AQuSerM09

AQuSerM: Advances in Quality of Service Management

EDOC 2009 workshop, 31 August - 4 September 2009, Auckland, New Zealand

The workshop concerns advances in QoS-oriented techniques and tools for managing enterprise architectures, encompassing approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, runtime analysis and prediction and adaptation. Model-driven and service-oriented apporaches are a special focus of the workshop.

Workshop Schedule

The Scedule for the workshop can be downloaded here.

Workshop Goals

Service Level Management (SLM) is the process of managing the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by clients and offered by providers. In the past, SLM approaches have focused on service contract definition, monitoring and reporting and have typically been handled by enterprise system management tools such as Microsoft’s SMS, CA’s Unicenter and Empirix’s OneSight.

However, traditional approaches are inadequate when dealing with complex service-oriented architectures. Service-oriented architectures are compositional, dynamic and often distributed over the internet. For such architectures, SLM becomes a difficult problem that can no longer be handled by traditional monitoring tools. This is because of the dynamic, flexible, compositional and global natures of SOAs.

This workshop will be concerned with the issues that are important to modern QoS management: the monitoring of widely distributed components, dynamic adaptation strategies and the necessity for more sophisticated prediction and diagnostic analysis techniques. Model-driven approaches to these issues will be a special focus of the workshop.

The workshop shall bring together researchers from academia and industry interested in cutting edge formal and model-based approaches as well as utilizing current standards and middleware to meet the challenges of SLM for the 21st century.

Themes

The main theme of the workshop will be QoS-oriented techniques and tools for managing modern enterprise architectures, encompassing approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, runtime analysis, behaviour prediction, adaptation strategies and the interrelation of these issues within SLM.

Special focus will be given to model-driven approaches. The development of standards such as the ISO/IEC QoS Framework, the RM-ODP and the UML Profile for QoS are intended to form the basis for the design and implementation of QoS management in networked enterprise architectures. A current open question is how best to use these standards within the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) refinement strategy for software development. For example, some authors are advocating the use of MDA to generate platform-specific monitorable implementations from QoS requirements specified in a platform-independent metamodel.

Topics include, but are not limited to,

• QoS support for common enterprise middleware (such as CORBA, J2EE and .NET)
• Management issues for domain-specific architectures (such as process control architectures built using OPC)
• Managing complex systems using current industrial monitoring infrastructures and standards (e.g., Microsoft’s WMI and the DMTF’s CIM standard)
• Component-based approaches to QoS management
• Formal methods to support SLM
• Mathematical models for system diagnostics
• Industrial SLM case studies
• Model-driven approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, prediction and adaptation
• Unifying management frameworks

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 19 June 2009
Paper acceptance notification: 19 July 2009
Camera ready of papers: 3 August 2009

Submissions

Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. Papers should be submitted on Easy Chair at:  

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aquserm09

At least one author of an accepted paper should participate in the workshop.

All accepted papers for the workshop will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Authors will be invited to extend their papers for a special issue of a leading international journal (this is currently under negotiation).

Workshop Chairs

Liam O'Brien, NICTA (Email: Liam.OBrien ' at symbol ' nicta.com.au)

Iman Poernomo, King's College London (Email: iman.poernomo ' at symbol ' kcl.ac.uk)

Guijun Wang, Boeing Research & Technology (Email: guijun.wang ' at symbol ' pss.Boeing.com)

Program Committee

Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Chris Ling, Monash University, Australia

Noel Plouzeau, INRIA-Rennes, France

Iman Poernomo, King's College London

Guijun Wang, Boeing Research & Technology, USA

Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Anna Liu, University of New South Wales, Australia

Paul Brebner, NICTA, Australia

Assel Akzhalova, Kings College London, UK

Nurzhan Duzbayev, Kings College London, UK