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ARMOR 2012 : 1st European Workshop on AppRoaches to MObiquiTous Resilience | |||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||
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CALL FOR PAPERS ARMOR - 1st European Workshop on AppRoaches to MObiquiTous Resilience http://armor.webs.upv.es co-located with the 9th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC-2012) Sibiu, Romania May 8th, 2012 ============================================================== ================= Important dates Paper submission: January 25, 2012 Author notification: March 9, 2012 Final version of papers: March 20, 2012 ================= Overview Recently, mobile computing and wireless communication technologies made so much progress that we can finally acknowledge the emergence of the mobile/ubiquitous computing paradigm we anticipated. A new generation of mobile devices (such as smartphones, handheld GPS, laptops, tablets, etc.) will probably lead revolutionary changes in the information society. These devices benefit from an amazing number of sensors, communication interfaces and networking capabilities. Their interconnection results in huge heterogeneous and distributed systems and we can already forecast that this will lead to revolutionary applications, services and usages. Among other specific features, what makes mobile and ubiquitous systems different and interesting from a research viewpoint is : - the mobility of users, applications and devices, - how they produce and handle geo-localized information, - the heterogeneity among the nodes and the services, - their intrinsic need of adaptation to changes in their execution environment, - their limited energy/computing/storage/communication resources, - their need for cooperation and intermittent connection to the Internet, - the potential impact, as personal devices that travel with their user and carry personal information, that the devices and their applications may have on privacy. It is still unclear today whether mobiquitous solutions will be able to achieve the resilience levels necessary for user transparency and acceptance. It seems obvious that such solutions will require : - New types of dependability mechanisms to cope with the intrinsic dynamics of mobile systems, - New approaches to evolvable fault tolerance and security in order to adjust their resilience features according to the set of system requirements and available resources. - New management strategies for adaptation ensuring acceptable levels of performance, energy consumption, trustworthiness, privacy and cost. These considerations are of prime importance in the context of emerging mobile devices and applications such as those used in smart urban transportation systems, body area systems, ambient assisted living solutions, environmental monitoring products, and vehicular ad hoc networks. Making such a complex ecosystems of devices and services resilient is a first challenge, but being able to assess the resilience level and capacity of adaptation of resulting solutions is also of utmost importance. The ambition and mission of ARMOR is to put on the foreground all above issues and provide a forum of discussion to interested researchers. ================= Conference venue ARMOR and EDCC 2012 will be held in the city of Sibiu, Romania. Sibiu is a major historic and cultural city, the area being mentioned for the first time in a Papal document in 1191. The Grand Square, several cathedrals and churches, the Townhall, the Council Tower, and the National Brukenthal Museum are among the main attractions. Several historic monuments, like the Biertan and Talmaciu fortreses, are nearby Sibiu. A large outdoors ethnographic museum is located in a wooden area, south of the city, and attracts numerous tourists every year. Sibiu is also home to Lucian Blaga University. In 2007 Sibiu shared the honor of being designated European Capital of Culture with Luxembourg. Situated in the center of Romania, Sibiu can be easily reached from all major European cities, both by air and train, direct connections being available, among others, to Munich, Vienna, and Bucharest. ================= Submission To contribute to the workshop, authors are invited to submit a position paper of 4 to 6 pages (10-pt font, single space, double-column format). Please see proceedings templates here http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for instructions. The program committee will carefully review each position paper. The review will focus not only on the paper's quality but also on its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions. All authors of accepted position papers are invited to attend the workshop. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library and will have their corresponding ISBN. Authors of best papers will be invited to submit a revised (and maybe extended) version of their contributions to a journal. All submissions must be made electronically through the submission web page, at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=armor12 . Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. We recommend that you embed fonts where possible to improve portability. We also strongly recommend you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations etc.) before submitting it. A defective printing of your paper can undermine its chance of success. ================= Organization Chairs Juan Carlos Ruiz, ITACA-UPV, Spain Marc-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Committee Carlos Aguilar, University of Limoge, France Domenico Controneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy David de Andrés, ITACA-UPV, Spain Hans-Peter Schwefel, Aalborg University, Denmark Mads Haar, Trinity College, Ireland Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal ================= Sponsors LAAS-CNRS - http://www.laas.fr UPV - http://www.upv.es The Amores Project - http://amores-project.org The SEMSECAP Project - http://semsecap.stf.webs.upv.es ============================================================== |
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