Conference announcements

1st Call for Papers -
Ada-Europe'2003 - Workshop: Quality of Service in Component-Based Software Engineering (QoSCBSE'2003)

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:44:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Jean-Michel Bruel <Jean-Michel.Bruel@univ-pau.fr>
To: seworld@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: (SEWORLD) QoSCBSE'2003: First Call For Paper

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                      Call for Papers

                   Quality of Service in
            Component-Based Software Engineering

                       QoSCBSE'2003

         Workshop at "Reliable Software Technologies 2003"
        http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2003.html

            June 20th, 2003, Toulouse, France

    Workshop webpage : http://liuppa.univ-pau.fr/QoSCBSE2003

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In the overall topic of reliable software, we are specifically
interested in improving the way developers can manage the complexity of
developing software which is most of the time distributed, based on
existing reused pieces, and with strong and stringent 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.

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:
  - How can we constraint/improve my component-based design with QoS
    annotations?
  - What research path should we take to make progress in predicting
    system behavior based on components behavior?
  - How do we decompose system behavior to get specific components
    requirements for non-functional system properties?

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit position papers on
topics related to the workshop. A partial list of topics is:
  - Composition Language
  - Software performance modeling and evaluation
  - QoS specification
  - ADLs and their use in supporting features composition
  - Software dependability
  - Compositionality
  - Modeling methods and tools for non-functional requirements
  - Industrial case studies

The 5-10 pages (single-spaced, 12-point, 1-inch margins) papers should
be submitted  either in postscript or a pdf format, 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.

Important dates
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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

Program committee
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Jean-Michel Bruel (contact) 	U. of Pau, France
Abdelmalek Benzekri		U. of Toulouse III, France
Geri Georg 			Agilent Technologies, USA
Ileana Ober 			VERIMAG, France
Ramon Puigjaner 		U. de les Illes Balears, Spain
Jon Whittle 			NASA Ames, USA

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