The 6th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM2007) Monday November 26, 2007 Newport Beach, CA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS UPDATE: Submission deadline has been extended! Overview -------- It is now widely acknowledged that middleware systems of the future must flexibly adapt to increasing heterogeneity of devices and access networks, and deal with highly dynamic change at different levels of the system architecture. The prior workshops in this series (RMW00, RMW03, RMW04, ARM05, ARM06) have explored a range of techniques to support such adaptivity, and have also focused strongly on approaches to self-adaptivity. In the early days of the workshop series, much of the focus was on the application of reflective techniques. However, as reflection became mainstream, the scope of the workshop has increasingly diversified to encompass a wider range of adaptivity approaches and techniques. In the 2007 edition we plan to continue this trend by considering a broad range of relevant techniques including software componentization, design patterns in support of adaptation, software architecture, aspect-orientation, and control theory. We also want to acknowledge strong trends towards diversification in middleware environments leading to such areas peer-to-peer middleware, network-centric middleware, grid environments, sensor networks, and pervasive and mobile environments. This essentially implies considering domain-specific adaptation approaches (e.g. generalized fault-tolerance in peer-to-peer middleware). Finally, we want to recognize that developing comprehensively-adaptive middleware requires us to consider the nuances of system layers (e.g. devices, OSs, networks, applications) other than the middleware 'layer' itself. Goal and Contributions ---------------------- Following the success of the past workshops in this series, ARM07 aims to provide researchers with a leading-edge view on the state of the art in adaptive middleware. The goal of the workshop is to gather active researchers in the field to pool insight, and to share and develop new approaches to middleware adaptivity. As indicated above, our aim is to also bring in researchers involved in designing adaptive software at the architectural, OS and network layers. We believe that a forum that includes experts from these various communities will be extremely useful in fostering a more holistic approach to future research in adaptive middleware. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop will be organized as a series of sessions, each devoted to the presentation of papers on a common theme. Each session will end with a mini-panel involving the presenters and driven by a pre-selected "devil's advocate". In past years this format has been found to lead to lively and productive discussion. The workshop will include a special session for the presentation of posters and demos of ongoing research efforts and prototypes. The workshop will conclude with a wrap-up panel, moderated by one of the organizers, with the aim of discussing and summarising key contributions, research issues and trends. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Attendance is based on the submission of a position paper, poster or demo. (In addition, other participants may be invited by the organizing committee.) Position papers should not exceed 6 pages of text on letter/A4 paper in ACM format without page numbers. Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. All papers and abstracts should be submitted in either PS or PDF format. Poster and demo submissions should be accompanied with a 2-page abstract. Papers and abstracts should be submitted through the ARM07 EasyChair online submissions website: http://www.easychair.org/ARM07/. All accepted papers will be published via the ACM's Digital Library as part of the "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series" (AICPS). A few selected papers may additionally be invited to submit an extended version to IEEE Distributed Systems Online. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Design and performance of adaptive and self-adaptive middleware platforms * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability * Application of techniques to achieve separation of concerns in middleware environments * Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for reflective middleware * Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms including network, OS and device level techniques * Adaptation and reflection in execution environments such as P2P networks, ad-hoc networks, and network-centric computing * Incorporation of non-functional properties such as real-time, fault-tolerance, security, etc. into middleware * Incorporation of adaptation into middleware-related software development techniques, such as design patterns, component frameworks or software architectures * Experiences with adaptive middleware technologies in specific application domains; e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, mobile computing, grid computing etc. * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of adaptation and reflection, as it relates to middleware * Examination of how complementary techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, can solve problems in the design, implementation and use of adaptive middleware * Techniques to improve the performance and/or scalability of adaptive middleware techniques * Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive middleware * Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive middleware * Tools for adaptive middleware to support areas such as development, deployment, debugging or modeling * Hardware reconfigurability as it relates to middleware Important Dates --------------- Paper, poster and demo submissions.......August 12th, 2007 Acceptance notificati.................September 1st, 2007 Camera-ready papers due.................October 1st, 2007 Workshop..............................November 26th, 2007 Program Chairs -------------- Fabio Costa.........................Federal University of Goias, Brazil Publicity Chair --------------- Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco.....University of California at Irvine, USA Publications Chair ------------------ Fabian E. Bustamante.......................Northwestern University, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- 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 Marcello Cinque.................University of Naples Federico II, Italy Yvonne Coady................................University Victoria, Canada Angelo Corsaro.............................Alenia Marconi System, Italy Fabio Costa.........................Federal University of Goias, Brazil Geoff Coulson..................................Lancaster University, UK Edward Curry....................National University of Ireland, Ireland Frank Eliassen...............................University of Oslo, Norway Christopher Gill................Washington University in St. Louis, USA Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco.....University of California at Irvine, USA Jadwiga Indulska....................University of Queensland, Australia Fabio Kon...............................University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Joseph Loyall.....................................BBN Technologies, USA Priya Narasimhan........................Carnegie Mellon University, USA Manish Parashar.................................Rutgers University, USA Omer F. Rana.....................................Cardiff University, UK Corrado Santoro............................University of Catania, Italy Douglas Schmidt..............................Vanderbilt University, USA Francisco Silva e Silva..........Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil Richard Staehli..........................Independent Consultant, Norway Alexandre Sztajnberg.........State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Carolyn Talcott..................................SRI International, USA Gerry Tesauro..................................IBM T.J.Watson Labs, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian.......University of California at Irvine, USA Nanbor Wang.....................................Tech-X Corporation, USA Mazin Yousif...................................Intel Research Labs, USA Organizing Committee -------------------- Fabian E. Bustamante.......................Northwestern University, USA Renato Cerqueira........................................PUC-Rio, Brazil Fabio Costa.........................Federal University of Goias, Brazil Geoff Coulson..................................Lancaster University, UK Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco.....University of California at Irvine, USA Omer F. Rana.....................................Cardiff University, UK Nalini Venkatasubramanian.......University of California at Irvine, USA Contact Info: arm07@easychair.org