[ecoop-info] Call for extended abstracts and full papers: Advances in Quality of Service Management, AQuSerM at EDOC 2007, Maryland USA

[Iman Poernomo]

Call for papers
EDOC 2007 workshop, Annapolis, Maryland U.S.A.,
15th October, 2007
http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/aquserm/


Workshop theme
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Extended abstracts and full papers are sought for the AQuSerM: Advances
in Quality of Service Management
workshop at EDOC 2007.

Service Level Management (SLM) is the process of managing the Quality of
Service (QoS) demanded by clients and offered by providers. In the past, SLM
approaches have focused on service contract definition, monitoring and
reporting and have typically been handled by enterprise system management
tools such as Microsoft?s SMS, CA?s Unicenter and Empirix?s OneSight.

However, traditional approaches are inadequate when dealing with complex
service-oriented architectures. Service-oriented architectures are
compositional, dynamic and often distributed over the internet. For such
architectures, SLM becomes a difficult problem that can no longer be handled
by traditional monitoring tools. This is because of the dynamic, flexible,
compositional and global natures of SOAs.

This workshop will be concerned with the issues that are important to modern
QoS management: the monitoring of widely distributed components, dynamic
adaptation strategies and the necessity for more sophisticated prediction
and diagnostic analysis techniques.

Special focus will be given to model-driven approaches. The development of
standards such as the ISO/IEC QoS Framework, the RM-ODP and the UML Profile
for QoS are intended to form the basis for the design and implementation of
QoS management in networked enterprise architectures. A current open
question is how best to use these standards within the Model Driven
Architecture (MDA) refinement strategy for software development. For
example, some authors are advocating the use of MDA to generate
platform-specific monitorable implementations from QoS requirements
specified in a platform-independent metamodel.

See the workshop website (http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/aquserm/) for more
details. (See http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/AQuSerM06.htm for details on
last year's event.)

Suggested topics
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Topics include, but are not limited to,

    * QoS support for common enterprise middleware (such as CORBA, J2EE and
.NET)
    * Management issues for domain-specific architectures (such as process
control architectures built using OPC)
    * Managing complex systems using current industrial monitoring
infrastructures and standards (e.g., Microsoft?s WMI and the DMTF?s CIM
standard)
    * Component-based approaches to QoS management
    * Formal methods to support SLM
    * Mathematical models for system diagnostics
    * Industrial SLM case studies
    * Model-driven approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, prediction and
adaptation
    * Unifying management frameworks

Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2007
Paper acceptance notification: 16 August 2007
Camera ready of papers: 31 August 2007
Workshop date: 17 October 2007


Submissions
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Submissions can be either extended abstracts or full papers.
Submissions should be 1 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format
and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They
should be submitted by e-mail as PDF files to the Workshop Chairs
(iman.poernomo ' at symbol ' kcl.ac.uk and guijun.wang ' at symbol '
pss.Boeing.com) by the deadline.

At least one author of an accepted paper should participate in the workshop.

All accepted papers for the workshop will appear in the IEEE Digital
Library. Selected authors will be invited to extend their papers for a
special issue of a leading international journal (this is currently
under negotiation --
last year's AQuSerM is to be published in the December 2007 issue of
the Journal of Object Technology).


Workshop chairs
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Iman Poernomo, King's College London (Email: iman.poernomo ' at symbol '
kcl.ac.uk)

Guijun Wang, Boeing Phantom Works (Email: guijun.wang ' at symbol '
pss.Boeing.com)

Program committee
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Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Nickolas Guoyi Tang, King's College London, UK

Xiaohui Gu, IBM Watson Research Centre, USA

Jingwen Jin, Intel, USA

Henk Jonkers, Telematica Institute, Netherlands

Chris Ling, Monash University, Australia

Noel Plouzeau, INRIA-Rennes, France

Iman Poernomo, King's College London

Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Georgios Tsaramirsis, Accenture

Guijun Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA