Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance News

Sibiu, Romania
May 8th, 2012

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Important dates

Paper submission: January 25, 2012
Author notification: March 9, 2012
Final version of papers: March 20, 2012

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Overview

Recently, mobile computing and wireless communication technologies made so much progress that we
can finally acknowledge the emergence of the mobile/ubiquitous computing paradigm we anticipated. A
new generation of mobile devices (such as smartphones, handheld GPS, laptops, tablets, etc.) will
probably lead revolutionary changes in the information society. These devices benefit from an amazing
number of sensors, communication interfaces and networking capabilities. Their interconnection results
in huge heterogeneous and distributed systems and we can already forecast that this will lead to
revolutionary applications, services and usages.

Among other specific features, what makes mobile and ubiquitous systems different and interesting from
a research viewpoint is :
- the mobility of users, applications and devices,
- how they produce and handle geo-localized information,
- the heterogeneity among the nodes and the services,
- their intrinsic need of adaptation to changes in their execution environment,
- their limited energy/computing/storage/communication resources,
- their need for cooperation and intermittent connection to the Internet,
- the potential impact, as personal devices that travel with their user and carry personal information, that
the devices and their applications may have on privacy.

It is still unclear today whether mobiquitous solutions will be able to achieve the resilience levels
necessary for user transparency and acceptance. It seems obvious that such solutions will require :

- New types of dependability mechanisms to cope with the intrinsic dynamics of mobile systems,
- New approaches to evolvable fault tolerance and security in order to adjust their resilience features
according to the set of system requirements and available resources.
- New management strategies for adaptation ensuring acceptable levels of performance, energy
consumption, trustworthiness, privacy and cost.

These considerations are of prime importance in the context of emerging mobile devices and applications
such as those used in smart urban transportation systems, body area systems, ambient assisted living
solutions, environmental monitoring products, and vehicular ad hoc networks. Making such a complex
ecosystems of devices and services resilient is a first challenge, but being able to assess the resilience
level and capacity of adaptation of resulting solutions is also of utmost importance.

The ambition and mission of ARMOR is to put on the foreground all above issues and provide a forum of
discussion to interested researchers.

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Conference venue

ARMOR and EDCC 2012 will be held in the city of Sibiu, Romania. Sibiu is a major historic and cultural city,
the area being mentioned for the first time in a Papal document in 1191. The Grand Square, several
cathedrals and churches, the Townhall, the Council Tower, and the National Brukenthal Museum are
among the main attractions. Several historic monuments, like the Biertan and Talmaciu fortreses, are
nearby Sibiu. A large outdoors ethnographic museum is located in a wooden area, south of the city, and
attracts numerous tourists every year. Sibiu is also home to Lucian Blaga University. In 2007 Sibiu shared
the honor of being designated European Capital of Culture with Luxembourg.
Situated in the center of Romania, Sibiu can be easily reached from all major European cities, both by air
and train, direct connections being available, among others, to Munich, Vienna, and Bucharest.

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Submission

To contribute to the workshop, authors are invited to submit a position paper of 4 to 6 pages (10-pt font,
single space, double-column format). Please see proceedings templates here
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for instructions.

The program committee will carefully review each position paper. The review will focus not only on the
paper's quality but also on its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions. All authors of accepted
position papers are invited to attend the workshop. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their
paper will be presented at the workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library and will have their corresponding
ISBN. Authors of best papers will be invited to submit a revised (and maybe extended) version of their
contributions to a journal.

All submissions must be made electronically through the submission web page, at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=armor12 .

Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. We recommend that you
embed fonts where possible to improve portability. We also strongly recommend you print the file and
review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations etc.) before submitting it. A defective printing of your
paper can undermine its chance of success.

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Organization

Chairs
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Juan Carlos Ruiz, ITACA-UPV, Spain
Marc-Olivier Killijian, LAAS-CNRS, France

Program Committee
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Carlos Aguilar, University of Limoge, France
Domenico Controneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
David de Andrés, ITACA-UPV, Spain
Hans-Peter Schwefel, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mads Haar, Trinity College, Ireland
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Sponsors

LAAS-CNRS - http://www.laas.fr
UPV - http://www.upv.es
The Amores Project - http://amores-project.org
The SEMSECAP Project - http://semsecap.stf.webs.upv.es