WRASQ - WoRkshop on Automating Service Quality Co-Located with ASE 2007 November 5-9, 2007 Workshop Date: November 6, 2007 Atlanta, Georgia USA Workshop Agenda with presentations and paper links can be found here Pictures from the Workshop can be found here

Organizers Aniruddha S. Gokhale (web page) Vanderbilt University a.gokhale (at) vanderbilt.edu Jeff Gray (web page) UAB gray (at) cis.uab.edu Randy K. Smith (web page) University of Alabama rsmith (at) cs.ua.edu Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2007 Notification: September 28, 2007 Camera-ready: October 19, 2007 Workshop: November 6, 2007 Submission Information Final versions of accepted papers must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings Guidelines (Templates and Examples).  Papers should be submitted in PDF format to: wrasq (at) cs.ua.edu Maximum final length: Position Papers: 4 pages Works in Progress: 6 pages Program Committee (as of 05-29-07) Kai Chen, Motorola Research Brandon Eames, Utah State University Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University Nicholas Kraft, University of Alabama Ruth Lennon, Letterkenny Institute of Technology Shih-Hsi Liu, California State University, Fresno John Murphy, University College Dublin Adam Porter, University of Maryland Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia Jing Zhang, Motorola Research

Contemporary large-scale, distributed systems are composed from many interdependent artifacts, such as network/bus interconnects, many coordinated local and remote end systems, and multiple layers of software.  The composition of these systems demand multiple, simultaneous, predictable performance characteristics, such as end-to-end latency and throughput along with other service concerns, such as reliability, fault tolerance and security. All of these issues become highly volatile in large-scale distributed systems due to the dynamic interplay of the many interconnected parts that are constructed from smaller parts.  Automated or partially-automated approaches promise to improve the overall Quality of Service (QoS) provided by the components in these systems. The goal of this one day workshop is to provide a forum for practitioners and researchers to present and discuss emerging techniques and tools for automatically or semi-automatically modeling, specifying and delivering guarantees of service quality in distributed environments.  In support of this goal, the workshop is accepting two categories of submissions: Position papers (4 pages) describing emerging research opportunities, fresh perspectives, or newly distilled visions from existing work, or Works in Progress papers (6 pages) presenting preliminary research and results that would benefit from feedback and discussion provided by workshop participants. Paper topics of interests include, but are not limited to: § Model-driven approaches in service provisioning across all phases of the software lifecycle § Domain-specific modeling languages and model transformations for service provisioning § Modeling and analysis of tradeoffs along different service dimensions (i.e., security, reliability, quality, response guarantees) § Role of aspect-oriented program transformation techniques § Reflection and meta-programming as techniques for adaptive provisioning § Tools, models, techniques targeting service guarantees for specific middleware platforms § Frameworks and pattern languages for automating service quality § Certification issues in service quality automation The program committee particularly encourages papers that offer revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) ideas and research to address service guarantees through automated approaches. A PDF of the WRASQ CfP can be found here. Workshop Format The program committee anticipates a morning session of paper presentations and panel discussions followed by an afternoon of small-group, focused discussions. The afternoon sessions will target specifically defined questions. Each group will have a facilitator to help engage the discussion. All participants will come back together near the end of the workshop summarizing the discussions that were covered in the focus groups. Prior to the Workshop all papers will be posted to the Workshop website.  Attendees will be asked to read the papers to facilitate fruitful discussions during the workshop. All of the artifacts generated from the workshop activities (e.g., presentations, papers, and photos) will be archived on the workshop website for the benefit of the research community.