====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Middleware 2003 "The 2nd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware" Tuesday, June 17, 2003 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://tao.doc.wustl.edu/~corsaro/RM2003/ ====================================================================== Overview -------- Conventional middleware implementations that target specific runtime environments are often implemented using monolithic designs to enhance efficiency. However, monolithic designs make middleware implementa- tions inflexible and hard to adapt to different behavioral or structural requirements that differ from their original targets. In application domains where resources are constrained and variable in time, having the ability to reconfigure middleware to optimize resource usage and/or provide required qualities of service (QoS) becomes essential. Applying adaptive and reflective techniques to "open up" middleware implementations is a promising way to provide a greater degree of configurability and reconfigurability for applications. Researchers who have applied adaptive and reflective techniques at the middleware level are achieving significant results that improve the reconfigura- bility, interoperability, adaptability, and better separation of concerns of middleware implementations. The goal of the proposed workshop is to gather researchers on adaptive and reflective middleware to gain insight on their experiences and new ideas in adaptive and reflective middleware. Building off an earlier successful workshop at Middleware 2000, this workshop will report on the state-of-the-art progress in adaptive and reflective middleware, as well as codify the challenging R&D problems that still need to be solved effectively. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participants are expected to submit a position paper or an extended abstract of at most five pages by the submission deadline. Papers and extend abstract should be mailed to Angelo Corsaro at . The paper should be in either PS, PDF or Word, format. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Design and performance of adaptive reflective middleware platforms * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve separation of concerns * Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for adaptive and reflective middleware * Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in suitable application domains e.g., real-time systems, mobile computing, etc. * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as it relates to middleware * Experience with existing mechanisms, such as CORBA interceptors or the OMG Meta-Object Facility * Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or reconfiguration * Examination of potentially complementary techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming * Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective techniques * Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies * Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: 20 February 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2003 * Camera Ready Paper Due: 20 April 2003 Program Committee ----------------- Anders Andersen................University of Tromso, Norway Angelo Corsaro.................Washington University, USA Fabio M. Costa.................Federal University of Goias - Brazil Geoffrey Coulson...............Comp. Dept at Lancaster University, UK Joseph K. Cross................Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems, USA Mayur Deshpande................University of California at Irvine, USA Hector Duran Limon.............Comp. Dept. at Lancaster University, UK Frank Eliassen.................University of Oslo, Norway Christopher D. Gill............Washington University in St. Louis, USA Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco....University of California at Irvine, USA Fabio Kon......................University of São Paulo, Brazil Joseph P. Loyall...............BBN Technologies, USA Miguel A. de Miguel............Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Nikos Parlavantzas.............Comp. Dept. at Lancaster University, UK Tom Ritter.....................Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Corrado Santoro................University of Catania, Italy Douglas C. Schmidt.............Vanderbilt University, USA David Sharp....................Boeing Company Sandeep Shukla.................Virginia Tech, USA Richard Staelhi................Simula Laboratory, Norway Sara Tucci Piergiovanni........University La Sapienza, Italy Nalini Venkatasubramanian......University of California at Irvine, USA Clemens Szyperski..............Microsoft Research, USA Nanbor Wang....................Washington University, St. Louis, USA Wolfgang Weck..................Oberon Microsystems, Inc., Switzerland Organizers ----------- Angelo Corsaro..............Washington University, St. Louis, USA Nanbor Wang.................Washington University, St. Louis, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian...University of California at Irvine, USA Geoffrey Coulson............Comp. Dept at Lancaster University, UK Fabio M. Costa..............Federal University of Goias - Brazil