[ecoop-info] CAMPUS08 - Call for papers

[Romain Rouvoy]

Dear,

Can you forward the CFP below to people who might be interested in a  
submission to the workshop (apologies for cross receptions).

Kind regards,
Romain

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                                  CALL FOR PAPERS
                        1st International DisCoTec Workshop on
        Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and  
Ubiquitous Services

                              Tuesday 3rd June 2008
                                  Oslo, Norway
                     http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/Campus08



Overview. There is a huge market potential for mobile applications in  
Europe today. Most people already carry a mobile device of some sort  
wherever they go, and an increasingly diverse set of devices (PDAs,
smart phones, GPS, etc.) are becoming widely available. Recently,  
service-orientations (e.g., OSGi) have evolved to address these  
highly dynamic environments. However, it is still technically  
difficult, using
existing method and tool supports, to create such services-oriented  
applications. For example, the very large range of devices, types of  
infrastructure, ways in which it can change, situations in which  
users can
find themselves, and the functions they want, introduce great  
complexity and pose considerable technical challenges. To overcome  
these difficulties, and promote the development and widespread  
deployment of
innovative mobile applications, more and more projects are addressing  
the development of context-aware adaptation mechanisms for leveraging  
the development of mobile applications. These projects aims at
providing simple but powerful integrated approaches to support the  
development of applications interacting in pervasive and ubiquitous  
environments. Thus, the CAMPUS workshop will focus on the promising
approaches in the domain of context-aware adaptation mechanisms  
supporting the dynamic evolution of the execution context (e.g.,  
network/device/service failures).



Research Topics

The workshop will address an extensive set of topics related to  
adaptation mechanisms for context-aware services. The following  
contributions will be particularly welcome:- Context-awareness  
mechanisms for
distributed systems:
     - How to capture the relevant contextual properties of a  
distributed system?
     - How to support the distribution of the context information in  
an efficient manner?
     - How to enforce the security and privacy issues for context data?
     - How to describe ontologies for context management?
     - How to map context-awareness to situation-awareness using  
context reasoning?

- Adaptation mechanisms for distributed systems:
     - How to represent the adaptation knowledge of a distributed  
system?
     - How to reason about pieces of software that need to be adapted  
in a distributed manner?
     - How to reconfigure a distributed system with respect to the  
dynamic nature of the environment?
     - How to deal with anticipated versus unanticipated adaptation?
     - How to integrate human/computer interaction issues in adaptive  
systems?
     - How to ensure robustness and transactional adaptations?

- Innovative applications of context-awareness and adaptation  
mechanisms:
     - Experiences in developing context-aware and adaptive  
applications and services,
     - Testing and validation of adaptive applications and services,
     - Development methodology for adaptive applications and services,
     - Tool support for context-aware adaptation mechanisms and  
adaptive services,
     - Design of platforms and infrastructures supporting context- 
aware adaptation mechanisms,
     - New domains of applications for context-aware and adaptive  
applications and services.



Important dates

Paper Submission: March 20, 2008
Paper Notification: May 01, 2008
Camera Ready: May 15, 2008
Workshop: June 03, 2008



Workshop Format

The workshop will be organised as a one-day event, consisting of a  
series of sessions, each devoted to the presentation of papers  
belonging to a common domain. Each session will end with a mini-panel
between the presenters, led by the session chair or a pre-selected  
devil’s advocate. This format has been found to lead to lively and  
productive discussions.
The workshop will include a special session for the presentation of  
posters and demos of ongoing research efforts and software  
prototypes. The workshop will conclude with a panel, moderated by one  
of the
organizers, to discuss open issues and future trends in the field,  
with the aim of wrapping up the overall contributions of the event.



Submission & Publication

Selection of workshop participants will be based on the submission of  
a paper, poster or demo. Moreover, other participants may be invited  
by the organizing committee. Thus, the CAMPUS program committee
seeks:
Technical papers, describing concrete results achieved, in no more  
than 12 pages (EASST style),
Position papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no  
more than 6 pages (EASST style).
Papers will be peer-reviewed, and selected based on their  
originality, technical strenght and topical relevance. All workshop  
papers will be published in a special issue of Electronic  
Communications of the EASST.
Paper submission must be electronically as postscript or PDF (via the  
Submission website).



Organisation Committee

Romain Rouvoy, University of Oslo, Norway (Program chair)
Mauro Caporuscio, INRIA, France (Publicity chair)
Michael Wagner, University of Kassel, Germany (Publication chair)


Steering Committee

Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Geir Horn, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Valérie Issarny, INRIA, France


Program Committee (to be completed)

Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Mauro Caporuscio, INRIA, France
Licia Capra, University College of London, UK
Denis Conan, Telecom Institute, France
Vittorio Cortellessa, UDA, Italy
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson, Germany
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Geir Horn, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Per Håkon Merland, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Hassine Moungla, INRIA, France
Nearchos Paspallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Roland Reichle, University of Kassel, Germany
Romain Rouvoy, University of Oslo, Norway
Ulrich Scholz, EuropeanMedia Laboratory GmbH, Germany
Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille 1, France
Roberto Speicys-Cardoso, INRIA, France
Giovanni Toffetti Carughi, USI, Switzerland
Massimo Tivoli, UDA, Italy
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine
Michael Wagner, University of Kassel, Germany