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Subject: Fw: CfP: MA 2001 - 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AGENTS
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: jeu fév 22 2001 - 18:17:03 CET
> ==============================================================
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AGENTS (MA 2001)
> December 2-4, 2001
> Atlanta, Georgia, USA
>
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/MA2001/
>
> Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet
> and by the IEEE Computer Society
> ==============================================================
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> - Paper submissions due May 14, 2001
> - Tutorials proposals due June 6, 2001
> - Paper notifications to authors July 2, 2001
> - Camera-ready final papers due September 13, 2001
> - MA 2001 Conference December 2-4, 2001
>
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>
> Recent years have witnessed the appearance of new paradigms for
> designing distributed applications where the application components can
> be relocated dynamically across the hosts of the network. This form of
> code mobility lays the foundation for a new generation of technologies,
> architectures, models, and applications in which the location where the
> code is executed comes under control of the designer, rather than simply
> as a configuration accident.
>
> Among the various flavors of mobile code, the mobile agent paradigm has
> become particularly popular. Mobile agents are programs able to
> determine autonomously their own migration to a different host, and yet
> retain their code and state (or at least a portion thereof). Thus,
> distributed computations do not necessarily unfold as a sequence of
> remote requests and replies between clients and servers, rather they
> encompass one or more visits of one or more mobile agents to the nodes
> involved.
>
> Mobile code and mobile agents hold the potential to shape the next
> generation of technologies and models for distributed computation. The
> first steps of this process are already evident today: Web applets
> provide a case for the least sophisticated form of mobile code,
> Java-based distributed middleware makes increasing use of mobile code,
> and the first commercial applications using mobile agents are starting
> to appear.
>
> Nevertheless, the fluid environment defined by mobile code and mobile
> agents undermines many of the traditional assumptions of distributed
> computing, and poses novel research challenges that span all the
> abstract in levels. For instance:
>
> What are the right constructs to deal with mobility?
> What is an appropriate granularity for the unit of mobility?
> How to specify and reason about a mobile system?
> How to coordinate the activities of mobile agents?
> How to deal with communication among mobile agents?
> How to guarantee fault-tolerant migration and communication?
> How to enforce security properties in a mobile environment?
>
> Besides these questions addressing the core research challenges, the
> research community must also address some pragmatic questions, whose
> answers will ultimately determine the success (or failure) of this
> approach:
>
> When and why does it make sense to use mobile code or mobile agents? How
> big are the payoffs?
> Is the technology proposed thus far supporting or hampering the
> potential of mobile code and mobile agents?
> What applications are already available that can be used as "common
> sense arguments" for mobility?
>
> The ambitious goal of MA 2001 is to gather researchers and practitioners
> from all over the world and shed some light on the open issues related
> to this exciting research topic.
>
> THE CONFERENCE
>
> The first edition of this conference was held in 1997 in Berlin, and
> since then it has been, by number of attendees and by quality and
> breadth of the research disseminated, among the top events for the
> community of researchers and practitioners interested in mobile code and
> mobile agents.
> In the last two editions, this conference joined the International
> Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA) in a single, joint
> ASA/MA event that aimed at gathering researchers interested in all the
> flavors of agent system, e.g., including also intelligent and non-mobile
> agents.
> Although these joint events have been very successful, MA 2001 will be
> presented as a stand-alone event, entirely focused on the original
> target of mobile code and mobile agents. Our goal with this year's event
> and those to come, is to strengthen the MA conference as the
> international venue where the best and latest results in the topics of
> mobile code and mobile agents are disseminated and discussed.
>
> PAPERS
>
> The Program Committee of MA 2001 seeks research contributions concerning
> all aspects of research on mobile code and mobile agents. Topics include
> (but are not limited to):
>
> Technology:
> - Design issues in mobile systems;
> - Security;
> - Communication and coordination;
> - Fault tolerant migration and communication;
> - Naming and tracking mobile agents;
> - Support for strong mobility;
> - Resource control;
> - Benchmarking and performance characterization of mobile systems.
>
> Models & Algorithms:
> - Languages, notations, calculi, logics for specifying
> and reasoning about mobility;
> - Coordination models;
> - Verification of protocols and algorithms for mobile code
> and mobile agents.
>
> Applications & Experience Reports:
> - Original application domains for mobility;
> - Success stories from applying mobile code and mobile agents
> in the real world;
> - Qualitative and quantitative characterizations of mobile design
> vs. conventional ones.
>
> Criteria that will drive the selection of papers:
>
> Novelty: New systems or new process algebras or logic for mobility will
> be considered only if their rationale and motivation is clearly stated
> and critically evaluated against the existing body of research.
>
> Experimental evidence: Whenever possible, and especially for papers
> focusing on technology and applications, results should be backed by
> experimental evidence (e.g., analytical evaluations, simulations, or
> measurements) providing insights not only about the system/application
> being presented, but also in relation to similar systems/applications
> documented in the literature.
>
> Finally, contributions that bridge the logical mobility of code and
> agents and the physical mobility of hosts are particular welcome.
>
> TUTORIALS
>
> Tutorial proposals are sought that present consolidated material focused
> on specific research topics. Proposals for half-day and full day
> tutorials are both welcome. Tutorial proposals will be evaluated against
> their expected impact and usefulness for the attendees of MA 2001. A
> travel reimbursement up to $1000 will be provided, together with a
> honorarium of $500 for half-day and $1000 for full-day tutorials.
>
> POSTERS & RESEARCH DEMOS
>
> A separate call for posters and research demos will be issued in a few
> months. Come back later for more details.
>
> SUBMISSION PROCEDURE & PUBLICATION DETAILS
>
> The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag
> (http://www.springer.de/) in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science
> series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). A selection of the
> best papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of
> one or more top-quality scientific publications.
> Submissions should be at most 15 pages long in the LNCS style
> (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be
> handled through an online conference management system whose URL will
> appear on the conference web site soon.
>
> ORGANIZERS
>
> General Chair: David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
> Program Chair: Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
> Advertising Chair: Marco Cremonini (Dartmouth College, USA)
> Registration Chair: Lori A. Terino (Dartmouth College, USA)
> Local Arrangement Chair: Ashraf Saad (Georgia Inst. of Technology,
> USA)
> Treasurer: Robert S. Gray (Dartmouth College, USA)
>
> STEERING COMMITTEE
>
> Robert S. Gray (Dartmouth College, USA)
> David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
> Danny B. Lange (General Magic, USA)
> Friedemann Mattern (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
> Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
> Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>
> Israel Ben-Shaul (Israel Institute of Technology,
> and Versedge Technologies, Israel)
> Lubomir F. Bic (University of California Irvine, USA)
> Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, UK)
> Rocco De Nicola (Universita di Firenze, Italy)
> Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG, France )
> Robert S. Gray (Dartmouth College, USA)
> Shinichi Honiden (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
> Guenter Karjoth (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)
> Dag Johansen (University of Tromso, Norway)
> Danny B. Lange (General Magic, USA)
> Thomas Magedanz (IKV++, Germany)
> Keith Marzullo (University of California San Diego, USA)
> Jose Meseguer (SRI International, USA)
> Amy L. Murphy (University of Rochester, USA)
> Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
> Niranjan Suri (University of West Florida, USA)
> Anand Tripathi (University of Minnesota, USA)
> Christian Tschudin (Uppsala University, Sweden)
> Giovanni Vigna (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
> Franco Zambonelli (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)