QoS in CBSE 2003

Workshop at ADA Europe'2003
http://www.irit.fr/AdaEurope2003/

Toulouse, France, June 20, 2003

Goal    -     Topics    -     Previous workshops    -     Submissions    -     Format    -     Deadlines    -     Location    -     Organizers

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Goal

In the overall topic of reliable software, we are specifically interested in improving the way software developers can manage the complexity of developing software which is most of the time distributed, based on existing reused pieces, and with stronger and stronger timing constraints. The goal of this workshop is to look at issues related to the integration of non-functional properties expression, evaluation, and prediction in the context of component-based software engineering development. It is now widely recognized that what makes Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) hard to efficiently use is the fact that components are easy to produce but not easy to compose. This scope is addressed by a number of ongoing researches. In the context of this particular workshop we would like to focus on the difficulty of predicting the overall behavior and offered quality of service (in a broad sense, e.g. performance, dependability) of a composite out of its "internal" components. This implies that a software builder should have the behavior and the quality of service offered and required of each components expressed in some way, as well as some support tool or underlying framework supporting the composition of these added-value features. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and academics that are currently working around these topics to highlight the ongoing solutions and the problems encountered. The workshop is organized on two half-day sessions. The morning session is dedicated to invited talks and presentations. Followed, in the afternoon, by working sessions. The number and subject of these sessions will be decided by the organizers depending upon the position papers.

Topics

A number of open questions will be addressed during the workshop. These questions will be refined, selected and modified according to the early discussions of the day, and some working sessions will be organized in order to give some indications on their answer. Examples of open questions:

Previous workshops

Some of the organizers of this proposed workshop have already organized various workshops on related issues at conferences like UML, ECOOP, OOPSLA, or OOIS. The aim of the organizing team is to merge the initiatives in the modeling area with those in the performance evaluation area. For example a workshop close to the proposed topics has been held in the UML'2002 conference in Dresden and another one was a special issue of the International Symposium On Computer and Information Sciences, but the attendees were from different areas although the problems were related.

Submissions (Closed)

Researchers and practitioners were invited to submit position papers on topics related to the workshop. A partial list of topics was: The 5-10 pages (single-spaced, 12-point, 1-inch margins) papers should be submitted either in postscript or as pdf file, via email to bruel@univ-pau.fr. The workshop organizers will review the submissions and select papers that present relevant and interesting ideas and concepts that can contribute to the discussions that will take place in the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be made available before the start of the workshop on the workshop website and may appear as a technical report at one of the organizers' universities.

Program (Preliminary)

Quality and creativity will be facilitated through the presentation of accepted papers, working sessions, and summary presentations. Below is the preliminary workshop schedule:
9:00-9:30amOpening Remarks
9:30-10:30amPresentation Session 1
  - "MDA & QoS" by R. France
  - "Modelling of QoS-Dependencies" by S. Zschaler
10:30-11:00amBreak
11:00-11:30am Presentation Session 2
  - "European projects in QoS" by Ileana Ober
11:30-12:30amDiscussions and Open questions
12:30-2:00pmLunch
2:00-2:30pm Presentation Session 3
  - "Performance Evaluation" by Pierre Combes
2:30-3:30pmWorking Session 1
3:30-4:00pmBreak
4:00-5:00pmWorking Session 2
5:00-5:30pmSummary Reports

Important dates

21 February 2003 Papers Submission Deadline
11 April 2003 Notification of acceptance
2 May 2003 Final papers (camera-ready) required
20 June 2003 Workshop in Toulouse

Location

The workshop will be host at the same location than the main conference, in Toulouse, France, in the 4th day, Friday 20th of June. For more information about the conference location, please see the main conference URL.

Accepted papers

The proceedings of the workshop will be published at Cepadues Edition. Here is the list of accepted papers:

Organizers

Jean-Michel Bruel (primary contact)
Laboratoire d'Informatique
University of Pau
B.P. 1155, F-64013 Pau, France
Phone: (+33) 5.59.92.31.89
FAX: (+33) 5.59.80.83.74
E-mail: bruel@univ-pau.fr
Abdelmalek Benzekri
IRIT
University of Toulouse III
31062 TOULOUSE Cedex, France
Phone: (+33) 5.61.55.60.86
FAX: (+33) 5.61.52.14.58
E-mail: Benzekri@irit.fr
Geri Georg
Agilent Technologies
Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA
Phone: (+1) 970-288-0837
FAX: (+1) 970-288-4234
E-mail: geri_georg@agilent.com
Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
07071 Palma, Spain
Phone: (+34) 971173288
FAX: (+34) 971173003
E-mail: putxi@uib.es
Jon Whittle
NASA Ames Research Center
MS 269-2
Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Phone: (+1) 650-604-3589
FAX: (+1) 650-604-4036
E-mail: jonathw@email.arc.nasa.gov
Ileana Ober
UMR Verimag
Centre Equation
2, avenue de Vignate
38610 Gi-Aères, France
Phone: (+33) 476 63 48 23
FAX: (+33) 476 63 48 50
E-mail: ileana.ober@imag.fr

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