[ecoop-info] Practical Approaches to Software Adaptation - special issue in J.UCS

[Carlos Canal]

           Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)

                       http://www.jucs.org


                         Special Issue on

           Practical approaches to Software Adaptation


                         Call for Papers


      Software adaptation aims at deriving automatically software
entities, called adaptors, from generated or end-user specified
composition contracts, in order to solve mismatch among
interacting components. Adaptation processes should combine
solutions from different research domains: (i) model-based or
formal approaches to develop mismatch detection and adaptor
models generation algorithms, (ii) middleware technology to
support the detection of mismatch at run-time and the implemen-
tation of adaptor models, (iii) QoS and prediction models to
assess the effect of adaptation on running systems. Software
adaptation has been tackled mainly at the signature and
behavioral (protocol, choreography, orchestration) interface
levels, yet it should be addressed at any of the different
interaction levels: signatures, behaviours, non functional
properties (time, QoS) and semantics.

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      Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

       * interfaces, types and contracts supporting coordination
         and adaptation;
       * identification and specification of interaction
         requirements and problems;
       * behavioral interfaces, extra-functional properties;
       * automatic generation of compositions or adaptors;
       * formal / rigorous approaches to software adaptation;
       * coordination and adaptation of services;
       * coordination and adaptation in pervasive computing;
       * relations between adaptation and the software life-cycle;
       * relations between adaptation and MDE;
       * relations between adaptation and AOSD;
       * metrics and prediction models for software coordination
         and adaptation;
       * prediction of the coordination and adaptation impact on
         Quality of Service;
       * surveys, case studies, industrial or experience reports.


HOW TO SUBMIT

      Prospective authors are encouraged to submit self-contained
articles, i.e. the paper can be understood without knowledge of
any previous articles. Submissions must be sent to the guest
editors of the special issue (see below), and must follow the
guidelines for authors of J.UCS (see details below). The
recommended length of a paper is 20 - 30 pages.

      All submissions will follow the standard revision process,
and will be reviewed by an international program committee of
experts in the field (in preparation) that will select them for
acceptation in the special issue.

      We intend to perform a completely anonymous review process.
Hence, submissions must not contain the authors' names, and
references to previous works of the authors should be left blank in
the bibliography.


IMPORTANT DATES

      If you are interested in submitting your contribution to the
special issue, please contact the guest editors (see below) now
in order that we can have an estimation of the number of papers
to be received. Anyway, the deadline for submissions are as
follows:

      Abstract:      October 15, 2007
      Submission:    October 31, 2007

      Publication:   September 2008


MORE INFORMATION

      Software Adaptation: http://wcat.unex.es

      J.UCS:	         http://www.jucs.org
         special issues:

http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/special_issues/in_preparation.html

         guidelines for authors:
http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html


GUEST EDITORS

           Carlos Canal, University of M=E1laga
           E-mail: canal at lcc.uma.es
           Web: http://www.lcc.uma.es/~canal

           Juan Manuel Murillo, University of Extremadura
           E-mail: juanmamu at unex.es
           Web: http://quercusseg.unex.es

           Pascal Poizat, University of Evry
           ARLES Project-team, INRIA
           E-mail: pascal.poizat at inria.fr
           Web: http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/~poizat