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Organizing Committee Nelly Bencomo (main contact) Gordon Blair Computing Department Lancaster University, UK Robert France Computer Science Department Colorado State University Program Committee Franck Barbier Univ. of Pau, Netfective Technology, France Benoit Baudry IRISA, France Fabio M. Costa Federal University of Goias, Brazil Eli Gjørven Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Gang Huang Peking University, China Alfredo Matteo UCV, Venezuela Rui Silva Moreira UFP, INESC Porto, Portugal Klaus Pohl ICB, Germany Marten van Sinderen Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands Arnor Solberg SINTEF, Norway Mario Trapp Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Thaís Vasconcelos Batista UFRN, Brasil Steffen Zschaler T.U. Dresden, Germany Important Dates: Submission deadline: Monday May 21th Notification of acceptance: Friday June 8th ECOOP'07 Early Registration Date: Friday June 15th Workshop at ECOOP: Monday, 30 July |
M-ADAPT 2007:
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Papers Accepted Adaptability is emerging as a critical enabling capability for many applications, particularly for environment monitoring, disaster management and other applications deployed in dynamically changing environments. Such applications have to reconfigure themselves according to fluctuations in their environment. The unpredictability of changes in the environments and their requirements pose new challenges to Software Engineering. Current software development approaches specify the functionality of the system at design-time. Such approaches are not sufficiently adequate to develop systems that dynamically adapt to environment fluctuations. As a result, innovative alternatives that take into account the specification of behaviour and functionality during the execution are required. However, dynamic adaptation can lead to emergent inappropriate unpredictable behaviour. The goal of this workshop is to explore how to develop appropriate model-driven approaches to model, analyze, and validate the volatile properties of the behaviour of adaptive systems and its environments. In the model-driven software development area, research effort has focused primarily on using models at design, implementation, and deployment stages of development. This work has been highly productive with several techniques now entering the commercialisation phase. The use of model-driven techniques for validating and monitoring run-time behaviour can also yield significant benefits. A key benefit is that models can be used to provide a richer semantic base for runtime decision-making related to system adaptation and other runtime concerns. For example, one can use models to help determine when a system should move from a consistent architecture to another consistent architecture. Model-based monitoring and management of executing systems can play a significant role as we move towards implementing the key self-* properties associated with autonomic computing.Relevant topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal notations for modeling, analysing, and validating adaptive systems - Managing and modelling the dynamic variability intrinsic in the structure and behaviour of adaptive systems and their environments - The relevance and suitability of different model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing systems during runtime. - Compatibility (or tension) between different model-driven approaches. - Experience related to the use of run-time models to adapt software systems. - Model-driven design for adaptability. Workshop Format We are interested in submissions from both academia and industry on the topics described above. Both practical experience and position papers are welcome. You are invited to apply for attendance by sending a 2 to 5 page position paper (using 11 or 12 pt fonts) in PDF or PS. Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the ECOOP’2007 early registration deadline. A primary deliverable of the workshop is a report that clearly outlines (1) the research issues and challenges in terms of specific research problems in the area, and (2) a synopsis of existing model-based solutions that target some well-defined aspect of monitoring and managing the execution of systems. Related Events: The first incarnation of this workshop was Models@runtime 2006 held at MODELS 2006 in Italy. It was attended by at least twenty persons. During that workshop key research questions were identified and discussed. The ECOOP workshop will use the research questions identified during the MODELS workshop as a basis for soliciting papers and as a starting point for further discussions. Bringing the workshop to an ECOOP audience will help broaden the discussions to cover issues related to the integration of modelling techniques with other techniques typically covered at ECOOP (e.g., component-based and reflection techniques). Models@runtime 2007 will be held at MoDELS 2007 in Nasville, USA. The proceedings of the workshop (set of reviewed papers) will be published in IEEE Distributed Systems online Call for Papers. 
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