CfP Impending Deadline: Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2017)

CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline extended to Sept 15, 2017!

Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2017)

December 11-12, 2017 | Las Vegas, Nevada

Colocated with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware

About ARM

The Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM) workshop series started together with the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, with which it has been co-located every year since this first edition.

ARM aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and on the challenging problems that remain unsolved. Past editions of the workshop have bring together experts involved in designing and reusing adaptive systems at different system layers, including architectural, OS, virtualization technology, and network layers, as well as in using techniques that are complementary to reflection. The workshop series also seek to provide an exciting environment in which to leverage cooperation among researchers.

Important Dates

• August 19, 2017 - Abstract submission
• August 26, 2017 September 15, 2017 - Paper submission (note that this deadline allows for an extension if there is need)
• October 3, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance
• October 17, 2017 - Final Version

Description of the Workshop Topics

The 16th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2017) intends to follow on the success of over a decade of previous editions exploring how reflective approaches and associated techniques can support the life-cycle of adaptive middleware platforms. Such systems must adapt and tailor their behavior and properties to increasing levels of dynamism and unprecedented scales. Adaptation is especially relevant at present considering the recent emphasis on the use of decentralized network technologies in large geographically dispersed deployments, for example Internet of Things and Blockchains.

Adaptation and reflection mechanisms must take into account novel models of computation and new classes of applications such as smart and connected city applications, industrial networked and cloud applications, the Internet of Things, and their combination. Applying reflective techniques to open-up the implementation of middleware and related software platforms for interoperability, one-to-many deployment, and adaptability have proved particularly successful and influential in the past. However, there are still open challenges, such as scalability and decentralized management as well as resilient real-time operations, that require further investigation to address new use cases in large deployment contexts, especially in diverse domains as transportation and smart grids.

Reflection by itself is today considered a baseline. Its combination with other software adaptation techniques has proven beneficial to extend the reach to different layers of the software stack. Further consolidating this approach can allow delivering the flexibility demanded by today's ever diversifying middleware environments, which require higher degrees of adaptability and resilience.

ARM 2017 will aim at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and on the challenging problems that remain unsolved. This edition follows the path initiated in recent editions, by bringing together experts involved in designing and reusing adaptive systems at different system layers, including architectural, OS, virtualization technology, and network layers, as well as in using techniques that are complementary to reflection.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Design and performance of adaptive and/or reflective middleware platforms;
• Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in specific domains (e.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile computing, smart and connected communities, Internet of Things, cloud/grid computing, P2P, Systems-of-Systems);
• Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms, including network, OS, VM & device level techniques;
• Adaptation and reflection in the presence of heterogeneous execution and programming paradigms;
• Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve: reconfigurability and/or adaptability and/or separation of concerns; reuse; and reification of adaptation techniques and strategies;
• Incorporating non-functional properties into middleware, including real-time, fault-tolerance, immutability, persistence, security, trust, privacy and so on;
• Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, adaptation and control, as it relates to middleware and its interaction with other layers;
• Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective mechanisms;
• Evaluation methodologies for adaptive and reflective middleware; guidelines, testbeds and benchmarks;
• Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies; convergence of adaptation.
• Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware;
• Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive and reflective mechanisms;
• Software engineering methodologies for the design and development of adaptive middleware;
• Methods for reasoning, storing and dynamically updating knowledge about the services provided by adaptive/reflective middleware;
• The role of techniques such as learning in the design of long-lived adaptive middleware;
• Methods for asynchronous, distributed, control, coordination/cooperation among components providing middleware services;
• Metrics on properties such as cost-of-adaptation, quality-of-adaptation, consistency-of-adaptation, yields.

Paper Submission

Submission is through easy chair. And tell people to submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arm2017