[fg-arc] CfP: DANCE: Distributed Architecture modeling for Novel Component based Embedded systems

[Matthias Tichy]

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DANCE: Distributed Architecture modeling for Novel Component based
Embedded systems

December 8-12, 2014
Bordeaux, France
http://www.irit.fr/DANCE2014/
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of papers:            September 06, 2014
Notification of acceptance:      September 30, 2014
Camera-ready paper due:          October 11, 2014


Distributed systems research covers a wide spectrum of applications
ranging across embedded real/time systems, commercial transaction
systems, transportation systems, and military/space systems.  Such
systems raise several issues not found in single processor
systems. The main difficulty arises when considering dependability,
security, adaptability and resources constrained computing.  This area
requires computing systems to run software in an efficient and
trustworthy way. That is, in order to be able to design complex
architectures in reasonable time, novel and effective design
methodologies are needed to automatically build applications from
high-level descriptions to take into account what needs to be deployed
on hardware. To remedy this weakness, combining both model and
component seems to be a very promising cocktail for building solutions
to this problem.

The introduction of the component approach in the development of
embedded systems allows facilitating their design by building through
an assembly of existing components. Indeed, this approach provides a
clear separation between the specification and implementation of
components. Note however that in the context of component software,
distributed architecture is significantly more demanding than that of
traditional monolithic integrated solution. Model-driven engineering
provides a very useful contribution for the design of distributed
systems since it bridges the gap between design issues and
implementation concerns. It helps the designer to concentrate on
application structure and required behavior and it permits us to
specify in a separate way non-functional requirements such as
underlying execution infrastructure/middleware, dependability and
reconfiguration issues that are very important to guide the
implementation process.

The main focus of DANCE is on the topic of making design and
implementation expert knowledge available to distributed real time
embedded systems (DRTES) engineering processes.  Special emphasis will
be devoted to promote discussion and interaction between researchers
and practitioners focused on the particularly challenging task to
efficiently integrate dependability and reconfiguration solutions
within the restricted available design space and time. Furthermore,
one important focus is on the potential benefits of the combination of
model- driven engineering with languages and representation of
component engineering solutions. The workshop aims to bring together
researchers from various fields involved in the development and
deployment of component in embedded systems with a particular focus on
the transfer of results from fundamental research to the industrial
development of energy, resource and time constrained applications.
The exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other
results which contribute to the academic arena and also benefit
business and industrial communities, is of particular interest.  Some
of the topics that we seek to include in the workshop are related to
the development of models and tools to support the inclusion of
energy, resource and time constraints within dependability and
reconfiguration requirements issues into the embedded systems
engineering process.

We would like to promote new modeling and programming paradigms that
allow system and software developers to express distribution in a
platform independent manner.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Architecture and execution support design for distributed
  applications
* Distribution techniques which exploit new models and protocols of
  distributed computing systems
* Distributed adaptive and self-adaptive softwares
* Modeling of resource management, resource scaling polices and
  strategies
* Component-based design for building collaborative distributed
  systems
* Description language, Patterns, Meta- modeling, Multi- modeling, UML
  Profiles, DSMLs, ...
* Specification of distributed architecture for Model Driven
  Development process
* Specification of distributed architecture using programming
  paradigms (object, component and aspect-oriented programming ...)
* Verification, testing and validation of distributed architecture
* Designing simulation frameworks that can model designs and predict
  system properties, such as responsiveness and availability, based on
  simulated and historical data
* Standards-based distributed ontology models and architectures that
  enable open interfaces with plug-and-play hardware and software
  components
* Tools support for assisting modeling, deployment and configuration
  of distributed software architectures
* Case studies, empirical results, experience reports, suit-tools


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

We are inviting the submission of papers with high quality research
contributions, work in progress, experimental and ongoing projects
results.  The following types of submission are accepted:

Long papers (10 pages): reporting substantial, completed, and
previously unpublished research

Short papers (6 pages): describing
work in progress or industrial experiences

Format: ll submitted papers must be written in English and conform to
the ACM double column format (10pt, single-space, double-column and
include an abstract of up to 150 words...).  The format of the
submission should follow ACM Formatting Guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using our submission system.

ORGANIZERS:

Brahim Hamid (IRIT-University of Toulouse , France), brahim.hamid at irit.fr
François Terrier  (CEA LIST , France), francois.terrier at cea.fr
Matthias Tichy (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden),
matthias.tichy at cse.gu.se
Yan Liu (Concordia University, Canada), yan.liu at concordia.ca
Muhammad Ali Babar (University of Adelaide, Australia), maba at itu.dk
He Zhang (Nanjing University, China), he at software.nju.edu.cn


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed):

Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Len Bass, NICTA, Australia
Jean-Michel Bruel (IRIT-University of Toulouse, France)
Fabio M. Costa, Federal University of Goias, Brazil
Ivica Crnkovic (University of Mälardalen, Sweden)
Khalil Drira (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Marie-Pierre Gervais (LIP6, France)
Ian Gorton, Software Engineering Institute/Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Christophe Gransart (IFSTTAR, France)
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Brahim Hamid (IRIT-University of Toulouse, France)
Mohamed Jmaiel (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Ferhat Khendek (University of Concordia, Canada)
Ssam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
Qinghua Lu, China University of Petroleum, China
Roman Obermaisser (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Flavio Oquendo (European University of Brittany - UBS/VALORIA, France)
Mourad Oussalah (LINA - CNRS UMR 6241, Nantes, France)
Laurent Pautet (Télécom - ParisTech, France)
Dorina C. Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
Ansgar Radermacher (CEA LIST, France)
Carsten Rudolph (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany)
Christoph Ruland (University of Siegen, Germany)
Eric Rutten (INRIA, France)
Francesca Saglietti (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)
Lionel Seinturier (LIFL-University of Lille, France)
François Terrier (CEA LIST , France)
Matthias Tichy ( Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Maria Toeroe, Ericsson, Canada
Marisol Garca Valles (Uiversidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Adam Wynne, Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA