration Due: September 3, 2010
Celebration of the workshop: October 25-29, 2010


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND PC CHAIRS

Javier Camara - INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Carlos E. Cuesta - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Howard Foster - Imperial College London, UK
Miguel Angel Perez-Toledano - University of Extremadura, Spain


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dharini Balasubramaniam, University of St. Andrews, UK
Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain
Sorana Cimpan, University of Savoie at Annecy - LISTIC, France
Pedro J. Clemente, University of Extremadura, Spain
Laurence Duchien, INRIA and University of Lille, France
Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Juan Manuel Murillo, University of Extremadura, Spain
Sascha Ossowski, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Jennifer Perez, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Pascal Poizat, University d'Evry Val-d'Esonne, France
Pilar Romay, St. Paul-CEU University, Spain
Gwen Salaun, Grenoble INP-INRIA-LIG, France
Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Houman Younessi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK
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Carlos E. Cuesta
Associate Dean and Head of Studies
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Rey Juan Carlos University
Mostoles 28933 Madrid, Spain

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