CFP: The 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware

Nanbor Wang nanbor@txcorp.com
Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:07:00 -0600


My sincere apology to those who receive multiple copies.

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

			 The 3rd Workshop on
	     Reflective and Adaptive Middleware (RM2004)

                         in conjunction with
          the 5th International Middleware  Conference 2004
		       Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                       Tuesday October 19, 2004

               http://www.txcorp.com/~nanbor/RM2004/
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Overview
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Most of the middleware used and developed today is characterised by
its inflexibility in adapting to different target environments and
application areas.  This lack of adaptability usually comes from the
fact that middleware is traditionally built as a single monolithic
entity.  This inflexibility usually can be characterised by either the
inability to adapt the behaviour of the platform, the inability to
adapt its structure, or even both.  In application domains such as
mobile computing, distributed multimedia, and distributed real-time
and embedded (DRE) systems, where resources are both constrained and
variable in time, having the ability to reconfigure the middleware in
order to optimise the resource usage and/or provide the desired
quality of service (QoS) becomes a key feature.

Applying reflective techniques to middleware in order to "open up" the
implementation, is one of the ways to provide a greater degree of
configurability and dynamic adaptability at the middleware level.  In
the past few years, researchers have been experimenting with the use
of reflection, component-based software engineering, software
architecture design patterns and component frameworks, to achieve
these goals.

Following the success of the past two workshops, RM2004 aims at
providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art
in reflective and adaptive middleware, and with the challenging
problems that remain unsolved.  This workshop permits researchers from
around the world investigating middleware adaptation to interact and
share ideas.  It will provide the platform to further the application
of adaptive middleware techniques to a variety of domains, such as
medicine, command and control, homeland security, entertainment and
commerce.

Submission Guidelines
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Attendance to the workshop is based on the submission of a position
paper, poster, or demo. Position papers should not exceed 6 pages of
text using 10 point size type on letter/A4 paper in ACM format.
Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be
found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.  Poster
submissions should be accompanied with a 2-page abstract summarizing
the poster.  Similarly, demo submissions should be in the form of
2-page abstract.

Papers and extend abstracts should be emailed to Nanbor Wang at
<nanbor@txcorp.com> with subject line clearly identifying "RM2004
submission" before submission deadline.  All papers and abstracts
should be in either PS, PDF or Microsoft Word, format.

All workshop papers will be published via ACM's Digital Library.
Selected extended, enhanced papers will be invited for publishing in
the IEEE Distributed Systems Online.


Topics of interest to this workshop include, but not limit to the
following:

  * Design and performance of adaptive reflective middleware platforms

  * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to
    achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability

  * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to
    achieve separation of concerns

  * Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for adaptive and reflective
    middleware

  * Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in suitable
    application domains e.g., real-time systems, mobile computing,
    etc.

  * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection,
    as it relates to middleware

  * Experience with existing mechanisms, such as CORBA portable
    interceptors, or the OMG Meta- Object Facility

  * Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration
    and/or reconfiguration

  * Examination of potentially complementary techniques, such as
    aspect-oriented programming

  * Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive
    and reflective techniques

  * Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective
    technologies

  * Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware

  * Combination of RM and software development techniques, such as
    design patterns, component frameworks and software architectures

  * Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of
    reflective and adaptive mechanisms

  * Composition of systemic aspects and adaptive behaviours into
    component middleware applications

  * Abstraction, specification, and modelling of composable systemic
    aspects and behaviours in component middleware framework.


Important Dates
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Paper and abstract submission    Saturday, July 10, 2004
Acceptance notification          Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Final papers due                 Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Workshop                         Tuesday, October 19, 2004


Program Committee
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. Gul Agha..................... University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA
. Anders Andersen.............. University of Tromso, Norway
. Gordon Blair................. Lancaster University, UK
. Roy Campbell................. University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA
. Renato Cerqueira............. PUC-Rio, Brazil
. Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University in St. Louis, USA
. Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK
. Edward Curry................. National University of Ireland, Ireland
. Alan Dearle.................. University of Saint-Andrews, Scotland
. Frank Eliassen............... University of Oslo, Norway
. Kurt Geihs................... TU Berlin, Germany
. Christopher Gill............. Washington University in St. Louis, USA
. Pilar Herrero................ Unisersidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
. Jadwiga Indulska............. University of Queensland, Australia
. Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil
. Joseph Loyall................ BBN Technologies, USA
. Sara Tucci Piergiovanni...... University La Sapienza, Italy
. Catalin Roman................ Washington University in St. Louis, USA
. Corrado Santoro.............. Universita' di Catania, Italy
. Douglas Schmidt.............. Vanderbilt University, USA
. Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway
. Carolyn Talcott.............. SRI International, USA
. Gautam Thaker................ Lockheed Martin, USA
. Emiliano Tramontana.......... Universita' di Catania, Italy
. Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA
. Steve Vinoski................ IONA Technologies, USA
. Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA

Organizers   (* Primary contact)
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. Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University at St. Louis, USA
. Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil
. Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK
. Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA
* Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA
  <nanbor@txcorp.com>
. Renato Cerqueira............. PUC-Rio, Brazil
. Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway

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