1st Track on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Service-oriented and component-based Applications and Architectures (AROSA 2011)
http://arosa2011.redcad.org

Conference Track @ 20th WETICE Conference
http://www.wetice.org


27 - 29 June 2011, Paris, France


The goal of this track is to bring together researchers and practitioners both from the Academia and from the Industry working in the areas of Service-oriented and component-based software applications and architectures and addressing adaptation and reconfiguration issues. Different investigation topics are involved, such as: CBSE, SOA, Functional and Non Functional (NF) requirements (QoS, performance, resilience), monitoring, diagnosis, decision and execution of adaptation and reconfiguration. Different research axes are covered: concepts, methods, techniques, and tools to design, develop, deploy and manage adaptive and reconfigurable software systems.

The development of composite services poses very interesting challenges concerning their functional and NF requirements. On the one hand, a composite software system depends on the NF requirements of its constituting components in order to provide a satisfactory service to the user. On the other hand, the main issues for the fulfillment of QoS and service level agreements (SLA) are concerned with performance variability. Indeed, the QoS may evolve frequently, either because of internal changes or because of workload fluctuations. The performance and the robustness of the composite software system may be significantly improved by monitoring the execution of the components and by flexibly reacting to degradation and anomalies in a timely fashion.

The concept of adaptive and reconfigurable software systems has been introduced in order to describe architectures which exhibit such properties. An adaptive and reconfigurable software system can repair itself if any execution problems occur, in order to successfully complete its own execution, while respecting functional and NF agreements. In the design of an adaptive and reconfigurable software system, several aspects have to be considered. For instance, the system should be able to predict or to detect degradations and failures as soon as possible and to enact suitable recovery actions. Moreover, different NF requirements service levels might be considered in order to complete the execution in case of failure.




TOPICS OF INTEREST

For this track, contributions are devoted to functional and non functional adaptability and reconfiguration management in service-oriented and component-based software systems. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed and centralized collaborative solutions for the diagnosis and repair of software systems
- Design for the diagnosability and repairability
- Collaborative Management of NF requirements (quality, security, robustness, availability)
- Monitoring simple and composite architectures, components and services
- Semantic (or analytic) architectural and behavioral models for monitoring of software systems
- Dynamic reconfiguration of CB and SO architectures
- Collaborative planning and decision making
- Collaborative technologies for ensuring autonomic properties
- Predictive management of adaptability.
- Collaborative Management of autonomic properties
- Experiences in practical adaptive and reconfigurable CB and SO applications
- Tools and prototypes for managing adaptability of CB and SO applications



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: March 5, 2011
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 4, 2011
Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration: April 29, 2011



PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) of double column, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm).
Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission site
The decision about the acceptance and rejection of the submitted papers will be taken by the track chairs based on rigorous evaluations and recommendations that will be made by the members of the program committee. Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee.
Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2011 proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A journal special issue is planned for a selection of papers after the track.



TRACK CHAIRS

Khalil Drira, CNRS-LAAS, Université de Toulouse, France
Mohamed Jmaiel, ENIS, Université de Sfax, Tunisia



PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Yamine Ait-Ameur, LISI / ENSMA, Futuroscope, France
Lutiano Baresi, Politecnicodi Milano, Italy
Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, Paris, France
Djamel Belaid, Telecom SudParic, Evry, France
Djamal BenSlimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Stefano Bocconi, Elsevier Labs, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Etienne Borde, Malardalen University, Sweden
Miriam Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Anis Charfi, SAP, Darmstadt, Germany
Marco Comuzzi, City University London, UK
Luca Console, Universita di Torino, Italy
Marcos Da Silveira, CR SANTEC, Luxembourg
Flavio De Paoli, Universita di Milano, Italy
Elisabetta Di-Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Mohamed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Morrocco
Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
MariaGrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mohamed-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Ahmed Hadj Kacem, FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Guillermo Hoyos-Rivera, Universidad Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, Dubai Campus, UAE
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA
Fatma Mili, Oakland University , USA
Francisco Moo-Mena, Univisidad Autonome du Yucatan, Mexico
Mohamed Mosbah, LARBI, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France
Olga Nabuco, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Campinas, Brazil
Ali Noui-Mehidi, General Motors Corp., USA
Flavio Oquendo, Université Européenne de Bretagne - UBS/VALORIA, France
Mourad Oussalah, LINA, Université de Nantes, France
Mike Papazouglou, INFOLAB, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ilia Petrov, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Damian Serrano, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Stefan Tai, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Samir Tata, Telecom SudParis, Evry, France
Maria Beatriz F. Toledo, Coumputation Insitute, UNICAMP, Brazil
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA