-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CFP for SAC 2011 Track on Mediation Services in Computing Environments (MeSC) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:14:43 +0200 From: Guadalupe Ortiz gobellot@gmail.com Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

==================== Call for Papers ==========================

Mediation Services in Computing Environments (MeSC 2011) http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rza/mesc/mesc2011http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/%7Erza/mesc/mesc2011

Technical Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/

Taichung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011.

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM

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----- Scope -----

The heterogeneity of the vast resources of the Internet, their transparent access, integration and interoperation pose a significant challenge that mediation services are increasingly called upon to address. In foundational systems mediation takes many forms and ranges from assistance in the search and discovery of resources to arbitration and negotiation by autonomous agents. Mediation presides also over the deployment of cooperative and collaborative schemes, by marshalling resources and scheduling processes. In service provision a manager mediates adaptively the configuration and allocation of resources in a variety of environments including Grids and Cloud.

Among the applications that fall within the scope of mediation, architectural frameworks in e-commerce, e-government and e-learning have been successfully introduced to create synergy between humans and systems. The fundamental basis for any mediation is that autonomous entities and systems need to overcome their environmental heterogeneity and resolve syntactic and semantic differences. The main role of a mediation service is to facilitate processes such as data and system integration, coordination of behaviour, resource sharing and participation in complex activities. Mediation services play a fundamental role inubiquitous and pervasive environments.

In managing differences and resolving conflicting requirements a range of methods and techniques were introduced to support interoperation and facilitate semantic interoperability. Data transformation, resource management, configuration, adaptation and negotiation define a wide spectrum of mediation, from reactive behaviour to proactive intervention.

------------------- Topics of interests -------------------

The track seeks original contributions on mediation and mediation services related but not limited to the following topics:

- Mediation in resource management and brokering - Arbitration and negotiation in mediation - Data mediation and process mediation - Personalisation and recommendation systems - Implicit and explicit profile generation in mediation - Ontology mapping in mediation - Mediation in hypermedia systems - Context-awareness in mediation - Self-configuration and adaptivity in mediation - Autonomous and emergent behaviour in mediation - Aggregation of mediation services - Trusted mediation - Mediation patterns - Formal aspects of mediation - Models and model transformation in mediation - Aspect-Oriented mediation - Domain specific languages (DSL) in mediation - Mediation in collaborative and cooperative systems - Mediation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. - Mediation in social and P2P community systems - Mediation services in mobile contexts - Architectural frameworks for mediation - Mediation in e-commerce, e-government and e-learning - Case studies and experiences of mediation services

--------------- Important Dates ---------------

- Submission deadline: August 24, 2010 - Author notification: October 12, 2010 - Camera-ready copies: November 2, 2010 - Symposium/Track dates: March 21-25, 2011

----------------- Program Committee -----------------

Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK Irfan Awan, University of Bradford , UK Sandford Bessler, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria Valeria de Castro,Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Jen-Yao Chung, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Gregorio Diaz, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada Howard Foster, Imperial College, London, UK Christian Glasner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany Nathan Griffiths, University of Warwick, UK Robert J. Hendley, University of Birmingham, UK Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Michael Maximilien, IBM Research, Almaden, USA Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK Kozo Okano, Osaka University, Japan David Parker, Oxford University, UK Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Martin Randles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Stefan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan Georgios Theodoropoulos, University of Birmingham, UK Mathias Weske, University of Postdam, Germany Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

--------------- Track Co-Chairs ---------------

For any inquiries please contact the track organisers:

Rachid Anane Faculty of Engineering and Computing Coventry University, UK r[dot]anane[at]coventry[dot]ac[dot]uk

Behzad Bordbar School of Computer Science University of Birmingham, UK b[dot]bordbar[at]cs[dot]bham[dot]ac[dot]uk

Guadalupe Ortiz Department of Computer Science University of Cadiz, Spain guadalupe[dot]ortiz[at]uca[dot]es

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