AQuSerM 2008: Advances in Quality of Service Management EDOC 2008 workshop, 18th September, 2008, München, Germany
http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/AQuSerM.htm Call for papers Theme ----- AQuSerM concerns advances in QoS-oriented techniques and tools for managing enterprise architectures, encompassing approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, runtime analysis and prediction and adaptation. Serviced-oriented and model-driven approaches will be a special focus of the workshop. Workshop theme --------------- Service Level Management (SLM) is the process of managing the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by clients and offered by providers. In the past, SLM approaches have focused on service contract definition, monitoring and reporting and have typically been handled by enterprise system management tools such as Microsoft¹s SMS, CA¹s Unicenter and Empirix¹s OneSight. However, traditional approaches are inadequate when dealing with complex service-oriented architectures. Service-oriented architectures are compositional, dynamic and often distributed over the internet. For such architectures, SLM becomes a difficult problem that can no longer be handled by traditional monitoring tools. This is because of the dynamic, flexible, compositional and global natures of SOAs. This workshop will be concerned with the issues that are important to modern QoS management: the monitoring of widely distributed components, dynamic adaptation strategies and the necessity for more sophisticated prediction and diagnostic analysis techniques. Special focus will be given to model-driven approaches. The development of standards such as the ISO/IEC QoS Framework, the RM-ODP, MARTE and the UML Profile for QoS are intended to form the basis for the design and implementation of QoS management in networked enterprise architectures. A current open question is how best to use these standards within the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) refinement strategy for software development. For example, some authors are advocating the use of MDA to generate platform-specific monitorable implementations from QoS requirements specified in a platform-independent metamodel. See the workshop website (http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/aquserm/) for more details. Suggested topics ----------------- Topics include, but are not limited to, * QoS support for common enterprise middleware (such as CORBA, J2EE and .NET) * Management issues for domain-specific architectures (such as process control architectures built using OPC) * Managing complex systems using current industrial monitoring infrastructures and standards (e.g., Microsoft¹s WMI and the DMTF¹s CIM standard) * Service-oriented approaches to QoS management * Formal methods to support SLM * Mathematical models for system diagnostics * Industrial SLM case studies * Model-driven approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, prediction and adaptation * Unifying management frameworks Important dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2008 Paper acceptance notification: 21 July 2008 Camera ready of papers: 22 August 2008 Workshop date: 18 September 2008 Submissions ----------- Submissions should be 4 to 10 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as PDF files to the Workshop Chairs (iman.poernomo ' at symbol ' kcl.ac.uk or guijun.wang ' at symbol ' pss.Boeing.com) by the deadline. At least one author of an accepted paper should participate in the workshop. All accepted papers for the workshop will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Authors will be invited to extend their papers for a special issue of a leading international journal (this is currently under negotiation). Revised best papers of previous AQuSerMs were published in the Journal of Object Technology. Workshop chairs --------------- Iman Poernomo, King's College London (Email: iman.poernomo ' at symbol ' kcl.ac.uk) Guijun Wang, Boeing Phantom Works (Email: guijun.wang ' at symbol ' pss.Boeing.com) -- Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Computer Science King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK phone: +44 20 7848 2694 fax: +44 20 7848 2851 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk ---- [[ Petri Nets World: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/ ]] [[ Mailing list FAQ: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/pnml/faq.html ]] [[ Post messages/summary of replies: ]] [[ [email protected] ]]
