[ieeetcsc-discuss] CfP - Workshop on Quality Management of Services and Middleware (QuaSM'08)

[Andrea D'Ambrogio]

CALL FOR PAPERS
(submission deadline: July 1, 2008)

 	International Workshop on
 	Quality Management of Services and Middleware
 	QuaSM 2008 - http://quasm.uib.es

conjunct with

 	The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and 
 	Distributed Processing with Applications  - ISPA 2008
 	Sidney, Australia
 	December 10-12, 2008


Workshop theme 
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Middleware technologies consist of various components that 
form the infrastructure, or plumbing, of distributed
applications. It has been widely acknowledged that 
middleware quality plays a critical role on the end-to-end 
quality of distributed applications, which are characterized 
by a constant variation of location and intensity of users 
and/or services. The first workshop in this series (Workshop 
on Middleware and Performance – WOMP 2006) explored methods 
and tools for performance of middleware systems based on 
emerging technologies including grid applications, web 
services and context-aware mobile applications. In this new 
edition the workshop is going to broaden the scope by 
specifically addressing additional quality attributes of 
service-oriented applications, or applications based on 
service-oriented architectures (SOAs), including 
performance, reliability and security. 
The workshop solicits papers on methods, measures, and tools 
for QoS management in the very broad context of middleware 
systems. This includes middleware infrastructures, 
interaction paradigms, communication protocols, software 
architectures, middleware applications, other non functional 
quality attributes and their relationship with the overall 
QoS. A special interest is given to papers with insightful 
solutions towards service-oriented middleware.

Topics of interest
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The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  * Service governance and QoS implications
  * Middleware profiling for gathering QoS data
  * Middleware infrastructures to manage and improve QoS
  * QoS trade-off assessments, including measures, methods
    and models that integrate performance and QoS aspects of
    middleware systems such as maintainability, security,
    safety, availability, interoperability.
  * QoS issues in adaptive/reflective middleware
  * QoS-aware middleware support
  * Specification and analysis of quality attributes of
    middleware for distributed simulation
  * Monitoring mechanisms and tools for middleware-based
    distributed applications
  * Quality models and metrics for service-oriented
    middleware
  * Quantitative modelling and analysis of service
    compositions and service-based workflows
  * QoS for mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks
  * QoS studies of communication paradigms, such as P2P,
    event-based, message-oriented and publish/subscribe
  * Model-driven approaches to QoS management and governance
    of SOA-based applications
  * QoS management of SOA-based applications at design,
    deployment and execution time
  * Case studies and experience reports

Important Dates
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  * Paper submission: Julu 1, 2008
  * Notification to authors: August 30, 2008
  * Camera-ready version of accepted papers: Sept. 15, 2008
  * Workshop: December 10-12, 2008

Organizing Committee
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  * Carlos Juiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
  * Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
  * Yan Liu, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia

Program Committee (TBC)
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  * Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK
  * DeJiu Chen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  * Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia
  * Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  * Mariela Curiel, University Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
  * Jean-Luc Dormoy, CEA, France
  * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
  * Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
  * Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
  * Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
  * José Merseguer, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  * Eila Niemelä, VTT, Finland
  * Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
  * Ramon Puigjaner, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
  * Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler, USA
  * Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Submission
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Authors may contact the organizers for expression of 
interests and content appropriateness at any time. All 
papers must contain original material, not previously 
published or submitted for publication. Submission details 
are published on the workshop website (http://quasm.uib.es).
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS press.