HICSS-37

software TECHNOLOGY TRACK

Chair: Gul Agha
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 244-3087
Fax: (217) 333-3501
Email: agha@cs.uiuc.edu http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/agha.html

Adaptive and Evolvable Software Systems: Techniques, Tools, and Applications

This mini-track will focus on development techniques that support improved capabilities for providing adaptations and modifications to software. This can take the form of dynamic adaptation at run-time (such as meta-programming and reflection techniques as applied to middleware), as well as static design/compile-time techniques (such as aspect-orientation, generative programming, model-driven architecture, and frameworks).

For more information: http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/HICSS-AESS/


Jeff Gray (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1170
TEL: +1 205 934 8643 (Office)
FAX: +1 205 934 5473
WEB: http://www.gray-area.org
EMAIL: gray@cis.uab.edu

Raymond Klefstad
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
TEL: +949 824 1901
FAX: +949 824 3203
WEB: http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~klefstad
EMAIL: klefstad@uci.edu

Marjan Mernik
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Maribor (UM)
Smetanova 17
2000 Maribor
Slovenia
TEL: +386 2 220 7455
FAX: +386 2 251 1178
WEB: http://marcel.uni-mb.si/marjan/marjan.htm
EMAIL: marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si

Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems

This minitrack is based upon experience reports of researchers and practitioners actively involved in development of distributed object and component software technology. It covers a wide range of topics applicable to different software engineering problems in this area. It focuses on practical issues of design and implementation of distributed object and component software as an element of software engineering practice.

This Minitrack will be based on the experience reports of researchers and practitioners actively involved in the development of distributed object and component-based software systems. It should be of interest to anyone concerned with:

a) Object Models for Distributed Computing
b) Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
c) Middleware and its Mapping for Distributed Systems
d) Object Quality, Reliability and Assurance
e) Distributed Systems Integration
f) Component-based Software
g) Programming Languages and Environments for Distributed Object and
Component Systems

http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/HICSS-DOCS/


Barrett R. Bryant (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1170, U. S. A.
Tel. +1 205 934 2213 (Office)
FAX: +1 205 934 5473
bryant@cis.uab.edu

Rajeev R. Raje
Department of Computer and Information Science
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132, U. S. A
Tel. +1 317 274 5174 (Office)
FAX: +1 317 274 9742
rraje@cs.iupui.edu

Empirical Software Evaluation

Repeatable empirical findings can provide significant insights in to the suitability of a particular software technology for use in a given organizational setting. This minitrack will focus on presenting new results from the empirical evaluation of a wide range of software technologies. Papers that report quantitative results from studies that explore important software product quality attributes are sought, including performance, scalability, reliability, usability and comparative studies. Papers describing novel experimental designs and predictive modeling based on empirical foundations are also encouraged.

Topics of relevance for the minitrack are as follows:
· Benchmark study results
· Run-time performance comparisons
· Studies of the reliability of various technologies
· Usability experiments
· Scalability studies
· New measures useful for empirical evaluations
· Experimental design methods and techniques
· Cost-effective experimental approaches
· Novel approaches and tools for performing empirical experiments
· Results and lessons learned from prototyping studies
· Predictive models based on empirical observations
· Analysis of errors found in software technologies

For more information: http://www.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~iango/HicssCFP.htm

Ian Gorton (Primary Contact)
Chief Architect,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Battelle, PO Box 999, MSIN: K7-28
Richland WA 99352, USA
phone: +1 (509) 375 4367
email: Ian.Gorton@pnl.gov

Anna Liu
Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Pty Ltd
1 Epping Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 Australia
Tel: +612 9870 2035
Fax: +612 9870 2400
Mobile: 0414 987 010
Email: annali@microsoft.com

Frameworks and Methods for the Study and Analysis of Trust in Information Systems

Recent events have created a rapidly increasing demand for trusted computing (TC) systems. A framework for studying and analyzing security and trust in systems is needed. There is a need to incorporate methods and techniques from other areas such as software reuse, domain engineering, software architecture and quality assurance for solving TC pending and new problems. We want to answer questions like: What is trust? How can trust be specified in a system? How can trust be preserved throughout system evolution?

Main topics include:
Ø Classification and taxonomies of trustworthy characteristics
Ø Frameworks for analyzing characteristics of trustworthy systems
Ø Requirements analysis methods for trustworthy systems
Ø Modeling techniques/methods for trustworthy systems
Ø Trustworthy systems architectures
Ø Application/adaptation of proven software engineering methods to trustworthy systems
Ø Experiences in analysis and development of trustworthy systems

Authors are invited to submit papers describing research or experiences in these topics.


Ruben Prieto-Diaz Associate Professor of Computer Science Commonwealth Information Security Center James Madison University 701 Carrier Dr., MSC 4103 Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540-568-1665
fax:540-568-3521
E-mail: prietodiaz@cisat.jmu.edu WEB: http://www.cs.jmu.edu/users/prietorx/HICSS37/CFP37web.html

GRID Computing

The computational grid is an increasingly popular model of wide-area distributed computing. Such a grid may take a variety of forms, from a simple stand-alone collection of but a handful of identical processors, to vast networks with many types of compute engines. It can facilitate collaboration and data sharing. It can be used to capture cycles that would otherwise be wasted. In many high-performance applications, it can even obviate the need for expensive supercomputers. Thus there is a growing interest in building ever more powerful computational grids.

Topics can include:

Ø grid access methods
Ø software/hardware balancing
Ø grid management and utilization
Ø high performance computing and the grid
Ø computation and communication tradeoffs
Ø emergent algorithmic techniques
Ø novel applications of grid technologies.


Michael A. Langston (Primary Contact)
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450
USA
865-974-3534
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~langston
E-mail: langston@cs.utk.edu

Faisal N. Abu-Khzam
Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~abukhzam
abukhzam@cs.utk.edu

Mobile Distributed Information Systems

In today's mobile society, access to context-specific information and services "anytime, anywhere" is becoming increasingly important. The user's topological and geographical location and current situation often becomes relevant for determining his information and service requirements, thus Mobile Distributed Information Systems should address the context-aware distribution of and access to information and services from mobile devices. Moreover, an extension of the architecture paradigm towards cooperation between peers in an ad-hoc manner is gaining more and more attention.

This minitrack aims to foster discussion on recent research findings and to address complementary research and development issues in this important domain.

The minitrack will address topics such as:
Ø Fundamentals and Architectures of Mobile Distributed Information System
Ø Network Support for Mobile Access to Services and Information
Ø Service Provision, Discovery, Distribution, Interoperability and Management
Ø Distributed Databases and Data Management for Mobile Access
Ø Applications and Case Studies of Mobile Information and Service Access.


More Information is available on http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile/hicss.
E-mail: hicss@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

Zhou Wang (Primary Contact Person)
Fraunhofer - Integrated Publication and Information
Systems Institute, Germany
Tel: +49-6151-869-843
Fax: +49-6151-869-6847
Email: Zhou.Wang@ipsi.fraunhofer.com

Lars Wolf
Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Tel: +49-531-391-3288
Fax: +49-531-391-5936
Email: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Andreas Meissner
Fraunhofer - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute
Division Manager, Mobile Distributed Information Systems
URL: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/mobile
Mail: FhG IPSI, Div. Mobile, Dolivostr. 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel.: +49-6151-869.826, Fax: .6847 | Mob.: +49-170-1882285

Peer-to-Peer Ecommerce Systems and Applications

The purpose of this minitrack is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss software technology issues related to the emerging Peer-to-Peer paradigm. We envisage an interdisciplinary forum bringing together participants with technology background and practitioners from both the industry and the open source community to discuss and evaluate the technology aspect as well as the interplay between technological capabilities and new emerging forms of commercial electronic interaction. Examples of such systems include electronic marketplaces, information exchange, collaborative systems, P2P protocols and architectures, etc.
P2P computing provides a new paradigm of distributed computing requiring new approaches and patterns. In this context, several technologies appear to converge among which P2P frameworks, Mobile Agents, Digital Rights Management / Digital Policy Management, trust computing, cognitive or knowledge agents and ontologies. This convergence provides new opportunities to design novel IT architectures to support new organizational forms and flexible ways of conducting and reengineering businesses.

For more information: http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/hicss37/

Jean-Henry Morin (Primary Contact)
University of Geneva - CUI,
24 rue General-Dufour, CH-1211 Geneva 4,
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (22) 705 7661
Fax: +41 (22) 705 7780
E-mail: Jean-Henry.Morin@cui.unige.ch

Karl Aberer
EPF Lausanne, Dept. of Communication Systems
Ecublens, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (21) 693 4679
Fax: +41 (21) 693 8115
E-mail: karl.aberer@epfl.ch

Aris Ouksel
The University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration (M/C 294)
601 South Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 1-312-996-0771, Fax: 1-312-413-0385
E-mail: aris@uic.edu

Quality Of Service In Mobile And Wireless Networks

As mobile and wireless networks are being called upon to support real-time interactive multimedia traffic, such as video tele-conferencing, these networks must be able to provide their users with Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. Although the QoS provisioning problem arises in wireline networks as well, mobility of hosts, scarcity of bandwidth, and channel fading make QoS provisioning a challenging task in mobile and wireless networks.

Recently it has been noticed that multimedia applications can tolerate and gracefully adapt to transient fluctuations in the QoS that they receive from the network. The management of such adaptive multimedia applications is becoming a new research area in wireless networks. As it turns out, the additional flexibility afforded by the ability of multimedia applications to tolerate and adapt to transient changes in the QoS parameters can be exploited by protocol designers to significantly improve the overall performance of wireless systems.

Topics include:
Ø Resource allocation and management
Ø Location management and authentication strategies
Ø Pricing issues related to QoS provisioning
Ø QoS control and scheduling
Ø Call admission strategies

For more information: http://cs.odu.edu/~olariu/minitrack.html

Stephan Olariu (Primary Contact)
Dept of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
olariu@cs.odu.edu

Petia Todorova
Fraunhofer-FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
D-10589 Berlin, Germany
todorova@fokus.gmd.de

Security and Survivability in Mobile Agent Based Distributed Systems

Over the past few years mobile agent based systems have been applied to solve problems that are decentralized and distributed in nature. However, crucial issues such as security and survivability in mobile agent based distributed systems have been relatively less addressed. Solutions to these challenges including privacy, security, reliability, and survivability can provide valuable insights to the successful design of multi-agent based distributed systems that can be adopted widely for commercial use.

This minitrack aims to bring together researchers working on multi-agent systems, computer security, reliability and fault tolerance, and other related areas such as computer networks, distributed systems, databases and data mining. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:

- Security and privacy issues in mobile agent based systems
- Fault tolerance in mobile agent-based systems
- Reliable communication for mobile agents
- Performance and dependability in mobile agent-based systems
- Scalability and complexity issues
- Self-organizing multi-agent systems and emergent organization
- Coordination in multi-agent systems

For more information: URL: http://faculty.ist.unomaha.edu/pdasgupta/hicss03_agents_survivability/cfp.html

Azad Azadmanesh (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer Science
Office: PKI 282G
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: 402-554-3976
Fax: 402-554-3400
E-mail: azad@unomaha.edu

Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta
Computer Science Department 1101 South 67th Street University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: (402) 554 4966 Fax: (402) 554 3284
E-mail: pdasgupta@mail.unomaha.edu

Security and Survivability of Networked Systems

This minitrack focuses on security and survivability in large, non-trivial, networked computer systems. Of special interest are contributions that address survival, tolerance, recovery or masking of malicious attacks. Submissions will be sought from researchers in the area of system survivability, software dependability, computer and network security, fault-tolerance and intrusion tolerance, and economic or statistical modeling of secure/survivable systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
· System or software survivability
· Safety critical failure modes
· Network or system intrusion tolerance
· Modeling malicious behavior or attacks
· Mathematical models for verification of vulnerability to malicious acts
· Models for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability
· Software and hardware fault tolerance
· Design for dependability and/or survivability
· PRA and hybrid fault models accounting for malicious acts and events

For more information see: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~krings/HICSS37.htm