CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+10)

collocated with ECOWS 2010 - The 8th European Conference on Web Services
December 1, 2010
Ayia Napa, Cyprus

http://www.s-cube-network.eu/MONA3
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Objectives
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The advances in modern technology and the constantly evolving requirements
implied by dynamic business and operational environments impose new
challenges for engineering and provisioning Web Services and Service-Based
Applications.

Those services and applications have to become drastically more flexible:
they should be able to operate and evolve in highly dynamic environments
and to adequately identify and react to various changes in these
environments. In such a setting, adaptation becomes a key capability of
Web Services and Service-based Applications as it enables these services
and applications to continuously change themselves in order to satisfy new
requirements and demands dictated by the environment. The adaptability
relies on the presence of monitoring mechanisms and facilities to identify,
detect, and even predict critical events and situations that occur in the
environment.

A variety of approaches and techniques addressing different forms of
monitoring and adaptation have been proposed to date. Still, for delivering
robust, dependable, and highly adaptable Web Services and Service-based
Applications the definition of more holistic approaches is crucial. This
requires the integration of the efforts of researchers from various
disciplines and research areas. More specifically, this requires the
integration across the different layers of a Service-based Application,
including the business layer, the service layer, and the infrastructure
layer. In addition, different competences, such as requirements
engineering, design, quality assurance, realization, and management need to
be brought together to devise those holistic approaches.

MONA+ 2010 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from
different disciplines with various research backgrounds. The main objective
for MONA+ is to discuss highly relevant and pressing research challenges and
solutions on monitoring and adaptation of Web Services and Service-based
Applications.


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Topics
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Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

* Monitoring and adaptation mechanisms, frameworks, and architectures
* Monitoring and adaptation within/across business, service, and
infrastructure layers
* Self-adaptation and human-in-the-loop adaptation
* Context-aware monitoring and adaptation
* Design principles, patterns, techniques and methods for monitoring
and adaptation
* Predictive monitoring and pro-active adaptation
* Verification of adaptation and of adaptable Web Services and
Service-based Applications


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Important Dates
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Paper Submissions: September 20, 2010
Notifications: October 30, 2010
CRC Submissions: November 20, 2010
Workshop Date: December 1, 2010


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Submission & Publication
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Papers should be between 4 to 8 pages and should be formatted
according to the ACM proceedings guidelines:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality
of the work and to their ability to generate discussion among the workshop
participants.

Papers can be electronically submitted using easychair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mona10

The workshop proceedings will be published in the International Conference
Proceedings Series (ICPS) in the ACM Digital Library and will have an ISBN.


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PC Chairs
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Dimka Karastoyanova, IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
E-mail: karastoyanova@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de

Raman Kazhamiakin, FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy
E-mail: raman@fbk.eu

Andreas Metzger, Paluno (Ruhr Institute of Software Technology),
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
E-mail: andreas.metzger@paluno.uni-due.de


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Organizing Committee
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Alexander Nowak, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Eric Schmieders, Paluno (Ruhr Institute of Software Technology),
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Asli Zengin, FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy


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Program Committee
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* TBA on the website of the workshop.


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Sponsors
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This workshop is sponsored by S-Cube,
the Europen Network of Excellence on Software Services and Systems
(http://www.s-cube-network.eu/).