Marco Cremonini (marco.cremonini@dartmouth.edu)
Tue, 15 May 2001 21:33:39 -0400
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CALL FOR TUTORIALS
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
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IMPORTANT DATES
- Tutorials proposals due June 6, 2001
- Tutorial notifications June 20, 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 abstraction 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.
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.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Title, abstract and brief outline of the proposed tutorials should be sent
via email to the Tutorials Chair, David Wong (wong@merl.com).
Submissions could be in either ASCII, Microsoft Word, or PDF format, but
possibly not
in Postscript.
ORGANIZERS
General Chair: David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
Program Chair: Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Tutorials Chair: David Wong (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs,
USA)
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)
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