EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+09) Workshop at ICSoC&ServiceWave 2009

NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER CONTRIBUTIONS: 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+09) A Workshop held at the Joint ICSOC&ServiceWave 2009 Conference 23 or 24/11/2009 Stockholm, Sweden http://www.s-cube-network.eu/MONA2 Objectives The advances in modern technology and the constantly evolving requirements implied by dynamic business and operational environments impose new challenges for engineering and provisioning Service Based Applications (SBAs). SBAs have to become drastically more flexible; they should be able to operate and evolve in highly dynamic environments and to adequately identify and react to various changes in these environments. In such a setting, adaptation becomes a key capability of SBAs as it enables these applications to continuously change themselves in order to satisfy new requirements and demands dictated by the environment. The ability of the application to adapt relies on the presence of monitoring mechanisms and facilities to identify, detect, and even predict critical events and situations that occur in the SBA environment. A variety of approaches and techniques addressing different forms of monitoring and adaptation have been proposed to date. Still, for delivering robust, dependable, and highly adaptable SBAs the definition of holistic approaches is crucial. This requires the integration of the efforts of researchers from various disciplines and research areas. More specifically, this requires the integration across the different layers of an SBA, including the business layer, the service layer, the infrastructure layer, and the network layer. In addition, different competences, such as requirements, design, quality assurance, realization, and management need to be brought together to devise those holistic approaches. Drawing on the success of the fist MONA+ workshop (collocated with the ServiceWave 2008 conference), the MONA+ 2009 workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines with various research background. The goal of MONA+ is to try to understand and establish the shared knowledge necessary for developing novel holistic approaches for SBA monitoring and adaptation. The special focus for this second edition of the workshop will be on the relations and interdependencies between the network layer and the service layer, on how the monitoring and adaptation mechanisms provided at these two layers can better interoperate, and on how to better support an integrated design and management of monitoring and adaptation across these two layers. Topics Topics of interest for the MONA+ workshop include but are not limited to: * Monitoring and adaptation mechanisms, frameworks, and architectures * Monitoring and adaptation within/across business, service, infrastructure and network layers * Self-adaptation and human-in-the-loop adaptation * Context-aware monitoring and adaptation * Design principles, patterns, techniques and methods for monitoring and adaptation * Predictive monitoring and pro-active adaptation * Verification of adaptation and of adaptable systems * Autonomic network features that benefit applications and services * Inter-working of Adaptation in the Service-Layer and Adaptation in the Network-Layer * Network-Layer awareness to applications and services We welcome in particular contributions on these topics that address the relations between network-related and service-related aspects of monitoring and adaptation. Important Dates Deadline for Submissions: September 24, 2009 (** !!NEW!! **) MONA+ 2009 Workshop: November 23 or 24, 2009 (exact date and time to be announced) Submissions Papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS style. We are looking forward to receiving one of the following kinds of contributions: * technical papers on SBA monitoring and/or adaptation (max. 15 pages); * position papers on SBA monitoring and/or adaptation (max. 8 pages). Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussion among the workshop participants. They will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee. Papers can be electronically submitted using easychair. Please follow this link: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mona2009 Organizers Ranganai Chaparadza, FOKUS, Fraunhofer, Germany Mail: Ranganai.Chaparadza@fokus.fraunhofer.de Dimka Karastoyanova, IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mail: karastoyanova@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de Raman Kazhamiakin, FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy Mail: raman@fbk.eu Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Mail: andreas.metzger@sse.uni-due.de Marco Pistore, FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy Mail: pistore@fbk.eu Program Committee * Manuel Carro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Alan Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland * Andreas Gehlert, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Sam Guinea, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Vassilios Kaldanis, Velti Services, Greece * Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Athanassios Liakopoulos, GRNET, Greece * Antonio Lozano Lopez, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain * Michele Mancioppi, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Ralph Mietzner, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Juan Manuel Gonzalez Munyoz, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain * Zsolt Nemeth, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary * Joerg Nitzsche, Daimler AG, Germany * Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Martin Treiber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Tammo van Lessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Branimir Wetzstein, University of Stuttgart, Germany