The 8th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

IEEE ¨C Computer Society


The First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems
(ADAMUS 2007 - WoWMoM 2007)

Helsinki, Finland, 18 June 2007

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A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments.

In recent years we witnessed an increasing demand for mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced a plethora of methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for supporting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current technologies, methods, and solutions can satisfy the challenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile mission- and business- critical systems and applications, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance.

To be effective, these applications must endorse provisions that allow them to continue the optimal distribution of their service despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or faults in their infrastructure and the surrounding environment.

It is becoming important devising:

-         Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems;

-         Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system¡¯s ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;

-         Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;

-         Methods and models to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;

-         Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;

-          Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability.

 

The main goal of this workshop is that of fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mission- and business- critical mobile systems and applications.

The workshop also aims at proposing answers to key research questions in this field, such as:

 

-         What are the open issues of mission- and business-critical mobile systems and applications?

-         Which are the new avenues of exploration?

-         Are the current architectural solutions (middleware, runtime support, human-machine interaction, ¡­) able to meet the dependability requirements for such critical applications?

-         What are the promising solutions in the short-/mid-term?

-         How can we reduce the gap between industry development and research achievements?


High quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments are solicited for submission. The main topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

 

  • Dependability and real-time adaptation requirements and related open issues for mobile systems;
  • Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services;
  • Design principles, models, tools and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile systems;
  • End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services;
  • Mobile-enabled middleware mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks;
  • Middleware support for adaptation & dependability;
  • Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures;
  • Human-machine interaction and usability;
  • Multi-device systems and integration between heterogeneous software platforms and operating systems;
  • Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation to networks conditions;
  • Cross layer adaptation;
  • Software Dependability in multimedia systems over wireless media;
  • Group communication and group membership services;
  • QoS control and component scheduling.
  • Standardization issues.

 

NOTE: The proceedings will be published on CD by IEEE.