Call for papers : AROSA 2014
4th Track on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Service-oriented and component-based Applications and Architectures
http://arosa2014.redcad.org/

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High quality papers will be selected for a special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/
Publisher : Elsevier
Impact Factor: 1.135 (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.322)
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Conference Track @ the 23rd WETICE Conference (www.wetice.org)
June, 23rd-25th, 2014
University Campus
Parma - Italy

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: February 38, 2014
Decision Notification: March 26, 2014
Camera-Ready Submission : April 11, 2014   
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The goal of this track is to bring together researchers and practitioners both from the Academia and from the Industry working in the areas of Service-oriented and component-based software applications and architectures and addressing adaptation and reconfiguration issues. Different investigation topics are involved, such as: CBSE, SOA, Functional and Non Functional (NF) requirements (QoS, performance, resilience), monitoring, diagnosis, decision and execution of adaptation and reconfiguration. Different research axes are covered: concepts, methods, techniques, and tools to design, develop, deploy and manage adaptive and reconfigurable software systems.

The development of composite services poses very interesting challenges concerning their functional and NF requirements. On the one hand, a composite software system depends on the NF requirements of its constituting components in order to provide a satisfactory service to the user. On the other hand, the main issues for the fulfillment of QoS and service level agreements (SLA) are concerned with performance variability. Indeed, the QoS may evolve frequently, either because of internal changes or because of workload fluctuations. The performance and the robustness of the composite software system may be significantly improved by monitoring the execution of the components and by flexibly reacting to degradation and anomalies in a timely fashion.

The concept of adaptive and reconfigurable software systems has been introduced in order to describe architectures which exhibit such properties. An adaptive and reconfigurable software system can repair itself if any execution problems occur, in order to successfully complete its own execution, while respecting functional and NF agreements. In the design of an adaptive and reconfigurable software system, several aspects have to be considered. For instance, the system should be able to predict or to detect degradations and failures as soon as possible and to enact suitable recovery actions. Moreover, different NF requirements service levels might be considered in order to complete the execution in case of failure.
 
TOPICS
For this track, contributions are devoted to functional and non functional adaptability and reconfiguration management in service-oriented and component-based software systems. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed and centralized collaborative solutions for the diagnosis and repair of software systems
- Design for the diagnosability and repairability
- Collaborative Management of NF requirements (quality, security, robustness, availability)
- Monitoring simple and composite architectures, components and services
- Semantic (or analytic) architectural and behavioral models for monitoring of software systems
- Dynamic reconfiguration of CB and SO architectures
- Collaborative planning and decision making
- Collaborative technologies for ensuring autonomic properties
- Predictive management of adaptability.
- Collaborative Management of autonomic properties
- Experiences in practical adaptive and reconfigurable CB and SO applications
- Tools and prototypes for managing adaptability of CB and SO applications
 
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 6 pages) of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). 
Authors must upload their paper as PDF file using EasyChair : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014
If any problem arises when submitting your paper, please contact: arosa2014@redcad.org. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers for ensuring high quality. Best papers in AROSA 2014 will be selected for submittal in a special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/).
  
TRACK CHAIRS
Khalil Drira, LAAS, University of Toulouse, France
Slim Kallel, ReDCAD, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez , ReDCAD, University of Sfax, Tunisia


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Takoua Abdellatif, University of Sousse, Tunisia
Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, Nederland
Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
Isabelle Borne, University of South Brittany, France
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Miriam Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Christophe Chassot, LAAS-CNRS, France
Marco Comuzzi, City University London, UK
Carlos E. Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Marcos Da Silveira, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxumborg
Flavia Delicato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Christophe Dony, LIRMM - Montpellier-II University, France
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany
Ian Gorton, Carnegie Mellon University, Austalia
Volker Gruhn, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - UCBL, France
Hatem Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Mohamed Jmaiel, ReDCAD, ENIS, Tunisia
Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon University, Austalia
Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI - University of Bordeaux, France
Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - University of South Brittany, France
Ilia Petrov, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Sakkaravarthi Ramanathan, E.G.S Pillay Engineering College, India
Cecilia Rubira, Unicamp, Brazil
Salah Sadou, IRISA, University of South Brittany, France
Mohamed Sellami, Institut TELECOM, TELECOM SudParis, CNRS UMR Samovar, France
Damián Serrano, University of Grenoble - LIG, France
Chouki Tibermacine, LIRMM, CNRS and Montpellier II University, France
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria