ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Special issue on

Adaptive Service Discovery and Composition Systems in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
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Submission info
Important dates

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bakhouya@gmail.com

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Aims and Scope

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC) are recent paradigms with a goal to provide computing and communication services anytime and everywhere. In UPC, automatic service composition requires dealing with four major research issues: service matching and selection, coordination and management, scalability, fault tolerance, and adaptation to users contexts and network conditions. Current approaches and methodologies to address these issues can be classified into two major research directions. The first direction addresses semantic languages to specify and describe application components, including complex planning mechanisms that utilize these descriptions to generate the whole application or composite service. In other words, this research direction is trying to define languages to formally specify services, invocation mechanisms and composite services. The second direction aims to develop architectures that enable scalable, fault tolerance, and adaptive applications in dynamic environments. These issues need to be addressed under joint efforts from different areas, such as networking systems, software and agent-oriented engineering, bio-inspired systems, and others.

List of topics

The special issue intended to focus on the above issues and solicited papers that address theoretical and experimental work related to service discovery and composition systems in UPC. Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to the following topics:

  • Service-oriented architecture and Web services
  • Ontology-based approaches for service composition
  • AI planning-based approaches for service composition
  • Workflow-based approaches for service composition
  • Bio-inspired middleware for Ubiquitous and Pervasive and Grid Applications
  • User and context self-awareness techniques
  • Peer-to-peer based protocols for service discovery and composition
  • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering support for UPC
  • Specification, validation and verification of systems for UPC

Paper Submission Guideline

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting significant developments in the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If an earlier version of the manuscript was published/accepted in conferences, authors should state so in the cover letter. The manuscript must be a substantial extension to the previously published/accepted work and a summary of changes and a copy of the previous conference paper must be submitted. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to the guest editor through email at bakhouya@gmail.com.

The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage (http://taas.acm.org/). Guest editor will pre-screen submitted manuscripts for their suitability in the issue. Submissions passing the prescreen process will go through a rigorous peer-review process according to the standards of TAAS.

Important Dates
  • Paper submission: 30th June, 2009
  • Notification date: 30th December, 2009
  • Expected publication: end 2010 (tentative)

Guest Editor

Mohamed Bakhouya
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard
Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France
email: bakhouya@gmail.com,
Home page:http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya